What would Scottish thermodynamic giants have thought of our hydrogen future?
I watched a Scottish Energy Forum’s webinar - The Future of Hydrogen in Scotland - presented by Stuart Mckay, the Scottish Government's head of hydrogen policy.
I watched a Scottish Energy Forum’s webinar - The Future of Hydrogen in Scotland - presented by Stuart Mckay, the Scottish Government's head of hydrogen policy.
Environmental requirements around petroleum products are becoming increasingly stringent, and the share of heavy oil in the refining process is rising. In response to these challenges, Russia has undertaken large-scale modernisation of its oil refineries. Deep conversion of raw hydrocarbons is becoming essential. Catalyst processes are key to facilitating this, and, as such, now account for more than 80% of all secondary oil-refining processes.
Utilities firm Centrica confirmed today that its "intention remains" to sell its 69% shareholding in exploration from production firm Spirit Energy.
Bosses at Apache Corporation hailed the firm’s response to the Covid pandemic and price crash despite pre-tax losses widening to £3.4 billion in 2020 from £2.1bn the previous year.
An empty Aberdeen office building - recently valued at £1.5 million - could be partially demolished to make way for flats.
Hydrogen is sometimes seen as a panacea for all problems and challenges that the energy transition may pose. But is it all it’s cracked up to be? And what colour hydrogen is the best colour?
Westwood Global Energy reports that as of February 24 there was one exploration well and one appraisal well active in the UK, with no change since the end of December.
Westwood Global Energy reports that there were five exploration well programmes active on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as of February 24. A total of three exploration wells have completed to date in 2021, from which one commercial discovery was made with total resources of c. 57 mmboe, giving a 33% commercial success rate.
BP chief executive Bernard Looney said today that he wants the company's oil business to be “the best, not the biggest”.
STATS Group’s expertise in isolation projects, extending asset life and the decommissioning of pipeline infrastructure, was on show this week at a Virtual Tech Showcase hosted by Energy Voice.
Operator Neptune Energy and its partners Wintershall Dea, Petoro and OKEA today announced that production has started from the Gjøa P1 development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
Equinor and the Helideck Certification Agency (HCA) have completed the first virtual offshore helideck inspection - a first on the UKCS and in the company.
Safety, training and competency firm RelyOn Nutec will start offering Sparrows Group crane and lifting operation courses at its centres.
London-listed Premier Oil’s reverse takeover by Chrysaor is on track to complete on March 31.
London and Toronto-listed i3 Energy said today it expects to declare its maiden dividend during the current quarter.
Integrated subsea technology and services firm Ashtead Technology has launched a recruitment drive after completing the £1 million development of a new research and development and engineering facility in Aberdeenshire.
Malaysian operator Hibiscus Petroleum and Ithaca Energy expect to decide whether they can jointly develop a pair of North Sea fields by the end of this week.
Australian energy service firm Worley said today it was helping Allseas to decommission two of Spirit Energy’s east Irish Sea platforms.
Oil major Total has handed risk management company DNV GL a three-year deal for the provision of a range of services across its UK North Sea portfolio.
An Aberdeen-based drilling contractor has launched a petition urging the UK Government to give oil workers returning from overseas a full quarantine exemption.
Malaysian IT and energy sector service provider Dagang Nexchange (DNeX) has reached a deal to take its shareholding in North Sea minnow Ping Petroleum to 90%.
London-listed upstream investor Reabold Resources has agreed to loan North Sea oil firm Corallian Energy £1 million, subject to shareholder approvals.
Brent oil resumed gains as the market assessed the fallout from the big freeze across Texas, with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicting prices will advance into the $70s in coming months.
Home heating systems shutting down. Hospitals facing water shortages. Oil refineries going offline.
The downturn brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating energy transition has created a new reality for the world’s oil and gas industry, whose production will peak lower and earlier than expected before the 2020 market crisis, a Rystad Energy analysis shows.