Turkish national oil company Turkish Petroleum (Türkiye Petrolleri AO or TPAO) has hired Schlumberger, the world’s largest oilfield services firm, to help it with offshore drilling in the Mediterranean Sea. Schlumberger shared the piece of information in its quarterly report on the 19th October….
UK independent Zennor Petroleum has received approval from UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) to proceed with the Finlaggan field development in the UK Central North Sea (block 21/05c). Zennor owns a 100% of the Finlaggan field. The development project to recover 26mmboe of 2P gas…
BP has received approval from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) to proceed with the Alligin development west of Shetland, which will target 20 million barrels of oil equivalent, and is expected to produce 12,000 barrels gross of oil equivalent a day at peak. …
Emerging renewable energy company Renew Estate says it has been granted planning approval to build 120MW (DC) solar farm – plus 40MWh of battery storage – at a site near the Bomen business park near Wagga Wagga. Renew Estate expects construction of the Bomen…
UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) has announced that Horse Hill Developments (‘HHDL’), a UKOG subsidiary company and the operator of the HH-1 Kimmeridge Limestone and conventional Portland Sandstone oil discovery, has informed the company that, following the successful Portland Extended Well Test (‘EWT’) programme, it…
Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) and Venture Global have signed 20-year sales and purchase agreements under which the former will receive US-sourced liquefied natural gas for domestic customers or for resale, Venture Global reported on the 17th October. “These are the first long-term…
Total and Adani Group have signed an agreement to develop multi energy offers to the Indian energy market jointly. This cooperation includes Liquefied Natural Gas and Fuel Retail. The Adani Group is an Indian private conglomerate active in 50 countries and specialised in commodities…
Wintershall CEO Mario Mehren outlined the company’s growth plans offshore Norway during a visit to Berlin by Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg. The company, which will merge its operations with DEA to form Wintershall DEA, expects to increase its production globally from around 575,000…
BP has started production from its Thunder Horse Northwest Expansion project in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, four months ahead of schedule. Per BP, the project was delivered 15 percent under budget. The project achieved first oil 16 months after being sanctioned. It…
Canadian oil company Husky Energy has selected Dutch offshore and dredging services specialist Van Oord to do offshore installation works at the West White Rose development Project of the east coast of Newfoundland. The West White Rose Project, sanctioned in May 2017, will be…
