Sep 23, 2022
UK Government to boost oil and gas production to enhance energy security
Oil and Gas News
Sep 23, 2022
Pipelines
A natural gas pipeline connecting Spain to France has increased its capacity by 18%.
The two countries are currently connected by two gas pipelines, via the Pyrenees, which can carry gas from Spain to its neighbour to the north.
The interconnector which passes through Irun has successfully completed the technical start-up tests to increase capacity by 18% over... [Read More]
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 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 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 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 2, 2022
Pipelines
Another natural gas pipeline could soon come on-stream in Europe - linking Spain and France.
According to Spain’s energy minister Teresa Ribera operations could start in around nine months.
“This new interconnection, this gas pipeline could be operating in about 8 or 9 months on the southern border side, that is, from the Pyrenean to Spain,” she told... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Sep 1, 2022
Pipelines
Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy firm, has stopped gas flows to Europe via its major pipeline due to vital maintenance work.
Gas flows from Nord Stream I, which runs from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, has not yet resumed.
Gazprom revealed earlier that from mid-August gas flows would be suspended for a three-day period for maintenance works.
Gazprom previously... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 31, 2022
Pipelines
The US Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management announced more than $31 million (€31 million) in funding for 10 projects to develop carbon capture technologies.
These will be capable of capturing at least 95% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated from natural gas power plants, waste-to-energy power plants, and industrial applications,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 31, 2022
Pipelines
China's Sinopec Corp has begun building the country's largest carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) facility in east China, and plans to build two more plants of similar size by 2025.
The state oil giant is one of the leading companies building pilot CCUS projects, which is part of the country's goal to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030.
The new CCUS project,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 18, 2022
Pipelines
Shell said it plans to shut for two weeks in September a key crude oil pipeline in Gulf of Mexico that supplies oil to Louisiana refineries, according to Reuters.
The Odyssey and Delta crude pipelines will be shut for planned maintenance early-to-middle of the month, Shell said in a statement.
The pipelines transport Heavy Louisiana Sweet crude from offshore oilfields... [Read More]
Water/Wastewater News
Aug 9, 2022
Pipelines
Morrison Water Services, a part of M Group Services’ Water Division, is working in partnership with Yorkshire Water to deliver a drinking water spray lining programme, believed to be the first of its kind across the water sector in AMP7.
Targeting structural and water quality issues with the existing pipework, spray lining is part of a £2m (€2.3) programme targeting... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 5, 2022
Pipelines
A global supplier of technology for pipeline integrity management has won three packages for five years in Malaysia.
ROSEN Group secured the Pan Malaysia for Pipeline In-Line Inspection Services contract for PETRONAS.
The contract covers 200 pipelines for inspection in the five years with diameters ranging from 4 inches to 48 inches.
The contract covers nationwide and... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Aug 2, 2022
Pipelines
Essar Oil, which owns and operates the Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port, has signed an agreement with Liverpool John Lennon Airport for the direct supply of aviation fuel.
The new access agreement will allow Essar to supply fuel directly to airlines and marks another step in Essar’s growing aviation fuels business.
The deal brings Essar’s total number of access... [Read More]
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