Providence Resources, the Irish based resource development company, has announced that it has received official confirmation from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) by way of an Addendum No 6 to the Standard Exploration Licence 1/11 that, the interest in the licence…
Van Oord says it has become a shareholder in Saare Wind Energy, which is developing the Saaremaa offshore wind farm in Estonia. Development of the Saaremaa offshore wind farm began in 2015. The company is developing an area of up to 200 sq km…
Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has successfully delivered its first new-build LNG carrier, Avenir Advantage to Avenir LNG Limited. The LNG carrier also functions as an LNG bunkering vessel, making it the first in Southeast Asia to do so. It is the…
Tullow Oil Plc announced on the 21st October that it has received government approvals for the US$575 million sale of its Uganda assets to Total. The Government of Uganda and the Ugandan Revenue Authority have executed a binding Tax Agreement which reflects the pre-agreed…
UK-based companies Ultrabeam Hydrographic and Unmanned Survey Solutions (USS) have recently teamed up to conduct two subsea gas pipeline inspection surveys in Northern Ireland. The contract came from Mutual Energy with aim to gain experience on how unmanned autonomous platforms can increase the knowledge…
Iraq’s reconstituted national oil company Inoc will be operational by early 2022, more than 30 years after it was broken up under Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to oil minister Ihsan Ismael. “By the third quarter of 2021 or first quarter of 2022, we will…
Svenska Petroleum Exploration has secured approval via presidential decree to extend the terms of two licences offshore Guinea-Bissau. The current exploration period for the Sinapa and Esperanca licences will now expire on the 2nd October 2023. Operations in the licences, including preparation for…
Onshore wind turbines can be found everywhere from the tropics to the Arctic. Three decades ago, developers started putting them on fixed foundations out at sea, sparking the rise of the offshore wind market, which added 6.1 gigawatts of new capacity in 2019. …
Kinetiko Energy has announced that Afro Energy has received approval to produce an amount of gas annually for a two year period from the Amersfoort Project exploration rights ER56 and ER38 by the Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa (DMR). …
Enbridge Inc’s Line 3 340-mile crude pipeline replacement project has received a favourable ruling from the Minnesota courts. Administrative Judge James LaFave ruled that the joint petitioners against the line had failed to meet their burden of proof in claiming that Minnesota pollution regulators…
