As world leaders hammered out a deal last week to slow climate change, gas engineer Michele Ricciardi was digging into a practical problem: How thousands of miles of pipelines across Italy and Europe can safely carry hydrogen. The Italian is at the forefront of gas carriers’…
Poland raised its seaborne oil imports as well as crude supplies from Saudi Arabia to multi-year highs in October amid tensions with neighbouring Belarus and talks on new supply deals with Russia, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and traders. Relations between Belarus and the…
Cheniere Energy Partners LP produced LNG for the first time at its five-million tonne/year (tpy) Train 6 at the Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The commissioning process continues, and Cheniere expects substantial completion of Train 6 to be achieved in first-quarter…
The US has imposed sanctions on a ship involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as the Biden administration looks to exert more pressure on Russia without antagonising Germany. In a report sent to Congress on the 22nd November, the…
Chinese oil and gas giant CNOOC Limited has started production from the Lufeng oil fields regional development project located offshore China. The Lufeng oil fields are located in the Eastern South China Sea and mainly include Lufeng 14-4 oil field, Lufeng 14-8 oil field,…
OX2 is preparing to start the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process for two offshore wind power projects in the Gulf of Bothnia Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ). Both are in the Finnish EEZ close to the border with Sweden. Project Halla is west of the island…
France’s TotalEnergies SE and Italy’s SpA said they were ready to invest billions of dollars in Libya as the OPEC nation emerges from a decade of conflict and civil war. “I want to contribute to Libya’s comeback,” TotalEnergies’ Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said…
Kistos Plc has spudded the Q11-B appraisal well in licence block Q11, Dutch North Sea, about 13 km offshore. The discovery is being drilled by Borr Drilling’s Prospector-1 jack-up and is anticipated to take a minimum of six weeks to drill and test. …
Oil was on track to post its biggest weekly drop since August as Europe’s worsening Covid-19 crisis renewed the prospect of lockdowns just as key consuming nations look to add emergency supply to the market. The January futures contract in New York tumbled as…
Helix Energy Solutions is set to carry out well abandonment, recovery of subsea trees and wellhead severance and recovery at the Tui oil field offshore New Zealand as part of the contract recently secured with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE). The five-well…
