Drilling & production

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania has quadrupled between 2009 and 2011 due to increased horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Australia Pacific LNG as secured US8.5 billion in loans to underpin the development of its CSG to LNG project.

McDermott has won the EPC and commissioning contract for the Ayatsil-B platform from Pemex.

Ng Weng Hoong, LNG Industry Correspondent, discusses the disparity between the Henry Hub price and the Asian LNG price.

Aviva Corp. Ltd is pleased to announce that the Mmamantswe coal prospecting licenses in Botswana have been renewed for a further 2 years.

Laing O’Rourke & Kawasaki have won the EPC contract to deliver a network of four storage tanks at the Ichthys LNG site worth US$ 34 billion.

Total has confirmed that the Elgin leak has been completely sealed and it can now resume operations to completely seal and abandon the well.

Petrofac has been awarded a US$ 220 million contract by Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian national oil company, for the refurbishment of the Bekok-C platform, located in Block PM9 in the south-eastern part of the Malay basin.

Repsol has confirmed the cancellation of ten LNG shipments to Argentina due to a breach of contract by Enarsa.

Emerson Process Management has won a multi-million dollar contact to deliver its Roxar subsea instrumentation to Lundin Petroleum’s Brynhild field in the North Sea.

Shell, KOGAS, Mitsubishi Corp. and PetroChina have formally announced that they will be developing an LNG export facility near Kitimat, British Columbia.

Southern LNG has filed an application with the US DOE to export LNG from its Elba Island LNG import terminal in Savannah.

It has been reported that the Brazilian navy is investigating an oil spill seen in the Jubarte field, which is operated by Petrobras.

A man accused of spreading malicious rumours on Twitter about Gulf Keystone Petroleum, which the company claims prompted a collapse in its share price, has been silenced by a legally binding agreement.

UTEC Survey has just announced two contracts, which will see the utilisation of additional vessels in West Africa and the Arabian Gulf.