Industry body Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) announced on the 4th August that it has launched a new forum dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses navigate the downturn. The SME forum will give participants access to OGUK’s existing business support guidance and initiatives,…
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has accepted Shell’s plans for the Crux gas field offshore Western Australia. Consisting of a platform and five production wells, the proposed Crux development would connect to the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG)…
Nineteen new wind farms won contracts under the new Renewable Electricity Support Scheme according to provisional results published on the 5th August which also showed wind energy prices falling sharply. Under the scheme wind farms and solar farms bid against each other for contracts…
Shanghai Electric Group has been appointed by ACWA Power of Saudi Arabia, as the Engineering, Construction and Procurement (EPC) contractor, to deliver the fifth phase project of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai, with capacity of 900MW. Zheng Jianhua, Chairman of Shanghai…
The United States has an opportunity to accelerate offshore wind energy growth, and benefit from 28 new gigawatts of clean energy and US$1.7 billion in US Treasury revenue by 2022, according to a new study from Wood Mackenzie. Findings from this study confirm additional…
Turkmenistan is proceeding with construction of new units at its Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries (TCOR), which includes the Turkmenbashi and Seydi refineries. Westport Trading Europe Ltd (WTL) is currently accelerating engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) activities on a €120-million project to add a…
Lloyd’s may only write German reinsurance business via Brussels from October Managing agencies will only be able to provide reinsurance to German cedants via the Lloyd’s Brussels platform from the end of October unless the UK secures Solvency II equivalence before then, the Corporation has…
Neptune Energy has announced the commercial discovery of oil at the Dugong well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The find, which Neptune says is the largest discovery in Norway so far this year, is estimated to contain between 40 and 120…
Oil and gas company United Oil & Gas (UOG) has been assigned Tullow Oil’s stake in the Walton Morant licence off Jamaica, which the company now fully owns. UOG said on the 3rd August that the government of Jamaica assigned Tullow Jamaica’s 80 per…
Sasol has invited interested bidders to participate in a Request for Proposals (RFPs) process for the development of two embedded 10MW Solar Photo-Voltaic (PV) facilities at its South African operations – one in Secunda, Mpumalanga and another in Sasolburg, Free State – as part of…
