CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) has taken the final investment decision to construct the Green Jade, which is the first floating DP-3 heavy lift and installation vessel to be built in Taiwan. The vessel will be built at the CSBC shipyard in Kaohsiung and is…
Construction of an ice-resistant platform (ICP) for Gazprom’s Kamennomysskoye-Sea field on the Arctic shelf has begun. Gazprom estimates the gas field, in the Ob Bay of the Kara Sea, holds some 555 billion cubic metres of gas reserves. Production operations are expected to begin in 2025, with a design output…
Activity in the oil and gas sector continued to deteriorate further during the second quarter of this year, according to responses to the latest Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index – the survey’s broadest measure of circumstances facing Eleventh District energy firms…
Australia’s FAR has signed new joint operating agreements (JOAs) for the A2 and A5 Blocks in The Gambia, with Malaysia’s Petronas while efforts to find an additional partner to drill an exploration well are ongoing. This follows the granting of new licences for those…
LF Energy, a Linux Foundation non-profit coalition which seeks to radically improve power grid infrastructure through open-source projects, has launched its Digital Substation Automation Systems (DSAS) initiative to enhance the power grid’s modularity, interoperability and scalability to accelerate the global effort toward carbon neutrality by 2050….
Lloyd’s Register (LR) has secured a contract to provide Human-Machine Interface (HMI) engineering services for the Equinor-operated Hywind Tampen project in the Norwegian North Sea, the world’s first floating wind farm development designed to power offshore oil and gas platforms. Under the contract, part…
Neptune Energy has announced the safe removal of the L10-C, L10-D and L10-G platforms from the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The platforms have been providing offshore natural gas to the Netherlands for around 40 years and ceased production in 2016. More…
Gunvor Group Ltd, Geneva, has started a process to assess potential mothballing of refining operations at subsidiary Gunvor Petroleum Antwerpen NV’s (GPA) 107,500-b/d refinery located near the Berendrecht and Zandvliet locks in the northern part of Belgium’s Port of Antwerp, home to Europe’s largest integrated…
While global oil production has absorbed the lion’s share of pandemic aftershocks, natural gas output, which was set to grow, is now set to fall by 2.6% this year, according to Rystad Energy. Associated gas from oil fields will be hit the hardest, losing…
Aberdeen-headquartered Exceed, a well management and performance improvement specialist, has established a Norwegian subsidiary, Exceed Norge. Exceed said on the 24th June that the Stavanger-based subsidiary is headed up by Managing Director, Mike Simpson, who brings over 30 years’ experience in the Norwegian and…
