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….
Australia’s oldest LNG plant at Karratha, part of the Woodside-led North West Shelf project, is to get natural gas from an onshore field in the Perth Basin under a new deal revealed on the 17th August. The Karratha plant has been liquefying gas from…
Two weeks ago in Renewable Energy Growth Continues At A Blistering Pace, I highlighted the inability of renewable energy to keep up with overall energy demand: “Even though global renewable energy consumption has increased by about 21 exajoules in the past decade, overall energy…
Pars Oil and Gas Company has brought onstream three wells at the South Pars phases 22-24 development in the Persian Gulf. All were drilled from the SPD22 platform, project head Mehrdad Kazemi told news service Shana. Hook-up activities for the wells were completed…
