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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) chief executive Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber’s role as president of the upcoming COP28 climate summit in Dubai is safe unless the executive or the host government have a change of heart, a leading energy commentator says. And despite firece debate about the leadership of …

With gas the fuel of choice to bolster energy security and help nations’ energy transition efforts, Upstream takes a look at the roles of India, North Asia and Russia in a rapidly changing global market. In the first of three special features, we look at how India is influencing — …

Russia’s largest independent gas producer, Novatek, is stepping up preparations for its next liquefied natural gas project on West Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula, while authorities in Moscow continue to prepare the legal framework to allow the development to export blue ammonia. Recent tender announcements by Novatek subsidiary Obsky GCC suggest that …

UK supermajor BP is in the midst of a seven-well drilling programme aimed at boosting output at a trio of mature shallow-water fields offshore Trinidad & Tobago. BP is Trinidad & Tobago’s largest hydrocarbons producer with 16 production platforms on stream that are responsible for more than half of all …

PetroChina has achieved first gas at the Tieshanpo sour gas block in southwestern China’s Sichuan basin, which US giant Chevron abandoned in 2019. The listed arm of China National Petroleum Corporation is keen to tap reserves with a high sulphur content or complex geology to boost gas production as part …

Brazilian oil giant Petrobras has issued a tender to contract a fresh batch of subsea trees and associated equipment to assist in the development of two producing units to be deployed in the ultra-deepwater section of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin. Petrobras is in the process of chartering a pair of floating …

With gas the fuel of choice to bolster energy security and help nations’ energy transition efforts, Upstream takes a look at the roles of India, North Asia and Russia in a rapidly changing global market. In the first of three special features, we look at how India is influencing — …

Malaysia’s national energy giant Petronas and parent of Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE) has denied there is any truth in the recent news reports of a merger between MMHE and compatriot Sapura Energy. A possible merger has been at the forefront of talk within the Kuala Lumpur energy industry …

French supermajor TotalEnergies has renewed for 20 years its OML130 production licence offshore Nigeria, paving the way for front-end engineering and design work to get under way for its Preowei discovery to be tied back to its Egina floating production, storage and offloading vessel. Keith Hill, chief executive of indirect …

Shanghai-based yard will take over stakes in jack-ups from China’s Shandong Marine Group