Crown Estate Scotland, which is currently reviewing the ScotWind Leasing Round applications, will open a new leasing process early next year, dedicated specifically to offshore wind projects which support the decarbonisation of the oil and gas sector and to small-scale innovation projects of less than…
The drillship Stena DrillMAX has spudded the ExxonMobil-operated Sapote-1 exploration well on the Canje block offshore Guyana. According to Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas, which has an indirect interest via partner JHI Associates, Sapote-1 will test Upper Cretaceous reservoirs in a stratigraphic trap, with…
Westinghouse Electric Company and Energoatom, the state-owned nuclear utility of Ukraine, have signed an exclusive agreement to bring Westinghouse AP1000® reactors to multiple sites in Ukraine. The signing of the historic agreement took place at the Department of Energy Headquarters in Washington, DC, and…
Australia’s federal government is proposing what amounts to a subsidy to coal- and natural gas-fired power generation, in a bid to solve a problem the country’s energy market operator says doesn’t exist. The conservative Liberal-National coalition government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison is backing…
Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG) signed an agreement with ERU Management Services to acquire 85% of the shares of Karpatgazvydobuvannya LLC, the sole holder of the Byblivska licence in Western Ukraine. Karpatgazvydobuvannya holds a licence to explore for and produce hydrocarbons in the…
As part of Abu Dhabi’s second competitive block bid round, ADNOC has signed a historic exploration concession agreement, awarding the exploration rights for Abu Dhabi’s Offshore Block 5 to a consortium of four Pakistani companies. Led by Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), the consortium also…
Enbridge Inc’s Line 3 oil pipeline, expected to be the first new cross-border oil-sands conduit built between Canada and the US in years, received a boost after a Minnesota appeals court rejected a challenge to a water permit. The ruling removes one more hurdle…
The three Tyra East wellhead and riser topsides have arrived at the Tyra field in the Danish North Sea, according to partner Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco). Earlier this summer, the heavy transport vessel BigRoll Beaufort sailed from the Sembcorp Marine construction yard in…
Hungary has agreed with Russia on all the conditions for a new long-term gas supply deal to take effect from the 1st October, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on his Facebook page on the 30th August. Mr Szijjarto said the agreement with Gazprom is…
Summit Carbon Solutions, a division of Summit Agricultural Group, plans to hold meetings with landowners in Iowa over the next two months regarding its proposed 710-mile Midwest Carbon Express carbon dioxide pipeline. The pipeline, part of a planned carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) system,…
