Covenant Energy Ltd has let contracts to Haldor Topsoe AS and Gas Liquids Engineering Ltd (GLE) as part of the operator’s plan to advance construction of Canada’s first standalone hydrogenation-derived renewable diesel (HDRD) and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) refinery in southern Saskatchewan. As technology…
Fast growing Chinese wind turbine manufacturer CRRC Zhuzhou Institute Company Ltd has now joined Global Wind Organisation, becoming part of a global network of stakeholders driving standards for safety. CRRC is one of the world’s top wind turbine manufacturers, with 3.84 Gigawatts of new…
Marathon Oil Corporation used to represent everything which was wrong with US shale: enormous debt loads, lavish executive pay and a seeming willingness to spend whatever it took to boost output. The company haemorrhaged money, and the stock plunged 84% from a peak in 2014…
Lime Petroleum, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Rex International, is buying Repsol’s interest in the Brage field located off Norway as part of its strategy to transform into a full-cycle E&P company. On 15 June 2021 Lime Petroleum entered into a conditional sale and purchase…
Chevron subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company(CABGOC) has contracted the jack-up Shelf Drilling Tenacious for operations offshore Angola. The contract will likely start next January and includes extension options. David Mullen, CEO of Shelf Drilling, said: “The rig will be highly customised for Chevron’s operations…
Vestas has secured an order for the second phase of the DTEK Tiligul project, a wind farm which totals 500 MW in capacity, from DTEK Renewables. This order, which covers the remaining 372 MW of the project, being developed as the second phase of…
US Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on the 16th June that her department was reviewing a federal court’s decision that it must resume auctioning oil and gas leases on federal acreage but did not say when those auctions might restart. The administration of President…
Equinor Energy AS has been given consent to drill exploration wells 6407/1-U-1 and 6407/1-1-9 in the Norwegian Sea by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). The Egyptian Vulture prospect will be drilled in production licence (PL) 939 by the West Hercules semisubmersible drilling rig…
A unit of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) has awarded Saipem an AE$1.87 billion (US$510 million) contract to expand the capacity of its Shah Sour Gas Plant, ADNOC reported on the 15th June. Saipem’s receipt of the engineering, procurement, and construction contract from…
Oil and gas company Lundin Energy has sold first-ever certified carbon neutrally produced oil from the Johan Sverdrup field offshore Norway. Lundin said on the 16th June that all its future barrels of oil sold from the Johan Sverdrup field would be certified as…
