The leaders of Israel, Greece and Cyprus pledged to deepen their energy cooperation on Monday and explore ways to get East Mediterranean gas to Europe, as well as connect electricity grids.The eastern Mediterranean has yielded major gas discoveries in the past decade…
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK has awarded a $165 million decommissioning contract to Archer to execute the plug and abandonment (P&A) of 30 wells in the Fulmar Field and two wells in the Halley Field in the UK North Sea.The contract is a fully integrated P&A project…
Wintershall Dea on Wednesday announced it has started production from the Dvalin gas field in the Norwegian Sea together with the partners Petoro and Sval Energi, providing significant new gas volumes to the European market.The field helps underpin…
Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant CNOOC has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Brazilian state oil firm Petrobras, Chinese government-backed media outlet The Paper reported on Tuesday, citing CNOOC.The agreement stated that the…
Cyprus rejected Chevron Corp's plan to develop the island nation's offshore Aphrodite natural gas field, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou.Papanastasiou told Bloomberg that the concerned parties…
Production has started at Equinor’s Statfjord Øst’s life extension project six months ahead of schedule. The project has involved the installation of a pipeline from Statfjord C to Statfjord Øst, where five new wells (sidetracks) will eventually be drilled with gas lift and new Christmas trees…
Equinor and partners will replace two gas turbines with heat recovery to produce electric power at Statfjord C.A new steam turbine will produce electricity based on surplus heat from two gas compressors. This will make the energy consumption…
Sarawak Shell Berhad, a subsidiary of Shell plc, has announced that gas production has started at its Timi platform in Malaysia under the SK318 production sharing contract.Timi features Shell’s first wellhead platform in Malaysia that is powered by a solar and wind hybrid power system…
Danish offshore charging solutions company Stillstrom has signed an MoU with UK offshore support vessel operator North Star to accelerate the adoption of offshore charging and vessel electrification technologies for service operation vessels (SOVs) in the offshore wind sector…
TechnipFMC announced it has been awarded a contract from TotalEnergies to install flexible pipe and associated subsea structures for the Girassol life extension project in Angola's offshore Block 17.TechnipFMC labeled the contract as “significant”…
CGG announced that Sercel now has a complete portfolio of seabed nodal solutions for all water depths down to 6,000 m to meet growing industry demand for ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic surveys. Based on Sercel’s QuietSeis broadband digital sensor technology…
Samsung Heavy Industries has received basic certification for a floating CO2 storage unit (FCSU) from DNV.The FCSU, jointly developed by Samsung Heavy Industries and MISC, is 330 meters long and 64 meters wide, and has a high-pressure tank capacity that can store 100…
The Australian government has announced that 10 acreage release areas are available for bidding to explore offshore greenhouse gas storage locations.The areas are offshore of Western Australia, Victoria and Tasmania across seven basins: Bonaparte…
Woodside has announced that the Trion field development plan (FDP) has been approved by the Mexican regulator, Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH).Woodside’s final investment decision (FID) to develop the Trion resource, announced 20 June 2023…
International well plug and abandonment specialists Well-Safe Solutions have announced Well-Safe Resources; a new business function focusing on deploying well engineering and project management talent worldwide.The newly-formed Well-Safe Resources service offering will be headed by Steve Combe…