The technology group Wärtsilä has announced the first order of its innovative new Wärtsilä Modular Block solution for power generation to Aggreko, a global provider of mobile, modular power, temperature control and energy services. Four Wärtsilä Modular Block enclosures with one medium-speed Wärtsilä 32…
Touchstone Exploration has made a significant crude oil discovery with the Cascadura-1ST1 well on the Ortoire exploration block, onshore in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Highlights Cascadura-1ST1 cased hole wireline logs indicated significant prospective oil pay totalling 1,037 feet from 1,374 feet…
Oman Oil Refineries & Petroleum Industries Company (ORPIC) has completed a major turnaround involving installation of a new reactor for an existing residue fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) unit at the operator’s now 198,000-b/d Sohar refinery, about 230 km north-west of Muscat. Subcontracted by India’s…
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (“Sinopec” or the “Company”) has completed the central unit of the Al-Zour refinery project in Kuwait. As the largest refinery in the Middle East, it will make Kuwait the biggest clean oil-producing country in the region with an annual…
BP has said it has further confirmed the world-class scale of the gas resource offshore Mauritania and Senegal which could lead to new offshore developments. The company said that three appraisal wells drilled this year, GTA-1, Yakaar-2, and Orca-1, had targeted a total of…
JDC said on the 13th December that the drilling rig Hakuryu-5 had started operations offshore Natuna, Indonesia on that day. The Hakuryu-5 rig was awarded a contract for two firm wells, expected to take 123 days, by Medco in January 2019. Medco also…
The UK’s latest offshore licensing round generated “considerable interest”, according to the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA). The 32nd offshore licensing round attracted 104 applications covering 245 blocks or part-blocks across the main producing areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), the OGA…
Rystad Energy expects total upstream investments next year to decrease by around 4%, with shale set to experience a steep decline. Deep-water, however, is set to grow by more than 5%. Regionally, Africa, Russia, and South America will either experience growth or a…
PGS data from the offshore Congo coastal basin supports the Republic of Congo ‘open door’ policy for exploration and production opportunities. The Republic of Congo has started an ongoing promotion of all open blocks, including five blocks in the interior Cuvette basin and ten…
Pakistan’s Energas plans to start the nation’s largest liquefied natural gas import terminal in 2021 to help meet soaring demand once it gets the green light to build the project. Energas, a consortium of large domestic users, aims to begin construction of the US$140…
