Papua New Guinea is demanding a greater share of the country’s resource wealth, stepping up its battle with companies including Exxon Mobil Corporation and Barrick Gold Corporation. Prime Minister James Marape laid out in a statement to parliament on the 2nd September the efforts…
Norfolk County Council (NCC) has secured £6 million of funding to deliver an offshore energy operations and maintenance campus at the Port of Great Yarmouth. The site will be located at the entrance of River Yare and will have closer proximity to the Southern…
The consultation will examine how the UK can build back greener through marine renewable projects across the country. new consultation launched on how government can support marine energy projects, such as floating offshore wind farms, tidal stream and wave energy views invited on…
Ithaca Energy has received approval from the UK’s Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning for its decommissioning proposals for the Anglia gas field in the UK southern North Sea. Anglia, which ceased production in 2015, is in blocks 48/19b and 48/18b. Facilities to…
Global wind and solar development company, Mainstream Renewable Power (“Mainstream” or “The Company”), has reached financial close for the second phase of its wholly-owned and fully-contracted 1.3 gigawatt “Andes Renovables” wind and solar power generation platform in Chile. The Company has successfully raised US$620…
EDF Energy announced on the 27th August that the Hunterston B nuclear power station will be closed down in 2021, two years earlier than intended. The nuclear power station in Ayrshire, Scotland, has been closed since 2018 when 350 cracks were found in the…
Jizzakh Petroleum JV LLC, a joint venture of JSC Uzbekneftegaz and Gazprom International SA subsidiary Gas Project Development Central Asia AG, has signed on as a major investor in a project to build a grassroots gas chemical complex based on methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology in south-western…
Turkey said on the 31st August that its Oruc Reis exploration vessel will carry out seismic surveys in a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean until the 12th September, provoking an angry response from neighbouring Greece. Turkey and Greece, NATO allies, vehemently disagree over…
Total SE will team up with Macquarie Group’s green bank to develop more than two gigawatts of floating wind farms off South Korea, the latest push by the French oil and gas giant to diversify into clean energy. Total and European peers such as…
Britain’s Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) is working with North Sea operators and the supply chain to stimulate new activity on the UK continental shelf (UKCS). During last week’s Road to Recovery – UK Oil and Gas Industry Action’ presentations, organised by Oil &…
