Bakken Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas are establishing their positions in North America’s cleaner-energy future with a partnership agreement to create a clean hydrogen hub in North Dakota. This hub will be composed of facilities which produce, store, transport and consume clean hydrogen, while…
Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has started oil and natural gas production from the Carioca floating production, storage, and offloading vessel, the first platform in Sepia field, in the Santos Basin presalt. The platform lies some 200 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro…
Germany is open to suggestions about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project but will not create obstacles to it, economy and energy minister Peter Altmaier said on the 23rd August. Mr Altmaier was speaking after talks with his Ukrainian and US counterparts which took place on…
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has announced that it has signed framework agreements worth up to US$1 billion (AED3.67 billion) for Concept and Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) services for major projects across its full value chain to support the delivery of its 2030 strategy….
One of the DDW Offshore-owned offshore supply vessels will be supporting a Valaris jack-up rig on a campaign for OMV in New Zealand. DDW Offshore, an Akastor subsidiary, said on the 24th August that it has been awarded a one-year contract, plus options, by…
The Government of Papua New Guinea and ExxonMobil, operator of the PNG LNG project, will re-engage in negotiations for development of the P’nyang gas project in the country’s Western Highlands. The intention to reopen the talks which stalled in February 2020 was announced in…
A bid to establish the southern hemisphere’s first test site for wave energy devices off the south coast of Western Australia have gained momentum this week with the state government chipping in US$1.5 million towards the project. The US$4.8 million project, a collaboration between…
In the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) August 2021 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the company forecasts that US natural gas exports will exceed natural gas imports by an average of 11.0 billion ft3/d in 2021, or almost 50% more than the 2020 average of 7.5…
ESB and dCarbonX have initiated the Green Hydrogen Kinsale project to develop large-scale storage for green hydrogen off the coast of County Cork, southern Ireland. The development could potentially store up to 3 TWh of green hydrogen and hydrogen carriers, equivalent to 10% Ireland’s…
On the 20th August, the Biden administration on slapped sanctions on one Russian vessel and two Russian individuals involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, but opponents of nearly-completed project said the move would do little to stop it. The sanctions were imposed on ship…
