Extension of the Mildred Lakes bitumen mine by the Syncrude Ltd joint venture has been conditionally approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator. The addition of two mines will prolong Mildred Lake production by about 14 years after depletion of the existing Mildred Lake North…
Yinson Production has contracted Keppel Shipyard to perform a fast-track modification and upgrading of the FPSO Allan. The vessel will be deployed offshore Nigeria on the Anyala and Madu fields for operator First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company. Keppel Shipyard’s programme includes refurbishment…
Oil and gas company Premier Oil has said that drilling of the Tolmount East appraisal well located in the UK Southern North Sea will start shortly. In its trading and operations update on the 17th July, Premier said that drilling of the Tolmount East appraisal…
UAE-based Mubadala Petroleum has signed an agreement with Premier Oil to farm out a 20 percent participating interest in each of the Andaman I and South Andaman Gross Split Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) located offshore Indonesia. Mubadala Petroleum is the operator of both the…
Turkey has rebuffed a set of punitive measures by the European Union and vowed to go ahead with its energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean in a growing dispute with EU member Cyprus. EU foreign ministers agreed on the 15th July to freeze most…
Five companies have submitted proposals to explore for oil and gas on 12 blocks among 19 offered in Israel’s second offshore licensing round. The offered blocks are as large as 400 square kilometres, grouped in five zones as large as 1,600 square kilometres. …
Thirty exploration wells were completed offshore Norway during the first six months of the year, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Six discoveries resulted: four in the North Sea and two in the Norwegian Sea. Aker BP, operator of production licence 869 in…
The 100 million youth entering the African labour market will be unemployed by 2030 if current trends continue , according to the African Development Bank. In India, unemployment is also at record highs. Youth comprise more than 10% of the unemployed in India, and…
Chevron is seeking approval to modify its plans for a liquefied natural gas export facility on Canada’s Pacific Coast to an all-electric design which it says will result in the lowest greenhouse-gas emissions per ton of LNG of any large project in the world. …
PGNiG Upstream Norway, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Polish state-owned oil company PGNiG, has acquired 20% shares in the Duva field – PL 636 and PL636B licences – from Wellesley Petroleum. The Duva field is an oil and gas development project discovered in 2016…
