Oil production from non-OPEC countries is expected to grow at record speed in 2020, creating a headache for the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which meets in Vienna to discuss extending oil production cuts. Rystad Energy predicts that total non-OPEC production (crude…
Oil major Shell has won a court order against Greenpeace aimed at preventing environmentalists from boarding the company’s oil installations in the North Sea. In October 2019, Greenpeace protested on the Shell-operated Brent field in the North Sea against the company’s plans to leave…
Australian oil and gas company Santos is in talks with potential partners to farm-out a share in the permit offshore Australia containing the Beehive prospect. The offshore permit is currently fully owned by Melbana. Santos has an agreement with Melbana to acquire an 80…
TGS is acquiring a further 1,500 square kilometres (578 square miles) of 3D seismic data offshore The Gambia. This will expand the company’s 3D multi-client library over the MSGBC basin off north-west Africa, which now totals more than 40,000 square kilometres (15,444 square miles)….
Total has shut down the Tyra field in the Danish North Sea as part of the Tyra Redevelopment project, according to partner Noreco. Work is continuing on the Tyra offshore facilities to ensure ‘safe state’ in January 2020, Noreco added, and offshore modification and…
JinkoSolar Holding Company Ltd, one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, has announced that its affiliate has supplied approximately 40 MW of its ultra-high efficiency Cheetah HC 60 solar modules to Obton, one of the leading global developers and…
UK oil and gas company EnQuest has been awarded the Block PM409 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) located offshore Malaysia in partnership with Petronas Carigali by Petronas. Under the terms of the PSC, awarded as part of the 2019 Malaysia Bidding Round, EnQuest will operate…
Woodside Energy reported on the 3rd December that the development and exploitation plan for the Sangomar field offshore Senegal has been submitted to the West African country’s government. According to Woodside CEO Peter Coleman, whose company operates the Sangomar Field Development joint venture (JV)…
Equinor Energy AS has been granted a drilling permit by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to prove sandstone and storage potential for CO2 in the Cook and Johansen formations covered by exploitation licence 001 (Aurora) in the Norwegian North Sea. Sealing properties of the overlying…
Ithaca Energy has issued an update on its UK North Sea operations, which include the recently acquired operatorship of various fields from Chevron. The latest drilling campaign on the Captain field, which recently finished, involved drilling of five infill wells and two well workovers….
