Upland Resources has raised a fund of £3 million through a share placing, winning support from both existing and new investors. Upland also said that the fundraising will strengthen the balance sheet of the company ahead of a busy schedule which includes spudding of Wick well in the third quarter and other activities. The placing...Continue Reading

Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of oil, has put forth several plans for a hike in the production of oil to the other OPEC members, as it aims to bridge the gap with Russia. Saudi Arabia has put up different scenarios to raise the oil output including a two-step hike to smoothen the effect...Continue Reading

Bahrain has planned to invite international oil companies to help develop the first major discovery in decades. It hopes to begin production in 5-years. Currently, this oldest and smallest energy producer of the Persian Gulf derives most of its revenue from crude exports. However, its finances are under strain due to lower oil prices. This...Continue Reading

The oil and gas industry has seen some horrific incidents in its existence. Learning from these incidents help us understand what went wrong as well as figure out what could have been done differently. 1. Piper Alpha Disaster, North Sea, UK This is by far the deadliest accident in this industry which claimed 167 lives in...Continue Reading

The development of a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) study is an important pre-requisite of any oil and gas facility. Thong Wee Jun and Rachael Tee, Senior Engineers with Malaysia-based Synergen, explain why these should be integrated between multiple facilities located in the same industrial area to provide a more accurate representation of risk exposure. Worldwide,...Continue Reading

The largest ever subsea services contract has been won by Kreuz Subsea. In this regard, the company will mobilize 5 vessels to provide subsea construction works for Indian engineering group Larsen and Toubro. Under the contract, Kreuz Subsea will help L&T install riser clamps, risers, crossing works, tie-ins, subsea trenching and hydro-testing of pipelines under...Continue Reading

An ongoing trade war between China and the US may lead to China targeting the Shale fields in the US. Apart from sensitive farm items, Beijing is targeting petrochemicals and liquefied propane indicating that it might use energy as a weapon to retaliate against planned American duties on high-tech goods. Source: BloombergContinue Reading

Sabah Shell Petroleum has won the TechnipFMC, an EPCI contract for Gumusut-Kakap Phase2 project in offshore Sabah, Malaysia. In this regard, it will supply and install subsea equipment including umbilicals, flowlines and subsea production system.  Source: Offshore MagazineContinue Reading

There has been a cyber-attack on Latitude Technologies, which supplied electronic data interchange services to several large energy providers in the US. Following this, several major US natural gas pipeline was shut off, out of which at least 5 confirmed a service disruption caused due to hacking. However, the companies didn’t alert the US Transportation...Continue Reading

The Canadian energy sector is predicted to face extinction unless certain mergers and acquisition takes place. There is some opportunity for the same north of the Canadian border. The choice is now to merge and innovate or to face extinction. The mix of potential M&A candidates varies, with natural consolidators among the oil-weighted producers “self-explanatory,”...Continue Reading