Jadestone Energy has received approval from the co-venturers to join the Maari production project offshore New Zealand as operator. Earlier this year the company agreed to acquire a 69% interest from OMV. Applications are progressing with regulators on other standard consents, and Jadestone…
Gazprom Neft has begun its full-scale development of a major hydrocarbon cluster (with total potential resources estimated at 650 million tonnes of oil) covering licence blocks in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and the Tyumen Oblast in Western Siberia. One million tonnes of liquid hydrocarbons have been produced at the project’s…
Petrofac reported on the 29th July that its Engineering and Production Services (EPS) unit has won a two-year contract from NEO Energy. The NEO Energy agreement calls on Petrofac to provide well management and well operator support for 25 UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) production…
French oil major Total has decided to divest its portfolio of mature non-operated assets located offshore Gabon to Perenco. Total said on the 30th July that its 58 per cent owned affiliate, Total Gabon, has signed an agreement with Perenco to divest its interests…
Elixir Energy Ltd, Adelaide, has logged 91 m of net coal in its second Nomgon coal seam gas well in southern Mongolia, adding to the confirmed areal extent of its earlier discovery. The Nomgon-2 reached 550 m TD and subsequent logging confirmed the find,…
Apache Corporation and Total have announced a major oil discovery at the Kwaskwasi-1 well drilled offshore Suriname in Block 58. The well was drilled using the Noble Sam Croft with Apache as operator holding a 50% working interest and Total holding a 50% working…
Life on Earth cannot continue without electrical energy, and a new form of renewable power which doesn’t need batteries is coming to the fore. In the near future, neutrinovoltaic devices will power every electrical appliance in the world, which Neutrino Energy Group founder Holger Thorsten…
A new four-month oil supply glut of approximately 170 million barrels should result from the partial return in August of curtailed OPEC+ production, Rystad Energy predicts in a new analysis. The consultancy bases its prediction on the assumption that “a mild second wave” of…
Dutch offshore access provider Ampelmann has secured a contract with Olympic Shipping to support topside commissioning work on Ithaca Energy’s FPF-1 offshore semi-submersible in the North Sea. Amplemann explained on the 29th July, the combination of the Ampelmann E-type system and the Olympic Taurus…
The Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC), a leading company in the coordination of planning, purchasing and providing of water and electricity across the UAE, has announced the award for the world’s largest solar power plant. The project was awarded to a consortium led…
