Angus Energy has announced that, pursuant to Town and Country Planning regulations, the company has posted notice of its application for an extended well test at the Balcombe site, and following the statutory seven day waiting period, the submission will be lodged with West…
The new Gulf Coast Express Pipeline (GCX) has begun full commercial service, delivering natural gas from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast, a Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) spokesperson confirmed on the 25th September. According to a statement from KMI, GCX – fully…
ADNOC Drilling, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), has completed its first offshore integrated drilling services (IDS) well in Abu Dhabi’s Umm Lulu offshore oilfield. This milestone follows the completion of 14 onshore IDS wells over the course of this…
On the 24th September Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi reportedly said that Iraq will join China’s “Belt and Road” (One Belt One Road) initiative. According to AFP, he made the announcement in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a state visit to…
Private Queensland company Timor Resources plans to drill five onshore wells in East Timor in 2020, the first such program in the country in nearly 50 years. The last programme was in 1972. Timor Resources secured the rights to explore and develop about 2,000…
Since 2007, the minimum commercial field size (MCFS) for deep-water standalone oil developments has varied between 130 and 650 MMboe, according to consultant Westwood, depending mainly on the exploration play. Joe Killen, analyst, Global Exploration & Production, said the oil price did not have…
A breakthrough nanotechnology from cleantech start-up EnergyX promises to revolutionise the speed, cost and sustainability of accessing the world’s lithium reserves. The technique uses a newly developed class of materials to act like an organic sieve to separate out lithium, rather than vast networks…
Oil and gas operators with assets in Ireland have sought clarification following the government’s announcement it plans to end all future oil exploration in the country due to its incompatibility with a low-carbon future. During the UN Climate Action Summit on Monday evening An…
Hague and London Oil has announced the proposed acquisition of several assets in the Dutch & UK sectors of the North Sea from ONE-Dyas (‘OND’). These interests consist of 7.9% of the Sillimanite Development Unit, straddling the Dutch & UK median line in the…
Last Wednesday night, as I watched the climate discussions with each of the Democratic Party candidates on CNN’s Presidential Climate Town Hall, I kept asking, “Why is only Andrew Yang talking about solar geoengineering?” True, he is the most tech-savvy of the candidates, but…
