Italian oil company Eni has awarded open contracts for saturation diving activities offshore Italy to Rana Diving. Rana said that the diving contracts were awarded by Eni DICS, Eni DIME, Enimed, and Floaters SPA – all companies of Eni group. According to the…
Quadrant Energy has made additional oil discoveries in the Crespin and Milne sections of its Dorado-1 well offshore Australia, following a recent find at the Caley formation. According to Carnarvon Petroleum, Quadrant Energy’s partner, light oil has been recovered from the Crespin Member containing…
After decades of difficulties in Nigeria over crude theft, pollution and oil-related corruption, Royal Dutch Shell Plc still feels optimistic a fossil fuel can improve life in the country. The Anglo-Dutch oil major is seeking to develop Nigeria’s domestic energy market around natural gas….
Kinder Morgan Canada now expects a takeover of its Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline to close in late 2018, with the Government of Canada funding construction of the expansion project through closing, the company said in a proxy filed on the 7th August. Kinder…
Tanzania wants to build a pipeline to pump natural gas to neighbouring Uganda, another step in the two countries’ bid to expand energy cooperation. State-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) said on the 6th August that the pipeline would start from its capital Dar…
EOS Risk Group, a global professional security services company, has released a half-year report on Nigerian Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. A notable feature of this report is the return of ‘petro-piracy’, a phrase used to describe tanker hijackings for product theft. …
BP has exercised a US$2-million option to extend the charter of the Safe Caledonia west of Shetland by a further month. The semi-submersible accommodation support rig started a five-month firm term at the Clair Ridge development in May, which now runs to end-November. …
Offshore oil and gas company Kosmos Energy will begin drilling operations on the Pontoenoe well offshore Suriname during August, hoping to replicate ExxonMobil’s exploration successes recently made in neighbouring Guyana. Kosmos said on the 6th August in its second quarter 2018 report that Pontoenoe…
RDS, a KCA Deutag business, and Kavin Engineering and Services have entered into a strategic alliance jointly to pursue design and engineering projects across the upstream and midstream oil and gas market. KCA Deutag said on the 6th August that RDS, a drilling facilities…
The US has been unable to persuade China to cut Iranian oil imports, according to two officials familiar with the negotiations, dealing a blow to President Trump’s efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic after his withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear accord. Beijing has, however,…
