In California’s sun-drenched Kern Valley, Chevron Corporation has found a way to use one of the state’s clean-energy programmes to cut the cost of pumping oil, to the chagrin of some environmentalists. Since April, solar panels have been powering oil pumps at Chevron’s Lost…
TAQA Bratani has filed its decommissioning programs for the Tern and North Cormorant platform topsides, located in the UK North Sea, to the UK authorities. Under these plans, topsides of both these platforms will be removed onshore for reuse, recycling or disposal. The…
The Covid-19 downturn has caused a shocking decline in new fracking operations in the US, with monthly numbers plunging to a bottom of just 325 wells in June. A Rystad Energy analysis shows that new operations are now set to rise to above 400…
The Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) continues to transform access to information as delivery of data from the National Data Repository (NDR) is automated. Well reports, logs and other digital files held in the National Data Repository (NDR) are more readily available to industry…
Rolls-Royce is to supply its very first series production MTU PowerPacks which are prepared for future use as hybrid traction units: Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail, the national railway operator of the Republic of Ireland, has ordered 41 of these MTU Hybrid-ready PowerPacks. Fitted with…
Subsea oil and gas production and gas-lift flowlines are in place for Neptune Energy’s Duva and Gjøa P1 tiebacks in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The company and its partners accelerated the schedule for the project, which will connect two templates to…
BHP’s total petroleum production volumes for the full year ended the 30th June decreased marginally below guidance as a result of weaker than expected gas demand due to the impact of COVID-19 and a decrease in tax barrels at Trinidad and Tobago due to low…
Sluggish global demand for liquefied natural gas continued to push US LNG buyers to cancel cargo loading for September, according to industry sources for Reuters. However, the pace of cancellation in September seems to have slowed down. Some sources estimate that 15 to 26…
Carnarvon Petroleum has provided details of planned facilities for the Dorado oil and gas field development in the Bedout basin offshore Western Australia, operated by Santos. The field was discovered in July 2018, 160 km (99.4 miles) north of Port Hedland, with various successful…
If “virtual” meetings can allow companies to gather without anyone being in the office, then remotely distributed solar panels and batteries can harness energy and act as “virtual power plants.” It is simply the orchestration of millions of dispersed assets to manage the supply…
