Natural Gas News


Payday for Lukoil’s Lira

Oct 14, 2015

Russia’s Lukoil discovered natural gas pay at its deepwater Lira field in the Black Sea, offshore Romania. The Transocean Development Driller II. Image from Lukoil. The Lira-1X…

OMS completes Kaombo subsea project

Oct 14, 2015

Image: Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore Project/Optical Metrology Services Optical Metrology Services (OMS) completed a series of pipe measurement surveys for the Kaombo Ultra-Deep Offshore…

OPEC production down from August

Oct 13, 2015

Oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) totaled 31.2 MMb/d in September, down 60,000 b/d from August as Saudi Arabia further reined in supply, according to a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts…

Iran nuclear deal approved

Oct 13, 2015

Iran’s historic nuclear deal with six world powers was approved by the country’s parliament today (13 October) with 64% in favor of the bill, clearing a hurdle for sanctions against Iran being lifted. Iranian parliament approves JCPOA bill…

INEOS acquires DEA North Sea fields

Oct 12, 2015

INEOS has agreed to acquire a strong portfolio of natural gas assets in the North Sea from a UK subsidiary of DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG, which is part of the LetterOne Group. Image from INEOS. INEOS Upstream will acquire gas fields…

Eni gets two more Egyptian licenses

Oct 12, 2015

Eni is increasing its presence offshore Egypt, as the company picks up two licenses in the 2015 EGAS bid round. Image from Eni Flickr. The two exploration licenses, North El Hammad and North Ras El Esh…

Pemex reports latest offshore incident

Oct 07, 2015

Mexican state owned company Pemex this morning announced it had evacuated the Sihil-A platform in the Bay of Campache, offshore Mexico, in the latest of a string of incidents offshore Mexico this year.  The firm said the measure was taken…

Shell starts at Malampaya

Oct 06, 2015

Shell started production from its new offshore platform in the Malampaya natural gas field, off the Philippines. Malampaya. From Shell. The offshore platform known as the depletion…

Caribbean FLNG time-lapse

Oct 05, 2015

In this video, EXMAR shows a time-lapse video of the construction of the Caribbean FLNG at Wilson Shipyard, located in Nantong China. In EXMAR's 2Q 2015 report, the company revealed that pre-commissioning of the Caribbean FLNG ws proceeded as planned for 3Q…

Erin Energy releases new resource estimate for Ghana discoveries

Oct 05, 2015

Erin Energy Corp. announced that the resource volume assessment of the three previously discovered fields (Tano North, Tano West, and Tano South) has been completed in the Expanded Shallow Water Tano (ESWT) Block, located offshore Ghana. The ESWT block is operated by its subsidiary company…

EIC appoints new president

Oct 05, 2015

Image from EIC. The Energy Industries Council (EIC) announced the appointment of its new president Chris Haynes. Haynes is a senior oil and gas industry professional with almost 40…

Nalcor study reveals Newfoundland resources

Oct 05, 2015

Resource assessments of the 2015 license round area for offshore Newfoundland and Labrador shows the potential to hold 12 billion bbl and 113 Tcf of gas in place, according to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nalcor Energy and Beicip-Franlab…

Shell starts Bonga Phase 3

Oct 05, 2015

Shell started production from the Bonga Phase 3 project offshore Nigeria, with expected peak production to hit about 50,000 boe/d. Image of the Bonga project. From Shell Flickr. Bonga…

Maersk wildcat hits minor pay

Oct 02, 2015

Maersk Oil Norway AS, operator of production license 510, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/6-4 S. The well, drilled about 20km southwest of the Tyrihans field in the Norwegian Sea, is the first exploration well in the license…

Aker awards Murphy Rotan contract

Oct 01, 2015

Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract from Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. to deliver the subsea production system for the Rotan deepwater natural gas development offshore Malaysia. The delivery includes hardware for four subsea wells…

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