Sep 23, 2022
Gas pipeline boosts capacity by 18%
Oil and Gas News
Sep 21, 2022
Pipelines
The German government is to nationalise the country's biggest gas importer, Uniper, as the war in Ukraine has seen a huge spike in energy prices.
Uniper's nationalisation will add another €8 billion ($7.9 billion) to its rescue as the German government scrambles to secure power for Europe's largest economy after Russian supply cuts.
Nationalising Germany's largest... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 21, 2022
Pipelines
Amogy Inc. and Trafigura have announced an agreement to study the use of ammonia as a carrier to transport clean hydrogen from point of production to consumption.
The findings of this joint research on ammonia cracking will help support industry-wide efforts to decarbonise transport and heavy industrial processes and lower carbon emissions to meet global climate goals.
Trafigura... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 21, 2022
Pipelines
The Department of Energy will offer additional US reserve crude for sale ahead of plans by the European Union to ban most Russian oil in December.
The agency will offer 10 million barrels of low-sulphur crude for supply in November from storage caverns in Texas and Louisiana, according to a press statement.
Bids for the supply that will originate from Big Hill, Texas,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 16, 2022
Pumps
Hynion's hydrogen station at Høvik has just completed its busiest month ever.
The sales of hydrogen fuel for private cars and taxis have more than doubled since the turn of the year. The increased demand for hydrogen has even created queues for filling up hydrogen cars.
Hynion has also significantly improved the fuelling station's capacity by installing a new and... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 16, 2022
Other
The UK Government is exploring the development of innovative low-carbon technologies such as hydrogen, while a 5GW national capacity target for hydrogen will be doubled to 10GW.
Through the Government’s UK Export Finance, a £400 million (€456 million) sustainability-linked loan has been underwritten and given to Johnson Matthey, a London-based conglomerate company... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 15, 2022
Other
Mitsui Chemicals has asked Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) for its Shell S-896 catalyst, which will to provide important economic benefits from raw material ethylene savings.
It will als help the organisation meet the decarbonisation goals for their ethylene oxide (EO) refinery in Osaka, Japan.
This announcement builds on more than two decades of work between... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 13, 2022
Pipelines
Texas LNG Brownsville has executed an agreement with Technip Energies USA and Samsung Engineering to lead the delivery of a new LNG facility via a joint venture.
This is for a 4m tonnes per annum LNG export terminal to be constructed in the Port of Brownsville, Texas owned by Glenfarne Group.
Technip Energies, a leading technology and global engineering, procurement,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 12, 2022
Pumps
Shell and Raízen have signed a cooperation agreement for the production of renewable hydrogen from ethanol.
The additional partners include Hytron, a subsidiary of the Germany based Neuman and Esser Group; the University of São Paulo and the Centro de Tecnologia da Indústria Química e Têxtil.
The partnership aims to validate the production technology through the... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 12, 2022
Pumps
Bureau Veritas (BV) has awarded an approval in principle (AIP) to Gas and Heat (GH), a company specialising in the design, construction and integration of liquefied gas handling systems both for marine and onshore installations.
GH supported by the BV team demonstrated that IMO Type C cargo/fuel tanks made of austenitic steel with a special grade can transport both LNG... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 9, 2022
Pipelines
Former Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Skidmore MP, who has been appointed by Liz Truss to lead a review of net-zero, visited HyNet - the UK’s leading industrial decarbonisation cluster.
Skidmore, chair of the Environment All-Party Parliamentary Group, began his tour of the UK with HyNet as the first stop.
HyNet is at the centre of the UK’s low carbon... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 9, 2022
Pumps
Sulzer has received an order for five more high pressure water injection pumps (HPcp) having already delivered 11 HPcps to a site off Guyana.
This delivery will help support the largest floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in Guyana’s Stabroek block.
Guyana has some of the world's biggest offshore discoveries made in years, with 10 billion barrels... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 8, 2022
Pumps
A new pilot plant for EasyMining’s nitrogen removal and recovery process at Denmark’s largest wastewater treatment plant has begun operations.
The facility at BIOFOS’ Lynetten is built within the LIFE RE-Fertilise project, a partnership between BIOFOS, Lantmännen, Ragn-Sells and EasyMining and co-financed by the EU’s LIFE Programme.
When nitrogen is extracted... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 6, 2022
Pipelines
TotalEnergies has reached an agreement with Northern Lights and Yara to transport and store CO2 captured from Yara Sluiskil - an ammonia and fertiliser plant in the Netherlands.
From early 2025, 800,000 tons of CO2 per year will be captured, compressed, and liquefied in the Netherlands and then transported to the Northern Lights site to be permanently stored in... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 5, 2022
Pipelines
Sarawak Shell, a subsidiary of Shell plc, together with PETRONAS has taken a final investment decision (FID) to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas project.
Rosmari-Marjoram fields are situated 220 km off the coast of Bintulu, Malaysia, and will be powered by renewable energy.
“Rosmari-Marjoram will help to deliver a secure and reliable supply of energy, responsibly and... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 5, 2022
Other
UK-based CPH2 has entered into an agreement with Bentec an operating company entity of Kenera Energy Solutions.
The agreement brings together CPH2’s innovative membrane-free electrolyser (MFE) technology, which uses cryogenics to separate oxygen from hydrogen, and Kenera’s international client base and manufacturing capabilities.
Kenera is a newly formed business... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 2, 2022
IKAV has agreed to acquire Aera Energy through two separate transactions with the joint venture subsidiaries of ExxonMobil and Shell respectively.
The transactions are subject to regulatory approval.
Aera is one of California’s largest oil and gas producers, accounting for nearly 25% of the state’s production.
In 2021, Aera produced approximately 95,000 barrels... [Read More]