The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) concluded agreements with ExxonMobil, BP and ConocoPhillips to take over the leadership position in the Alaska LNG project.
US-based energy giant Chevron resumed production at the first liquefaction train of its US$54 billion Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island in Western Australia.
Energy giant Chevron has resumed production at one of its two production units at the Gorgon LNG plant in Western Australia, following a shutdown in late November 2016. The Barrow Island-located Gorgon project is supplied from the Gorgon and Jansz-Io offshore gas fields. According to information pro
Van Oord has awarded Sif with a contract for the Norther offshore wind farm in Belgium, under which Sif will produce all 44 monopiles and a pile for the Offshore High Voltage Station (OHVS), as well as all the transition pieces (TPs) in cooperation with Smulders. For the TPs, Sif will produce the pr
Norwegian energy giant and LNG operator Statoil plans to drill around 30 exploration wells in 2017, an increase of around 30 percent compared to 2016.
Wärtsilä of Finland has been contracted by Methax, a unit of Grupo Galieo, to supply a 40 MW smart power generation plant to Mendoza, Argentina.
New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) has completed the sale of its 15 percent interest in the Kupe gas field off Taranaki, New Zealand. To remind, the company decided to sell its stake in the Kupe project to Genesis Energy in November 2016. NZOG said on Wednesday that the transaction was completed on Januar
Exxon Mobil Corp reached an agreement with Rex Tillerson, former chairman and CEO, to sever all ties to comply with conflict-of-interest requirements associated with his nomination as secretary of state.
Japan’s Inpex Corporation began supplying natural gas to the Hokuriku Factory of Asahi Soft Drinks through the Toyama Line extension completed in June last year.
On 2 January, the first four monopiles were loaded from Sif’s Maasvlakte 2 site onto GeoSea’s installation vessel Innovation, which has now put the first section of the new deepwater quay in Port of Rotterdam into operation as it is ready to install the second batch of foundations at the Galloper of
Oil prices hit 18-month highs on Tuesday, the first trading day of 2017, buoyed by hopes that a deal between OPEC and other big oil exporters to cut production, which kicked in on Sunday, will drain a global supply glut.
The first day after Christmas in Norway was not a merry one by any means of the imagination after the extreme weather system ‘Urd’ reached hurricane strength and hit the Norwegian coast. On Monday, December 26, 2016, the storm hit several locations in the country, leaving 70,000 Norwegians without p
Morocco’s power utility ONEE informed it has selected advisers for the development of the country’s LNG to power project.
Norwegian seismic player, Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has seen a further vessel-activity drop in the fourth quarter of 2016. In the Q4 the vessel utilization on the contracted basis was 25 percent compared to 40 percent in the corresponding period in 2015. On the multi-client seismic basis, the ves
