Oil & Gas
Baltic Pipe project ramps up selection of contractors
Dutch pipeline company A.Hak International has been awarded a contract to construct the onshore parts of the Baltic Pipe natural gas project. The gas pipeline, a joint project from Danish energy company Energinet and its Polish peer Gaz-System... Read more
Maersk to drill world's deepest offshore well for Total
Denmark's Maersk Drilling is partnering with French oil giant Total to drill the deepest ever offshore well, in terms of water depth, off the coast of Angola, in south-west Africa. The Maersk Voyager drillship will begin work later this month on... Read more
Pavilion Energy enters Europe with Iberdrola LNG acquisition
Singapore's Pavilion Energy has announced the start of trading operations in Europe following the completed acquisition of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) assets, in the company's first major expansion outside Asia... Read more
Equinor unveils plans for "near-zero" emissions by 2050
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has unveiled its plans to cut CO2 emissions over the next thirty years. The firm says it aims for a 40% cut by 2030, a 70% cut by 2040, and to have reached "near-zero" by 2050. Read more
Pioneering pipeline tech to appear at robotics conference
A world-first in pipeline technology that is set to revolutionise performance and safety will feature at a robotics conference in the UK later this month... Read more
TurkStream begins pumping gas to Europe
Russia's has begun sending gas to Europe via Turkey through its TurkStream pipeline according to a statement by Bulgaria's Bulgartransgaz... Read more
Nord Stream 2 "past the point of no return"
Last week the US Congress passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - which not only increased the Pentagon's budget by $22-billion (€19.7-billion), but also threatened to place sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and... Read more
US pushes for Nord Stream 2 sanctions
An agreement has been reached between the US House and the Senate armed services committee on a defence bill that would push the Trump White House to place sanctions on companies that are working with Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas company... Read more
IE meets Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret
At this year's Automation Fair in Chicago, Industry Europe had the chance to sit down with Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret in a discussion which covered a range of topics including collaborations with other companies, changes in manufacturing... Read more
Serbian section of TurkStream 90% laid says Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that 90% of the pipes of state-owned Gazprom's southern venture, the TurkStream pipeline, have been laid, preparing the way for the transit of natural gas into Europe. Read more
Greek section of Trans Adriatic Pipeline completed - Testing begins
The construction of the Greek section of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has now been completed and the first natural gas has been introduced into a 2 km (1.25 mile) section as part of the testing phase... Read more
Hungary & Slovakia to boost gas interconnector capacity
Authorities in Hungary and Slovakia are working together to increase capacity of an interconnector between the two nations' gas networks said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó following a meeting with Slovakian... Read more
Wärtsilä & EGE Haina sign power plant conversion project in Dominican Rep.
The technology group Wärtsilä and Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina (EGE Haina), one of the largest power generation companies in the Dominican Republic, have signed a commissioning agreement that converts the Quisqueya 2 power plant to... Read more
Bulgaria will be entirely gas independent from Russia by 2020
The Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borissov, has claimed that his country will achieve gas independence from Russia by next year. Mr Borissov made the claim earlier this week on an official trip to inspect the progress of the construction of the... Read more
Independent Forgings & Alloys chosen for Sharing In Growth Programme
Productivity experts Sharing in Growth (SiG) have selected Independent Forgings & Alloys (IFA), a rapidly growing Sheffield forging firm, to join their award-winning business transformation programme... Read more
Engie fined by Polish regulator over Nord Stream 2
French energy group ENGIE has been fined by Poland's anti-monopoly watchdog, UOKiK, in relation to an investigation into the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline... Read more
Serica Energy first to digitise safety in North Sea with Restrata
UK-based independent upstream oil and gas company Serica Energy has become the first operator in the North Sea to digitise safety following a deal to adopt the Restrata Platform - an innovative piece of tech that offers real-time monitoring of... Read more
Russia expects TurkStream extensions completed in 2020
Russia expects the construction of an extension of Gazprom's TurkStream pipeline for transit of natural gas to Europe from Turkey via Bulgaria and Serbia to be completed by the end of 2020, president Vladimir Putin has said... Read more
New Cyprus peace talks may lead to pause in Turkish drilling
Next month's possible resumption of peace talks in Cyprus could prove to be an important step towards resolution of the dispute over development of the island's offshore gas reserves and lead to a pause in Turkish drilling in the Cyprus Exclusive... Read more
Plastics producers risk becoming household names for all the wrong reasons
The plastics or polymers industry was for many years a hidden industry. For most of its history, nobody has known much about the plastics business because it is sandwiched between oil and gas and a huge variety of finished goods. The meat cannot... Read more
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Maersk voyager drillship
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Eldar Saetre Equinor
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Putin & Erdogan at TurkStream project
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