May 26, 2022
Texas LNG signs venture agreement with Technip and Samsung
Oil and Gas News
May 24, 2022
Pipelines
Iran's oil minister has agreed to revive a long-stalled project to lay an undersea pipeline to carry gas to Oman.
Iran sits on one of the world's largest gas reserves, which Oman has been eyeing as it hopes to feed energy-intensive industries and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plants, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported.
IRNA said the agreement to revive... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
May 24, 2022
Pipelines
bp is strengthening its strategic partnership with ADNOC and Masdar of Abu Dhabi bringing international participation to its planned blue and green hydrogen developments in Teesside, UK.
ADNOC – the UAE’s largest energy company – will take a 25% stake in the design stage of bp’s blue hydrogen project, H2Teesside.
This will be ADNOC’s first investment in the... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
May 23, 2022
Pipelines
Wärtsilä will collaborate with the Portuguese energy solutions provider Capwatt in the testing of a green hydrogen and natural gas blend fuel.
This is for Capwatt’s power plant located in Maia. The project will start in Q1, 2023 and it aims at testing blends of up to 10% green hydrogen.
The combined heat and power plant which provides energy for Sonae Campus and... [Read More]
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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);... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
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... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 29, 2022
Pipelines
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released two revised liquid pipeline leak detection standards to improve operational integrity and advance operators’ mitigation capabilities.
Published together because they address similar issues, Recommend Practice (RP) 1130, Computational Pipeline Monitoring for Liquids, and RP 1175, Pipeline Leak Detection—Program Management,... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 28, 2022
Pipelines
Shell Brasil Petróleo has signed a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) to formally acquire a 25 percent stake of the Atapu field.
Shell paid $ 1.1 billion (€1.05 billion) to Petrobras for the increased stake in the field. With the contract now signed, Shell will start receiving its additional share of oil from the field.
“This transaction is the latest proof point... [Read More]
Oil and Gas News
Apr 27, 2022
Pipelines
Plans to create a CO2 network at Protos to capture some 800,000 tonnes of carbon emissions have been revealed.
Peel NRE, part of Peel L&P, has revealed its vision for a network of CO2 pipelines at Protos, the strategic energy and resource destination near Ellesmere Port.
The Protos CO2 network would connect to the regional CO2 pipeline, being developed as part of HyNet... [Read More]
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