Wintershall Noordzee has successfully started gas production from its second b2 production well at the own operated Sillimanite field in the Netherlands. The field is located approximately 200 kms off the coast of Den Helder. Wintershall Noordzee, a 50:50 Joint Venture of Wintershall…
Russia said it was able to stop a fire at a Siberian oil well on the 8th June by firing anti-tank artillery shells at the wellhead. Officials called in the Russian army to help extinguish the blaze in the country’s Irkutsk region after an…
Viva Energy, owner of the Geelong oil refinery 50 km west of Melbourne, plans to turn the facility into a 235-hectare energy hub which includes an LNG reception terminal and solar farm. It will retain the existing refining operations. The LNG terminal would bring…
Oil-production limits adopted by a group of major crude suppliers will soon bring prices back to “normal,” according to the energy minister of the United Arab Emirates. When markets were collapsing as the coronavirus pandemic crushed demand in March and early April, the idea…
Industry trade association Oil & Gas UK (OGUK) has revealed plans for halving emissions from production and exploration by 2030, with the country’s basin becoming net-zero by the year 2050. OGUK committed itself on the 16th June to halving operational emissions in the next…
Motive Offshore has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Orca Offshore which will be focused in Azerbaijan. The agreement is for two years. Together the companies have already secured a six-figure contract with a major EPC client in Baku, Azerbaijan. Source:…
Fuss-free recharging. In a nutshell, there is nothing drivers of electric cars want more. They want to quickly find a vacant charge spot, access it without the hassle of authorisation and passwords, pay for the electricity without fuss, and make good use of the…
Santos, Western Australia’s biggest domestic gas supplier, has entered into a new gas supply agreement with Gold Fields Limited for its three gold mines in Western Australia. Santos will supply nearly 5.5 petajoules of natural gas from its Varanus Island gas plant over three…
Train 1 of PAO Novatek’s 19.8-million tonne/year (tpy) Arctic LNG 2 liquefaction plant on Russia’s Gydan peninsula (northern Siberia) remains on track for completion by end-2022. Novatek updated the project’s status following a meeting between partner companies’ chief executive officers. Novatek said Arctic…
Equinor and Aker BP have agreed on commercial terms for a coordinated development of the Krafla, Fulla and North of Alvheim (NOA) licences on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), Equinor reported last week. Aker BP operates the NOA and Fulla licences and Equinor operates…
