304 results found for 'the East Nile Delta'

304 results found for 'the East Nile Delta'
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  • Petroceltic, Edison Awarded New Exploration Licence (Egypt)

    19 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Petroceltic International’s joint venture comprising Petroceltic and Edison International Spa (Edison) has secured the North Port Fouad Block, in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2013 International Bid Round. North Port Fouad (Block 7), is located offshore the Nile Delta and lies to the north of, and immediately adjacent to, the North Thekah Block, which was awarded […]

  • Petroceltic Grabs Two New Egyptian Blocks

    19 April 2013

    Petroceltic International plc has announced that, in a joint venture with Edison International Spa, it was the successful bidder for two blocks, North Thekah and South Idku, in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2012 International Bid Round. North Thekah (Block 7) is located offshore the Nile Delta and potentially contains an extension of the […]

  • Wintershall Dea closes Gulf of Suez chapter after 38 years

    3 February 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Transition

    Wintershall Dea has decided to divest its interest in the Gulf of Suez concession after 38 years of production.

  • New Delta Approach with ’12 Building Blocks’

    3 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    During the recent International Conference on “Deltas in Times of Climate Change II”, the Delta sessions that focused on the current status and future development of river deltas in Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Myanmar, USA, Colombia, Egypt and the Netherlands sparked a huge interest among visitors. Eight cases were presented according to a framework of […]

  • GALLERY: ‘Pioneering Spirit’ sets world record with Brent Delta lift

    1 May 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Allseas-owned dynamically positioned single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has removed Shell’s 24,000 t Brent Delta platform topsides from the UK North Sea setting what the company claimed was the world record in lifting.  Following its arrival to the Brent field on Thursday, the vessel performed the lift on Friday, April 28, 2017. The Shell-operated […]

  • ACE Winches Moors Iron Lady Barge for Brent Delta Decom Work

    12 May 2017
    Equipment

    ACE Winches has mobilized a six point mooring system to anchor the ‘Iron Lady’ barge being used on the Brent decommissioning project.  The equipment, designed and manufactured by ACE Winches at their global headquarters in Aberdeenshire is now in situ and being supported by a team of ACE Winches offshore personnel. As part of the Brent […]

  • ExxonMobil expands upstream presence in Egypt with two offshore blocks

    31 December 2019

    U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has secured more than 1.7 million acres for exploration offshore Egypt.

  • LLOG: Nearly Headless Nick discovery slated for 2019 start-up

    14 January 2019

    U.S. Gulf of Mexico operator LLOG has confirmed making the Nearly Headless Nick discovery on Mississippi Canyon block 38. The discovery, first announced last week LLOG’s partner BP, is set to be brought on stream this year, LLOG, the operator, said.

  • Dana Gas signs concession agreement for North El Arish area (Egypt)

    18 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading regional private sector natural gas company, announced that it has signed an agreement for the North El Arish (Block 6) Concession Area, offshore the eastern Nile Delta. The 2,980 sq. km block was awarded in April 2013 as part of a competitive bidding process. This is the Company’s first […]

  • Venture Global asks to start pre-filing for its fourth LNG project

    26 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    U.S. LNG export project developer Venture Global LNG is looking to start the pre-filing process with FERC for a proposed CP2 LNG project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

  • Shell Files Brent Decom Plan

    8 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Shell has submitted a decommissioning plan for the Brent oil and gas field to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Following submission, an extended 60-day public consultation has been initiated on recommendations to decommission the North Sea field. The field, located 115 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands has produced around three billion […]

  • Petroceltic Announces New Egyptian Exploration Licence Awards

    19 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Petroceltic International plc (“Petroceltic” or the “Company”), the upstream oil and gas exploration and production company focused on North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions announces its participation in a joint venture with Edison International Spa (“Edison”) which was the successful bidder for two blocks, North Thekah and South Idku, in the Egyptian […]

