6月9日油氣行業十大新聞

IEA Sees Massive Shifts In Global Gas Trade Over Next 5 Years. Massive growth in LNG supplies despite weak gas demand and low prices The next five years will bring areshaping of the global gas trade, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Wednesday in its 2016 Medium-Term Gas Market Report. [Oilpro, IEA]

Saudi Arabia To Boost Non-Oil Revenue Up To $141 Billion. Saudi Arabia plans to more than triple the government’s non-oil revenues and clamp down on public-sector salaries over the next five years, ministers said on June 6. [armenpress.am, Oilpro]

IOG To Drill Skipper Appraisal Well In July. Independent Oil and Gas plc (IOG) is set to drill an appraisal well on the Skipper oil discovery in Block 9/21a in license P1609 in the Northern North Sea in July 2016. [Oilpro]
Seventy-Seven Energy Declares Bankruptcy. Oilfield services company Seventy Seven Energy became the next victim of the chronic oil price downturn on Tuesday, when it filed for a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy package that would allow the entity to convert $1.1 billion of debt into equity under a restructured corporation. [Yahoo Finance, Oilpro]

Norway Strike Threat Increases. The fourth, and final round of collective pay talks held this week between employers and workers employed in the oilfield services sector have hit a standstill. [Offshore Energy Today]
Engie Granted Drilling Permit Offshore Norway. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Engie E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 36/7-4. Engie will drill Well 36/7-4 from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility located northwest of the Gj?a field. [Oilpro]

Blackford Dolphin Hangs Blast Curtain System For Chevron In North Sea. Dolphin Drilling installed its first set of curtains on the Blackford Dolphin, becoming the 6th set installed in the North Sea. [Oilpro]

China Is Planning a Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater. China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters. [Bloomberg]

East Sunrise And CSIC Trade Blows In Jackup Rig Spat. Qingdao Maritime Court hasordered a freeze on two jackup rigs under construction at CSIC-affiliated Qingdao Haixi Heavy-duty Machinery, at the request of Hong Kong-based East Sunrise Group over a contract dispute. [Splash 247, Oilpro]

Meet Paul Koyich Of Edmonton, Canada, #HUMANSofOG. He writes, “Having spent the better part of my life in the oil and gas industry, onshore and offshore, I was fortunate to have worked in South East Asia and the Middle East. The sense of adventure of living in a foreign country was far more satisfying than I could ever imagine.” [Oilpro]