UK-based ROVOP, a provider of underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), has expanded in the Middle East with a new base in the region. ROVOP said on the 11th November that two senior members of staff – operations director Doug Middleton and business development consultant…
The imposition of US secondary sanctions on Iranian exports will shortly hit Iran’s petroleum industry, according to Wood Mackenzie. Homayoun Falakshahi, a senior research analyst in the consultant’s Middle East upstream team, said: “After the implementation of the nuclear deal in January 2016, Iranian…
Curtailment of wind and solar generation reached record levels in South Australia in the latest quarter, amid record wind generation and the struggle to find gas generators which could stay on line as the price of electricity fell. The Australian Energy Market Operator, in…
Phillips 66 and Bridger Pipeline LLC will launch open seasons next week for transportation service on a pair of crude oil pipelines which could carry Rockies and Bakken production to the Texas Gulf Coast, the companies announced on the 9th November. At noon Central…
The Angolan State Minister for Economic and Social Development, Manuel Nunes Junior, the Chairman and CEO of Total , Patrick Pouyanné, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonangol, Carlos Saturnino, inaugurated the Kaombo offshore project on the 12th November. Located 260…
Rockhopper Exploration, the oil and gas company with key interests in the North Falkland Basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, has provided an operational and corporate update in relation to its Egyptian portfolio. Current production from the Abu Sennan concession is approximately 3,800 barrels…
KrisEnergy subsidiary, SJ Production Barge has contracted Keppel Shipyard to modify and upgrade a production barge for the Apsara oil development offshore Cambodia. The work scope covers installation of a power generation module, electrical house, new accommodation units and other refurbishment activities. All work…
The Joint Commission of the Mauritius-Seychelles Extended Continental Shelf, Mascarene Plateau region has opened the two states’ joint management area (JMA) for oil and gas exploration. The JMA covers an area of around 400,000 square kilometres (154,441 square miles) in the region of the…
Norway’s safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Equinor consent to use the drilling platform on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea off Norway. The drilling platform (DP) was the second of four facilities to be installed on the Johan Sverdrup…
The UK North Sea has another 20 or more years of production ahead based on the current reserves estimates. This could further improve if more discoveries were made and if those made were to be developed. The UK Oil and Gas authority said on…
