France-based oil company Total and the government of Papa New Guinea announced the remobilisation of the Papua LNG project after a year of delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total, and a Delegation of Papua New Guinea (PNG)…
BHP Group Ltd has produced first oil from the Ruby project offshore Trinidad and Tobago in Block 3(a) within Greater Angostura field. Ruby, discovered in November 2006, lies in 60-90 metres of water about 40 km north-east of the twin-island nation’s coast. BHP…
A terrorist attack on the Bai Hassan oilfield in Kirkuk early on the 5th May has caused casualties and damage. A statement from the Ministry of Oil said that wells 177 and 183 were bombed, and “a number of security forces and energy police…
Royal Dutch Shell’s subsidiary, Equilon Enterprises LLC d/b/a Shell Oil Products US, has reached an agreement for the sale of its Puget Sound Refinery near Anacortes, Washington state. The refinery is being sold to a subsidiary of HollyFrontier Corporation, an independent refiner headquartered in…
Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has won a contract for the Trident XII jack-up rig with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in India. Shelf Drilling said on the 5th May that the contract was for three years and that the rig would…
Neptune Energy has acquired a 38.75% interest from Spirit Energy in the Pegasus West field and surrounding acreage over four licences in the UK southern North Sea (P1724, P1727, P4257 and P2128). Spirit operates the 2014 gas discovery. Under the transaction, Neptune will…
Marking its entrance into the Latvian wind market, Vestas has secured a 59 MW order at the Targale wind project from a special purpose company majority owned by Utilitas, the Estonian utility provider. The Targale project is located in Ventspils municipality in western Latvia,…
Denmark’s Energinet and the Netherlands’ Gasunie have published a technical pre-feasibility study for transporting hydrogen via a 350-450 km (217-279 mile) pipeline from Esbjerg or Holstebro in Denmark to Hamburg in Germany. The study shows that such a connection can be established in a…
The Biden administration clarified its position on the Dakota Access Pipeline by telling a federal court on the 3rd May that no information has come to light to warrant shutting down the 1,170-mile four-year-old crude oil pipeline while additional environmental studies are performed. The…
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has launched an investigation into an oil spill from Equinor’s Gullfaks C platform in the North Sea. The PSA said on the 3rd May that the incident happened on the 26th April. According to the…
