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Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract extension from Aker BP for two years worth NOK1.7 billion ($175.65 million) to provide maintenance and modifications for the latter’s Ula, Skarv, Valhall, and Tambar fields offshore Norway. The Norwegian engineering company said that the work under the contract will begin from December 2020 and follows the existing […]

Johnson Matthey (JM) has won a methanol technology contract from Technoleasing for the new Amur Oblast facility to be built in Skovorodino, Russia. In this connection, the British specialty chemicals company will offer a license for its combined reforming methanol technology to the 3,000 metric tons per day (mtpd) methanol production plant. Johnson Matthey will […]

Danish CO2 storage project : Drilling rig operator Maersk Drilling will join INEOS Oil & Gas Denmark and Wintershall Dea in a new Danish offshore CO2 storage consortium. According to Maersk Drilling, the consortium will mature a well progressed carbon capture and storage project in Danish waters. It will aim to develop CO2 storage capacity […]

US midstream company Williams said that its Devils Tower Spar platform will offer offshore natural gas and oil gathering and production handling services to LLOG Exploration Offshore’s Taggart development under a new tieback agreement signed by the parties. The Devils Tower Spar platform is located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico, […]

Australian energy company Santos has signed a new gas supply agreement with South African gold miner Gold Fields for its three gold mines located in Western Australia. As per the agreement, Santos will supply approximately 5.5 petajoules of natural gas from its Varanus Island gas plant to Gold Fields for a period of three years, […]

Apergy, a Texan oilfield equipment company, has wrapped up its $4.4 billion acquisition of the upstream energy operations of Ecolab’s subsidiary Nalco Champion to create a new combined company called ChampionX. As part of the terms of the deal signed in late 2019, Apergy has assumed the upstream energy unit’s net debt of around $492 […]

Qatar Petroleum has signed a farm-in deal with French oil and gas giant Total to acquire a 45% participating stake from the latter in blocks CI-705 and CI-706 in the Ivorian-Tano basin in the waters of Côte d’Ivoire. Spread over nearly 3,200 square kilometers, the two blocks are said to offer multi-target hydrocarbon prospects in […]

French oil and gas giant Total has scrapped its plans to acquire the Ghanaian assets of Occidental Petroleum as part of a larger deal signed in August 2019. As per the deal, Total under a purchase and sale agreement (PSA) was to acquire the assets of Anadarko Petroleum in Africa with the latter merged into […]

Renewable methane plant : The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced a funding of AUD 1.1 million to natural gas transmission company APA Group to construct a modular renewable methane production demonstration plant at its Wallumbilla Gas hub located near Roma in Queensland. The ‘power to gas’ demonstration plant will generate nearly 620kg of […]

Empire Texas, a subsidiary of Tulsa-based oil and gas company Empire Petroleum, has acquired oil and gas producing assets across the Madison, Houston, and Leon Counties in Texas and associated midstream assets from Pardus Oil & Gas and Pardus Oil & Gas Operating GP. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The producing assets […]