Drilling to start ‘imminently” with the drillship now on location at the Kaieteur Block US giant ExxonMobil is preparing to spin the bit at the Tanager prospect on the Kaieteur Block off Guyana, with the drilling rig now on location. UK-listed Westmount Energy, which holds an indirect interest in the Kaieteur Block through its minority […]
Newfoundland and Labrador seeking support for pillar of province’s economy As a girl in the small town of Lewisporte on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, Sacha Gale often struggled with the question of what she wanted to be when she grew up. Unlike her younger brother and sister who were passionate about music and […]
US independent and partner Total to drill appraisal and new exploration probes next year after latest wildcat success US independent Apache is lining up appraisal and exploration drilling programmes off Suriname next year after unveiling what it called a “major” oil discovery, with test results suggesting it is the best well drilled to date on […]
New study by OGA says better co-ordination between offshore oil and gas and renewables could go much of the way to achieving decarbonisation goals Closer integration of the UK’s offshore energy systems could help meet almost two-thirds of the nation’s target to become carbon neutral by 2050, according to the fndings of a key new […]
Husky Energy Inc. is joining other major oilsands producers in setting a short-term emissions intensity reduction target as a preliminary step as it works on a way to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. In its 2020 environmental, social and governance (ESG) report, it calls for a 25 per cent emissions per barrel reduction by […]
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (the Agency) is conducting a federal environmental assessment for the proposed Bay du Nord Development Project, located approximately 450 kilometres offshore, east of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Agency invites the public and Indigenous groups to comment on the potential environmental effects of the project and the proposed measu
Production efficiency on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has improved for the seventh consecutive year and for 2019 reached 80%, three years ahead of the 2022 target, the UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) said Thursday. Production efficiency is the total volume of hydrocarbons produced as a percentage of the theoretical economic maximum production potential. […]
Husky Energy Inc on Thursday posted a quarterly loss as the COVID-19 pandemic caused crude oil prices to crash and sapped global demand for fuel. Crude prices also weakened after top producers, Saudi Arabia and Russia, decided to flood the market with oil earlier this year. The company said quarterly production fell nearly 8 per […]
Canada’s oil and gas producers say a series of federal liquidity support programs designed to help the sector through a pandemic-caused crisis are ineffective and overly prescriptive. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, an oil lobby group, is pushing the federal government to rejig the programs launched through Export Development Canada and the Business Development […]
FPSO currently located in Conception Bay for new turret cover plate The Suncor-operated Terra Nova floating production, storage and offloading vessel is set to anchor at a quayside in Newfoundland, Canada for maintenance after the Covid-19 pandemic put on ice plans for life extension work to be carried out this year at a Spanish drydock. […]
