Stena Power and LNG Solutions and Global Energy Storage (GES) have formed a partnership to advance LNG logistics and storage opportunities. They plan to offer their full LNG terminal and logistics services, expertise from floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) to onshore terminals and…
ExxonMobil has increased its participation in the proposed Acorn carbon capture project in Scotland by signing an expression of interest to capture, transport, and store CO2 from its Fife ethylene plant. The agreement to include the ethylene plant, in Mossmorran, is in addition to a…
BP Plc has announced plans for a US$269 million investment in three projects at its Cherry Point Refinery in Washington state. The projects – which aim to improve the refinery’s efficiency, reduce its carbon dioxide emissions and increase its renewable diesel production capability –…
Panametrics, a Baker Hughes business, has made its flare control and digital verification platform, flare.IQ, available to upstream operators for the first time. Flare.IQ was originally launched in 2017 to support oil and gas downstream operations, but a new feature enables upstream operators to…
Echo Energy Plc has reactivated wells in Campo Molino oil field, onshore Argentina, after being shut in since April 2020. Three wells, part of Echo’s Santa Cruz Sur assets, have been brought online to join four wells reactivated in August. The three wells are…
Regional renewable energy microgrid projects can now apply for funding as the Australian Renewable Energy Agency launches a new US$50 million programme to improve the resilience and reliability of electricity supply in remote parts of the country. The new grant funding will seek to…
Sentinel Midstream Texas LLC (“Sentinel”) has announced the formation of a joint venture with ExxonMobil Pipeline Company which owns crude oil pipelines and related transportation infrastructure in the Houston area. The joint venture, Enercoast Midstream LLC (“Enercoast”), provides the critical last-mile link for Permian,…
Mammoet has loaded out a new drilling platform for the Garagol Deniz West development, 75 km (46.6 miles) offshore Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea. Initially Mammoet had supported the engineering and construction contractor ILK Insaat, with load-out of the jacket for the Garagol Deniz…
An oil spill off the coast of Southern California has forced Huntington Beach and activities scheduled to take place in the region to shut down. A leak from an offshore oil production facility emitted 3,000 barrels of oil, which is about 126,000 gallons, on…
The gas-in procedure for the first string of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has started, following the completion of pre-commissioning activities. This string, of which gas filling started on 4 October, will be gradually filled to build the required inventory and pressure as a…
