Oil Search, the company with a 29 percent interest share in the ExxonMobil-operated US$19 billion PNG LNG project, said it has made changes to the board and sub-committees as the company’s director Bart Philemon retires, effective September 30, 2016.
Offshore wind developers Deepwater Wind and DONG Energy have joined the New York Offshore Wind Alliance (NYOWA), with a goal to secure a commitment from New York to develop 5GW of offshore wind power by 2030. The coalition, announced yesterday, is a project of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York
Gasum said the first LNG import terminal in Finland began commercial operations in Pori on Monday.
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will host a Virginia Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force meeting on 22 September in Virginia Beach to discuss the current status of activities offshore Virginia. The meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. and end around 3:45 p.m. with participation
South Korea’s Kogas, the world’s second-largest buyer of LNG, said its sales volume rose 5.6 percent in August as compared to the corresponding month a year ago. Kogas sold 2.20 million mt of LNG in August, compared to 2.08 million mt in August last year, it said in a filing to the stock exchange. S
Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras has increased its pre-salt oil and gas production by 4 percent during August and set a new monthly record. The oil company informed on Monday that its daily oil and natural gas production in August was 2.84 million barrels of oil equivalent (boed). Of this
The offshore high voltage substation (OHVS) for Belgian Nobelwind offshore wind project, also known as Belwind 2 or Bligh Bank II, has been installed at its destined location in the North Sea, according to Bladt Industries’ social media pages. The company started working on the offshore substation i
Oil Search and ExxonMobil, partners in the US$19 billion PNG LNG project, have agreed to purchase acreage in the Gulf of Papua from a company owned by China’s CNOOC Limited. The two companies entered into agreements with Gini Energy Limited to acquire each a 40% interest in PPL 374 and PPL 375, loca
Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras said its August oil and gas production dropped 1.4% due to the sale of assets in Argentina. Petrobras daily oil and natural gas production in August was 2.84 million barrels of oil equivalent (boed), compared with 2.89 million boed in July. Of this total,
Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen has been awarded funding to create a skills development framework for the oil and gas sector in Mexico. The university said on Tuesday it secured the funding, which will be delivered by the British Embassy in Mexico from the British Government’s Prosperity
Kongsberg GeoAcoustics has upgraded PulSAR sidescan sonar with Chesapeake Technology’s SonarWiz mapping software. The SonarWiz interface allows PulSAR users to acquire data from multiple sensors, process imagery in real time, generate art mosaics, create detailed contact reports, and produce outputs
Norwegian energy company Petoro is on the verge of buying a stake in the DEA Norge-operated Zidane development, offshore Norway. According to Offshore.no, Petoro has entered into a definitive agreement with Austrian OMV, a partner in the Norwegian Sea field, to buy OMV’s 20 pct stake, thus marking t
The construction works on Ideol’s Floatgen project have started this month, as announced in June,with the wind turbine and most of the mooring system components now unloaded at the Saint-Nazaire port and the barge on which the construction is taking place already in position at Quai des Charbonniers
The construction works on Ideol’s Floatgen project have started this month, as announced in June,with the wind turbine and most of the mooring system components now unloaded at the Saint-Nazaire port and the barge on which the construction is taking place already in position at Quai des Charbonniers
