Drilling & production

Peabody energy will expand production at its Gateway mine, Illinois, by 40% to 4.5 million tpa to meet demand. The expansion is expected to cost US$ 175 million.

The upstream oil and gas sector is faced with “challenges of enormous scale” that the global industry must tackle if it is to provide safe, smart and sustainable supplies, while also continuing to explore and develop new territories and frontiers.

Leighton Contractors has been awarded a contract by Chevron Australia to deliver the civil and underground works package for the Gorgon Project valued at more than $800 million.

Singapore is building up the infrastructure to become a major LNG hub for the Asia-Pacific region, as well as being a prolific consumer of LNG in its own right.

Upstream players are calling for a simpler and more unified computing environment to help them manage information overload, according to a Microsoft Corp. and Accenture survey.

Vattenfall will be opening the world’s largest offshore wind farm today off the Kent coast, southern England.

FMC Technologies, Inc. has signed an agreement with Total Exploration & Production Angola for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment for the CLOV development project.

After the two nations’ premiers met in New York this week, they have agreed to go ahead with a Qatar-led LNG project in Sri Lanka.

Ingrain, a digital rock physics company, has announced the opening of its newest digital rock physics lab, located in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi.

In India, plans are afoot to increase coal production by introducing a bill that will mean that the mines must share a portion of their profits with the locals.

Excelerate Energy is to build a second LNG importation terminal In Argentina, effectively doubling the country’s terminal capacity.

BP is to join the marine well containment company (MWCC), which is designed to provide a quick response service for the Gulf of Mexico; as part of the agreement it will be contributing its own well containment equipment to the group.

Continental Coal Ltd’s Vlakvarkfontein coal mine has exceeded its monthly production target of 100,000 t during its second full month of operation.

South East Asian coal producing countries should be cheering on its revival. However, Ng Weng Hoong explains why they will also be grappling with uncertainties brought on by their increased economic dependence on, and the environmental impact of mining and handling, coal.

Aubin, an independent supplier of specialist chemicals to the oil and gas industry, has completed a major expansion of its laboratory and testing facilities at its UK headquarters.