Fears about oil spills into the Great Lakes from two aging US pipelines have flared, raising doubts about their future and creating fresh headaches for operator Enbridge Inc and the Canadian energy sector. Canada has faced years of delay in getting new oil pipelines…
The supply vessel PSV Sjoborg collided into the Stratfjord A platform at 1:55 am Norwegian time on the 7th June, Equinor has revealed. The incident occurred in connection with loading operations, according to Equinor. There were 276 people on board Statfjord A when the…
Russian oil and gas company Lukoil has concluded an agreement with New Age to acquire a 25% interest in the Eni-operated Marine XII license in the Republic of Congo for US$800 million in cash. The transaction is subject to customary conditions, including the approval…
CNOOC Ltd and its subsidiary CEPR Ltd have signed an agreement with Novatek and Ekropromstroy LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of JSC Novatek, to acquire a 10% equity interest in Arctic LNG 2 LLC. Novatek plans three liquefaction trains at the 19.8 million-tonne/year Arctic LNG…
Researchers from Dalhousie University recently received US$523,000 in Canadian federal government funding to investigate strategies to separate oil from water better and examine the risk of spills in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. As climate change accelerates the melting of sea ice in the Arctic,…
DEME Offshore’s newest heavy-lift jack-up Apollo has completed a one-month conversion project at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque. This project involved the installation of a moonpool on the main deck. The moonpool installation involved creating an opening right through the centre of the vessel, from the…
Canadian Solar Inc one of the world’s largest solar power companies, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Recurrent Energy, LLC (“Recurrent Energy”) has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (“PPA”) with Anheuser-Busch for 310 MWp/222 MWac of electricity from its Maplewood solar project. …
China’s looming pipeline reform is poised to spur competition in its natural gas industry, lowering prices and supercharging demand from the world’s top importer in years to come, according to Credit Suisse Group AG. The government is creating a national pipeline operator from the…
Australia is poised to dethrone Qatar as the world’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas next year. That is according to Rystad Energy, which forecasts that Australia will stay in top spot until Qatar eventually reclaims the position in 2024. “Over the next…
Anadarko has hired a joint venture between McDermott, Saipem, and Chiyoda – named CCS JV – for the onshore part of its Mozambique Area 1 LNG Development in Mozambique. The joint venture’s scope of work covers the onshore engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) for…
