Cuadrilla Resources filed papers on Monday to the High Court, in preparation for a hearing for an injunction covering its shale gas exploration operations at Preston New Road (PNR), Lancashire. The proposed injunction would replace and extend the duration of an existing injunction forbidding trespass on…
Mubadala Petroleum has spudded the Manora-8 exploration well in the Gulf of Thailand. According to partner Tap Oil, the main aim is to prove hydrocarbons in the 600 series sands which are the primary producing sands in the Manora field. The well is…
New Zealand’s proven and probable gas reserves have taken a fall according to data released by country’s Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment. The data, compiled from assessments of permit holders’ annual summary reports, shows a five percent decline in proved plus probable gas…
London-listed Rockhopper Exploration has marked the year 2018 potentially transformational, as it works to secure funds and press ahead with the US$1.5 billion Sea development in the Falkland Islands. Rockhopper is a partner in the 520 mmbbls project with a 40% working interest. The Sea Lion project,…
Oilfield service firm Petrofac Ltd, which is being investigated by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), said it was awarded more than US$1.7 billion of new orders so far this year as tendering activity remained high. Oilfield service companies have been seeing a recovery in…
On a sprawling construction site in Western Siberia, about 20,000 workers are busy building what will be one of the world’s five biggest petrochemical plants, part of a play by Russia to capture more of the value from the oil it produces. Russian energy…
Russian gas giant Novatek is set to create its own shipping company – an arctic shipping company. In a statement on the 18th May, the company said it was creating a transportation subsidiary named Maritime Arctic Transport. Novatek, which operates giant gas fields…
Offshore oil and gas explorer Kosmos Energy has encountered problems while drilling an offshore well in Suriname and will have to start again. Kosmos on Monday said:” The Anapai-1 well drilling in Block 45 offshore Suriname encountered shallow borehole stability issues before reaching the…
Mexican oil company Pemex is on the lookout for a drilling rig which it will use to test the size of the Zama discovery made by the US operator Talos offshore Mexico in July 2017. While Pemex does not hold a stake in the…
Offshore preparatory works have started for pipelaying in the Bay of Greifswald of Germany for the Nord Stream 2 gas trunklines. According to the Nord Stream 2 AG consortium, five dredgers are presently working on the trench for the two pipeline strings. Works are based on the…
