Flow measurement specialist TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory has opened its new £16-million (US$19.6-million) advanced multiphase facility (AMF). The AMF’s test range for operating pressures, temperatures, flowrates, and metrology is said to be broader than at any other laboratory. It can operate at…
Buildings currently consume about 40% of all the electricity used in the United States, most of them located in urban areas which are growing rapidly. Because electricity generation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country, making urban buildings more energy…
Novatek has announced that Arcticgas, a joint venture between Novatek and Gazprom Neft, commenced commercial production at the East-Urengoyskoye+North-Esetinskoye field within the Samburgskiy licence area, with estimated annual production capacity of more than one billion cubic metres of natural gas and 0.2 million tons of…
Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has made progress toward drilling an initial exploration well in The Bahamas during 2020. The company is working on finalising a long-form rig contract with Seadrill and preparing for drilling. In an update on the 10th October, BPC announced…
Nigeria is seeking to recover as much as US$62 billion from international oil companies, using a 2018 Supreme Court ruling the state says enables it to increase its share of income from production-sharing contracts. The proposal comes as President Muhammadu Buhari tries to bolster revenue after…
The technology group Wärtsilä has been recognised as having delivered one of the world’s Top Ten most influential renewable energy projects of the last 50 years. This recognition has been given by Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s premier association of project professionals. It…
Unique Group has signed an agreement to acquire five DriX unmanned surface vessels (USV) from iXblue. The new additions are designed for a wide range of tasks such as geophysical and hydrographic surveys, touchdown monitoring of pipelines, subsea positioning, and ROV/AUV tracking. DriX, with its…
AIM-listed Solo Oil has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Scirocco (Netherlands) Energy, has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement with ONE-Dyas to acquire a package of non-operated interests in natural gas fields from ONE-Dyas in the Dutch sector of the North Sea…
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig. The well 32/4-3 S belongs to production licence 921. The well has been given…
Giant ocean-going tankers built the liquefied natural gas industry into a US$150-billion-a-year business. The next expansion opportunity may come from ships a seventh of the normal size. Fifty-five years after the first commercial LNG tanker sailed from Algeria, this segment of the gas industry…
