As part of its ambition to aim for near-zero methane emissions by 2030, TotalEnergies has announced it will monitor and reduce methane emissions with the deployment of continuous, real-time detection equipment at all of its operated Upstream sites.
Since 2022, TotalEnergies said it has been pursuing its ambition to aim for near-zero methane operated emissions in 2030: the Company will meet as soon as this year and target to reduce emissions by 50% compared to 2020, a year ahead of plan....
Shell has won an appeal against a 2021 ruling that ordered the supermajor to reduce its carbon footprint by 45%.
The appeals court, which was heard in The Hague, Netherlands, found that Shell did have a responsibility to cut emissions, but not by a stipulated amount.
The 2021 ruling had found that Shell should slash emissions by 45% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels.
The court said Shell was already on track to meet its own emission reduction targets and it was uncertain if demands...
SANTOS has raised eyebrows with a stern rebuttal of reports that it’s CEO Kevin Gallagher was destined to replace Chris Ellison as chief executive of Minres.
This came after Ellison, MinRes’s founder and the company’s biggest shareholder fell foul of ASX reporting on tax related issues and the company announced he would be stepping down as CEO within 12-18 months.
The West Australian had reported that Gallagher,59, Australia;’s longest serving energy CEO,...
Beach Energy announced on 17 October the successful commissioning and start-up of the Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage project.
All facilities, including five injection wells, CO2 dehydration and CO2 pipelines have been brought to capacity. The project is targeting capture and storage of 1.7 million tonnes of CO2 per annum in depleted Strzelecki and Marabooka field reservoirs.
Final Investment Decision for the project was announced in November 2021 and 60% completion was reached in...
An airborne gravity survey across southern and eastern Victoria has been completed by Sander Geophysical.
The airborne survey was collaboratively organised through Surveyor-General Victoria within the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP), Geological Survey of Victoria within the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) and Geoscience Australia (Commonwealth Government).
The objective of the survey was to collect consistent and evenly distributed gravity...
Viridien and its partners TGS and Aquila Holdings (under its subsidiary Axxis Multi-client AS) have announced the completion and delivery of the reprocessing of the Utsira ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey in the Norwegian North Sea.
Viridien said it had reprocessed the resulting data set with its latest OBN imaging technologies, including time-lag full-waveform inversion, and advanced velocity model building techniques, to yield "significant improvements in image resolution and...
Shearwater Geoservices has been awarded a large 3D seismic survey by PETRONAS in Suriname. The project, covering 6,000 square kilometres, marks the continuation of Shearwater’s commitment to PETRONAS in this frontier area having previously performed acquisition work in Block 52.
The Amazon Warrior has been allocated to the three-month project, commencing in Q4 2024.
“High-quality seismic data is a key enabler for unlocking the vast resource potential of the...
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest woman and probably the country’s richest person, is putting her money on a gas future by acquiring MinRes’s onshore oil and gas assets in the Perth and The Carnarvon Basins for $1.1 billion.
A s part of the binding Sale and Purchase Agreement Hancock Prospecting will acquire 100% ownership of MinRes's Exploration Permits 368 and 426 in the Perth Basin, with two Joint Venture Agreements established for the remaining onshore Perth Basin and...
By Dale Granger
With the 2024 US election on the cusp of being announced, energy is once again front and centre in the tussle between Kamala Harris’s Democrats and Donald Trump’s MAGA movement for the keys of the White House.
At the time of going to press the election was balanced on a knife edge with all eyes focussed on Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral college votes, notably the prolific Utica and Marcellus shale basins, fraccing and the other “swing states”: Arizona,...
Petrobras has made a final investment decision (FID) to expedite the second development phase of two oil fields in the pre-salt Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil.
Petrobras’ FID for the second development phase of the Atapu and Sépia fields enables Seatrium to. proceed with two newbuild contracts, valued at approximately S$11 billion ($8.15 billion), for the construction of the FPSOs P-84 and P-85. Petrobras holds a 65.7% stake in the shared reservoir of Atapu with Shell (16.7%),...