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Reliance awarded Intecsea, a subsidiary of Worley, with a project management consultancy (PMC) contract for its MJ Field deepwater gas and condensate project offshore India. Under the deal, Intecsea will provide PMC services for the development of Reliances’ subsea gas and condensate resource located in approximately 1000-m water depth in the MJ field. The contract co…

Production from the Hibernia platform was shut down again on 17 August after its second oil spill in a month, while Husky Energy began to ramp up output from the White Rose field following the largest-ever spill off Canada’s easternmost province.

The report, the first by a Chinese company in Saudi Arabia, outlines how Sinopec is fulfilling its economical, safety, environmental, and social responsibilities in Saudi Arabia.

The US EIA reports that natural gas deliveries producting LNG for export reached 6.0 Bcf/D in July. Deliveries to LNG export facilities have been the fastest growing among all natural gas consumption sectors this year.

One of the largest industrial projects in the UK in recent years, Mariner marks Equinor’s first operated field on the UK Continental Shelf. It is expected to produce 70,000 BOPD at peak rates.

Murphy Oil has contracted GATE Energy to provide facility commissioning for the King’s Quay development in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The project scope includes commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution, and offshore commissioning/ready-for-startup services. King’s Quay is an 80,000 BOPD facility anchored by the Khaleesi/Mormont and Samurai development…

Seven years after discovering commercial reserves in the northern part of the country, the Kenyan government and a group led by Tullow have accepted a bid from the Chinese trading company to purchase its first shipments of crude.

The launch will make Shenzhen Gas the second Chinese city gas distributor backed by a local government to own an LNG import facility, following Shenergy Group’s Shanghai import terminal. Eni is set to deliver an initial cargo to the facility.

Var Energi has awarded Rosenberg Worley with an EPCI contract for the redevelopment of the Balder and Ringhorne fields in the Norwegian North Sea. Rosenberg Worley will manage the life extension of the Jotun FPSO to help secure production from the Balder field until 2045. Var hopes to move the FPSO to a fabrication yard in Stavanger next spring for a 15-month stint, d…

Balltec won a contract from Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland to support decommissioning and removal of a platform with conductors in the North Sea. Balltec will supply 18 LiftLOK ball and taper lifting connectors to lift 30-in. diameter conductors during removal of a jacket in a single lift operation by the heavy-lift vessel Sleipnir. That vessel will then transpo…

A study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine finds that an injury serious enough to lead to at least a week off of work almost triples the combined risk of suicide and overdose death among women and increases the risk by 50% among men.

An EPA plan would end oversight of methane leaks at oil wells, a move that risks undermining the climate sales pitch for natural gas.