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.
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.
Osum Oil Sands Corp. selects Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies’ produced water treatment for Taiga project at Cold Lake.
The American Petroleum Institute comment on oil and natural gas being the next job and revenue growth area
Rockhopper Exploration has outlined a development plan for its Sea Lion field offshore North Falkland.
“Despite a long-term decline in oil & gas production in the North Sea, its services and support industry has a bright future,” said John Westwood, Chairman of energy business advisors Douglas-Westwood, in Aberdeen this week.
Total has made a major gas discovery in the Caspian Sea in the Absheron block offshore Azerbaijan. The Absheron X-2 well has encountered more than 500 ft of cumulated net gas pays within high quality sands on the northern flank of a major 270 km2 structure. Reservoirs are expected to extend over the entire northern part of the structure.
The American Petroleum Institute has told Obama that American energy development is ‘critical’ solution to jobs problem.
RBG has secured a two year contract extension worth £30 million to provide Apache with fabric extension and deck crew services.
Gulf Keystone has proved the value of the giant Shaikan filed in Northern Iraq after conducting well appraisal tests at its Shaikan-2 well, drilling is also continuing apace at its Shaikan-4 well.
BP EOC’s offices in Moscow were raided by bailiffs as a result of a claim by Andrei Prokhov, a shareholder in TNK-BP. BP have initiated proceedings to cancel the enforcement of the claim as they believe it is totally unjustified.
Andrew Buckland and Giles Farrer, Wood Mackenzie, UK, detail the possibilities afforded by the development of the FLNG concept.
Lucy Miller, Douglas Westwood Ltd, UK, describes the changing focus of the LNG market towards the Asia Pacific region.