Oil and gas company Beach Energy has applied for a consent to discharge trace amounts of harmful substances from the deck drains of a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) as it is preparing for exploration drilling in the Canterbury Basin off New Zealand, which could…
An independent resources audit of the Conrad Petroleum-operated Mako gas field, located in the Duyung PSC offshore Indonesia, has confirmed a significant upgrade, showing that the Mako field is one of the largest gas fields ever discovered in the West Natuna Basin and the largest…
Tendeka will provide its inflow control technology to help boost production from two fields offshore Sabah, Malaysia. An unnamed operator awarded the company a three-year contract for supply of its FloSure Autonomous Inflow Control Devices (AICDs). Keith Parrott, Tendeka’s South East Asia area…
The technology group Wärtsilä launches its FuelFlex Injection Control Unit (ICU) upgrading solution to meet the requirements of operating its RT-flex type two-stroke diesel engines with both residual and low-viscosity marine fuels. This is particularly relevant in view of the industry’s increasing use of low-sulphur-content fuels…
Bahamas Petroleum Company, the oil and gas exploration company with significant prospective resources in licences in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, has announced that, having postponed its Perseverance-1 drilling operation from H1 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has entered into a definitive contract…
ConocoPhillips has received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to use the Rowan Norway rig (Valaris JU-292) on the Ekofisk field offshore Norway. According to the safety authority’s statement on the 25th May, the consent applies to the plugging…
Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) has delivered a purpose built pre-lay plough to Boskalis for use at Ørsted’s Hornsea Two wind farm offshore the UK. Boskalis will use the multi-functional pre-lay plough to install 380 km (236 miles) of export cables which will ultimately…
Sweden’s government has approved construction of Baltic Pipe gas pipeline through the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Baltic Sea. This concludes the process of obtaining construction permits from all countries which the new pipeline system will cross. The route through the…
E-Connection, a Dutch wind project developer with more than 30 years of experience in developing, realising and managing complex wind energy projects, has placed an order for 11 turbines totalling 46 MW for the first phase of the wind project Oosterscheldekering Wind Optimisation which consists…
Gaussin and Total are jointly developing the world’s first full electric ART® (Aircraft Refueller Transporter). Planned for the Airbus industrial site in Toulouse, this prototype will be capable of towing two fuel tankers, with a fuel capacity of 30 tons each. Delivery is…
