Oil & gas news

Baker Hughes has installed enhanced run life electrical submersible pumping (ESP) systems in two vertical subsea boosting stations located on the seabed at Shell’s Perdido field in the Gulf of Mexico in 8000 ft of water.

Total has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips to acquire a 24.5% interest in the Arafura Sea and the Amborip VI blocks in the Arafura Sea, offshore Indonesia.

Wärtsilä has signed a contract with the Brazilian industrial group QUIP to supply three main power modules for a new P-63 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

The Annual Energy Outlook presents a projection and analysis of US energy supply, demand, and prices through 2035.

BG Group today announced that it has entered into further joint venture arrangements with its US shale partner, EXCO Resources, Inc. This agreement adds to the alliance entered into over EXCO’s shale assets in East Texas and North Louisiana in June 2009.

Two methane explosions have occurred at the Raspadskaya coal mine in Siberia, trapping miners underground.

Iran’s Oil Minister has threatened to expel foreign companies who are delaying investment in the gas field over fears of sanctions and government instability.

Shares in Macarthur Coal have risen, in spite of the threatened resource tax currently being proposed by the Australian government, which has sent other coal companies shares tumbling.

After the Australian government’s announcement of a new super resource tax, Santos is delaying an investment decision on the Gladstone LNG project.

The Huisham farm, the largest cow manure derived biogas project in the world, is to begin production in September 2010.