Lundin Petroleum has failed to unearth hydrocarbons at its exploration well 7130/4-1 on the Ørnen prospect in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The well is located in PL708, on the eastern parts of the Finnmark Platform in the southern Barents Sea. According to Lunding, the well was dry and has been
Azerbaijan’s government and the country’s oil and gas company Socar will give material aid to the families of the oil workers affected by the offshore accidents that occurred on Friday, December 4, 2015. The Government has donated 15.000 AZN ($9613) to the families. Separately, Socar has earmarked 5
Houston-based LNG player Cheniere informed works continue on its Corpus Christi liquefaction project in Texas.
Subsea 7 has secured a contract by Burullus Gas Company S.A.E. for the platform extension and tie-in on the first phase of the West Nile Delta development of the Taurus and Libra fields by BP, offshore Egypt. According to Subsea 7, engineering and project management work will start immediately and w
PetroChina informed that it has signed the agreement to sell its equity in PetroChina Kunlun Gas to Kunlun Energy for approximately US$2.28 billion.
Shell, operator of the Corrib gas project, dubbed Ireland’s largest ever energy investments, has received the final remaining consent required for production from the office of Ireland’s Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. The Corrib partners Shell, Vermilion and Statoil will
The Gunashli 10 oil platform that caugh fire on December 4, 2015 is still burning, with the Azeri authorities struggling to quell the fire more than twenty days since the incident started. To remind, the fire broke out after a gas riser was damaged in a storm. Sixty three persons were aboard the Gun
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa), on Tuesday announced first oil from the new Cladhan field development in the UK North Sea. The field is developed as a subsea tie-back to the Taqa-operated Tern Alpha platform. Peter Jones, Taqa’s UK managing director, said: “Cladhan is the third field devel
Malaysia’s Bumi Armada has secured a loan amounting up to $1.12 billion from several banks. The company will use the proceeds to deliver a floating, production, storage and offloading unit – FPSO – which will be leased to Italy’s Eni, under a contract signed in August, 2014. The FPSO, to be named Ar
An explosion has been reported on board a Cypriot-flagged bulker identified as Akaki on December 28th while the ship was anchored at the Port of Paranaguá, Brazil. The ship just completed loading of 65 tons of corn and was about to load fuel for the journey to the port of Kaohsiung, China when the e
Singapore’s Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd has through its subsidiaries secured securing four contracts worth a total of about S$125 million (USD 88.6 million). In Singapore, Keppel O&M’s Keppel Shipyard secured two conversion contracts – the first is for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Floating Storage
Marathon Oil has shut production from its Brae Alpha production platform in the UK North Sea, following a gas leak. According to BBC, the gas leak was discovered on Saturday, and the production was shut on the same day. Offshore Energy Today has reached out to Marathon Oil, seeking more info. We wil
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras has deployed another floating production storage and offloading vessel at the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. The FPSO Cidade de Marica left the Brasa shipyard in Niteroi on December 19, and reached its offshore location at the Lula oil field on December 25. The 346.5 me
The United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a letter granting G2 LNG’s request to begin the pre-filing review process for its proposed Calcasieu River LNG project.
