Australia’s oil and gas industry has congratulated Premier Mark McGowan and WA Labor on its reelection in Western Australia on Saturday.
Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) WA State Director Claire Wilkinson said the industry has worked collaboratively with the McGowan Government since 2017 and intends to continue that positive relationship.
“The Premier’s LNG Jobs Taskforce and the Jobs and Skills website are clear examples of what can be...
CGG was recently informed of a cybersecurity incident on a server hosting Accellion software.
The company said the vulnerability that had exploited Accellion’s secure file transfer application (FTA), before they could find a corrective patch, was originally discovered in another Accellion customer environment.
At CGG, Accellion’s FTA was used on a separate server, isolated from production IT infrastructure.
“This standalone server had limited use within CGG and was not used...
Infrastructure engineering software company Bentley Systems has entered into an agreement with investors, led by Accel-KKR, to acquire software for geological and modelling company Seequent for US$900 million in cash, plus 3,141,361 BSY Class B shares.
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, including New Zealand Overseas Investment Act consent as well as clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
Upon closing,...
Sercel has announced that its “high-performance” equipment is being deployed on another 3D megacrew survey by a major North African geophysical company.
Sercel said the crew is operating with an 80,000-channel 508XT land acquisition system, complete with QuietSeis® digital sensors, and ten Nomad 90 Neo broadband vibrators in challenging desert terrain, but did not say which country activities were occurring in.
Sercel described its equipment as seamlessly integrated into the...
CGG has released a solid operational performance in its fourth quarter results and positive net cash flow sustained by gradual recovery from COVID-19.
Commenting on the company’s full year and fourth quarter results, CGG CEO Sophie Zurquiyah said:
“In the particularly challenging year of 2020, which saw the collapse of the oil & gas market across the second and third quarters, we finished the year with solid fourth quarter operational performance. During 2020, we...
APPEA has welcomed the launch of the Resources Technology & Critical Minerals Processing National Manufacturing roadmap as a key priority under the Federal Government’s $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy.
APPEA’s Chief Executive, Andrew McConville, a member of the industry-led taskforce that guided the development of the Resources Technology & Critical Minerals Processing roadmap, commended the Government’s consultation with industry and action to build Australia’s...
Shearwater Geoservices has announced the award of a 3D seismic survey in the Otway Basin and a 4D survey in Angola by Total.
“We see a solid, consistent level of activity in Australia where we have multiple projects booked in 2021”, said Irene Waage Basili, CEO of Shearwater. “We observe increasing regional demand for our vessels equipped with high-end technology, which is reflected in backlog and utilization.”
The approximately two-month survey is expected to commence in Q3...
Western Gas, Operator and 100% owner of the Equus Gas Project, has signed an MOU with APA Group to undertake a joint development and marketing study to supply Equus gas at competitive prices to Western Australia and the East Coast via a transcontinental pipeline.
The scope of the study comprises a detailed assessment of development, commercial, marketing and regulatory aspects of the project, which will form the basis of an integrated bankable feasibility study.
The study is a key...
Led by PPG Industries’ $1.52bn acquisition of Tikkurila, Europe’s oil & gas industry saw a rise of 23.73% in cross border deal activity during Q4 2020, when compared to the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
A total of 73 cross border deals worth $7.58bn were announced for the region during Q4 2020, against the last four-quarter average of 59 deals.
Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in Q4 2020 with 69, representing an 94.5% share for...
Natural gas has a very important role to play in the energy transition and in meeting the world’s climate goals, the Secretary General of the International Energy Forum, HE Joseph McMonigle, said.
Speaking at the inaugural GECF Gas Lecture of 2021, entitled ‘The Role of Gas in Clean, Reliable, and Sustainable Growth’, HE McMonigle said that the success of the energy transition rests “on the use of natural gas technologies and their capacity to accelerate fuel-switching and create...