Dutch marine engineer SBM Offshore has won a contract to supply a new production vessel for oil major Exxon Mobil in Guyana, setting its shares on track for their biggest gain in nearly two years. Under the terms of the deal, SBM will engineer and design a second floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO)
Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro may extend the deadline for potential bidders for a 60 percent stake in four refineries to sign non-disclosure agreements, a person with knowledge of the matter said. A ruling from Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lewandowski this week requiring Congress to approve all sales programs of state-controlled companies threw up
Petrofac has secured a new award and a number of contract extensions, with a combined value of more than US$110 million, for construction management, engineering, commissioning and start-up services for international oil company clients in Iraq. Petrofac has been active in Iraq since 2010 and has developed a significant track record in delivering a range of
For seven straight years, the US has pumped more oil and gas out of the ground than any other country. That lead will only widen, states the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The independent energy statistical agency describes the US as “the undisputed oil and gas leader in the world over the next several decades.” It
The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM) has urged the Federal Government to remove Value Added Tax (VAT) on locally produced Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) also called cooking gas. Its President, Nosa Ogieva-Okunbor, told reporters in Lagos that VAT payment on locally processed LPG makes it expensive and unattractive to imported LPG, which
Iraq exported more than 100 million barrels of oil during the month of April, the oil ministry said on Wednesday, noting that revenues exceeded USD6.5 billion. Ministry spokesman, Assem Jihad, quoting a final statistic by the state-run oil marketing company, SOMO, said exports stood at 100.197.197 barrels during the month of April, yielding revenues of
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow), the independent oil and gas exploration and production group, which is also one of the leading companies on the exploration of Uganda’s oil sector, has today announced its results for the six months ended 30 June 2017. According to Paul Mcdade, the Chief Executive Officer, “Despite the continued challenging market conditions,
Britain is to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide pose a major risk to public health. According to the guardian, commitment, which follows a similar pledge in France, is part of the government’s much-anticipated clean air plan, which has been at the
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian Counterpart, President John Pombe Magufuli finally over the weekend put pen to paper by signing the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Agreement (EACOP) a move that is expected to pave way for studies to explore the possibility of building a pipeline to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. The
A recent report by Business Consultants Ernst and Young indicate that Private equity (PE) firms are preparing to invest in global oil and gas sector despite the recent slump in prices. The firm through a survey on about 100 PE firms observed that about 25 per cent of the PE firms are planning acquisitions before the