UK-listed Jadestone Energy (LON:JSE) has reported that the start-up of the company’s Montara Venture floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel remains uncertain following oil leaks offshore Australia.
Jadestone Energy (LON:JSE) has been slapped with two directives from Australia’s offshore energy regulator as worries rise about the structural integrity of the company’s Montara floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel following two oil leaks.
An oil spill unleashed by Hurricane Ida is highlighting longstanding concerns about the more than 18,000 miles of decommissioned pipelines that still snake through the Gulf of Mexico, even though they no longer transport crude and natural gas.
An investigation into a gas leak at the Karsto facility in Norway could have caused “serious personal injuries and potential fatalities”, according to a new report.
Southern California Gas Co aims to partially restore operations at its crippled Aliso Canyon storage field by late summer following a huge gas leak last year.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said a gas leak on a North Sea platform on Boxing Day last year had exposed workers to an "unacceptable risk of serious personal injury from fire and explosion".
The cause of a platform fire in Mexico earlier this year which killed four workers and left 16 injured was a leak in a rarely used gas fuel line which had corroded, according to a new report.
The findings by Mexico’s Agencia de Seguridad, Energia y Ambiente (ASEA) on what happened on board the Pemex Abkatun Permanente platform will not lead to any fines against the company.
The gas fuel line had shown what was described as an “unusual” kind of accelerated corrosion due the presence of micro-organisms and sulphuric acid within the gas.
Shell could delay deepwater drilling planned in New Zealand until next year.
According to reports the oil major and its two partners OMV and Mitsui E&P had been planning to drill a test well in the Great South Basin this year.
However the company has said it needs more time to evaluate the basin’s complex geology.