Eni SPA and Snam4Mobility have signed a second contract implementing a framework contract signed in May for stations in Italy to refuel vehicles using compressed natural gas. The new contract is for 20 new CNG refueling stations. An earlier contract is for 14 such facilities, with openings due in the first quarter next year. […]

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruled that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation waived its authority to deny the Northern Access Pipeline Project a crucial water permit because the state agency did not act within a year of receiving the interstate natural gas pipeline sponsors’ application for it. Source: News

The UK Oil & Gas Authority has awarded a series of contracts to support work designed to boost exploration of the UK Continental Shelf. Under a contract funding the first year of the 4-year UKCS Petroleum Systems Project, a combine of Lloyd’s Register and IGI Ltd. will compile a database of geochemical data acquired across […]

Workers conducted a second, 24-hr strike at three platforms operated by Total SA in the UK North Sea on Aug. 6, as the labor union United had promised in a dispute over wages and hours. Source: News

The international rig count for July was 997, up 38 units from the 959 counted in June, and up 38 from the 959 counted a year ago, according to Baker Hughes data. The international offshore rig count for July was 217, up 22 from the 195 counted in June, and up 13 from the 204 […]

Nexen Petroleum UK has received approval from partners and the UK Oil & Gas Authority for second-phase development of Buzzard oil and gas field in the Central North Sea. The new phase includes the installation in 96 m of water of a subsea manifold 5 km north of the Buzzard complex and drilling of as […]