On the 13th September Norwegian oil company Equinor’s emergency response centre received reports of a fire in the engine room of the tanker Dubai Harmony. The ship is moored at the quayside at the Sture terminal in Øygarden municipality in Hordaland, Norway. The…
Vaalco Energy Inc, Houston, has started a drilling programme in the Etame oil field offshore Gabon which will include appraisal of a reservoir below existing production. It has spudded the Etame 9P appraisal well to test the Lower Cretaceous Dentale formation, which underlies the…
Energean has issued updates on its development and exploration campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The main project is the Karish/Tanin gas development offshore Israel, where the drillship Stena DrillMAX recently completed drilling of two of the Karish Main wells. In both cases,…
Sterling Energy has announced that the Government of the Republic of Somaliland has granted a continued extension to the current period of the Odewayne Production Sharing Agreement (‘PSA’). The expiry dates of the relevant exploration periods under the PSA shall now be: Third…
The liquefied natural gas terminal Lithuania built five years ago to reduce its dependence on Russian fuel is about to get its first Siberian cargo. The cargo will arrive at the facility, symbolically named Independence, next week on board the Stena Clear Sky, according…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted DEA Norge, a Norwegian unit of Wintershall Dea, a drilling permit for a wildcat well located in the Norwegian Sea. The well 6611/1-1 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling rig after completing the drilling of…
The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has signed a contract with the Dhi Qar Oil Company to drill 20 wells at Nasiriyah oil field. Fayyad Hassan Nehmeh, Undersecretary for Extraction Affairs, said the new wells will increase the field’s oil production by 40,000 bpd, in…
Tower Resources has issued an update on its activities offshore South Africa. The company is a partner in a 50:50 joint venture with New Age in the Algoa-Gamtoos licence, which adjoins Total’s concession in the Outeniqua basin. Earlier this year Total confirmed the…
Los Angeles’s public utility has struck a deal with developer 8Minute Renewables to build the largest solar and battery energy storage system in the US, which officials and environmental activists say will provide the city with cheaper and cleaner energy and move the city closer…
The Alberta government has approved the development plan for MEG Energy Corp.’s Surmont oil sands project 53 miles south of Fort McMurray. The phased project is to have ultimate production capacity of about 120,000 b/d of bitumen from steam-assisted gravity drainage. It is…
