Whether or not governments aggressively pursue energy sustainability, petrochemicals constitute an important growth market for oil and natural gas. Work should start now to prevent activists from sabotaging the business. Source: News

Some oil companies are addressing climate change through various initiatives, including ongoing investments in alternate energy and supporting a new political action committee dedicated to passage of a US carbon tax. Source: News

The Asia-Pacific’s oil and gas industry looks set to rebound over the next 12 months as rising demand, stronger commodity prices, and an uptick in merger and acquisition activity bring greater confidence to the region, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie. Source: News

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) Sour Gas, a subsidiary joint venture of ADNOC and Occidental Petroleum Corp., is set to build a pipeline to carry molten sulfur produced by its Shah field sour gas operations. Source: News

Equinor and partners started production from Oseberg Vestflanken 2 field in the North Sea using the first unmanned platform on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Remotely operated from the field’s center, the new Oseberg H platform is fully automatic and serves as a pilot. Source: News

Lukoil soon will start drilling the sixth production well in second-phase development of Vladimir Filanovsky oil field in the Caspian Sea as a recently completed fifth well holds total production at 6 million tonnes/year. The fifth well, with a main wellbore of 2,956 m and a lateral of 1,735 m, produced at an initial rate […]

Aker BP has agreed to acquire Equinor Energy’s 77.8% interest in the King Lear gas-condensate discovery in the Norwegian North Sea for $250 million with plans to develop it as a satellite to Ula field. Source: News

Qatar Petroleum will become operator of offshore Idd El-Shargi North Dome oil field when its development and production sharing agreement with Occidental Petroleum of Qatar Ltd. expires in October 2019. Discovered in 1960, the field is 85 km off Doha. Source: News

Light, sweet crude oil rose modestly for the November contract to settle above $71/bbl on the New York market Oct. 12 while Brent crude oil for the December contract held above $80/bbl in London. Oil prices continued their upward momentum in early trading Oct. 15 after US President Donald Trump said the US would impose […]

Sydney-based AGL Energy’s plans to establish an LNG import terminal at Crib Point in Victoria by 2021 will be delayed following the Victorian government’s call for the company to submit a full environmental assessment of the project. Source: News