Drilling & production

Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project has received environmental approval from the federal government, clearing the final hurdle on the way to a final investment decision later this year.

Apache Corporation has agreed to acquire Exxon Mobil Corporation's Mobil North Sea LLC assets, including the Beryl field and related properties, for $1.75 billion.

Trofagas Hidrocarburos, S.L., a wholly owned subsidiary of BNK Petroleum Inc., has been awarded an oil and gas concession totalling approximately 234,000 acres located mainly in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon, Spain.

GE Oil & Gas is to supply Technip with two steam turbine-driven compressors for the Shell Prelude FLNG project.

Husky Energy Inc. has sanctioned the development of the Liwan 3-1 and Liuhua 34-2 fields, the principal fields of the Liwan gas project in the South China Sea.

Bureau Veritas is extending its partnerships in the Russian shipping and offshore sector, focussing on High Arctic offshore projects.

The Caspian Sea is a region with enormous potential for oil and gas exploration and production, but there are significant obstacles to overcome first.

Four coal miners in south Wales have been confirmed dead despite an extensive search and rescue operation.

Osum Oil Sands Corp. selects Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies’ produced water treatment for Taiga project at Cold Lake.

Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s biggest shipbuilder, today won an US$ 400 million order to build two 155,000 cubic metre LNG carriers for Singapore-based BW Maritime.

The American Petroleum Institute comment on oil and natural gas being the next job and revenue growth area

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has been awarded a contract by Technip to supply 7 units of boilers for Shell’s floating LNG facility Prelude, the world’s first Floating LNG facility, The boilers to be supplied by Kawasaki are the largest ever in the capacity for marine use.

Chevron has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Kyushu Electric Power Co. for the delivery of LNG from the Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. As part of the deal Kyushu Electric will also acquire equity in the Wheatstone gas fields and processing plant.

The Chinese government has announced a nationwide feed-in-tariff to accelerate the development of a domestic solar energy industry and boost its solar panel production which should lead to lower global prices for panels.

Molycorp, the Western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth oxides (REO) and the largest REO producer outside of China, is making a significant investment in Boulder Wind Power, which has designed a rare earth magnet powered wind turbine generator that can produce electricity as low as US$ 0.04 per kilowatt-hour.