Queensland is leading the national charge towards a record year for the large-scale solar industry, Clean Energy Council Chief Executive Kane Thornton said in launching the 2018 Large-scale Solar Industry Forum in Brisbane. Mr Thornton said 20 projects were actively under construction, would soon…
ExxonMobil has reported greenhouse gas reduction measures which are expected to decrease its methane emissions by 15% and flaring by 25% by 2020. Efficiency improvements in its refining and chemical manufacturing facilities also are planned. The company has spent more than US$9 billion…
BP has been awarded seven licences, five as operator and two as partner, in the 30th Offshore Licensing Round, announced by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA). The BP-operated licences are the Skua field adjacent to BP’s Marnock field, which is part of the…
Cuadrilla Resources has submitted an application to the Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for the consent to hydraulically fracture the UK’s first ever horizontal shale gas well. The company stated that it has all the other necessary…
The latest regulatory package from the UK government to support domestic shale exploration will not have a tangible effect on momentum within the industry. That is the view of oil and gas analysts at BMI Research, who outlined the need for local council approval…
The SUEZ/Halvorsen TEC consortium will deliver a seawater sulphate removal unit (SRU) system to Equinor’s Johan Castberg project in the Barents Sea, after completing a year-long front-end engineering and design (FEED) study. Johan Castberg, 100 kilometre (62 mi)le north of the Snøhvit field, is…
UK-based Serica Energy and oil major BP remain fully committed to completing the transfer of operatorship over the Rhum field in the UK North Sea despite re-imposed US sanctions towards Iran. Meanwhile, BP has decided to delay its well intervention plans until the situation is…
“Energy Transition and the North Sea” is the theme of the fourth edition of North Sea Offshore to be held on the 7th June in Den Helder. The North Sea and her surrounding ports offer vast opportunities in a rapidly changing energy climate. Thanks…
Iran’s oil minister Bijan Zangeneh does not expect the country’s oil exports to be hurt by the recently re-imposed US sanctions if the EU sticks to its promises to keep the nuclear deal alive. Early in May the US terminated its participation in the…
Results from ORG’s recent studies of four exploration blocks in the Iranian sector of the Caspian Sea look promising, according to a report by news service Shana. “If the Norwegian company’s estimates of hydrocarbon deposits in the southern part of the Caspian Sea are…
