Cadogan Petroleum has announced that for temporary internal procedural reasons the licensing authority in Ukraine, the SGS, has not been able to provide final approval for the 20-year production licence for Monastyretska. All intermediate approvals for the production licence, including that of the regional…
The North Sea platform which had to be evacuated following a subsea inspection will undergo repair work early next year. More than 100 crew members were flown off EnQuest’s Thistle platform and production was halted last month. Checks showed the condition of a…
Total E&P Namibia has let an integrated logistics contract to Bourbon Marine & Logistics to support a deep offshore exploration campaign in South Namibia in 2020. The project scope covers provision of logistics base, freight forwarding, custom clearance, material storage and warehousing, handling and…
JA Solar, a world-leading manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic products, has announced that it supplied all PERC modules for a 32MW solar-plus-storage facility. The facility is one of the largest PV plants in Hokkaido, and has been successfully connected to the grid. The project represents…
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS has been awarded the largest-ever 4D seismic campaign in the Asia/Pacific region covering up to six fields operated by Woodside offshore Australia. The campaign, planned to begin in the fourth quarter of 2019, covers new 4D acquisition over the Pluto,…
Springfield Exploration and Production, an independent Ghanaian energy company drilling in deep water offshore Ghana, is reported to have made a discovery of more than 1.2 billion barrels of oil at the Afina-1x well in the West Cape Three Points Block 2. The 673…
Oil company Kris Energy has signed an agreement with BP for the sale of its participating interest in the Andaman II PSC located in the Malacca Strait, offshore Indonesia. In late October KrisEnergy said it had accepted a binding letter of offer by an…
BP Trinidad & Tobago (BPTT) has announced that it has made a gas discovery through the Ginger exploration well, which is located offshore Trinidad. BPTT said the well has penetrated hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs in fifteen segments and stated that “initial results are promising”. The well…
Karoon Energy Ltd, Melbourne, has contracted the dynamic positioning drillship Stena Forth to drill the company’s Marina-1 wildcat in the Tumbes basin offshore Peru. The well, in Karoon’s 40% owned and operated Block Z-38, is scheduled to be spudded early in first quarter 2020. Water depth…
Redflow batteries have stored and supplied more than 50 MWh (megawatt-hours) of renewable energy for a Vodafone NZ telecommunications tower in a remote part of New Zealand’s North Island. Vodafone New Zealand has met the challenge of bringing broadband connectivity to the remote Kauaeranga…
