The oil price crash has
forced oil and gas producers to decommission aging and unprofitable fields across the world.
Not exact matches
Beyond the actual
gas project
and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers
and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese
oil and gas rig
producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported
oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction
and engineering prowess
and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG
and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national
gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions
forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment
and technology.
Oil and liquefied natural
gas (LNG) prices have more than halved from peaks in 2014, eroding
producer revenues
and forcing cost cuts
and layoffs.
Park Systems, world - leader in atomic
force microscopy (AFM) today announced a webinar to provide next generation technology to improve
oil and gas production in both traditional drilling
and hydraulic fracturing for
oil &
gas producers and equipment manufacturers as they continue to pursue the latest developments in production efficiencies.
Natural
gas and oil producers have been
forced to seek new...
These price changes now appear to be affecting the global economy,
and may result in a global recession as
oil and gas producers reduce their exploration
and development efforts for
oil and gas and countries dependent on
oil and gas revenue from large reservoirs are
forced to retrench
and rethink their lifestyles.
We need a carbon tax, collected
and returned to US citizens, to
force the big fossil fuel
producers to get serious about alternative energy sources
and move away from coal,
oil and gas as quickly as possible.
Currently, Alberta prices GHGs from
oil sands
producers and other large emitters using its Specified
Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER), which came into
force in 2007.