The liquefied natural gas terminal Lithuania built five years ago to reduce its dependence on Russian fuel is about to get its first Siberian cargo. The cargo will arrive at the facility, symbolically named Independence, next week on board the Stena Clear Sky, according…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted DEA Norge, a Norwegian unit of Wintershall Dea, a drilling permit for a wildcat well located in the Norwegian Sea. The well 6611/1-1 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling rig after completing the drilling of…
The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has signed a contract with the Dhi Qar Oil Company to drill 20 wells at Nasiriyah oil field. Fayyad Hassan Nehmeh, Undersecretary for Extraction Affairs, said the new wells will increase the field’s oil production by 40,000 bpd, in…
Tower Resources has issued an update on its activities offshore South Africa. The company is a partner in a 50:50 joint venture with New Age in the Algoa-Gamtoos licence, which adjoins Total’s concession in the Outeniqua basin. Earlier this year Total confirmed the…
Los Angeles’s public utility has struck a deal with developer 8Minute Renewables to build the largest solar and battery energy storage system in the US, which officials and environmental activists say will provide the city with cheaper and cleaner energy and move the city closer…
The Alberta government has approved the development plan for MEG Energy Corp.’s Surmont oil sands project 53 miles south of Fort McMurray. The phased project is to have ultimate production capacity of about 120,000 b/d of bitumen from steam-assisted gravity drainage. It is…
BP will use gas cloud imaging (GCI) as well as other instruments to detect, measure and reduce methane emissions in its future projects worldwide. The UK-based supermajor said on the 10th September that continuous measurements will be rolled out to all the company’s major…
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has reported that there is currently no observed leakage of oil to the sea from its South Riding Point terminal in the Bahamas. In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, Equinor said earlier this week it would clean up…
Making sense of the internal politics of Saudi Arabia has never been easy because of the kingdom’s closed power structure. But major changes have taken place at the top of the Saudi energy industry in recent days, and they will likely have an impact…
Wood Mackenzie expects more than 60 exploration wells to be drilled in the North Sea in 2019, up 25% compared with 2018. According to Glenn Morrall, an analyst with the upstream research team said: “While many of the prospects drilled will be infrastructure-led, we…
