Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC), Eneco, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to investigate the potential for shore power infrastructure in the Calandkanaal on the western Netherlands coast. This could provide Heerema’s construction vessel fleet with sustainable power inshore….
Nord Stream has finished its annual maintenance work begun on the 17th July and resumed gas transmission on the Russia to Europe route through the Baltic Sea, a note on the website of the operating consortium for the twin pipeline said. The maintenance finished…
Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi has ordered Iraq’s state-owned oil companies to devise an urgent plan to develop the Mansuriyah (Mansouriya) gas field, following what he described as the delay and the failure of foreign companies to start developing the field. The field, in…
Indonesia has decided Pertamina will take over operation of the Rokan oil block, the country’s second-biggest crude producing field, once Chevron’s operating contract there expires in 2021, Deputy Energy Minister Arcandra Tahar said late on the 31st July. Rokan has been a focus area…
Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (RRPCL) – a consortium of public-sector refining firms Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) alongside overseas strategic partners Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company – is moving ahead…
The Inpex Corporation-led consortium at Ichthys gas-condensate field in the Browse basin 220 kilometres offshore Western Australia has started natural gas production from its subsea wells to the massive 120,000-tonne Ichthys Explorer production platform. LNG from the project’s onshore Darwin plant in the Northern…
Total has revealed that it has started production at Kaombo, which it describes as “currently the biggest deep offshore development in Angola”. The company announced that Kaombo Norte, the first Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit, has been brought on stream and will…
Bureau Veritas (BV) has issued new/updated notations and guidance for construction and operation of floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) and floating storage units (FSUs). According to BV, floating gas terminals are attracting growing interest due to the operational flexibility they provide and the reduced…
Kvaerner has shipped out the third of three jackets ordered by Equinor for the Johan Sverdrup field development in the Norwegian North Sea. Through a frame agreement in 2014, Kvaerner won the contract for the jackets for the riser platform (delivered in summer 2017);…
