Australian engineering services giant Clough, which provides procurement and construction services for Canadian oil and gas projects, has acquired Enercore - a privately owned engineering services company for C$10million
Two senior Chinese officials - one who led the country’s biggest oil company and the other a deputy party chief in populous Sichuan province - have been convicted of corruption and sentenced to 16 and 13 years in prison respectively.
The former chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation, and its listed firm PetroChina, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for graft, Chinese state television said on Monday.
Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom has resumed supplies to Ukraine, chief executive Alexei Miller said in a statement on Monday, after deliveries were halted in July over a pricing dispute between Moscow and Kiev.
Australian oil and gas producer Santos has revealed it will reduce its headcount by around 200, or 6% of its staff, as it looks for A$100million ($73million) in additional savings to ride out weak oil prices.
Nigeria’s state oil company recorded a loss of $1.9 billion in the first eight months of this year mainly because of fuel subsidy spending, it said in a publication that seeks to bring transparency to the organisation.
LGO Energy has agreed to take a 25% stake in Beach Oilfield which sees the UK-based company gain exposure to shallow oil resources in the South West Peninsular projects in Trinidad.
A new course in petroleum data management for the oil and gas industry is to be launched by Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University and Oil and Gas UK's subsidary Common Data Access.
A fledgling Aberdeen IT firm is on track to reach the £500,000 turnover mark after winning new business from oil and gas firms looking to cut costs, it said.
Shrewd acquisitions and a willingness to take a fresh look at established assets is paying dividends for oil junior Nostra Terra and its chief executive Matt Lofgran.
The oil industry’s “best days are yet to come” as demand will grow to 110 million barrels a day by 2040, OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla Salem El-Badri stated as a conference in Kuwait City.