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 […]

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 […]

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 […]