There’s a lot riding on predictions of the future, when it comes to climate. In Australia, the future of coal is mostly a debate about whether its demise is fast, or slow. For the country’s gas-fired power generation, the debate is slightly more complicated. …
Dutch jack-up drilling specialist Swift Drilling has been awarded a long-term contract by Wintershall Noordzee to perform a plug and abandonment campaign in the Dutch and German North Sea. Swift Drilling, a part of Van Es Holding, will employ the jack-up rig Swift 10…
Shale’s newfound prudence after last year’s crash is putting producers in the unusual situation of reducing oil output just as prices surge. More focused than ever on keeping spending in check, shale drillers haven’t been boring new wells fast enough to keep up with…
Shell is exploring options to divest its non-operated interests in the Amended 2011 Baram Delta enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and SK307 production sharing contracts (PSCs) offshore Sarawak. The (Amended) 2011 Baram Delta EOR PSC comprises Bokor, Baronia, Fairley Baram, Bakau, and Siwa oil fields…
The EU’s “Hydrogen Strategy for a Climate-Neutral Europe” of July 2020 is only the latest in a series of programmes designed to foster the use of hydrogen to decarbonise and integrate the energy system. The G20, Germany and Japan have also indicated interest in…
Westinghouse Electric Company has announced intentions to invest in nuclear technologies in Poland, following a meeting between Westinghouse Chief Executive Officer Patrick Fragman and Poland’s Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure Piotr Naimski in Warsaw….
Qatargas has completed its offshore North Field Bravo (NFB) living quarters expansion project. This involved construction and installation of a new five-deck, 90-person accommodation platform supported by a four-legged jacket and piles – total weight around 5,000 metric tons (5,511 tons) – with a…
Excelerate Energy LP has reported that it, along with ExxonMobil LNG Market Development Inc, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the 12th March with Albania’s government to conduct a study assessing and evaluating the potential of developing an LNG project in the Balkan country….
UK’s petroleum regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has outlined how the oil and gas industry should work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its new net-zero report. The OGA has launched its ‘Stewardship Expectation 11 – Net Zero’, setting out how the…
PJSC Gazprom Neft subsidiary JSC Gazpromneft-MNPZ has let a preliminary contract to DL E&C Company Ltd of South Korea and its subsidiary Daelim RUS LLC to deliver a suite of services on construction of a new hydrocracking plant to be built as part of the…
