Ørsted has contracted Van Oord for the cable installation works at the Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms offshore Taiwan. Located between 35 and 60 km (22 and 37 miles) off the west coast of Changhua County, the 900-MW Greater Changhua 1 and…
Petro Matad, the AIM quoted Mongolian oil explorer, has announced the spud of the Gazelle-1 exploration well in the north of Block XX, eastern Mongolia. The rig move from Heron-1 and the rig-up at the Gazelle location have been handled very efficiently by rig…
Ankara and Baghdad are working toward building a new oil pipeline with the capacity to transport one million barrels per day from Iraq’s Kirkuk fields to the Turkish border. “The Iraqi government is now examining tenders for the new oil pipeline between Iraqi and Turkey, after having finished…
NextDecade Corporation and Enbridge Inc have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of the Rio Bravo Pipeline as well as other natural gas pipelines in South Texas. This will transport natural gas to NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG project in Brownsville,…
ExxonMobil is looking to sell its 50% stake in the Gippsland basin oil and gas development in Australia’s Bass Strait as part of a broader review of its portfolio of assets around the world. The assets, which ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Australia owns in a…
BP as operator of the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) field development has awarded construction contracts for the Azeri Central East (ACE) project in the Caspian Sea. The consortium consisting of BOS Shelf LLC and Star Gulf FZCO has won a US$260-million contract for the fabrication…
Vestas has received a 34 MW order for the Haramsfjellet wind project on the island of Haramsøya in western Norway. Vestas has developed a solution to fit the site’s wind conditions that includes eight V136-4.2 MW turbines and a long-term service contract to optimise…
Europa Oil & Gas has been awarded the Inezgane Offshore Permit covering an area of 11,228 square kilometres in the Agadir Basin, offshore Morocco. A formal letter of award from the Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (‘ONHYM’) is expected shortly and, following…
Eni reported on the 17th September that the Baltim South West gas field offshore Egypt has begun production in record time. Located 7.5 miles (12 kilometres) off the Mediterranean cost in the Baltim South development lease, the shallow-water field was discovered in June 2016…
The value of natural gas lost to flaring across the globe reached US$16.4 billion in 2018, as flared natural gas volumes rose compared with 2017, according to a recent report by Brainnwave. The data intelligence firm – which collects the flaring data using night-time…
