BPs US$10.5 billion move to acquire most of BHP Billiton’s shale acreage in North America “signals a bold return by the UK oil giant to the lower 48 states,” according to Rystad Energy. In a statement posted on its website, the energy research company…
Woodside Energy has discovered gas in the Aung Siddhi prospect offshore Myanmar. The Aung Siddhi-1 exploration well encountered gas in two main targets: the upper target penetrated a 60-metre (197-foot) gas column with ten metres (33 feet) net of pay, while the lower intersected a…
Head of the Presidential Council of the Libyan Government of National Accord has met with the CEO of Eni to discuss future exploratory opportunities and development investments in the country. Eni said that Fayez al-Sarraj met with the company’s CEO Claudio Descalzi in Tripoli…
Norway’s Coast Centre Base (CCB) has been awarded a contract for a Special Periodic Survey of the Stena Spey offshore drilling rig. In a statement on the 1st August, CCB said it would carry out a five-year SPS of the rig as well as…
Early in July,, during a testy public exchange at a NATO summit, Donald Trump accused Germany of being “controlled” by Russia because of its dependence on Russian gas – a dependency Mr Trump said was 70%. In fact, Germany only gets 34% of its…
Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC), Eneco, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to investigate the potential for shore power infrastructure in the Calandkanaal on the western Netherlands coast. This could provide Heerema’s construction vessel fleet with sustainable power inshore….
Nord Stream has finished its annual maintenance work begun on the 17th July and resumed gas transmission on the Russia to Europe route through the Baltic Sea, a note on the website of the operating consortium for the twin pipeline said. The maintenance finished…
Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi has ordered Iraq’s state-owned oil companies to devise an urgent plan to develop the Mansuriyah (Mansouriya) gas field, following what he described as the delay and the failure of foreign companies to start developing the field. The field, in…
Indonesia has decided Pertamina will take over operation of the Rokan oil block, the country’s second-biggest crude producing field, once Chevron’s operating contract there expires in 2021, Deputy Energy Minister Arcandra Tahar said late on the 31st July. Rokan has been a focus area…
Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (RRPCL) – a consortium of public-sector refining firms Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) alongside overseas strategic partners Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company – is moving ahead…
