More than 2000 exhibiting companies and over 60,000 oil and gas professionals from 127 countries are expected at this week’s Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC), at Abu Dhabi's national exhibition center, ADNEC…
Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will develop a US$6 billion gas liquefaction facility on the Pacific coast to enhance its export opportunities to Asia. The company said that it is aiming for a 2020 start date. The goal is to take advantage…
Singapore’s Keppel is in a deal with Malaysia’s Petronas to buy up to 1 million-tonne of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year, over a period of 10 years. The deal is between Keppel Infrastructure Holdings through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary…
Noble Energy has targeted an early 2018 start-up date for its giant Leviathan gas field off Israel, according to its 3Q earnings statement. In addition, the Houston-based independent received government approval for a gas delivery point for the field in the northern part of Israel…
Eni's Australian subsidiary decided to shed its stake in the Heron area off Northern Australia after opting out of plans to drill a second well inside permit area NT/P68. The Italian explorer also elected to hold its current 50% share in the Blackwood area…
Kenya will need to focus on providing a competitive and stable fiscal environment if it is to fully exploit its offshore gas industry and attract investors ahead of Mozambique and Tanzania, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData…
Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Chevron entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) intent on increasing cooperation in areas such as deepwater, heavy oil and mature fields. The preliminary deal also covers collaboration on natural gas…
The Saint-Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) began on-exchange natural gas trading. The opening ceremony was attended by Rosneft head Igor Sechin (photo, at right), who is also Chairman of the Management Board of SPIMEX…
GDF SUEZ E&P and BP have made an oil and gas discovery spanning two blocks in the in the UK Central North Sea. The discovery well 30/1f-13AZ, which spans GDF SUEZ-operated Block 30/1f (license P1588) and BP-operated Block 30/1c (license P363)…
NEL has invested more than £0.5 million in the development of its Glasgow-based Wet Gas Facility. The investment has created the UK’s only independent commercial test facility able to test meters to such high flowrates for wet gas conditions…
Tamar partners and Dolphinus Holdings Ltd. signed a letter of intent for the supply of natural gas from the Tamar project located offshore Israel, to Dolphinus for use in Egypt. Map of Tamar field. From Noble…
BP is due to restart production at the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) Rhum gas field in the UK North Sea, four years after the field was shut in due to Western sanctions against its 50% owner, Iran. A BP spokesperson said today that production was due to restart soon…
Petrobras has begun production from FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba, located in Block BM-S-11 of the giant Lula field. The start-up represents the first in the Iracema Sul area of the presalt Santos basin, located 300km off the coasts of the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states…
After two and a half years, Santos Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) fed natural gas into its 420km gas transmission pipeline for the first time using its primary compressor station in the Fairview field in southwest Queensland. Santos…
Lundin Norway has found gas and oil in wildcat well 7220-11-1 on the Alta prospect in production license 609 in the Barents Sea. The well was drilled about 20km northeast of the Gohta oil and gas discovery 7120/1-3 and about 190km northwest of Hammerfest…