Tagged With William Powell
18 November 2015
Norway’s state-controlled oil producer has followed Shell out of the high-cost, high-risk Arctic, but downplays the extent of the costs it has incurred there
17 November 2015
Pushing the development of regional Asian LNG trade, Singapore is encouraging local price discovery
16 November 2015
Queensland Gas Company has set up an agreement that will feed the company’s LNG export prospects down under
16 November 2015
Premier has quit Norway, selling assets to Det norske oljeselskap in a cash deal worth $120m
23 October 2015
The Hungarian MOL Group is spreading its upstream risk more evenly, balancing growth in the relatively stable North Sea
20 October 2015
Work on the 26.6bn cm/yr Polarled line is now done. It is the first pipeline on the Norwegian continental shelf to cross the Arctic Circle
8 October 2015
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller has signed long-term agreements with Russian equipment and pipeline manufacturers
8 October 2015
The market for upstream acquisitions is good with low asset values but chief executive Rex Tillerson said the company's criteria was unchanged
8 October 2015
Award winning author of The Prize, Daniel Yergin, says Kazakhstan needs to change what they're offering to secure investments
30 September 2015
Almost a year in the job, Total’s new CEO has made cost-cutting and disposals his priorities as oil prices give little encouragement
22 September 2015
Only a third of the total on offer went, but it was a significant move for the Russian company
21 September 2015
With the low price of LNG offering little incentive to producers to commit to more investment, the focus upstream has been more than ever on cutting costs, but project deferrals are hardly being discussed
21 September 2015
A subsidiary of Balfour Beatty, Barbican Bidco, has made a £61.37mn ($93m) bid for AIM-listed UK gas and power producer Alkane
17 September 2015
Executive director of the IOGP, Michael Engell-Jensen, talks about what's next for the energy industry
10 September 2015
Many senior executives believe the oil price will remain low, resulting in calls for revisiting the government's tax policy
4 September 2015
BASF and Russian Gazprom plan to swap upstream assets in Russia for downstream assets in Europe
4 September 2015
Two agreements signed in Beijing 3 September serve to strengthen energy ties
1 September 2015
Italian major Eni believes it has found a lean gas field off Egypt with 30 trillion cf of gas in place
1 September 2015
The Oil & Gas Authority has approved the £5.6bn ($8.57bn) development of the Culzean gas and condensate field
1 September 2015
Despite weak European hub gas prices and less demand, Russia made more money from exports to Europe in the first half of this year than in the same period of 2014
28 August 2015
The Kurdistan Regional Council for Oil & Gas Affairs expects the first tranche of regular payments to be made available to IOCs in the first half of September 2015
27 August 2015
After the sudden drop in oil prices last year, Total is cutting costs to raise funds
26 August 2015
The oilfield service companies will merge as the transaction is completed in the first quarter of 2016
18 August 2015
The country will start onshore shale oil and gas exploration as they plan to award 27 blocks from the 14th Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round this year
18 August 2015
Teaming up with Statoil, Litgas is trying to get more usage out of its under-used floating LNG regasification terminal
18 August 2015
Train 5’s capacity of 3.75m t/y has been contracted on a long-term FOB basis under sale and purchase agreements with the French major Total and Centrica
18 August 2015
The partners in the LNG project in Papua New Guinea have agreed the location for developing the Elk-Antelope gas field
18 August 2015
The move is part of a strategy to concentrate Shell's downstream activity to a smaller number of assets
13 August 2015
Shale gas planning applications will be fast-tracked through a new, dedicated planning process, under UK government measures announced 13 August
13 August 2015
Planning applications for shale gas will be fast-tracked due to new measures announced on 13 August
11 August 2015
Exploration company InfraStrata will turn the Islandmagee salt deposit into a gas storage plant after securing funding from the EC
10 August 2015
Gazprom's sales dipped in the first quarter of this year, but was followed by a surge of lower-priced exports
10 August 2015
The country is tendering for supplies worth up to $300m for delivery this summer
5 August 2015
The investment will bring new life to the Eastern Trough Area Project in the central North Sea
29 July 2015
A UK utility has committed to spend the money on upstream gas assets
29 July 2015
BP has closed the darkest chapter in its corporate history with an $18.7bn settlement deal over the 2010 Macondo disaster
23 July 2015
The UK explorer is challenging the council's decision to refuse permission to explore gas in two sites in the county
22 July 2015
Oil services company hopes for improvement next year after bad Q2 results
16 July 2015
The Dutch government has further cut production from the giant Groningen gas field in order to limit damage to the buildings in the region
16 July 2015
Service companies are especially vulnerable when oil prices fall, as orders dry up and they have little to hedge with in the short term
16 July 2015
The government has cut production to curb damage to the region's buildings
9 July 2015
The companies met in July to discuss collaborating on the Nord Stream pipeline
9 July 2015
The company will no longer lay the first line of subsea pipeline South Stream
9 July 2015
Iran’s bureaucracy has been nervously watching the unfolding negotiations with the P5+1 group of global powers
1 July 2015
Lancashire County Council rejected both applications from Cuadrilla to produce gas from shale deposits deep underground in northwest England, despite receiving advice from its planning division to approve one of them
1 July 2015
Rainer Seele has plenty of work to do thanks to the oil price and legacies of the past
30 June 2015
The controversial technology was slammed in Paris at the World Gas Conference
30 June 2015
The two projects which will export LNG from Canada – LNG Canada and Pacific Northwest – moved nearer to start-up in June, but there are still some hurdles to clear
22 June 2015
The firm is investing in the newly created oil and gas company which aims to build in India
19 June 2015
Three European companies will back the doubling of the Nord Stream gas line