The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has via helicopter medevaced an injured crewmember from an oil tanker vessel located approximately 58 miles southwest offshore Southwest Pass, Louisiana. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call at 4:58 a.m. on 20 December from personnel on board crude oil tanker P
Carbon-Zero US, Cox Operating, Crescent Midstream and Repsol have established a partnership to develop one of the largest offshore hubs for permanent storage of carbon dioxide in the Gulf of Mexico area.
Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras has put into operation its new floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel P-71, ahead of the expected start of production in 2023. The P-71 platform vessel started production on Wednesday, 21 December. It is installed in the Itapu field in the
OMV Norge and its partners have submitted the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Berling gas field, previously known as Iris Hades, to Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. The Berling field, which stretches across three licenses with aligned ownership interests (PL644, PL644B and
DOF Subsea Asia Pacific has secured a contract to provide construction support for riser and spool installation including air and saturation diving for a brownfield expansion project in Malaysia. The award includes project management, engineering, procurement, transportation and installation servic
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is acquiring a 24.9 per cent shareholding in Austrian oil and gas company OMV from Mubadala Investment Company. Österreichische Beteiligungs AG (ÖBAG), an Austrian independent holding company, holds 31.5 per cent, with the remaining share capital in free float.
France’s TotalEnergies and Italian Eni, two oil and gas majors, have made a new gas discovery at the Zeus-1 well in Block 6 located offshore Cyprus. The Zeus-1 well encountered 105 meters of net gas pay in carbonate reservoirs, which, as the partners said, re-enforces the promising outlook for the a
Dutch FPSO operator SBM Offshore has resumed production from the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Cidade de Anchieta, working offshore Brazil, following a shutdown that occurred at the beginning of the year. The FPSO’s production was interrupted in January when oil was obse
Norwegian energy player Equinor and its partners in the Snøhvit project have revealed plans to invest NOK 13.2 billion (around $1.3 billion) in upgrading the Hammerfest LNG (HLNG) plant at Melkøya with onshore gas compression and electrification. On 20 December, Equinor submitted a plan for developm
European energy ministers have reached a political agreement under which the price of natural gas in the European Union will be capped in case it reaches excessive levels that do not reflect world market prices. The mechanism will be automatically activated in case the month-ahead price on the Title
The governments of Norway and France have signed a letter of intent (LoI) to cooperate on the development and deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). The aim of the agreement is to promote the development of CCS by creating a framework for cooperation between the two countries to facilitate
Norwegian oilfield services provider Aker Solutions has secured multiple contracts with compatriot oil and gas company Aker BP, which combined represent the largest value of contract awards in a single quarter in its history. Following Aker BP’s submission of plans for development and operation (PDO
Canadian oil and gas producer Trillion Energy is planning to bring on eight new wells or workovers into production next year through continuous drilling on a natural gas field in the Black Sea offshore Türkiye. Bringing what the company describes as a “transformative year” to an end, Trillion announ
Australia’s Western Gas has signed separate nonbinding agreements with Pluto LNG and the North West Shelf Project participants for the processing of 2-3 Mtpa of Equus gas from 2027 utilising Woodside-operated infrastructure. The agreements outline the key terms and process for undertaking the partic
