Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi has made what is said is the “largest discovery of the year” in the Goliat area in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. Vår Energi confirmed on 23 December the discovery of gas in its operated 7122/9-1 T2 Lupa well. Preliminary estimates of the size of the discov
TGS and CGG have secured a contract to carry out the acquisition and imaging of a dense ocean bottom node (OBN) multi-client seismic survey in the Sleipner area of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
Italian oil and gas company Eni has launched the second floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project in the Republic of Congo to increase production and export. To this end, Eni has signed a contract with Chinese shipyard Wison Heavy Industry for the construction and installation of an FLNG unit wi
Aker Solutions has won a contract from Wintershall Dea to provide the subsea production system for the Dvalin North development offshore Norway, shortly after the plan for the development and operation (PDO) of the gas field was submitted. The Dvalin North gas field is located around 200 kilometers
Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of North American energy company Sempra, has received authorisation from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to re-export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from two projects in Mexico. On 22 December, Sempra announced that Energía Costa Azul, S. de R.L. de C.V. (ECA LNG
QatarEnergy and Japan’s Qatar Petroleum Development Company (QPD) have signed a new agreement for the continued development and production of two oil fields located in Qatar’s territorial waters. Under the five-year deal, QPD, owned by Cosmo E&P and Sojitz, will continue to act as the operator of th
Horisont Energi, a Norwegian clean energy company, and Koole Terminals, an independent provider of integrated services for storage, processing, and logistics, have advanced their collaboration on the development of an ammonia terminal at the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by signing an agreemen
LNG development company Atlantic Gulf & Pacific (AG&P) has signed a charter agreement with ADNOC Logistics & Services (ADNOC L&S), the shipping unit of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, to utilise the latter’s LNG carrier as a floating storage unit (FSU) at its planned LNG import terminal in India
Swedish company Minesto has completed additional offshore infrastructure installation in Faroe Islands to double electricity production from two Dragon 4 tidal energy devices.
RWE and Harbour Energy have established a partnership to investigate options to capture, transport and store CO2 from RWE’s gas-fired power stations via Viking CCS, Harbour Energy’s CO2 transport and storage network. The partnership is expected to lead to the transportation and storage of captured C
ASYAD Shipping, a part of Oman’s national logistics provider ASYAD Group, has signed an agreement with South Korea’s Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries for the construction of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. According to a stock exchange filing, the order for two LNG carriers was placed on 21
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), on behalf of the Federal Government, is planning to hold a mini-bid round for seven offshore blocks in order to spur new exploration and drilling activities in the country’s deep waters. The seven blocks in the Mini Bid Round cover an ar
CorPower Ocean’s first commercial-scale C4 wave energy converter has been moved to quayside ‘launchpad’, ahead of deployment at the Aguçadoura site in northern Portugal.
Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras has awarded Norwegian seismic company PGS with a 4D production contract over the Barracuda-Caratinga field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil. The Ramform Victory will most likely be rigged to acquire the Barracuda-Caratinga 4D survey, supported by PGS Apollo a
