A US House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee’s Apr. 3 pipeline safety hearing concentrated on conditions creating too much pressure during Columbia Gas of Massachusetts’s replacement of century-old pipes in its Merrimack Valley system near Boston in September 2018. The resulting explosions damaged 40 homes, killed one person, and injured 25 more. Source: News
Energean to develop gas strike off Israel
Energean Oil & Gas plans to develop a natural gas discovery in its deepwater Karish North exploration well offshore Israel. The well, drilled to 4,880 m TD in more than 1,700 m of water by the Stena DrillMAX drillship, encountered a gross hydrocarbon column of up to 249 m with high-quality reservoir in Early Miocene […]
Talos Energy updates Zama appraisal program
Talos Energy Inc. and partners drilled the Zama-2 ST1 appraisal well 589 ft updip of the Zama-2 well and 1.4 miles north of the Zama-1 exploration well offshore Mexico on Block 7 in the Sureste basin. Talos operates Block 7. Partners are Sierra Oil & Gas and Premier Oil. Source: News
NEB approves NGTL’s West Path Delivery project
Canada’s National Energy Board has granted approval to Nova Gas Transmission Ltd.’s (NGTL) West Path Delivery project plan to construct and operate a 21½-km natural gas pipeline, two compressor station unit additions, and related facilities to supply southwest Alberta and connected markets with Western Canadian production. Source: News
BP lets contract for Azerbaijan offshore project
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd. has let a contract to Turan Drilling & Engineering Co. LLC, a joint venture of KCA Deutag and Socar AQS, for the operation and maintenance of seven platform drilling rigs, said Turan Drilling, which was formed in July 2018. Source: News
US offshore safety
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and industry are revising the way each does its work in the Gulf of Mexico, BSEE Director Scott Angelle said during a March visit to Louisiana where he met with BSEE regional staff and others. Source: News
Concho, Frontier create Midland basin midstream joint venture
Concho Resources Inc. and Frontier Midstream Solutions IV LLC have agreed to form Beta Crude Connector LLC (BCC) to build and provide crude oil gathering, transportation, and storage services in the northern Midland basin. Frontier will serve as operator. Each company will own equal equity interest. Source: News
Feed gas introduced into Train 1 at Cameron LNG
Train 1 of the Cameron LNG project in Hackberry, La., has reached the final commissioning stage, marking the transition from construction to startup, said McDermott International Inc. Since the initial award in 2014, McDermott and Chiyoda International Corp., a US subsidiary of Japan’s Chiyoda Corp., have provided the engineering, procurement, and construction for the project. […]
EPA’s latest annual US greenhouse gas inventory shows decline
Lower fossil fuel releases are continuing to help drive US greenhouse gas emissions lower, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s latest annual report showed. EPA said 2017’s GHG emissions totaled 6,456.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e), or 5,742.6 million tCO2e after accounting for land sequestration. Source: News
BSOG granted approval to develop Ana, Doina gas fields
Black Sea Oil & Gas and its partners will advance the Midia gas development project with approval from the Romanian government through the National Agency for Mineral Resources to develop Ana and Doina natural gas fields offshore Romania in the Black Sea. Source: News