Lukoil has brought onstream the fifth well at the second-phase development of the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the northern Caspian Sea. The length of the main wellbore of the bilateral production well is 2,956 metres (9,698 feet), with a lateral section of 1,735 metres…
The Inpex Corporation.-operated Ichthys LNG export project in northern Australia may load its first natural gas cargo as soon as this week, according to people with knowledge of the venture’s preliminary sales plans. The maiden liquefied natural gas cargo is scheduled to be loaded…
For 45 years, it has been considered out of bounds for Saudi Arabia. But all of a sudden, Riyadh made what many read as a veiled threat to use the kingdom’s oil wealth as a political weapon — something unheard of since the 1973 Arab…
Oilfield services firm Rosenberg WorleyParsons has won a contract to modify Lundin’s Edvard Grieg platform offshore Norway, to enable it to receive oil from nearby offshore oil fields. On the 16th October Lundin said the contract, of an undisclosed value, would have “important ripple…
A group led by Royal Dutch Shell which includes Queensland Gas Company (QGC) plans to drill 250 coal seam gas wells during 2019-20 as part of its program in the Western Downs region of Queensland. The wells will be connected to the existing QGC…
Siemens and Southern Idaho Solid Waste (SISW) recently announced the successful commissioning of two SGE-56HM gas engines which are providing environmentally friendly electrical power for a landfill gas-to-energy project at the Milner Butte Landfill in Burley, Idaho. Siemens’ gas capture engines are helping to…
The upgraded FPSO Aoka Mizu has departed Drydocks World in Dubai following sea trials and will now sail to Rotterdam for completion of final work before proceeding to the Lancaster oil field west of Shetland. Hurricane Energy will use the vessel for its early…
His Excellency Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) met with His Excellency Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, on the 16th October at an invitation-only energy leaders’ roundtable, as the United…
Energy firm Cuadrilla said it had started hydraulic fracturing at Preston New Road in Little Plumpton on the 15th October, and it will continue for three months. It is the first time fracking has taken place in the UK since 2011, when the nascent…
Providence Resources, the Irish based Oil & Gas Exploration Company, has provided an update on Frontier Exploration Licence (‘FEL’) 6/14 which contains the Newgrange Prospect. FEL 6/14 is operated by Providence Resources, on behalf of its partner Sosina Exploration (20%), collectively referred to as…
