Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Energy Market Authority (EMA) to develop energy solutions for distributed energy resources, digitalisation, and low carbon alternatives. The two parties are launching a grant call for solutions relating to energy…
GE has signed a contract with Phuong Mai Wind Power JSC, a Special Purpose Vehicle entity jointly invested by Truong Thanh Development and Construction Investment Joint Stock Company and Hanoi Construction – Industrial Investment JSC to provide 11 2.4MW-116 turbines and technical advisory service for…
Yinson has completed a US$800 million refinancing exercise for FPSO John Agyekum Kufuor (JAK), with the loan successfully drawn down on 14 April. The project kicked off five months ago in November 2019 when 13 local and international banks, seven of which are new…
Qatar Petroleum has commenced the development drilling campaign for the North Field East project, or NFE (previously the North Field Expansion project), as the first of 80 development wells from eight wellhead platform locations was spudded on the 29th March. Drilled by the GulfDrill’s…
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found irregularities during an audit of Equinor’s operations and barriers at the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The PSA said on the 15th April that the audit of Johan Sverdrup was done…
Shell has decided not to pursue a joint venture deal with Gazprom Neft in Russia through Meretoyakhaneftegaz “due to the challenging external environment”, according to a written statement from Gazprom. Gazprom Neft estimated that the total resources of the fields included in Meretoyakhaneftegaz are…
The Lebanese Petroleum Administration has pushed back the closing date for applications to Lebanon’s second offshore exploration licensing round to the 1st June 2020. Minister of Energy and Water for Lebanon, Raymond Ghajar, said the decision was taken due to the implications of the…
Powin Energy Corporation (Powin) has unveiled three new products, Stack™225, Stack™230 and Stack™230P, its first products utilising Contemporary Amperex Technology Company Limited (CATL) battery cells. All three products were designed by Powin around CATL’s large form factor cells, utilising Powin’s patented StackOS battery management and controls software. Powin’s proprietary Stack™ products can perform a wide variety of in front of the meter, behind the meter, and microgrid applications…
Reabold Resources, the AIM investing company which focuses on investments in pre-cash flow upstream oil and gas projects, has provided an update regarding the start of preparatory activity ahead of drilling at the West Newton B site in PEDL 183, onshore UK. Following the…
Royal Dutch Shell has temporarily halted production from its 100,000-b/d Perdido platform in the Gulf of Mexico following a leak in Exxon Mobil’s 153-mile Hoover offshore oil pipeline system (HOOPS). Perdido operates in Alaminos Canyon Block 857 about 200 miles south of Galveston, Texas,…
