IGI hires Barbican’s Sullivan for downstream energy portfolio International General Insurance Holdings (IGI) has hired Barbican’s Marc Sullivan as class underwriter for downstream energy. McGill builds energy and power team with RKH Specialty’s Oliveira Expansive broking start-up McGill and Partners has appointed Ana Oliveira…
Australia-based junior explorer Timor Resources is one step closer to making history in the young country of Timor-Leste, which became a sovereign state only 18 years ago. Timor Resources advised Rigzone that it has secured a finance facility of up to US$30 million from…
Despite Indonesia’s official projections of an eight percent growth year-on-year, production of both oil and gas will most likely fall in 2020, according to energy intelligence firm Rystad Energy. Rystad said on the 20th February that the country’s upstream task force SKK Migas had…
Providence Resources has provided an update on the Barryroe project in the Celtic Sea off southern Ireland. The company’s Exola DAC subsidiary has notified APEC that it has started the regulatory process for transferring APEC’s 50% equity in standard operating licence (SEL 1/11), containing…
Wintershall Noordzee (a Joint Venture of Wintershall Dea and Gazprom EP International) has successfully started gas production from its operated Sillimanite field. Discovered in June 2015, the unitised gas field stretches across the UK and the Dutch Continental Shelves and is located approximately 200…
UK Oil & Gas (UKOG) has announced that operations to shut off formation water ingress into its Horse Hill-2z (‘HH-2z’) Portland horizontal production well have commenced. By means of a Halliburton coiled tubing unit, production logging tools will be run along the entire length…
National policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expedite the permitting of oil and gas transportation infrastructure have been recommended by the National Petroleum Council (NPC). The recommendations are a balancing act – advocating that the federal government deal with concerns over climate change…
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has been awarded a long-term contract with Premier Oil in the UK. Premier Oil UK has contracted the platform supply vessel (PSV) Normand Flipper for four wells firm plus options starting between May and June 2020. The 2003-built…
A fracking ban would cost millions of jobs. That is according to the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) Director of Communications, Ben Marter, who made the statement ahead of the Democratic presidential debate in a post published on the API’s website. “Fracking has been…
The Republic of the Marshall Islands and the government of Belgium have awarded interim documents of compliance (DoC) under the International Safety Management (ISM) Code to Excelerate Technical Management (ETM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Excelerate Energy LP. The ISM DoC authorises ETM to operate…
