Drilling & production

PwC announce almost 2000 jobs have been saved by the restructuring of UK Coal Operations Ltd.

The European Investment Bank is to lend €87 million to Klaipedos Nafta to support the construction and operation of an LNG import terminal in the port of Klaipeda.

Tanzania’s coal reserves are thrice as large as previously estimated.

Ben van Beurden has been named as the new CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, effective 1 January 2014.

Sale of preference equity in WICET Holdings will support Bandana’s flagship thermal coal project in Queensland.

Nigeria’s federal court has once again ordered NIMASA to end the blockade on Nigeria LNG’s ships.

Carbon emissions permits will rise, but the market will still favour coal-fired power plants over gas, says agency.

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster when 167 people were killed in one of the most devastating incidents in the oil and gas industry’s history.

Cuadrilla intends to hydraulically fracture and test shale gas at its exploration well in Lancashire, UK.

Alstom will supply equipment in construction of a 135 MW CFB power plant in the Philippines

Elengy, the French LNG terminal operator, has lauched an LNG truck loading service at it’s Montoir-de-Bretagne terminal.

Statoil and four partners have agreed to build a US$ 343 million pipeline to link the Edvard Grieg and Ivar Aasen oilfields with existing pipelines in the North Sea.

Aviva announces acquisition of prospecting license, as sale of Mmamantswe coal project makes progress.

Gladstone LNG and Queensland Curtis LNG have signed an agreement to interconnect their pipelines.

DSME has reportedly won the contract to build 16 ice-class LNG carriers for the Yamal LNG project in Russia.