Petronas News

Eni acquires Evans Shoal interest off Australia

Dec 21, 2017

Eni has acquired from Shell a 32.5% interest in and operatorship of the Evans Shoal gas field offshore northern Australia. Evans Shoal is in Retention Lease NT/RL7, in the north Bonaparte Basin around 300km northwest of Darwin, where the Darwin liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is operating…

TechnipFMC, Petronas agree technology partnerhsip

Oct 31, 2017

TechnipFMC and Petronas have signed a tripartite heads of agreement (THoA) to 'leverage' their respective resources in areas including enhanced oil recovery and unmanned equipment. The collaboration, involving Petronas Research and Petronas Technology Ventures…

Petronas to open Mexico City office

Aug 02, 2017

Petronas subsidiary PC Carigali Mexico Operations is opening a Mexico City office in Q3 2017 that will help support the company’s operations in the Salinas basin. In all, Petronas has 5491sq km in gross acreage in the Salina Basin. In June…

Petronas to exit offshore Vietnam blocks

Jul 27, 2017

Petronas will relinquish Blocks 1 and 2 offshore Vietnam to host authority PetroVietnam once the production sharing contract (PSC) for the blocks expire on 9 September. Petronas subsidiary PC Vietnam Ltd.’s (PCVL) 26-year PSC for the blocks…

Hess to start up North Malay in Q3

Jul 31, 2017

Map of North Malay basin, from Hess. Hess Corp. is ready to start production at its North Malay basin project offshore Malaysia in Q3 2017. The North Malay Basin Block PM302 is…

Enra inks Petronas Yetagun deal off Myanmar

Jul 10, 2017

Petronas has given Enra a letter of award to provide condensate storing and offloading services for the Yetagun gas field, off Myanmar. The deal is between Petronas subsidiary PC Myanmar (Hong Kong) Ltd. (PCML), and Enra’s 60%-owned subsidiary…

Sapura's B15 production start remains on target

Jun 19, 2017

Sapura Energy’s SK310 B15 gas field development project offshore Malaysia remains on track for first production in Q4 2017, the company announced in its 19 June earnings update. Despite a challenging market due to oil price uncertainty…

Mexico's Round 2.1 awards 10 blocks

Jun 19, 2017

Mexico is celebrating its successful shallow water round, Round 2.1, which has awarded 10 of 15 blocks in the Gulf of Mexico today (19 June). Image of Juan Carlos Zepeda, kicking off Round 2.1…

JX Nippon online at Layang

Jun 15, 2017

JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Malaysia) started gas production from the Layang Field, offshore Malaysia, with an estimated 12,000 boe/d. Map from JX Nippon. Layang is about 7km east of the producing Helang Gas Field in Block SK10…

PFLNG Satu loads first cargo

Apr 03, 2017

Petronas’ first floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, PFLNG Satu, has successfully loaded its first cargo at the Kanowit gas field, offshore Sarawak. The first cargo was fully loaded onto the LNG carrier Seri Camellia which is expected to set sail for a South Asian market…

MMHE wins Bokor Phase 3 platform contract

Apr 18, 2017

Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of central processing platform (CPP) for Petronas' Bokor Phase 3 re-development, offshore Malaysia. The first…

Adding up SE Asia activity

Apr 01, 2017

Southeast Asia is expected to receive record levels of offshore investment, fueling the expansion of the region’s upstream industry. EIC’s Angeline Elias outlines the hotspots. The top five countries in 2017 leading offshore project activity in the region will be Indonesia…

Mexico finalizes 7 deepwater pacts

Mar 13, 2017

Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) finalized seven deepwater Gulf of Mexico contracts, as part of the country’s Round 1.4 held last year. Image of Mexico’s Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquín Coldwell…

Irish license dropped after disappointing results

Feb 15, 2017

Offshore Ireland focused Lansdowne Oil & Gas has relinquished license SEL 4/07 following disappointing results from the Midleton prospect well. Lansdowne had 20% interest in the license, alongside Petronas subsidiary PSE Seven Heads, with 80%…

Shell loses MISC Gumusut-Kakap arbitration

Feb 16, 2017

Malaysia's MISC Berhad has won its battle in court against supermajor Shell over contractual disputes concerning the construction and lease of the Gumusut-Kakap semi-floating production system (Semi-FPS), offshore Malaysia that was filed last year…

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