Drilling & production

Statoil has acquired the Eagle Ford Shale assets of Enduring Resources LLC, in partnership with Talisman Energy Inc.

GDF SUEZ is to supply China’s CNOOC with 2.6 million t of LNG over four years, starting in 2013.

Under new regulations, China’s mine managers are now required to accompany their workers underground. Failure to do so will result in hefty fines.

Air Liquide have joined the FutureGen 2.0 project to build an oxy-combustion coal fired plant with CCS technology incorporated.

Repsol and Qatargas have signed a multi year supply agreement for Qatar to supply LNG to Repsol’s Canaport LNG terminal.

Eurasia Drilling Company Limited (Eurasia) and Schlumberger have announced that they have signed a Letter of Intent to sell and purchase each other’s drilling and service assets, while entering a strategic alliance in the CIS.

An agreement between Powerfuel Power, B9 Coal and AFC Energy will see the latter company’s fuel cell technology installed at Powerfuel’s Hatfield site in the UK.

The US and Iceland have signed a bilateral agreement which aims to increase scientific and technological co-operation between the two nations to develop geothermal technology.

Spectrum ASB, the Australian subsidiary of Spectrum, has released a new large scale 3D multi-client seismic merge dataset, which provides a high resolution overview of the Carnarvon Basin.

October 2010: Kay Sever outlines how the transition to a maintenance planning culture from a ‘plan-free’ environment can be tough but it is worthwhile.

The Gulf of Mexico disaster has inadvertently led to increased investment in West African exploration ventures, but is enough funding being spent on safety?

President Obama has agreed to have solar panels installed on the roof of the White House to promote renewable energy in the US.

Western Coal has announced record production increases of 90% to 1.5 million t for its fiscal second quarter 2011 (ending September 30 2010).

Solar Energy Ltd has announced that it is moving into the lucrative market for uranium exploration to exploit the worlds growing need for power and the US renaissance of nuclear power.

Following results from the first coke tests at its Zambeze coal project, Riversdale Mining has announced that the project will produce hard coking coal. The results come from two coal seams, and the company plans to test the remaining seams in Q1 2011.