South Sudanese troops appear to have captured the town of Heglig and the surrounding oilfield from its northern neighbour. Sudan has vowed to use “all legitimate means” to return the town to its possession.
PGNiG has started drilling a borehole in the Tomaszów Lubelski licence area in the Province of Lublin to determine the volume of shale gas in the deposits.
The ongoing leak at Total’s UK North Sea Elgin rig is costing the French company US$ 2.5 million per day.
Gasum Oy is exploring the feasability of building a large LNG import terminal in order to diversify the nation’s source of supply.
Fluor Corp. is to perform the FEED contract for a new LNG regasification terminal, which will be located in the town of Lahad Datu, Sabah, and will be built by Petronas Gas Berhad.
Sembcorp Marine has won a US$ 568 million contract to build a ultra-deep semi-submersible rig for North Atlantic Drilling Ltd.
Production has been stopped at Yemen LNG’s Balhaf LNG terminal after a pipeline linking the Block 18 gas field and the terminal was sabotaged.
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract by Enerserv W.L.L to deliver 600 sets of surface wellheads and trees to the Awali Oilfield in Bahrain.
Total claims to have identified the source of the Elgin gas leak, however there is still no timetable for plugging the leak.
Petrobras has awarded FMC Technologies a contract worth US$ 1.5 billion for the supply of pre-salt subsea trees.
Exoma Energy Ltd, an Australian oil and gas exploration company, has announced plans for an extensive drilling exploration campaign in 2012 that will target, among others, coalbed methane (CBM).
Thousands of coal miners have walked out of metallurgical mines in Queensland in an ongoing dispute over working conditions with coal mining giant BHP-Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA).
Wildhorse Energy Limited, an AIM and ASX listed company focused on developing underground coal gasification (UCG) and uranium projects in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has announced the completion of its Preliminary Feasibility Study and an updated JORC Inferred coal resource of 383 million t at the Company’s Mecsek Hills UCG Project in southern Hungary.
Qatargas are planning to shutdown the Qatargas-1 LNG train this April for routine maintenance.
Faroe Petroleum has reported a healthy profit for 2011, a significant improvement upon losses reported a year earlier.