Oil & gas news

QGC Pty Limited, developer of the Queensland Curtis LNG Project, has awarded a A$19.5 million contract to Australian firm Transfield Services for gas field work in the Surat Basin of Queensland.

Rex W. Tillerson has been recognised by UN Foundation as the recipient of 2011 Global Leadership Award.

November 2011: Kay Sever examines methods for getting the most out of company meetings.

American Petroleum Institute has launched a campaign against punitive taxes on the industry.

Fugro OSAE GmbH has been awarded a €2.3 million hydrographic survey contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS).

Nexans has been awarded a contract by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to design, manufacture and supply a total of 138,000 ft (42km) of power umbilicals and terminations for the Jack and St. Malo fields in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

McDermott International, Inc. has won an EPCI project for Oil and National Gas Corporation Ltd.’s (ONGC) Cluster 7 Development Programme.

WellDog has won a tender to provide hundreds of downhole pressure gauge systems to Arrow Energy Pty Ltd over the next two years.

Protesters are said to have scaled a drilling rig at Cuadrilla resource’s Bank site to protest at the shale gas exploration in the area.

Statoil has brought its LNG plant at Hammer fest back online after an earlier shutdown on October 14.