Sound Energy to proceed with micro LNG project

Sound Energy – a Moroccan focused upstream gas company – has announced that it will focus on pursuing a micro LNG production plan for the TE-5 Horst field within the Tendrara production concession.   On 6 November last year, the company entered into non-binding heads…

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PTTEP and Total sign EPSA for Block 12 onshore Oman

PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) has announced that on 19 February 2020, PTTEP MENA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PTTEP, and Total E&P Oman Block 12, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Total, signed an Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) with Oman’s Ministry of Oil and Gas…

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Gazprom Neft’s Omsk refinery producing IMO 2020-compliant fuels

PJSC Gazprom Neft has started production of low-sulphur fuels which comply with the International Marine Organisation’s (IMO) new regulations requiring ships to use marine fuels with a sulphur content below 0.5% at its 430,000-b/d Omsk refinery in Western Siberia.   The refinery began production of…

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Neptune brings online new gas well in Dutch North Sea

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has produced first gas from the new L5a-D4 well in the deepest producing gas field of the Dutch North Sea.   L5a-D4 is a high pressure, high temperature well located in the L5a-D field, around 100 kilometres north of…

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US Slaps Rosneft With Sanctions for Venezuelan Oil-Trade Ties

The US has sanctioned a unit of Russia’s largest oil producer, Rosneft PJSC, for maintaining ties with Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and state-run oil company PDVSA.   The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is acting against Rosneft Trading SA, the company’s Swiss-incorporated brokerage firm,…

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More high-impact wells likely offshore Southeast Asia in 2020

Wood Mackenzie predicts several high-impact exploration wells across the Asia/Pacific region this year.   According to Asia Pacific vice chair, Gavin Thompson, PTTEP’s Shwe Nadi well, in partnership with Total, will target deep-water gas in the Moattama basin off Myanmar. A success could help opening…

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ADNOC lets contracts for Abu Dhabi gas mega project

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has let two contracts to Petrofac Ltd subsidiary Petrofac Emirates LLC and a joint venture of Petrofac and Sapura Energy Bhd to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) for ADNOC’s Dalma gas development project 90 km northwest of Abu Dhabi…

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Russia Faces US$50 billion Pay-out

Russia may have to pay a record US$50 billion arbitration ruling after a Dutch court ruled in favour of the former owners of Yukos Oil Company.   The ruling by The Hague Court of Appeal on the 18th February reinstates an award issued in 2014…

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