Oil & gas news

Petrofac has been awarded a £500 million contract to build a gas processing plant in the Shetlands for Total.

Nancy D. Yamaguchi, Hydrocarbon Engineering Contributing Editor, looks at the Southeast Asian energy sector.

Oil and gas exploration licences granted by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have revealed that industry interest in developing the UK’s North Sea resources remains vibrant.

Massey Energy posts a loss in Q3, blaming it on production losses caused by the actions of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

The latest EIC Monitor (Q3) shows encouraging levels of new projects emerging across the globe with China, India and the USA having some of the largest new projects.

A new underground coal mine is to be opened in Hamilton County, Illinois, creating approximately 300 construction jobs and 350 permanent jobs.

BP is selling four mature producing deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico to Marubeni Oil and Gas for US$ 650 million.

Japan has made an agreement to co-operate with Vietnam on nuclear technologies and materials.

Santos has agreed a deal to supply 750 PJ of natural gas from its Cooper Basin gas assets to the Gladstone LNG project.

Demand for met coal has prompted United Coal to reopen the Affinity mine in West Virginia, which has been closed since 1985.