A tanker equipped with single point mooring (SPM) has arrived in Assaluyeh, southern Iran, according to news service Shana. The vessel will provide extra gas condensate loading capacity of 7,000 sq m/hr (75,347 sq ft/hr) for Pars Oil and Gas Co.’s (POGC) offshore South…
Neutrino Energy Group founder Holger Thorsten Schubart proposes that Neutrino Energy could power electric cars. Recently, self-driving taxi service Cruise announced that its all-electric fleet of cars will now run on renewable energy. Even in Southern California, however, there isn’t enough sunshine to power the self-driving taxi fleets of the…
Vattenfall has entered a partnership with Greencoat UK Wind and given the green light to the construction of South Kyle, its largest onshore wind farm in the United Kingdom. Vattenfall has taken the final investment decision to construct South Kyle Wind Farm, which will…
Perenco UK Ltd has let a contract to Rever Offshore as part of the larger Southern Hub Area Redevelopment Project (SHARP) in the southern North Sea. SHARP comprises two campaigns which will take place over the course of the next 18 months. Rever…
UK Insurers Urged by Treasury Committee to Pay Coronavirus Claims Insurers need to pay out on more claims related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of the UK parliamentary committee which oversees the financial industry. “We are concerned that the insurance sector…
In our current COVID-19 world, the question posed looms larger than ever. After all, it was just a few years ago that shale legend Harold Hamm claimed OPEC a “toothless tiger,” suggesting that the US shale revolution had rendered the bloc ineffective over the world…
ADNOC and ADPower have issued a joint tender to develop and operate the MENA region’s first HVDC subsea transmission system. The system will connect ADNOC’s offshore production facilities to ADPower’s onshore electricity grid. The project should as a result reduce the carbon footprint…
Sonardyne International and XOCEAN have completed a live seabed-to-shore data mission for Norske Shell on the Ormen Lange gas field in the Norwegian Sea. The campaign involving use of an XOCEAN XO-450 unmanned surface vessel (USV) for A/S Norske Shell, was completed earlier this…
AIM-listed Union Jack Oil, a UK focused onshore hydrocarbon production, development and exploration company has announced that a positive decision document in respect of the testing of the West Newton A-2 well (‘WNA-2’) on PEDL183, has been received from the Environment Agency (‘EA’) by Rathlin…
“The theme for this quarter is seismic.” The above statement, from consultancy EY’s new report on the oil and gas market outlook for the second quarter of 2020, perhaps best encapsulates what the industry is experiencing amid the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The report acknowledges…
