Drydocks World has cut first steel for a conversion project for Boskalis. The shipyard will convert an existing ship to a vessel designed for wind farm installations offshore Taiwan, and re-named BOKALIFT 2. It will be capable of conducting offshore operations ranging from…
US Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module, aboard an Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on the 17th May as part of a comprehensive investigation into prospective terrestrial use of solar energy captured in space. “To our knowledge, this experiment is…
Petronas has completed a 50% farm-down of its participating interest in Block 52, offshore Suriname. to a subsidiary of ExxonMobil. Block 52, located in the Suriname-Guyana basin, covers an area of 4,749 square kilometres water depths ranging from 50 metres – 1,100 metres. …
AET’s pioneer LNG dual-fuel dynamic positioning shuttle tanker Eagle Blane completed its maiden bunkering at the Port of Rotterdam on 20 April. The ship-to-ship bunkering was arranged by the Shell LNG Trading team and lasted nearly 15 hours including cooling down during which approximately…
China Oil & Gas Pipeline Network Corporation (PipeChina) has started building a new 20-million tonne/year (tpy) LNG terminal in Longkou, Shandong Province. The terminal, which includes 20 220,000-cu m storage tanks, will supply 28 billion cu m/year (bcmy) of natural gas to China’s markets….
In brokering the end to the global oil-price war last month, the Trump administration assured leaders that America’s shale patch would throttle back production. But few expected that the cuts would run this deep — and happen so quickly. Drillers are laying down rigs and…
State-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) has entered into an agreement to acquire stakes in Total’s two exploration blocks offshore the Ivory Coast. Qatar Petroleum said on the 18th May that it bought a 45 per cent participating interest in blocks CI-705 and CI-706 from the…
Equinor, Shell, and Total have decided to invest in the Northern Lights project in Norway’s first exploitation license for CO₂ storage on the Norwegian continental shelf. Plans for development and operation have been handed over to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given Wintershall Dea consent to use the West Mira mobile drilling facility for production drilling on the Vega field. The facility is operated by Seadrill and received an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) from the PSA in 2019. The…
The Russian Ambassador to Iraq, Maxim Maksimov said that Russia is seeking to invest heavily in Al-Mansouriya gas field, in the Diyala governorate. Maksimov said in a press statement yesterday that “Russian companies are willing to mobilise significant funds and have submitted an investment…
