UK oil and gas firm Premier has seen the jacket and topsides sent off to their final destination at the Tolmount field in the Southern North Sea. The infrastructure will meet the Sleipnir heavy lift vessel for installation in late September / early October….
BP Plc said the relentless growth of oil demand is over, becoming the first supermajor to call the end of an era many thought would last another decade or more. Oil consumption may never return to levels seen before the coronavirus crisis took hold,…
Malabar Resources has won state government approval to build a 25MW solar farm on a former open cut coal mine in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. The solar farm was proposed in March 2019 by Malabar, as part of the rehabilitation…
PGS’ Ramform Tethys has started a new project in the Barents Sea which uses what the company claims is the most advanced configuration ever towed by a seismic streamer vessel. Last weekend, the Ramform Tethys reconfigured from a wide-tow triple source set-up to an…
Two of Europe’s biggest oil companies have urged Texas regulators to end the routine flaring of natural gas, joining with large investors who want greater oversight of the harmful environmental practice. BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are calling for tougher rules than…
CNOOC Limited has started production from the Nanbao 35-2 oilfield S1 area located offshore China. The Nanbao 35-2 oilfield S1 area is located in the central Bohai with an average water depth of 17 metres. In addition to fully utilising the existing facilities…
Pharos Energy gas has announced that it has received approval from the Prime Minister of Vietnam for the TGT Full Field Development Plan (‘FFDP’). This represents the last stage of the required process and follows the recent approval of an initial two-year licence extension…
When all is said and done, we may look back on 2020 as the key inflection point in the global transition to a more flexible, resilient, and renewable grid. In August, I wrote in Utility Dive how the European experience during the pandemic is…
McDermott has contracted Ampelmann to provide an A-type Enhanced Performance (AEP) gangway system for use offshore eastern India. The system was mobilised in Singapore on the MVW Falcon. This is the company’s first project off the east coast of India. The project, with…
Origin Energy Ltd’s new Talinga Orana gas gathering station is on stream in south-east Queensland, adding supply to the Australia Pacific LNG plant on Curtis Island near Gladstone. The new facility, built and commissioned by contractors Monadelphous and MAN Energy Solutions, is a dual…