  • BP pens concessions deals in Egypt

    27 September 2016

    British oil company BP has signed concession amendments for the Temsah, Ras El Barr and Nile Delta Offshore concessions in Egypt. The company said that the amendments allowed for the economic development of the Nooros development, where the company recently achieved record production. Hesham Mekawi, Regional President, BP North Africa said: “BP is proud to […]

  • BP inks three concession deals with Egypt

    27 September 2016

    UK-based energy giant BP has signed concession amendments for the Temsah, Ras El Barr and Nile Delta Offshore concessions in Egypt. These amendments allowed for the economic development of the Nooros development, where the company recently achieved record production, BP said in its statement on Tuesday. “BP is proud to progress the acceleration of its […]

  • Four oil workers freed in Nigeria

    15 August 2006

    Two Norwegian and two Ukrainian oil workers being held hostage in Nigeria were freed on Tuesday as the government promised to crack down on a surge in unrest in Africa’s largest oil producer. About 16 foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in five separate abductions in the past two weeks in the oil-producing Niger Delta. […]

  • XblocPlus for Marina Porto Albania Project

    24 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    Delta Marine Consultants have signed a license agreement with the Swiss company SEL AG for the use of XblocPlus for the Marina Porto Albania Project. Under the project, the blocks will protect the marina against the Adriatic Sea’s severe storm waves, including 2.5m³ XblocPlus on the breakwater back area, in combination with 3m³ Xbloc units […]

  • BP remains ambitious on gas in Egypt, despite weak oil prices

    19 January 2016

    Britain’s BP Plc aims to double natural gas production in Egypt in the next four years despite weak oil prices as Egypt’s burgeoning energy market offers hope for its battered economy.

  • EIA: U.S. LNG exports see minimal impact from Hurricane Delta

    16 October 2020
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    U.S. LNG export facilities have endured a fair share of Hurricane activity in 2020, with this being the second most active Atlantic hurricane season on record.

  • Shell’s Brent Bravo topside arrives at UK port to be scrapped

    21 June 2019
    Project & Tenders

    Shell’s Brent Bravo platform topside has arrived at Able UK’s Able Seaton Port following its removal from the UK North Sea with the giant Pioneering Spirit vessel earlier this week. 

  • Tocardo and DELTA make tidal energy deal

    5 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Dutch tidal energy developer Tocardo has signed an agreement with DELTA power utility company for the purchase of clean electricity generated by its tidal energy array on the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier.

  • Dana Gas Strikes Gas in Egypt

    30 June 2013

    Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, announced a new gas discovery on the West El Manzala concession in the Nile Delta, Egypt. The Begonia-1 discovery well encountered 15 m of net pay in a good quality sandstone reservoir of the Lower Abu Madi Formation. On test […]

  • ‘Pieter Schelte’ to Remove Shell’s Brent Field Platforms (UK)

    5 August 2013

    Shell has awarded Allseas the topsides and jacket removal contract for the Brent field platforms. The contract also includes the removal of Brent Alpha’s steel jacket.  The Brent field is situated on the UK Continental Shelf, 186 km (116 miles) north-east of Lerwick, Scotland, in a water depth of 140 m (460 ft). The field comprises four […]

  • Dana Gas Strikes Gas in Egypt

    22 October 2012

    Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced a new gas discovery in the Nile Delta, Egypt. The discovery was at West Sama-1 in the West El Qantara Concession. This new field discovery comes after the first successful drilling in the Komombo Concession earlier in the […]

  • Shell looking to shed interests in blocks off Malaysia

    15 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Oil major Shell is exploring options to sell its non-operated interests in the Amended 2011 Baram Delta EOR production sharing contract (PSC) and the SK 307 PSC off Malaysia.

  • Giant vessel Pioneering Spirit reaches Brent field, set for Delta lift

    28 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Allseas-owned giant vessel Pioneering Spirit has arrived at the Shell-operated Brent field located in the UK sector of the North Sea to perform its heaviest lift until now.  The twin-hulled, 382 meters long and 124 meters wide vessel executed its maiden heavy lift of the Yme offshore platform in the North Sea off Norway in August 2016. […]