Vattenfall and SwifterwinT have announced that they have selected GE Renewable Energy to supply 24 Cypress onshore wind turbine units for the Windplanblauw wind farm located in central Netherlands. The 132 MW project is the first wind turbine order ever signed between GE and…
Morocco is discussing with Spain the possibility of reversing the flow of a gas pipeline in case Algeria does not renew a supply deal which expires on the 31st October, a senior Moroccan official said on the 18th October. Algeria has previously hinted that it would not…
The US Coast Guard has boarded a container ship which dragged its anchor near to a Southern California subsea pipeline which was the source of an oil spill earlier this month. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board investigators boarded MSC Danit on the…
Eni SpA has started producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) via coprocessing of used cooking oils (UCO) with conventional crude at its 104,000-b/d Taranto refinery in south-east Italy. As part of the site’s first step under Eni’s commitment to decarbonising all its products and processes…
Russian oil and gas company Lukoil and compatriot oil producer Gazprom Neft have concluded an agreement on cooperation in the implementation of oil recovery enhancement projects. Lukoil said that the agreement provides for joint work on improving chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery. It…
The gas-in procedure for the first string of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been completed, according to the most recent project update. As planned and in line with the system design requirements, the string is filled with approximately 177 million m3 of technical…
Last week, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that he wants to privatise Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company which is under political pressure to lower fuel prices. Shares of Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the Rio de Janeiro-based producer is known, extended a four-day surge in…
Spain’s gas system operator Enagas has sold extra space for LNG deliveries this winter in a bid to stabilise supply as voracious global demand forces up energy prices. The world’s economies are clamouring for gas, oil and coal to power their recoveries from COVID-19, stoking inflation…
Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) has awarded Subsea 7 and Schlumberger an EPCI contract for the Sakarya gas field development in the Turkish sector of the Black Sea. The full scope covers subsurface equipment to onshore production, including completions, subsea production systems, subsea umbilicals, risers and…
AET has completed its first ever LNG bunkering in the US. It worked in coordination with Shell to refuel the LNG dual-fuel Aframax tanker Pacific Ruby outside Port Canaveral in Florida. The transfer of 600 metric tons of marine LNG onto the 113,305-dwt petroleum…
