Searcher Seismic has informed the BGP Pioneer seismic vessel has started acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey, offshore Mexico. The project comprises 11,200 km of high quality, long-offset 2D data and specifically targets the near shore areas covering rounds 2, 3 and 4. The data,
The sale of Australia’s port of Melbourne has entered the second round as the letters with details on the second stage of the process were sent out on Friday, The Australian reported. The bidders for the second round of the sale of a 50-year lease of the Port of Melbourne include two local bidding c
Driftwood LNG on Wednesday filed draft resource reports 1 and 10 with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its proposed LNG export terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
Krishna Godavari LNG Terminal recently received the approval from the Ministry of environment, forest and climate change to develop the offshore LNG FSRU at Kakinada Deep Water port in Andhra Pradesh.
CNR International has exercised option to extend the fixed term of the lease contract for floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Espoir Ivoirien. The contract extension is from 2017 to 2022, BW Offshore informed. The terms are based on existing extension options, with some adjustme
Royal Dutch Shell has changed its redundancy terms so it can claim tax refunds that some UK workers would otherwise have been able to claim on redundancy payments, internal documents seen by Reuters show.
Novatek, operator of the giant Yamal LNG project in Russia, reported on Friday a rise of 2.2% in its gas production in the first half of this year. Russia’s No. 2 gas producer said in its preliminary report that marketable production totaled 33.76 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas in the fir
The Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Keith Brown, has welcomed assurances he has secured from the UK Treasury that more will be done to support investment in offshore oil and gas infrastructure in the North Sea. According to the Scottish Government’s press release on Friday,
Walter Thain, managing director of Petrofac’s Engineering & Production Services (EPS) West business, has been appointed to lead the UK offshore oil and gas industry’s efficiency drive as Chairman of the Oil & Gas UK Efficiency Taskforce (ETF). The ETF was launched last year to act as a catalyst for
While the low oil and gas prices have been bad news for almost everybody in the business of selling oil and oilfield services, there might be a niche sector that could benefit – decommissioning. According to a recent report by Douglas-Westwood, an energy intelligence group, there is a big opportunit
Skangas, a unit of Gasum on Thursday informed the commissioning cargo for its Pori LNG terminal will be delivered over the coming weekend aboard the Coral Energy.
WindEurope, formerly known as EWEA, today published an initial assessment of possible Brexit implications. The full article by WindEurope can be read below. The full impact and implications of the UK referendum, and what it means for the wind industry short and long term, are impossible to assess pr
The UK Planning Inspectorate has set out a timetable for the examination of the East Anglia Three offshore wind farm application and issued procedural decisions made after the Preliminary Meeting, held on 28 June. The application was submitted by ScottishPower Renewables in November 2015 and accepte
Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of mines and hydrocarbons and Shell signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on a number of oil and gas-related projects.
