Oil and Gas News

May 20, 2022
Pipelines
A consortium led by Gemserv has secured around £6.7 million (€7.9 million) from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to deliver the Tyseley Ammonia to Green Hydrogen Project. This has been done through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Low Carbon Hydrogen Supply 2 Competition. The project aims to design, build, commission, and operate the world’s largest and…
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May 19, 2022
Pipelines
A new report reveals how the north west could build on world leading plans for local low carbon hydrogen production and use by also pioneering low carbon energy imports through ramping up Britain’s use of ammonia. The report, The role of ammonia in the North West hydrogen economy by the North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA), outlines how using ammonia as a hydrogen carrier could further boost…
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May 18, 2022
Pipelines
Snam and Enagas, Spain's energy provider, are assessing the viability of constructing an offshore gas pipeline between the two countries. The announcement from the energy infrastructure company based in Milan, Italy, has come in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the impact this has had on the global energy industry. Until recently, Russia has been a major supplier of natural gas…
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May 18, 2022
Pipelines
bp and Linde announced plans to advance a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Texas that will enable low carbon hydrogen production at Linde’s existing facilities. The development will also support the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from other industrial facilities – paving the way for large-scale decarbonisation of the Texas Gulf Coast industrial corridor. Upon…
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May 17, 2022
Pumps
Celeros Flow Technology (CFT) has injected new life into a heritage pump for a Canadian heavy oil recovery customer, enabling them to increase production. The pump – a Mather & Platt BB5 – was more than 40 years old and had been subject to numerous post-installation alterations. Heavy oil deposits are extremely viscous and require the injection of high pressure, high temperature steam to…
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May 17, 2022
Pumps
Heat networks that will use energy from waste (EfW) is to be developed in London and East Devon with funding awarded through the Government’s Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP). Over £250 million (€295 million) of funding has been awarded to heat network schemes under the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) since it opened its doors to applicants in 2018. Veolia has been awarded…
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May 16, 2022
Valves
Howden has revealed that it supplied eight diaphragm compressors for hydrogen refueling stations at the recently concluded 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. As one aim of the 2022 Winter Olympics was to produce an event that was both low carbon and with zero emissions, the compression technology from Howden brought hydrogen energy to four refueling stations. Filling up to 180 vehicles a day,…
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May 16, 2022
Pipelines
Pressure on Europe to secure alternative gas supplies has increased as Moscow imposed sanctions on European subsidiaries of state-owned Gazprom a day after Ukraine stopped a major gas transit route. Gas prices surged, with the key European benchmark gaining 12% as buyers were unsettled by the mounting threats to Europe's supply given its high dependence on Russia, Reuters reported. Moscow has…
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May 16, 2022
Pipelines
Saudi Aramco has registered its highest profits since its 2019 listing as oil and gas prices rise around the world. The state-owned energy giant saw an 82% jump in profits, with net income topping $39.5 billion (€37.2 billion) in the first quarter. The invasion of Ukraine has seen oil and gas prices skyrocket. Russia is one of the world's biggest exporters but Western nations have pledged to…
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May 13, 2022
Other
The European Commission has unveiled a €195 billion proposal to halt the imports of Russian fossil fuels by 2027, Reuters has reported. The news agency said that the draft measures will combine a faster rollout of renewable energy and energy savings. “The draft measures, which could change before they are due to be published next week, include a mix of EU laws, non-binding schemes, and…
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May 13, 2022
Pipelines
The port of Rotterdam and the cluster of companies operating here can supply north western Europe with 4.6 million tonnes of hydrogen annually by 2030, it has been revealed. The consumption of 4.6 million tonnes of hydrogen yields 46 million tonnes of CO2 reduction, and it increases Europe’s energy independence. This hydrogen amount is the total the Port of Rotterdam Authority has come up…
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May 12, 2022
Pipelines
Protos Biofuels, a project developed by Advanced Biofuel Solutions and Greenergy, announced its first municipal waste to advanced biofuels project has progressed into the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase. Petrofac has been appointed to deliver the FEED, with Sumitomo SHI FW to supply the gasifier that converts the household waste into synthesis gas (syngas); Proval to design the direct…
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May 12, 2022
Pipelines
Building a UK-wide delivery network for hydrogen has taken a step closer to reality with the SGN trial at Grangemouth in partnership with INEOS. The trial which is funded by the Energy Regulator and gas distribution companies, will use hydrogen supplied by INEOS in a 29km section of decommissioned pipeline between the Grangemouth site and Granton. SGN Director of Energy Futures Gus Mcintosh…
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May 10, 2022
Pumps
The European Commission, Hydrogen Europe and 20 European companies including Topsoe have signed a declaration on increasing electrolyser manufacturing capacity in the EU. The declaration backs EU´s new target to double the previous EU target to 10 million tons of annual domestic production of renewable hydrogen plus an additional 10 million tons of annual hydrogen imports. Roeland Baan, CEO at…
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May 10, 2022
Pipelines
Ellesmere Port in the north west could be home to the UK’s first ‘hydrogen village’. Up to 2,000 properties in the Whitby area of the town will stop using natural gas for heating and cooking, and instead use hydrogen. The proposal, put forward by gas distribution network Cadent and British Gas, and supported by Cheshire West and Chester Council, has been confirmed in a shortlist of two…
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May 5, 2022
Renewable Energy Group has announced the acquisition of Dawson Oil Company. This is a bulk fuel distributor and cardlock owner, located in Northern California and will bring about 24 million gallons of fuel sales per year to the REG portfolio. “This acquisition is a strategic growth opportunity for us as California continues to lead the way in the adoption and transition to cleaner, lower…
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May 5, 2022
Other
Oil and gas major Shell has reported its highest ever quarterly profits as prices surged globally. Shell made $9.13 billion (€8.6 billion) in the first three months of 2022, nearly triple its $3.2 billion (€3 billion) profit it announced for the same period last year. However, the company also revealed that said exiting from the Russian oil and gas market due to the Ukraine conflict had…
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May 3, 2022
Pumps
Danish marine pumps specialist Svanehøj has been awarded a contract to supply pump systems for two CO2 carriers that will transport liquid CO2 to the Northern Lights storage facilities in Norway. Northern Lights is developing infrastructure to transport CO2 from industrial emitters in Norway and other European countries by ship to a receiving terminal in western Norway for intermediate…
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