Drilling & production

Peru’s President has passed a decree which will effectively limit the LNG that can be exported from the country, to ensure a healthy domestic supply.

FPL is to demolish the old plant and replace it with a new combined cycle gas powered plant, which will emit 50% less carbon dioxide emissions.

Technip has announced a strategic partnership with subsidiaries of PETRONAS, to work jointly on onshore and offshore projects.

CAMAC Energy has started drilling as part of its programme to develop the CBM in its Zijinshan gas asset.

Kosmos has terminated the sale of its Ghana business to ExxonMobil in order to continue its exploration, appraisal and development operations.

Oil companies in Iraq may be too ambitious about production targets due to field characteristics and exportation problems.

Doosan Power Systems has announced that it has completed a year of successful testing at the world’s largest OxyCoal™ Clean Combustion Test Facility. This facility, in combination with the newly opened Post Combustion Carbon Capture (PCCC) plant test facility in Renfrew, UK, makes the site a global centre for carbon capture research.

Untapped oil reserves add to anxieties in the South China Sea as China’s energy policy and foreign policy fuse.

Chevron has discovered more natural gas in its Acme-1 well, underpinning plans for expansion of the Wheatstone LNG hub.

The UK has a wealth of experience and knowledge of engineering, which needs to be exploited more fully if it wants to be a world leader in renewable energy technology.

Halliburton, under contract from PGNiG, have performed the first ever hydraulic fracturing operation on Polish soil.

Woodside has made new gas discoveries at its Alaric-1 exploration well, reviving hopes that the planned expansion of its Pluto regasification terminal may go ahead.

Range Resources has voluntarily started releasing information about its hydraulic fracturing processes, to assuage fears over environmental damage.

The Shenhua Baotou Coal to Olefins project, one of the largest units of its kind in the world, has successfully started up in China. The unit uses advanced coal gasification technology provided by GE.

Do the environmental impacts of potential oil spills outweigh the economic effects of stifling exploration efforts, and can more be done to make oil and gas drilling safer?