Belarusian oil pipeline operator Gomeltransneft Druzhba has restricted oil flows towards Poland for three days for unscheduled maintenance, the TASS news agency cited Russia’s oil pipeline monopoly Transneft as saying on the 17th November. Repairs at one of the pipeline’s lines began on the 16th November and the monthly target for oil supplies was not…
Turkey’s national oil and gas giant TPAO has added another deep-water drillship to its fleet of drilling rigs, which are working in the Black Sea. According to the Turkish daily newspaper, Yeni Safak, Turkey’s state-owned player agreed with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine…
Mocean Energy’s Blue X wave energy machine has returned to dock following five months of tests offshore Orkney, northern Scotland. The 20-metre (65.6-foot) long, 38-metric ton (42-ton) wave machine has been towed from EMEC’s Scapa Flow test site to Kirkwall, Orkney, and has been…
AFC Energy, a leading provider of hydrogen power generation technologies, has announced that ABB BV, a leading global technology company, has placed its first order for the high energy-dense “S” Series hydrogen fuel cell system. The order is worth £4 million, with the zero-emission power…
The United Arab Emirates will accelerate US$20 billion of natural-gas projects by awarding contracts for some of them in the coming days, as it seeks to boost exports of the fuel. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company will award engineering and construction work for the…
TotalEnergies SE has flow tested two wells in Block 58, offshore Suriname. The results extend the proven petroleum system to the northern boundary of Block 58, confirming the presence of high-quality reservoir sands and the generation and migration of black oil. Bonboni-1, the…
Kistos expects Borr Drilling’s jack-up Prospector-1 to spud an appraisal well later this week on the Q11-B gas discovery in the Dutch North Sea. The well should take at least six weeks to drill and test, and will then likely be suspended for future…
Germany’s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has suspended certification of the 55-billion cu m/year Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, saying that Nord Stream 2 AG does not meet the criteria to be an independent transmission system operator, specifically that it must be organised in a legal…
Danish offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract with ONE-Dyas, which will employ the harsh environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolute to drill the IJssel and Clover exploration wells in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The contract is expected to…
The International Solar Alliance (ISA), India Presidency of the ISA, and the UK COP Presidency unveiled plans for the first transnational network of solar power grids, known as the Green Grids Initiative – One Sun One World One Grid (GGI-OSOWOG), at the COP26 climate conference…
