Rathlin Energy (UK) Ltd has completed wellsite and access track construction work at the West Newton B site in PEDL183, East Yorkshire. All permits and permissions are in place to start conductor drilling operations, and pre-operational conditions have been satisfied. The active area…
Qatar Petroleum has entered into a farm-in agreement with Sonangol and Total to acquire a 30% participating interest in block 48 offshore Angola. Located in the ultra-deep-water Lower Congo basin, block 48 is about 400 km (249 miles) north-west of Luanda and 200 km…
Turkey dispatched a drilling ship to an area off the southwestern coast of Cyprus on the 18th August, in a move which could fuel territorial disputes with EU member states in the eastern Mediterranean. Ankara resumed its search of the contested waters last week…
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced on the 17th August that the Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) and the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC) have signed 13 contracts with 14 local players worth around US$1.7 billion (€1.5 billion). The deals will be…
Environmental group Greenpeace has located two large methane leaks at an old offshore well site in the UK North Sea. Greenpeace said on the 17th August that its patrol ship Esperanza located two “gas-emitting craters” on the seabed. According to the organisation, the…
Oil companies must once again worry about criminal penalties for allowing migratory birds to die in oil waste ponds at well sites or refineries. On the 11th August, a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration was wrong to assume that the prohibitions of…
GE Renewable Energy has announced that it will supply 13 of its 5.3MW Cypress wind turbines, its largest onshore wind turbine in the field, and provide a 25-year Full Services Agreement (FSA) to the E energija Telšiai onshore wind farm (“Project”) in Lithuania. Located…
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (TEPCO) has commissioned SeaRoc and JBA Consulting (JBA) to support the development of the Choshi offshore wind farm, a 370 MW-project off the coast of Choshi City, Chiba Prefecture. If approved, the wind farm is expected to reach…
Iraq’s Ministry of Oil, represented by the Iraqi Oil Tankers Company (IOTC), has concluded a contract with Norway’s Båtservice Mandal AS to build two oil tankers. Oil Minister Ahsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail said that this contract comes within the framework of the ministry’s plans to…
On the 17th August the Trump administration authorised a sweeping plan to sell drilling rights and spur oil development in Alaska’s rugged Arctic refuge, setting up a possible auction by the end of 2020 and a political clash if the president loses the November election….
