Beach Energy Ltd. has reached agreement with OMV GSB Ltd to acquire a 30% participating interest in exploration permit PEP50119 in the Great South basin offshore New Zealand. Under the agreement, Beach will acquire a 30% participating interest in the permit in exchange for…
Schlumberger has announced its commitment to setting a science-based target to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Schlumberger’s commitment has been submitted to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and, in line with the defined criteria, Schlumberger will define its reduction target by 2021….
Article by Nick Snow Banning hydraulic fracturing in the US would eliminate 19 million jobs between 2021 and 2025 while reducing Gross Domestic Product by US$7.1 trillion between 2021 and 2025, a study by the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute (GEI) concluded…
PTTEP has set an investment budget of US$24.61 billion from 2020 to 2024. The investment budget will comprise US$14.23 billion in capital expenditure (CAPEX) and US$10.38 billion in operating expenditure (OPEX), PTTEP revealed. In 2020 alone, the company set a CAPEX budget of…
Tullow Oil has become a party to the Dussafu licence joint operating agreement in Gabon. Dussafu is operated by BW Energy. As previously reported, in March 2019 Tullow exercised its 10% back-in right to the Dussafu production sharing contract (“PSC”). The exercise of…
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced on the 18th December that it has completed its work supporting the decommissioning of the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant (OKG) in Oskarshamn Municipality in Sweden. GEH recently completed the segmentation of reactor internals at OKG Unit 1. The…
Independent Oil and Gas, the development and production company focused on becoming a substantial UK gas producer, has provided an update on management’s analysis of the results of the Harvey appraisal well 48/24b-6 in the UK Southern North Sea. Highlights: Post-well mapping indicates…
The American Petroleum Institute has issued its first safety and environmental protection standard covering lay-flat hoses, high-pressure equipment which upstream operators use to transport associated water from production operations. Compliance with Recommended Practice 15WT will assure operators and users that they are deploying the…
The Danish Energinet Gas-TSO has contracted Royal Boskalis Westminster to lay a new four-kilometre (2.5-mile), 36-inch subsea gas pipeline from Jutland in western Denmark to the island of Funen. Boskalis’ work scope includes pre-trenching, pipe-pull, cofferdam construction and post-lay rock installation to protect the…
The US has little leverage to prevent the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project between Russia and Germany from being completed, two administration officials said, acknowledging the failure of a years-long effort to head off what officials believe is a threat to European security. …
