Providence Resources has provided an update on the Barryroe project in the Celtic Sea off southern Ireland. The company’s Exola DAC subsidiary has notified APEC that it has started the regulatory process for transferring APEC’s 50% equity in standard operating licence (SEL 1/11), containing…
Wintershall Noordzee (a Joint Venture of Wintershall Dea and Gazprom EP International) has successfully started gas production from its operated Sillimanite field. Discovered in June 2015, the unitised gas field stretches across the UK and the Dutch Continental Shelves and is located approximately 200…
UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) has announced that operations to shut off formation water ingress into its Horse Hill-2z (‘HH-2z’) Portland horizontal production well have commenced. By means of a Halliburton coiled tubing unit, production logging tools will be run along the entire length…
National policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expedite the permitting of oil and gas transportation infrastructure have been recommended by the National Petroleum Council (NPC). The recommendations are a balancing act – advocating that the federal government deal with concerns over climate change…
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has been awarded a long-term contract with Premier Oil in the UK. Premier Oil UK has contracted the platform supply vessel (PSV) Normand Flipper for four wells firm plus options starting between May and June 2020. The 2003-built…
A fracking ban would cost millions of jobs. That is according to the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) Director of Communications, Ben Marter, who made the statement ahead of the Democratic presidential debate in a post published on the API’s website. “Fracking has been…
The Republic of the Marshall Islands and the government of Belgium have awarded interim documents of compliance (DoC) under the International Safety Management (ISM) Code to Excelerate Technical Management (ETM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Excelerate Energy LP. The ISM DoC authorises ETM to operate…
Sound Energy – a Moroccan focused upstream gas company – has announced that it will focus on pursuing a micro LNG production plan for the TE-5 Horst field within the Tendrara production concession. On 6 November last year, the company entered into non-binding heads…
PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) has announced that on 19 February 2020, PTTEP MENA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PTTEP, and Total E&P Oman Block 12, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total, signed an Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) with Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas…
PJSC Gazprom Neft has started production of low-sulphur fuels which comply with the International Marine Organisation’s (IMO) new regulations requiring ships to use marine fuels with a sulphur content below 0.5% at its 430,000-b/d Omsk refinery in Western Siberia. The refinery began production of…
