Work is due to start in Q4 this year on what its backers are calling the world’s biggest tidal array after its owners agreed a £50 million funding package from the Scottish and UK Governments and the UK's Crown Estate. The MeyGen project…
One of the biggest oil events in the global calendar opens in Stavanger on Monday, with speakers, exhibitors and delegates expected from all corners of the globe. The last event, held in 2012, attracted nearly 60,000 visitors, 1264 companies…
Mexico's Pemex has started a corporate restructure to become a more 'flexible and efficient,' it announced today. The announcement comes after Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto approved the country's historic energy reform earlier this month…
Three Japanese exploration companies, led by project operator Idemitsu Kosan Co., announced the discovery of natural gas and condensate at the fourth well in Blocks 05-1b and 05-1c offshore southern Vietnam. The discovery was in the Dai Nga structure in Blocks 05-1b and 05-1c…
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is investing US$30 million in Siluria Technologies, a pioneer commercial production of fuels and chemicals made from clean and abundant natural gas. Siluria announced the initial close of its Series D financing round with this news on 20 August…
Eni announced the start of production from the Denise-Karawan project (DEKA) with partner BP, through the new subsea well Denise South 6 at a gas rate of 1.8 MMcm/d and approximately 800bbl/d of associated condensates. The Denise South…
Jill Rivette joins C & C Technologies Inc. Geotechnical Division in Houston TX as a senior geotechnical engineer. Rivette is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Texas and brings with her many years of experience in geotechnical engineering…
Petronas Carigali Snd Bhd awarded Qinterra Technologies a contract worth approximately US$20miliion to support operations in Malaysia. The three-year agreement entails that Qinterra Technologies provide tractor services for all of Petronas…
Ørjan Frøyland joins Hunting Energy Services as the new regional manager for Norway as it targets a period of strategic growth within the Scandinavian oil and gas market. Frøyland will be responsible for overseeing the establishment of the Hunting brand within the region…
James Lappin has been appointed to the Board of Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd. (H&W) as director of ship & offshore unit repair. He will have total responsibility for developing and growing the company’s business in this sector and for the successful execution of its projects…
A power cut at Shell’s Nelson platform, 124 miles off Aberdeen in the North Sea, saw 148 of the 167 on board airlifted to the nearby Borgholm Dolphin flotel on Tuesday (19 August). Nineteen workers remained on the rig while the problem is resolved…
Jacket installation operations on Premier Oil’s Solan oil field development west of Shetland are due to start. The four-legged steel jacket for the field, in Block 205/26a, in 135m water depth, left the construction yard at Methil, Fife…
Norway's Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has collected 5600km 2D seismic in the northern Barents Sea since July 18, it said today. The acquisition is a continuation of the acquisitions which the NPD has conducted in the southeastern and northern Barents Sea since 2011…
ENI has confirmed a contract with Malaysia's Bumi Armada for an FPSO to be used on its deepwater East Hub field, in Block 15/06 offshore Angola. The contract, worth in total about US$3 billion, is a 12 year charter with eight yearly…
Statoil shut down production on the Troll C platform in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea on 17 August after an inspection program on the platform detected corrosion damage to a pipe connected to the oil export system. Troll C…