Royal Dutch Shell Plc has announced a major overhaul of its legal and tax structure that will see the company walk away from the Netherlands amid deteriorating relations with what’s been its home country for a century. The changes come as Shell is battling…
In a vital step for the Phu Cuong Soc Trang Offshore Wind Farm, Mainstream Renewable Power (“Mainstream”) has announced its receipt of a Decision on Investment and an Investment Registration Certification (IRC) from the provincial government of Soc Trang for the first 200 MW of…
Eni SpA, one of Europe’s largest oil companies, has said it unwittingly purchased a consignment of crude from Iran — an act which would have breached US sanctions. In 2019, the Rome-based company bought a shipment of oil which was purported to have come…
Several African countries plan to exploit their oil and gas reserves to tackle poverty and energy shortages, representatives gathered in Dubai said this week in the face of pressure to end fossil fuel extraction to curb global warming. Officials and industry executives stressed that…
Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has signed a contract to sell its 5,800-b/d Unidade de Industrialização do Xisto (SIX) unit – including a mine in one of the world’s largest oil shale reserves and a shale processing plant – in São Mateus do Sul, Paraná, to…
A surprise agreement at the COP26 climate summit between the world’s two largest economies could help curb major sources of a super-heating greenhouse gas. China and the US vowed to work together to slow global warming at the conference in Glasgow, focusing among other things on…
The oil and gas company Hoang Long Joint Operating Company (HLJOC) has completed the first phase of the Te Giac Trang (TGT) field infill development drilling programme offshore Vietnam ahead of schedule. HLJOC is jointly owned by Soco International, PetroVietnam, and PTTEP. HLJOC’s partner in…
A consortium of CGG, TGS, and BGP have started data acquisition for Phase 1 of the Suriname 3D project, using the BGP Prospector vessel. The survey covers an offshore area adjacent to oil-prolific block 58, and will cover up-dip portions of the same proven…
Jacobs has won two new contracts to support the Czech nuclear sector with radioactive waste management services. National utility CEZ has selected Jacobs’ SIAL® geopolymer encapsulation technology to safely solidify 250 metric tons of low and intermediate-level radioactive sludge at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant….
France has joined a group of countries and states that support fixing a date to end fossil fuel exploration, putting its name to an initiative which was snubbed by the UK. The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) represents a rare supply-side initiative to…
