Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC), Muscat, a joint venture of state-owned Oman Oil Company and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd, has let a contract to John Wood Group Plc to provide front-end engineering design for a proposed onshore petrochemicals…
A UK equipment supplier has announced a joint venture which will allow it to supply a revolutionary surface wellhead and tree production equipment package, which will enhance oil and gas production integrity and reduce the need for long-term repair and maintenance. Plexus, which is…
Vestas and RUSNANO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding localisation of equipment for the Russian sustainable energy market, including supply chain optimisation, local manufacturing of wind turbine components and Vestas considering the possibility of using technology developed by RUSNANO portfolio companies. The…
Cuba announced the 2019 Licensing Round for Offshore Blocks in the Cuban Economic Exclusive Zone of Gulf of Mexico on 3rd June in London. CUPET has confirmed that the last stop of the roadshow will take place in Havana 27th November as part of…
Fears about oil spills into the Great Lakes from two aging US pipelines have flared, raising doubts about their future and creating fresh headaches for operator Enbridge Inc and the Canadian energy sector. Canada has faced years of delay in getting new oil pipelines…
The supply vessel PSV Sjoborg collided into the Stratfjord A platform at 1:55 am Norwegian time on the 7th June, Equinor has revealed. The incident occurred in connection with loading operations, according to Equinor. There were 276 people on board Statfjord A when the…
Russian oil and gas company Lukoil has concluded an agreement with New Age to acquire a 25% interest in the Eni-operated Marine XII license in the Republic of Congo for US$800 million in cash. The transaction is subject to customary conditions, including the approval…
CNOOC Ltd and its subsidiary CEPR Ltd have signed an agreement with Novatek and Ekropromstroy LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JSC Novatek, to acquire a 10% equity interest in Arctic LNG 2 LLC. Novatek plans three liquefaction trains at the 19.8 million-tonne/year Arctic LNG…
Researchers from Dalhousie University recently received US$523,000 in Canadian federal government funding to investigate strategies to separate oil from water better and examine the risk of spills in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. As climate change accelerates the melting of sea ice in the Arctic,…
DEME Offshore’s newest heavy-lift jack-up Apollo has completed a one-month conversion project at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque. This project involved the installation of a moonpool on the main deck. The moonpool installation involved creating an opening right through the centre of the vessel, from the…
