Mining, Oil & Gas Where would we be without the benefits that mining, oil and gas have provided us. This is an important sector, providing energy to keep our society going.
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This year's aviation safety seminar , organized by Oil & Gas UK, will update the wider aviation and oil and gas community on the key lessons learned from the fatal helicopter accident in April this year, the subsequent work of the helicopter task group, and the projects currently in hand which will enhance the safety of offshore helicopter operations. |
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Friday 2 October, 2009 05:44 AM |
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WA oil and gas explorations will have a better understanding of the conditions deep beneath the Earth with the release of a new technology from Curtin University.
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Wednesday 23 September, 2009 04:55 PM |
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The Chevron led joint venture to develop the Gorgon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and domestic gas project, could become the world’s biggest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project if it receives investment approval. |
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Thursday 10 September, 2009 12:08 AM |
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On a still afternoon under a hot Oklahoma sun, neither a cloud nor an ounce of "volatility" was in sight. Anything but. All one saw were the somnolent tanks filled with oil, hundreds of them, spread over the rolling hills, some brand-new, some more than 70 years old, and some holding, inside their silver or rust-orange skins, more than half a million barrels of oil each. |
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Monday 7 September, 2009 08:31 AM |
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Impala Platinum is losing over R9 million per day as strikes in South Africa continue to affect its production, says a report from South African newspaper The Times.
The world's second-largest platinum producer is attempting to thrash out a deal with workers who decided to down tools on Monday night over a long-running wage dispute. |
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 11:24 PM |
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Origin Energy said yesterday that marketing the liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced by its A35bn project with ConocoPhillips was the next “critical step” for the proposed Australian venture.
A binding gas sale agreement was expected by the middle of next year, with deliveries starting in 2015, Origin MD Grant King said yesterday at the company’s earnings presentation. |
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Thursday 20 August, 2009 05:03 PM |
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Imperial Oil Ltd . has dusted off a $1-billion, 30,000-barrel-per-day oilsands project approved by the province five years ago and is looking at resubmitting a heavily amended application.
The new Nabiye project northeast of Imperial’s Cold Lake operations in northeastern Alberta will now include a 170-megawatt cogeneration plant, sulphur recovery facilities and a drilling plan that reduces the number of well pads. |
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Wednesday 19 August, 2009 08:04 PM |
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ConocoPhillips and Origin Energy Ltd., joint developers of a A$35 billion ($29 billion) liquefied natural gas project in Australia’s Queensland state, secured a site to develop the venture’s processing plants.
The partners are due to submit an environmental impact statement on the Laird Point location in Gladstone in early 2010, and make a final investment decision at the end of next year, the companies said in a statement to the Australian stock exchange on Tuesday. They plan to complete the first of four production units by the end of 2014. |
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Wednesday 19 August, 2009 11:06 AM |
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France's GDF Suez and Australia's Santos Ltd have set up a joint venture to develop a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project off northwest Australia in GDF's first foray into Asia.
The partnership also increases Santos' LNG portfolio to four projects, an important move as it seeks to expand its footprint in Asia and realign its business to focus on the burgeoning LNG sector to boost its long-term growth outlook. |
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Tuesday 18 August, 2009 08:07 AM |
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Global Industries Limited announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Fluor Offshore Solutions to pursue offshore projects in the Middle East and North Africa region.
The exclusive agreement, which will build on the combined 60 years of offshore experience of both companies will jointly market and perform offshore construction projects for the oil and gas industry within the MENA region. The agreement will leverage the depth of Engineering, Project Management, Procurement and Installation processes to focus on both EPIC and traditional Transportation and Installation solutions. |
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Monday 17 August, 2009 12:59 PM |
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MDM Engineering has announced that it has been awarded the contract for the Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) for controversial Africa-focused diversified mining company Central African Mining & Exploration Company (CAMEC)'s Licence 871L coal project in Mozambique.
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Sunday 16 August, 2009 10:08 AM |
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Fluor announced that it was awarded a contract to perform front-end engineering and design (FEED) services for Santos' Gladstone Liquefied Natural Gas (GLNG) Upstream Project in Queensland, Australia.
The company booked the $16 million contract in its second quarter of 2009.
"This is truly a unique engineering opportunity for Fluor and we are honored to work with Santos on the FEED phase of this milestone project in Australia," said Peter Oosterveer, president of Fluor's Energy & Chemicals Group. "The Fluor team stands ready to assist Santos in what will be the world's first project to convert coal-seam gas to liquefied natural gas." |
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Tuesday 4 August, 2009 12:14 PM |
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World-class oil reserves have been established in Uganda's Lake Albert area. The problem now is exploiting them, Martin Quinlan writes
LANDLOCKED country deep in the interior of Africa, with some security concerns, would not be an explorer's first choice of location for a large new oil province. UK-Canadian company Heritage Oil and the UK-Irish firm Tullow Oil took big risks when they launched their drilling campaigns along Uganda's Lake Albert coast – and now they face the problems of success. |
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Monday 3 August, 2009 04:21 PM |
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MEED reported that Algeria, Niger and Nigeria will tender a contract to design the estimated USD 13 billion trans Saharan gas pipeline before the end of 2009. |
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Thursday 30 July, 2009 04:05 PM |
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Foster Wheeler AG announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by Santos Ltd. to undertake the front-end engineering design (FEED) for Santos’ GLNG® Upstream Project in Queensland, Australia.
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Saturday 25 July, 2009 12:35 AM |
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Woodside Petroleum Ltd ., operator of the A$12 billion ($9.8 billion) Pluto liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia, may award a design and engineering contract for an expansion of the venture by the end of September.
An agreement is expected in the third quarter, subject to talks with potential suppliers of gas that will underpin the expansion, Woodside said today. Discussions with a number of parties are progressing, Roger Martin, a Perth-based spokesman, said by phone. |
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Friday 24 July, 2009 10:28 AM |
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Saudi Arabian hydrocarbons giant Saudi Aramco could award the initial contracts for the development of onsite facilities at two major gas developments in September. |
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Tuesday 21 July, 2009 12:40 AM |
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An estimated 625 fixed offshore platforms are under construction or planned for installation in coming years, according to ODS-Petrodata's online Offshore Construction Locator market intelligence tool.
Regions focusing on deepwater, such as West Africa and the U.S. Gulf, may not be seeing as much fixed platform construction activity as in the past, but other areas are picking up the slack. Southeast Asia leads the fixed platform market, with 162 platforms under construction or being planned.
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Tuesday 14 July, 2009 02:04 PM |
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Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin Group has won one of the largest services contracts in its history with a $508 million deal to design and oversee the construction of Algeria's largest modern city focused on the oil and gas sector. |
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Friday 10 July, 2009 10:46 AM |
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From a distance, the bright yellow trucks moving back and forth across the muddy landscape look like children’s toys in a giant sandbox. But as you get closer, and the trucks rumble by – their wheels alone are two meters high – you start to realize the scale of Belgium’s Beez quarry, carved out of the face of the earth and measuring some 80 meters from top to bottom.
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Wednesday 8 July, 2009 04:18 PM |
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Gulf of Mexico oil production is forecast to increase substantially over the next few years, possibly reaching 1.9 MMb/d in 2013 which would be a record high, according to Richie Baud, MMS deputy regional supervisor for the Office of Production and Development. This is MMS’ best-case scenario, which factors in industry-announced discoveries and undiscovered resources |
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 01:08 PM |
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