Hungary’s MOL Group has let a contract to Frames Group BV, Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, to supply a new hydrogen recovery and purification system for converting low-purity hydrogen by-product into a high-purity gas stream for subsequent processing at its 8.1-million tonnes/year Duna refinery…
Subsea 7 has contracted JDR to supply a 9.3-km (5.8-mile) production and control umbilical, topsides equipment and subsea terminations for the Elgood field development in the UK southern North Sea. The umbilical, due to be delivered next spring, will connect the Elgood subsea well…
ABO Wind is off to a strong start in Poland. The company’s first Polish project will be constructed in 2021. Donaborów wind farm is located about 90 kms northeast of Wroclaw and is planned to consist of 9 Siemens Gamesa SG114 turbines with a…
The oil market is even more fragile as the uncertainty created by COVID-19 shows little sign of abating, the International Energy Agency said in its September oil market report. A resurgence of COVID-19 cases in many countries, local lockdown measures, continued teleworking, and the…
Dutch FPSO provider SBM Offshore and Brazilian oil giant Petrobras are in talks for the charter of an FPSO vessel for operations on the Buzios field located in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. In an update on the 15th September, Petrobras said it has…
Venezuela’s capacity to produce some much-needed gasoline and diesel of its own hinges on a single oil play. To tap it, the Nicolas Maduro regime is willing to cannibalise the country’s crumbling energy infrastructure to pay contractors with scrap metal. Unlike the tar-like crude…
The drillship Noble Sam Croft has started drilling the Keskesi East-1 in block 58 offshore Suriname. Operator Apache and partner Total plan to test upper Cretaceous targets in the Campanian and Santonian intervals at the location, 14 km (nine miles) south-east of the Sapakara…
Boeing and the Salt River Project (SRP) utility have signed a multi-year agreement to power Boeing’s Mesa site with renewable solar energy. Boeing will be one of several companies to receive power from SRP’s soon-to-be-built 100-megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in Eloy, Arizona. Boeing’s…
Rockhopper Exploration, the oil and gas exploration and production company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin, is pleased to announce its results for the six months ended 30 June 2020. Year to date highlights Operational Detailed transaction terms agreed with…
Neste Corporation plans to restructure its refining operations in Finland as part of the operator’s strategy to ensure long-term competitiveness of its oil products business under a program that would involve permanently shuttering processing and production at its 58,000-b/d Naantali refinery. Under the proposed…
