Total has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its La Mède biorefinery in southern France and its Oudalle facility near Le Havre. The biojet fuel, made from used cooking oil, will be delivered to French airports starting in April 2021. Total will also be…
ConocoPhillips has contracted Archer A/S to provide wireline services on fields offshore Norway for five years, starting in the current quarter. According to Archer, the deal makes it the largest mechanical intervention company operating on the Norwegian continental shelf in terms of contract backlog…
Press Article: Standard Club expert tackles P&I’s US$1.8bn pilot problem 02 April 2021 John Dolan, Deputy Director of Loss Prevention, is helping protection and indemnity insurers to reduce the mounting cost of pilot-related claims. Mr Dolan heads the International Group of P&I Clubs’ working…
Turkey’s national oil and gas company TPAO has started drilling operations at an exploration well in the North Sakarya field, located in the Black Sea, using the Fatih drillship. The start of operations on the Amasra-1 well was announced on the 8th April by…
Ørsted has agreed to sell to Norges Bank Investment Management a 50% interest in the 752-MW Borssele 1 & 2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. The total value of the transaction is about €1.375 billion (US$1.633 billion). Closing is expected around…
Since the election of President Joe Biden, the US and Iran have remained at a standstill over a mutual return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as both sides adopted a “you go first” approach, but last week marked a new start as Iranian…
Rolls-Royce is to supply 12 mtu Kinetic PowerPacks to King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia this summer. The systems, equipped with dynamically rotating kinetic energy accumulators, will be used to provide the university’s supercomputing facility and data centre with…
Klaipeda’s LNG import terminal operator says its gas could reach Poland, Ukraine and other countries south of Lithuania next year, when a new pipeline comes online. The GIPL pipeline to Poland is due to be completed by December and will also give Finland, Estonia…
DNV has published new procedures concerning safety level in transporting CO2 through pipelines for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. It follows the CO2SafeArrest joint industry project between Energy Pipelines CRC (Australia) and DNV. This involved two large-scale CO2 crack arrest tests on…
Al Gihaz Contracting, part of Al Gihaz Holding has announced its acquisition of assets, Intellectual Property and the management systems of Enshore Subsea Ltd, a leading UK based subsea trenching company, providing seabed intervention services to mega-projects across industry around the world. The acquisition…
