Israel’s energy minister is “confident” the country’s regulators will allow Chevron to operate the local natural gas assets of Noble Energy,, despite a campaign by environmentalists to stop that from happening. A public hearing about oil spills elsewhere in the world involving Chevron, which agreed…
Drilling has been completed on the Wintershall Dea’s Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea, propelling the project into the final development phase before first gas. Wintershall Dea said on the 12th August that, overcoming severe weather conditions at the beginning of the year and…
Siemens Energy is supplying the high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power transmission technology for a further offshore connection in the German North Sea. A corresponding contract was just signed by the German-Dutch network operator TenneT and the BorWin5 Offshore Consortium, consisting of Siemens Energy and Dragados…
Prospective gas reserves have risen for the Selene prospect in the UK southern North Sea following new analysis. Co-venturers Shell and Deltic Energy, operator of the surrounding P2437 licence, assessed reprocessed 3D seismic over the structure, applying a depth conversion technique and performing a…
India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (EFCC) has approved Numaligarh Refinery Ltd’s previously announced project for the expansion of its three-million tonnes/year Numaligarh refinery at Village Pankagrant in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam’s Golaghat district in India. EFCC granted official environmental clearance…
Petrobras says it will mothball the Merluza platform (PMLZ-1) in the shallow-water Santos basin off Brazil. Production from the platform stopped in March 2020 after the abrupt reduction in demand for natural gas. The company said hibernation will allow the reduction of operating…
US shale producers are at a crossroads as they find themselves more efficient than ever. They can keep drilling, and potentially dent oil prices, or use the money to pay down debt. Producers across the Permian Basin are saving about 20% on well…
The chief executive officer of Saudi Arabian oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco has stated that the company would be pressing ahead with its plan to boost output capacity regardless of massive profit drop in 2Q 2020. According to an article by Reuters, Saudi…
Oilex Ltd, Perth, has executed a deed of settlement and release with East Timor national company Autoridade Nacional Do Petroleo E Minerals (ANPM) to end lengthy arbitration proceedings arising from the termination of a production sharing contract in the Timor Sea by ANPM in 2015….
McDermott International Ltd has announced the beginning of commercial operation of Train 3 at Cameron LNG, which is jointly owned by Sempra LNG, Total SE, Mitsui & Company Ltd and Japan LNG Investment LLC, a company jointly owned by Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki…
