(MEEI, 9.Dec.2021) — Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, the Honourable Stuart R. Young M.P., met with Senior BHP Executives Michael Stone, Country Manager to BHP Trinidad and Tobago, Graham Salmond, General Manager BHP Petroleum North America and the Caribbean, Selby […]
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Now Activists Want BHP To Keep Its Fossil Fuels
(Bloomberg, 11.Aug.2021) — BHP Group, the world’s top miner, should abandon plans for multi-billion dollar sales of fossil fuels assets and instead responsibly close down the operations, according to an environmental campaign group. A proposal tabled on behalf of about 100 small investors by Market Forces, which coordinates groups of shareholders […]
EnVen Energy Acquires Neptune
(EnVen Energy, 24.May.2021) — EnVen Energy Corporation closed a transaction to acquire 35% ownership interest in the Neptune field from BHP Billiton Petroleum (Deepwater) Inc. through its affiliate, EnVen Energy Ventures, LLC. EnVen will increase its ownership interest in the Neptune field from 30% to 65% and assume the role […]
Khan’s Unfinished Business
(Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 21.Apr.2021) — Energy Minister Franklin Khan may have departed this world on Saturday, April 17 but if we are to judge by the last full length interview there was some unfinished business he wanted to conclude. According to Minister Khan one of things he wanted to […]
Hess To Divest Interests In Shenzi Field, Gulf of Mexico
(Hess, 5.Oct.2020) — Hess entered into an agreement to sell its 28% working interest in the Shenzi Field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to BHP Billiton, the field’s operator, for a total consideration of $505mn, subject to customary adjustments, with an effective date of 1 July 2020. The field […]
BHP’s Ruby Project Moving Forward Offshore Trinidad
(Energy Analytics Institute, 21.Jul.2020) — The Ruby project offshore Trinidad & Tobago expects initial production in calendar year 2021, according to BHP. The project will have capacity for five production wells to be tied back into existing operated processing facilities, with gross capacity to produce up to 16,000 barrels per […]
NGC And BHP Ink Ruby Field Gas Supply Deal
(NGC, 21.Jul.2020) — The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) and BHP announced successful completion of negotiations of a Gas Sales Agreement for the Ruby Field. Ruby is located in Block 3(a), off the east coast of Trinidad, and is expected to be commissioned in the fourth […]
McDermott Awarded Contract By BHP
(McDermott, 30.Mar.2020) — McDermott International, Inc. has been awarded a sizeable* contract by BHP Billiton PetrĂłleo Operaciones de MĂ©xico, S. De R.L. De C.V. (BHP) to provide pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) services for a floating production unit (FPU) that will be installed in a water depth of approximately 8,200 feet […]
BHP Ends Drilling Offshore Trinidad And Tobago
(Offshore, 17.Oct.2019) — BHP has had mixed results from the final two wells of its latest exploration campaign on its northern licenses offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The Boom-1 well spud in late-August encountered hydrocarbons and evaluation continues. However, the subsequent Carnival-1 was a dry hole. The Transocean drillship Deepwater Invictus […]
Lee: Thank UNC for BHP gas-fin
(Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, Sean Douglas, 19.Jul.2018) – BHP Billiton’s new gas-find 200 kilometres off the Mayaro coast is due to tax-breaks for exploration given by the former UNC government, Opposition spokesman on energy, David Lee, said in a statement on Thursday. He attributed the find to the “innovation, tremendous […]
BHP Billiton Finds New Gas Offshore T&T
(Trinidad Express, Aleem Khan, 18.Jul.2018) – Australia’s BHP Billiton found new gas offshore Trinidad, the company confirmed in a statement yesterday. “In Trinidad and Tobago, following the gas discovery at LeClerc, we commenced Phase 2 of our deepwater exploration drilling campaign to further assess the commercial potential of the Magellan […]
BHP Provides Update on Samarco
(BHP Billiton, 26.Jun.2018) – On 2 March 2016, Samarco Mineração S.A., Vale S.A., BHP Billiton Brasil Ltda (the Companies), and the Federal Government of Brazil, the Brazilian states of Espirito Santo and Minas Gerais and other public authorities entered into a Framework Agreement that provides for the settlement of the […]
Peña Nieto Presides Over Commemoration Ceremony
(Pemex, 18.Mar.2017) – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto presided over the commemoration ceremony on March 18, 2017 at the maritime terminal of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche. He assured that PetrĂłleos Mexicanos is the most representative company of Mexico and an important part of the country’s national identity. “We are,” he […]
Pemex, BHP Billiton to Develop Trion Block
(Pemex, 3.Mar.2017) – PetrĂłleos Mexicanos and the Australian company BHP Billiton signed an agreement to develop the deep-water Trion Block during an event hosted by the President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. This is the first farm out agreement that Pemex has undertaken to explore and produce and is the […]
Barbados And BHP Billiton Sign Exploration Licenses
(BHP, 30.Apr.2015) — The Government of Barbados and BHP Billiton today signed exploration licences for two offshore blocks, Carlisle Bay and Bimshire. These blocks are approximately 40 kilometres southeast of the island nation, total about 5,000 square kilometres and are located in waters ranging from approximately 1,200 to 2,000 metres […]