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Armour Energy Announces Additional Gas Flare From Egilabria 2 Well

The Directors of Armour Energy are pleased to advise that drilling at the Egilabria 2 gas exploration well has stopped at a depth of 1521 metres to change the hammer bit....

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Magellan Midstream Acquires Pipeline From Plains All American

The overall $190 million transaction with Houston-based Plains All-American also includes a refined petroleum pipeline in the Rocky Mountains and Black Hills regions....

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Pakistan Petroleum Sees Deeper Adam Flows

Karachi's Pakistan Petroleum has reported flow test success from a deeper reservoir at its Adam X-1 gas and condensate find onshore Pakistan....

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Oil And Gas Companies Seek Permission To Drill In Surrey

"The rock in the Weald is splendid, it's extremely good for shale oil," said Fivos Spathopoulos, a visiting lecturer of petroleum geology at London's Imperial College who studied the basin for about...

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Far Vista Petroleum Corp Announces That It Acquired Oil Production Company

It is interacting with Russian operators in the oil/gas industry with the goal of building a strong vertically integrated petroleum company based on opportunities available in the Russian Federation....

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Cue Energy Wins Rig Contract To Spud Naga Utara - 2 Well In Indonesia

Australia-based oil and gas exploration and production company Cue Energy Resources has announced a rig contract for drilling of Naga Utara -2 well in the Mahakam Hilir production sharing contract...

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Landowners Angry About Natural Gas Drilling Bill

The Pennsylvania chapter of the National Association of Royalty Owners said a bill waiting for Gov. Tom Corbett's signature allows oil drillers to pool leases - meaning they can drill on land even if a...

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China Closes Oil, Gas Deal In Oklahoma

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. closed a deal to take an equity share in nearly 1 million acres of oil and gas acreage in Oklahoma, Chesapeake Energy said.

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Rosneft Chooses Honeywell To Automate Tuapse Refinery

Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced it has signed an agreement with NK Rosneft, a leading Russia-based oil and gas producer, as the main automation contractor for the construction of its new refinery...

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Kongsberg To Supply Three Deepwater Drilling Rigs With Equipment

CIMC Yantai Raffles in China and STX Offshore & Shipbuilding in Korea both have ordered DP, automation, safety systems, navigation, hydroacoustic positioning, and riser management equipment for new...

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How The Nuclear Age Burst Onto The World From A Squash Court

As Blomquist put it, the nuclear energy field knows it has terrible PR, especially thanks to disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima....

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Chesapeake To Sell $1 Billion Assets To Exco Resources

Chesapeake Energy Corp said it would sell oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford and Haynesville shales to a unit of Exco Resources Inc for about $1 billion....

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India In Touch With Kazakhstan After Bid Fails

India's foreign ministry is in contact with the Kazakhstan government to discuss future energy cooperation following its decision to block state oil company ONGC's bid to buy into the country's giant...

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Port Of Cork Invests In New Equipment

The Port of Cork is ideally located to offer state of the art facilities in the offshore oil exploration market in the Celtic Sea and Porcupine basin . In 2012 the Port of Cork successfully assisted...

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Emirates Cement Factory Certified To Supply Barakah Nuclear Plant

United Arab Emirates: Emirates Cement Factory (ECF) , a fully owned subsidiary of Arkan Building Materials, has been certified by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) and Hyundai Samsung Joint...

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Magnetic Rocks Aid Oil Exploration

When exploration companies find a possible source of petroleum using geological mapping of the rocks in the area, they have to run the risk that oil has migrated into the rock and become trapped there...

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Windiest Or Sunniest Sites Not Necessarily Best For Wind And Solar

They estimate that the environmental, health, and climate benefits of wind turbines and solar panels vary dramatically by location, ranging from US $10 to $100 per megawatt - hour (in 2010 dollars) of...

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Oil Cracks $100 As Egypt Violence Adds To Risks

The SUMED is owned by Arab Petroleum Pipeline Co ., a joint venture between the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) , Saudi Aramco, Abu Dhabi's National Oil Company (ADNOC) , and Kuwaiti...

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Takoradi Petroleum Workers Denied Access To Unions

Members of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union (GTPCWU) in the Western Region have expressed their frustration over the harassment and maltreatment being meted out to them by...

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Apple To Build Solar Farm To Power Nevada Data Center

Apple Inc said it plans to build a new solar farm with NV Energy Inc for power supply to its new data center in Reno, Nevada, a major step towards its goal of having its data centers run on renewable...

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