New South Wales has waved through another large-scale PV project, a 60MW concern being developed by Canadian Solar just outside of Narrabri, in the state’s north. The NSW Department of Planning and Environment reportedly green-lighted the US$82 million Narrabri South Solar Farm late last…
Block Energy, the exploration and production company focused on the Republic of Georgia, has announced that side-tracking operations from the existing 16a wellbore on the West Rustavi field has commenced. 16a is part of an initial two-well horizontal side-track drilling programme at West Rustavi…
The rise of US shale oil is choking off a historic gasoline trade, dealing a blow to European refineries which for decades have relied on American drivers to buy their excess supplies. Over the past month, tankers shipping European gasoline to the world’s biggest…
BHP’s first appraisal well on the deep-water Trion field offshore Mexico has encountered oil. The Trion-2DEL well started drilling last November in block AE-0093. A side track was spudded on the 4th January, the aims being to appraise the field further and to…
Oil and gas companies are expected to increase spending, grow workforce, and focus more on digitalisation and decarbonisation in 2019, according to a report by DNV GL. DNV GL said on the 22nd January that 70 percent of senior industry professionals it had interviewed for…
One of the largest financiers of global energy infrastructure, the European Investment Bank, has agreed a new €255 million long-term loan with the Greek Public Power Corporation (PPC), the largest power producer and electricity supplier in Greece, to upgrade electricity distribution across the country. …
Russia’s energy ministry said on the 21st January that Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation has expressed interest in participation in the Arctic LNG 2 project, which is due to start producing liquefied natural gas in the next decade. Novatek owns a 90 percent stake in the…
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said he is on schedule to finish by next year his US$15 billion oil refinery, which will be one of the world’s biggest, despite analysts saying the timeline is ambitious. “There are quite a lot of challenges, but we’re moving,”…
Total and its partners have successfully applied to convert a licensing option (LO 16/27) in the southern Porcupine basin offshore south-west Ireland to a frontier exploration licence (FEL 2/19). The concession contains the undrilled Palaeocene Avalon prospect, close to the previously drilled Dunquin North…
Australia’s Santos has started oil production from its Van Gogh infill project in the Exmouth basin, offshore Western Australia. This marks the conclusion of the two-well programme which will increase production from the Van Gogh field. The Van Gogh field ties into the Floating…
