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Germany’s oil and gas exploration and production company RWE Dea has said it will increase exploration efforts in the Gulf of Suez, offshore Egypt. The company has been producing oil and gas in Egypt for three decades. “North Africa is one of our strategic core regions,” said Maximilian Fellner, General Manager of RWE Dea Egypt. “In Egypt, […]
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Shell has awarded Allseas the topsides and jacket removal contract for the Brent field platforms. The contract also includes the removal of Brent Alpha’s steel jacket. The Brent field is situated on the UK Continental Shelf, 186 km (116 miles) north-east of Lerwick, Scotland, in a water depth of 140 m (460 ft). The field comprises four […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading regional private sector natural gas company, has announced it was a successful bidder in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2012 International Bid Round that took place on 18th April 2013. The Company was awarded 100% working interest in the North El Arish Offshore (Block 6) concession area. The […]
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BP’s Trinidad and Tobago unit, BPTT produced first gas from the Juniper development, the company’s fifth of seven major upstream start-ups planned for 2017.
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Business & Finance, Business developments & projects
Oil major Shell is exploring options to sell its non-operated interests in the Amended 2011 Baram Delta EOR production sharing contract (PSC) and the SK 307 PSC off Malaysia.
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Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading regional private sector natural gas company, has announced it was a successful bidder in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2012 International Bid Round that took place on 18th April 2013. The Company was awarded 100% working interest in the North El Arish Offshore (Block 6) concession area. The […]
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF) 18th Board meeting, convened in Cairo, has approved the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Project entitled “Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation in the North Coast of Egypt” to be implemented by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation. With a total budget of $31.4 million over seven years, the project aims to […]
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Royal HaskoningDHV has been selected, together with its partners, to explore and develop innovative ideas into bankable projects on how Khulna, Bangladesh, can become a water inclusive city as part of the Water as Leverage call for action. Khulna, the third largest city in Bangladesh, is part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the largest delta in […]
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At least five Nigerian soldiers have been killed in a massive raid on a convoy of barges carrying fuel in the oil-producing Niger Delta. Some 25 workers for the oil firm Shell were taken hostage, while nine more soldiers are missing, sources say. About 70 armed men staged the attack in five speedboats and destroyed […]
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Shell U.K. Ltd has awarded the Swiss-based Allseas Group S.A. the contract for the removal, transportation and load-in to shore of the topsides of three of its Brent platforms, with an option to do the same with the fourth platform. The contract also includes the removal of Brent Alpha’s steel jacket. The Brent field is […]
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Eni of Italy on Friday said it has agreed to sell a 10 percent participating interest in the Shorouk concession, offshore Egypt, to BP.
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Oil and gas giant BP has produced first gas from its Angelin development offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders
Shell U.K. Ltd has awarded the Swiss-based Allseas Group S.A. the contract for the removal, transportation and load-in to shore of the topsides of three of its Brent platforms, with an option to do the same with the fourth platform. The contract also includes the removal of Brent Alpha’s steel jacket. The Brent field […]
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Controversy over Enbridge’s dredge pad site is causing the company to ask the United Stated Environmental Protection Agency for an extension to complete dredging of the Kalamazoo River. Senior vice president of operations for Enbridge, Rich Adams asks for the EPA to extend its deadline past Dec. 31, 2013. “Enbridge’s preparation for dredging in the […]
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There have been 15 attacks against commercial ships within a 60 nautical miles radius of Bony Island over recent weeks.
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Human Capital, Safety, Vessels
Five crew members have been kidnapped by pirates from a Ghana-flagged vessel in another incident in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s first and largest regional private sector Natural gas Company has announced its latest gas discovery in the Nile Delta, Egypt. The ‘South Abu El Naga-2’ well, drilled as an appraisal of the previously announced South Abu El Naga Field in the West El Manzala Concession encountered 16.6 meters […]
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A new report released today on the 100th day of the BP oil disaster details short- and long-term strategies for the Obama administration to make coastal Louisiana less vulnerable to future oil spills and hurricanes, including negotiating with BP for a $5 billion down payment on expected payments for natural resource damages. The report by […]
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Anadarko Petroleum Corp today revealed that it has discovered natural gas at its Cheyenne East prospect in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, near the company’s Independence Hub facility. The exploration well encountered 50 foot of high-quality gas pay, Chuck Meloy, Anadarko’s senior vice president of worldwide operations, said at Jefferies Global Energy Conference in Houston. […]
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Four illegal overboard discharges occurred from Zao Galaxy between the last week of January and February 11, 2019.
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Fraser River Pile and Dredge (FRPD) was fined $350,000 in the Provincial Court of British Columbia last week, after pleading guilty to depositing a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish, in violation of the Fisheries Act, the Government of Canada announces. The penalty will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund. In […]
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An injured crewman was medevacked from the 63,200 dwt bulk carrier Delsa some 130 miles southeast from Cold Bay, Alaska, on October 19, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) informed. Coast Guard Communications Detachment Kodiak watchstanders received a call from the captain of the Delsa at 7:30 P.M. local time stating that the 42-year-old crewman fell […]
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Business & Finance, Business developments & projects, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders
Malaysia’s services provider to the oil and gas industry Dayang Enterprise has won a contract with two Shell subsidiaries for the provision of topside maintenance services offshore Malaysia.
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Wood Mackenzie’s mid-year prediction that only ‘a handful’ of major projects would make financial investment decision (FID) approval in 2015 proved close enough – only a few large upstream developments achieved the green light during the year, Wood Mackenzie, a global energy consultancy provider, said on Monday. The impact of the continued low crude price has […]
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German ship owner Hamburg Bulk Carriers (HBC) has placed an order for three extremely economical bulk carriers with an option of further nine at CSC Qingshan Shipyard. Two and a half years of work were invested into this project of building up to 12 bulk carriers of about 43.500 tdw of which the first deliveries are expected […]
