Prax Group (also known as State Oil Ltd), a London-based global independent trading, storage, distribution, and retail firm, has completed its proposed acquisition of Total SE’s UK downstream business, including subsidiary Total Lindsey Oil Refinery Ltd’s 109,000-b/d refinery in North Killingholme, Immingham, Lincolnshire, and associated…
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – will supply Framo pumping systems for foundations of Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm project. It is the second order for pumping systems in this application and marks an important…
Chariot Oil & Gas and partner ONHYM have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Morocco’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Green and Digital Economy. The MoU signals the Ministry’s support of the partners’ offshore Anchois gas development as potentially providing significant volumes to…
Noble Energy, a Chevron company, has achieved the first gas flow from the Alen gas monetisaation project, off Equatorial Guinea. The project consists of a 70 km (43.5 miles) pipeline with a capacity of 950 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day…
Tethys Oil AB has announced that exploration well Thameen-1, which is located on Block 49 onshore the Sultanate of Oman, has encountered hydrocarbon shows in its primary target, the Hasirah Sandstone. The company said the next step in evaluating the well is to commence…
Woodside Petroleum has decided to withdraw its workers from its drilling program offshore Myanmar in response to suspected human rights violations following the military coup in the country. Woodside initially continued drilling after the coup in early February but said on the 27th February…
Vestas has announced it has signed the first EnVentus order in the Eastern Europe region for the 126 MW DTEK Tiligulska project in Ukraine, building on a track record of 660 MW already installed by Vestas in Ukraine. The Tiligulska project is being developed…
Optime’s Remotely Operated Controls System (ROCS) has completed a subsea operation for Aker BP on a production well on the Ærfugl field in the Norwegian Sea. ROCS is remotely controlled topside, using a controls unit said to offer improved functionality, and without a large…
86% of respondents surveyed, would like to see ‘No Man Entry Robotic Tank Cleaning’ at their terminal The global survey, commissioned by Re-Gen Robotics and carried out by tankstoragemag.com at the end of the year, asked engineers, managers and senior executives with responsibility for…
Axa XL bolsters UK downstream and power unit with StarStone’s Bishop Axa XL has named StartStone’s Matthew Bishop as downstream and power senior underwriter for the UK and Lloyd’s market. Lancashire names Jones group head of specialty insurance London-listed Lancashire has named former Axa…
