China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC) has reportedly won a US$121-million contract to upgrade gas capture facilities at West Qurna-1 oilfield. According to Reuters, the project is due to be completed within 27 months. Source: Iraq Business News
Saft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total, has won an order for three Intensium Max 20 High Energy containers from TuuliWatti, the Finnish wind developer and operator. The Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) energy storage system (ESS) will support frequency regulation at a 21 megawatt (MW) wind farm…
The two remaining platforms for the Phase 13 development of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf (platforms B and D) will be installed in the next four months, according to news service Shana. Platform C is currently operational while Platform A…
Total Quadran, a wholly owned Total subsidiary involved in the production of renewable electricity in France and its overseas territories, has started up Hélio Boulouparis 2, the largest solar power plant with energy storage in overseas France. The plant is the second tranche of…
The UK oil and gas industry must get more “radical” and “strategic” if it wants to make big decommissioning cost savings, an industry expert has said. Gunther Newcombe, operations director at the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), said companies had to work together to…
China raised its coal-fired power capacity by 42.9 gigawatts (GW), or about 4.5% of total capacity, in the 18 months to June. Over the same period, capacity in the rest of the world fell significantly, according to a study published on the 20th November….
In just a few months, the US will be fully energy independent and by 2030, the country’s total primary energy production will outpace primary energy demand by 30 percent, according to a forecast by Norwegian energy research firm Rystad Energy. “This milestone follows a…
Certainty on existing Irish offshore exploration licences will be set out in the official Government policy paper on the sector, which is scheduled for December. The Irish Offshore Operators’ Association (IOOA) said last week that the timing of the first-ever Government policy paper on…
AIM-listed Regal Petroleum has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of PJSC Science and Production Concern Ukrnaftinvest (‘UNI’), which holds the Belolisky and Alibeysk-Trapivska production licences in Ukraine. Under the terms of the Memorandum, the Acquisition is conditional on and subject…
Equinor has commemorated 40 years of production from the Statfjord oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea. Since operations started through the Statfjord A platform on the 24th November 1979, the field has produced a cumulative 5.1 Bboe. The lifespan has…
