AWE Limited, operator of the Waitsia gas project in Western Australia production license L1/L2, said that well performance from Stage 1A of the Waitsia gas project has exceeded pre-production expectations over the first three months of operations.
Alaskan officials and NOIA President have responded with outrage to the ’11th hour’ Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean oil and gas ban put in place by outgoing President of the United States, Barack Obama. Following U.S. President Barack Obama’s withdrawal of millions of acres in the Arctic and the Atlan
Spanish oil company Repsol has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for a change to the contingency plan for Gyda field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The Gyda field is located in the southern North Sea between Ula and Ekofisk. It has been developed using an integrat
India’s imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) increased 15.5 percent in November as compared to the same month a year ago. The country’s LNG imports have been rising steadily this year boosted by low prices of the chilled fuel with the exception of July when the imports marked the first and the onl
David Kent, the founder of Oilpro, a website described as oil and gas industry’s LinkedIn, pled guilty on Monday for stealing data from a competitor, and is now facing five years in prison. Specifically, Department of Justice said Monday that Kent “pled guilty this morning before U.S. District Judge
Norwegian oil giant Statoil has completed investigations of a small fire aboard its Statfjord A offshore platform and exposure to poisonous H2S gas at Sture Terminal. Both incidents occurred in October. The oil company informed on Monday that reports have been submitted to the country’s offshore saf
The United States and Canada are moving closer to phase out the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) from vessels operating in the Arctic waters through a strategy to rid the region of the dirtiest marine fuel, according to the Clean Arctic Alliance. Namely, the countries are launching the first processes ev
Japan’s Jera, one of the world’s largest buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), has finalized a deal signed back in October with France’s EDF under which it will take over the latter’s coal and freight trading business. Jera Trading Singapore, a unit of Jera, aims to complete the acquisition by earl
Health and safety standards in the offshore oil and gas industry have dropped in the last six months, according to a survey by Unite, a trade union for offshore workers in the UK North Sea. The union informed on Wednesday it surveyed more than 700 offshore workers regarding the state of offshore hea
Donggi-Senoro LNG plant in Indonesia has reportedly found buyers for 31 LNG cargoes, it plans to produce in 2017.
Oil major BP on Tuesday withdrew its environment plan submissions for the Great Australian Bight exploration drilling program that proposed drilling of two wells, Stromlo-1 and Whinham-1. BP decided to abandon its proposed drilling program in the Great Australian Bight off Australia in October this
Rentel NV has placed an order with Siemens for the 309MW Rentel wind project. The contract includes the supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of 42 SWT-7.0-154 wind turbines and marks the first order of Siemens offshore wind turbines in Belgium. In April, Rentel NV and Siemens signed a
Ten men have been charged and 186 kilograms of cocaine seized from a 50-meter commercial vessel which was intercepted by Australian Defence Force (ADF) in the Southern Ocean off Tasmania on December 12, 2016. The vessel and its crew were detained and escorted to the port of Hobart, where they arrive
The outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama has withdrawn millions of acres in the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean from future oil and gas activity. Together with Obama, Canada’s Prime minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to f
