The US recovered almost all the Bitcoin ransom paid to the perpetrators of the cyber-attack on Colonial Pipeline Company last month in a sign that law enforcement is capable of pursuing online criminals even when they operate outside the nation’s borders. US officials said…
Dutch gov’t awards over US$2.5 billion to Porthos carbon capture project The Dutch government has awarded almost half of its 2021 annual budget for sustainable projects to what will be one of the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the world – Porthos….
The NSW government has launched a $50 million Pumped Hydro Recoverable Grants Programme, as it looks to add as much as 3,000 MW of new long-term dispatchable storage capacity. The NSW government has said that it is looking for pumped hydro projects which can…
Germany said Ukraine should remain a transit country for Russian gas, the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper reported, after President Vladimir Putin said it would depend on the former Soviet republic showing “goodwill” towards Moscow. Mr Putin said on the 4th June that Ukraine’s role as…
Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd (ReconAfrica) has obtained geologic results in the first section of Well 6-1 in Kavango sedimentary basin, Kalahari Desert, north-east Namibia. The well is the second of an initial three-well programme to evaluate a working conventional hydrocarbon system confirmed by the…
In May Beijing ordered several of its smaller liquefied natural gas importers no longer to buy the super-cooled fuel from Australia for at least the rest of the year. The unofficial ban only extends to so-called second-tier LNG importers, not the country’s three state…
Turkey, through its national oil and gas company TPAO, has discovered 135 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas in the Amasra-1 well in the North Sakarya field located in the Black Sea. TPAO started drilling operations at the Amasra-1 well exploration well in…
UK company IOG Plc has confirmed that the Blythe and Southwark gas platforms have been installed at their respective offshore field locations in the UK Southern North Sea. IOG signed off the Blythe and Southwark normally unmanned installations (NUIs) as mechanically complete in April…
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has signed a 15-year gas supply agreement with Russian energy group Gazprom to take effect as soon as its existing deal expires in September, he said on the 3rd June. Landlocked Hungary has diversified natural gas imports in recent…
TotalEnergies and Novatek have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly work on sustainable reductions of the CO2 emission resulting from the production of liquefied natural gas including with the use of renewable power, to develop large-scale carbon capture and storage solutions (CCS) and…
