A group of European Parliament lawmakers has asked the European Commission to investigate Gazprom’s role in soaring European gas prices, saying the company’s behaviour had made them suspect market manipulation. Gas prices in Europe have surged in recent months, helping to drive European electricity costs to multi-year…
There’s “no immediate concern” about fuel supplies running short for consumers in the UK, Conservative MP Alok Sharma said on the 19th September. Mr Sharma, president of the COP26 climate initiative, also told Sky News that government officials “don’t see any risks going into…
There has been “great interest” in the Norwegian continental shelf during the country’s latest licensing round, according to Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Applications from 31 companies were received by the ministry in connection with the announcement of APA (allocation in predefined areas)…
Elixir Energy Ltd, Adelaide, has uncovered a new coal-bearing subbasin within its 100%-owned Nomgon IX coal seam gas production sharing contract in the South Gobi basin of southern Mongolia. The Richcairn-1S well was drilled to a depth of 792 metres and encountered 16 metres…
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has taken final investment decision (FID) on an 820,000-tonne/year biofuels plant at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. The plant is expected to start production in 2024. Shell says the plant will be…
Repsol Sinopec has contracted Well-Safe Solutions to decommission 14 subsea wells at the Buchan and Hannay fields in the UK central North Sea. The company will use its purpose-built decommissioning semi-submersible Well-Safe Guardian and deploy for the first its dive system and subsea modular…
A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Alexander Dyukov, Director General of Gazprom Neft, and Vagit Alekperov, President of Lukoil, took place in St Petersburg. The parties discussed the state and prospects of strategic interaction between the Gazprom Group…
Projects aimed at preserving peace in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta by giving former insurgents jobs and training have stalled because corrupt officials are demanding kickbacks, the man in charge of the programme said. Under an amnesty programme launched in 2009, former militants who laid…
Getting a permit to burn excess natural gas at Texas oil wells is getting a little bit harder. Texas Railroad Commissioners has limited an oil driller to flaring gas for just one year as opposed to the two years it sought at a meeting…
An investigation has been launched into a near-miss incident on ExxonMobil’s Hebron platform off Canada, which had the potential for fatality. ExxonMobil Canada has reported that on 14 September 2021 on the Hebron platform during preparations for an upcoming lift (no-load connected), the south…
