Indonesia has filed its long-threatened lawsuit seeking $2 billion in damages associated with the 2009 oil spill in Montara field in the Timor Sea. The civil suit has been filed in a court in Jakarta against Thai company PTTEP and its Australian subsidiary PTTEP Australasia alleging the spill caused environmental damage in Indonesian waters during […]

The Russian government wrongly forced the defunct oil giant Yukos into bankruptcy with excessive taxation in 2006, a Dutch appeals court has ruled. In a dispute over assets once held by a Dutch subsidiary, Yukos Finance BV, the Amsterdam Appeals Court said an administrator appointed to sell Yukos shares lacked authority to do so. […]

The US Senate has rejected a Congressional Review Act resolution to revoke the US Bureau of Land Management’s methane emissions rule on May 10 by a 49-51 vote. Backers of the resolution, which the House approved Feb. 3 by a 221-191 vote, immediately called on US Sec. of the Interior Ryan Zinke to withdraw the […]

Meridian Energy Group Inc. has expanded the scope of engineering services to be delivered by Vepica USA Inc. under a previously awarded contract for works on Meridian’s two-phased grassroots 55,000-b/sd high-conversion Davis refinery to be built in Billings County, ND, in the heart of southwestern North Dakota’s Bakken shale region. Source: News

ExxonMobil Corp. affiliate Esso Australia Resources Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, has completed construction and is in the final stages of commissioning of its Longford gas conditioning plant, 19 km south of Sale in southeastern Victoria. Source: News

Vedanta Ltd. has announced a prequalification process for service providers to participate in plans to increase Cairn India Ltd.’s production from Mangala, Bhagyam, and Aishwariya fields on the Rajasthan block. Source: News