Tag: Chevron

Chevron Marine Lubricants published its new white paper 'The 2020 Global Sulphur Cap and the role of cylinder oil lubricants', exploring the impact of vessels burning fuels with differing sulphur contents to heavy sulphur fuel oil cylinder oil use. The paper also provides recommendations from Chevron's experts on how to manage the transition between cylinder oils pre-and post-2020.

A group of major oil and gas companies have joined forces to establish the first industry blockchain consortium in the United States. The move is aligned with the rising interest on blockchain technology for trade industry in recent years.

US based energy major Chevron has allegedly restarted production from its third liquefaction train at the Gorgon LNG plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia. The unit was brought back online the previous weekend, after an outage that lasted since mid-January when a mechanical issue caused a halt, Reuters reports.

Chevron, a US-based energy company, temporarily halts the third liquefaction train at its Gorgon LNG plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia. The operation was shut down due to a mechanical issue that arose. There are allegations that the mechanical issue is likely due to a heat wave sweeping across Australia, it is not officially confirmed by Chevron, up to now.

UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) approved, on December 11, Chevron’s field development plan to progress its Captain Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) project in the Central North Sea. The installation comprises of a wellhead protector platform (WPP) and bridge linked platform (BLP) connected to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO).

OGCI announced a target to reduce by 2025 the collective average methane intensity of its upstream gas and oil operations by one fifth to below 0.25%, with the ambition to achieve 0.20%, corresponding to a reduction by one third. This methane target comes as OGCI welcomes Chevron Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, and Occidental Petroleum.

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative welcomed three new member companies that together represent 5% of global oil and gas production: Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Occidental Petroleum. The three new companies will become official members of OGCI as of 24 September 2018.

In the beginning of the year, New York sued five major oil companies. Namely, it demanded ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips to pay for the cost of protecting the city from the arising threat that the climate change poses. However, a New York federal judge dismissed the city's complain.

Italian Energy company Eni, announced that it has made a lean gas discovery in Block 6 Offshore Cyprus with Calypso 1 NFW. The well was drilled in 2,074 meters of water depth reaching a final total depth of 3,827 meters. Eni characterizes Calypso 1 as a promising gas discovery and confirmed the extension of the “Zohr like” play in the Cyprus Exclusive Economic Zone.

Chevron Corporation informed that it found a significant oil discovery at the Ballymore prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Ballymore well was drilled by Pacific Drilling’s Sharav deepwater drillship. Ballymore is based in the Mississippi Canyonarea of the US Gulf of Mexico, about three miles from Chevron’s Blind Faith platform, in water depth of 6,536 feet.