Turkey has rebuffed a set of punitive measures by the European Union and vowed to go ahead with its energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean in a growing dispute with EU member Cyprus. EU foreign ministers agreed on the 15th July to freeze most…
Five companies have submitted proposals to explore for oil and gas on 12 blocks among 19 offered in Israel’s second offshore licensing round. The offered blocks are as large as 400 square kilometres, grouped in five zones as large as 1,600 square kilometres. …
Thirty exploration wells were completed offshore Norway during the first six months of the year, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Six discoveries resulted: four in the North Sea and two in the Norwegian Sea. Aker BP, operator of production licence 869 in…
The 100 million youth entering the African labour market will be unemployed by 2030 if current trends continue , according to the African Development Bank. In India, unemployment is also at record highs. Youth comprise more than 10% of the unemployed in India, and…
Chevron is seeking approval to modify its plans for a liquefied natural gas export facility on Canada’s Pacific Coast to an all-electric design which it says will result in the lowest greenhouse-gas emissions per ton of LNG of any large project in the world. …
PGNiG Upstream Norway, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Polish state-owned oil company PGNiG, has acquired 20% shares in the Duva field – PL 636 and PL636B licences – from Wellesley Petroleum. The Duva field is an oil and gas development project discovered in 2016…
The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland is one step closer to becoming a centre of excellence for recycling offshore structures from the North Sea with the arrival of two new installations for decommissioning by strategic partners Veolia and Peterson. The structures from Spirit…
OMV AG, Vienna, is investing €64 million to build a unit that will produce high-purity isobutene at subsidiary OMV Deutschland GmbH’s 76,300-b/d refinery in Burghausen, Germany. The 60,000-tonne/year ISO C4 unit – which will be integrated into the refinery’s existing metathesis plant responsible for…
Jarðfeingi, the Faroese Geological Survey, has opened the Fifth Faroese offshore licensing round. This is being run in conjunction with the 32nd UK licensing round, with acreage also on offer nearby in UK waters west of Shetland. Both rounds will remain open for…
GE Renewable Energy has announced that it will provide 81 onshore wind turbines to power the 220 MW Potegowo Wind Project in Slupsk County, Northern Poland. This is the first project between GE Renewable Energy and Potegowo Mashav Sp Z OO. With a…
