Total has announced the launch of the Laggan and Tormore gas fields development in the offshore frontier region of the West of Shetland, subject to the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change approval.
Sharecat Solutions has secured a contract from China Oilfield Services subsidiary COSL Drilling Europe AS to support the spares management activity for its newbuild project at Yantai Raffles Shipyard.
A fundraising initiative launched by Mark Elliott, a well-known figure in the oil and gas industry, seeks to raise £1 million for two military charities, as he commits to losing 30 lbs of weight by June 2010.
2010 is hopefully going to be a more productive year for the offshore sector with analysts expecting oil and gas production to return to more healthy levels during the course of the year.
Legislation to cap liability payouts in the event of a nuclear disaster has been pulled by India’s coalition government.
First Solar have become the first purely photovoltaic power company to join the Desertec Industrial Initiative.
Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has secured a contract worth approximately US$ 130 million to carry out pre-conversion works on a very large crude carrier for Petrobras Netherlands BV.
Leading oil and gas executives from the APAC region meet to discuss ways of competing with production from the MENA region.
BP has announced a US$ 7 billion transaction with Devon Energy for assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the US deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
Arrow Energy is set to reject a take-over bid from a company jointly owned by Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina.
FMC Technologies, Inc. has signed an agreement with Statoil ASA for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment to support the Marulk field.
The changing behaviour of the European and Chinese coal markets and its impact on South African export coal prices.
Kalegran Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Plc and the operator of the Akri Bijeel block in Kurdistan, concluded a successful oil test in the Bijeel-1 exploration well in the Akri Bijeel block.
Alistair Birnie discusses the operational potential of the UK subsea industry and its future after North Sea supplies decline.
In the Spring issue of LNG Industry magazine, Lucy Miller, Douglas-Westwood, considers current and future prospects for the LNG sector.