Equinor AS has been awarded exploration acreage in the Northern Carnarvon basin on the North West Shelf offshore Western Australia. Block WA-542-P, operated and held 100% by Equinor, lies west of the Dorado oil discovery.
Oil and gas companies have discovered 7.7 billion boe year-to-date, according to Rystad Energy’s latest global discoveries report.
Ceyhan Polipropilen Uretim has let a contract to Honeywell UOP to provide process technology for propylene production at a grassroots petrochemical complex in the Ceyhan Mega Petrochemistry Industry Zone of Ceyhan, Turkey.
Springfield Exploration & Production Ltd., Accra, has spudded the first of two deepwater wells planned on its West Cape Three Points Block 2 offshore Ghana.
The Santos Ltd./Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd. joint venture has announced a successful conclusion to its 2019 drilling program at Dorado oil and gas field in the Bedout subbasin offshore Western Australia.
The government of India is extending an additional $236-million line of credit to the government of Mongolia for the country’s first refinery project now under construction on 150 hectares in Altanshiree Soum near Sainshand.
A wholly owned Total subsidiary has started construction of its third and largest solar plant in Japan.
Husky Energy Inc. has agreed to sell its 12,000-b/d refinery in Prince George, BC, to Tidewater Midstream & Infrastructure Ltd. for $215 million (Can.) in cash plus a closing adjustment for inventory.
Humber Gathering System, a Kellas Midstream company, and Dana Petroleum have appointed ODE Asset Management as installation operator of the Tolmount platform, a normally unattended installation in the southern UK North Sea.
US oil and gas mergers and acquisitions activity surpassed $17 billion in this year’s third quarter, maintaining the momentum established in the second quarter, according to a recent report from Austin-based oil and gas data analytics company Enverus.
The start-up of the Valhall West Flank facility in the North Sea has been approved by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The facility is a further development of Valhall field in the southern part of the Norwegian Continental Shelf, 290 km offshore.
Conventional oil and gas discoveries during the past 3 years are at the lowest levels in 7 decades and a substantial rebound is not expected, said IHS Markit in a recent report.
Production is resuming at Hibernia oil field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador after a second shutdown forced by an oil release, reports Hibernia Management & Development Co. Ltd., the operator.
Husky Energy Inc. has received required permit approvals to begin reconstruction of its 47,500-b/cd refinery in Superior, Wis., after a fire that broke out at the site on Apr. 26, 2018.
