South Korea’s Samsung Engineering has won a $680 million engineering, procurement, construction and project management contract to build an onshore gas plant for Shell’s Rosmari Marjoram development in Sarawak, Malaysia.
UK-listed Harbour Energy (LON:HBR) has announced initial success at its play-opening deepwater Timpan-1 exploration well offshore Indonesia in the North Sumatra basin. Significantly, the initial result bodes well for the frontier area and could open up more petroleum plays, which are thought to be gas prone.
Two Luxembourg subsidiaries of Malaysian state oil company Petronas have been seized by the descendants of a late sultan, lawyers said, in a dramatic escalation of a $15 billion legal dispute connected to an agreement signed 144 years ago, reported the Financial Times.
Lewis Hamilton has defended “Just Stop Oil” protestors who stormed the F1 tracks at Silverstone over the weekend.
Malaysian national oil company Petronas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s Mitsui for the conceptual and feasibility studies on the carbon capture and storage (CCS) value chain, including the evaluation of carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites in Malaysia. Significantly, Mitsui is a shareholder in UK-based carbon management business Storegga, that is developing the Acorn CCS project.
Malaysia’s national oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd. plans to double its capital expenditure to 60 billion ringgit ($14 billion) this year from 2021, as business activities normalize following the lifting of Covid-era restrictions.
Havfram has won work to decommission subsea facilities at Chinguetti and Banda, offshore Mauritania, from Petronas.
US liquefied natural gas (LNG) developer Venture Global will supply Malaysia’s Petronas with 1 million tonnes per year (t/y) of LNG for a 20-year term after the pair signed a new deal. Significantly, Asian LNG buyers, such as Petronas, are increasingly locking in new long-term supplies as more European buyers enter the race for LNG.
Japanese offshore drilling company Japan Drilling Co., Ltd. (JDC) will drill up to 10 wells for Petronas offshore Malaysia with its semi-submersible Hakuryu-5.
Malaysia’s Petronas and Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production (PTTEP) have announced they will exit the Yetagun gas project offshore Myanmar as they rationalise their upstream portfolios. Neither company denounced the military-led coup in their exit statements.
Petronas has awarded Block SK427 off the coast of Sarawak to SK earthon, a subsidiary of South Korea’s SK Innovation, and Petroleum Sarawak Exploration & Production (PSEP) in an area where several discoveries were made last year. Petronas and SK will also collaborate on carbon capture and storage (CCS) opportunities.
Petronas and Sabah Oil & Gas Development Corporation (SOGDC) have signed a key memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will see the Malaysian national energy company build Sabah’s first and largest near-shore floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility estimated to cost MYR8.8 billion ($2.02 billion).
A junior-level executive of Petronas Carigali is among nine individuals held by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) since last Friday to assist an investigation into corruption involving projects at the upstream subsidiary of the state-backed energy company.
Malaysia’s national energy company Petronas has confirmed that one of its junior level executives has been arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for suspected graft. The news underscores that the risk of corrupt practises remains high at Petronas.
Strohm, a leading manufacturer of fully bonded Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP), has signed an agreement with Petronas’ technology arm, Petronas Technology Ventures, to commercialise TCP in the industry and scale its utilisation across the Malaysian state-backed energy company’s facilities.
Repsol finished its 3D seismic shoot in Indonesia’s South East Jambi block onshore Southern Sumatra in December 2021 and is currently evaluating the data.
Petronas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Schlumberger to jointly explore opportunities in the areas of sustainability, digital and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, as well as research and development projects.
Malaysia's Petronas has signed production sharing contracts (PSCs) for five offshore exploration blocks, namely SB412, 2W, and X located off the coast of Sabah, and SK439/SK440 situated off the coast of Sarawak. Significantly, Shell has signed up for ultra-deepwater exploration acreage.
The outlook for liquefied natural gas (LNG) production in Asia has taken a positive turn following Mubadala Petroleum starting first gas flows from Pegaga to the Petronas-led Bintulu LNG export complex in Malaysia.
Malaysia’s Petronas will explore the North Ketapang Block after winning the shallow-water acreage onshore and offshore East Java in Indonesia’s Petroleum Bid Round 2021.
Brunei plans to boost production of oil and gas following the discovery of 42 million barrels of oil equivalent last year, according to energy minister Mat Suny bin Mohd Hussein. Significantly, the country is banking on new finds to reverse an expected decline in upstream output.
Malaysia’s Petronas and Japanese oil company ENEOS Corporation (ENEOS) have signed an agreement to advance studies for a commercial hydrogen production and conversion project at Kerteh in the Malaysian state of Terengganu. The move follows a pact signed between Malaysia and Japan last August to develop a clean hydrogen supply chain between the nations.
Malaysia’s state oil company Petronas swung to profit in the final three months of 2021, due to a smaller impairment loss, higher earnings and elevated crude oil prices.
Malaysia’s Petronas and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation are divesting their shares in the Yetagun gas field offshore Myanmar. The move marks the latest in a series of exits by major energy companies, including Chevron and TotalEnergies, following the military coup in February 2021.
Malaysia has filed a fresh charge against a local manager of Norwegian oil services provider Aker Solutions, accusing him of providing false information to the country's corporate regulator, according to the company and a court document, reported Reuters.