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December 09, 2025
EnerMech has secured a key pre-commissioning contract from Bechtel for Woodside’s Pluto LNG Train 2 project in Western Australia. The scope includes chemical cleaning of critical systems as the 5-MMtpa LNG expansion prepares to move toward commissioning.
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December 09, 2025
ExxonMobil has raised its 2030 outlook, projecting stronger upstream earnings and cash flow growth without increasing capital spending. The updated plan highlights accelerated production growth in the Permian, Guyana and LNG, deeper cost reductions, and earlier-than-expected emissions targets.
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December 09, 2025
McDermott has secured an EPCIC contract from PETRONAS Carigali Brunei for a major offshore gas development, covering subsea systems and a gas export pipeline that will support Brunei’s LNG sector.
News
December 08, 2025
Fluor and JGC have completed Train 2 at LNG Canada, marking the end of Phase 1 for the country’s first LNG megaproject and advancing a major new source of Canadian LNG to global markets.
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November 2025
As LNG export capacity surges and AI-driven power demand skyrockets, U.S. natural gas is poised for its biggest growth cycle yet. In this month’s Drilling Advances, columnist Ford Brett breaks down why “trash gas” may soon turn to gold—and what a 25% jump in gas production by 2030 means for rigs, crews and drilling technology.
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December 04, 2025
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is praising the Trump administration’s proposal to revise U.S. Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, arguing the move will preserve consumer choice and support stable domestic energy demand.
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December 04, 2025
Congo is accelerating its upstream expansion, ramping LNG output and boosting oil production toward 500,000 bpd. New projects, fast-paced LNG development and pro-investment reforms are positioning the country as a rising hub in Central Africa’s energy future.
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December 03, 2025
Op-Ed: Africa’s emerging gas hubs could reshape the continent’s energy and economic future. NJ Ayuk outlines how upstream growth, infrastructure expansion and balanced fiscal policies can unlock transformational benefits—if nations navigate key risks.
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December 01, 2025
Argentina has reached its first long-term LNG sales agreement, marking a pivotal moment for Vaca Muerta’s gas ambitions. A producer consortium led by Pan American Energy will supply up to 2 MMtpa to Germany’s SEFE beginning in 2027.
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November 27, 2025
EPA has finalized a rule extending compliance deadlines for methane-leak detection and equipment upgrades, giving U.S. oil and gas operators more than a year of additional time to meet federal requirements—drawing praise from industry and criticism from environmental groups.
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November 26, 2025
Brazil’s environment minister says COP30’s push for a global fossil-fuel phaseout stalled partly because the U.S. skipped the summit—deepening political divides and weakening momentum behind a fossil-fuel road map.
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November 26, 2025
ADNOC Gas has signed a landmark 20-year, up to $4.2 billion natural gas supply agreement with EMSTEEL, securing long-term feedstock for one of the UAE’s largest industrial producers and reinforcing the company’s role in powering the nation’s manufacturing and economic growth.
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November 24, 2025
bp’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 LNG development offshore Mauritania and Senegal has been awarded both the Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure Project of the Year and Overall Project of the Year at the 2025 APM Project Management Awards.
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November 24, 2025
FairWind has signed a strategic partnership with Japan’s Wind Energy Partners (WEP), accelerating its Asia Pacific expansion and enhancing onshore and offshore wind turbine installation and maintenance capabilities.
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November 21, 2025
South Africa is accelerating domestic gas development and LNG import capacity as declining supplies from Mozambique loom. Minister Gwede Mantashe outlined fast-track plans for the Matola and Richards Bay LNG projects and regulatory reforms to unlock offshore exploration.
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November 21, 2025
Brazil is preparing a COP30 draft agreement that’s expected to omit any fossil fuel transition road map, setting up a major clash with more than 80 nations pushing for clearer commitments to move away from oil and gas.
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November 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Energy has eliminated key clean-energy and renewable offices as part of a broad Trump administration reorganization, replacing them with new divisions focused on hydrocarbons, geothermal development, and fusion. The shift underscores a major policy pivot toward expanding domestic oil and gas production.
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November 20, 2025
ExxonMobil has lifted force majeure on its Rovuma LNG project in Mozambique, clearing the way for work to resume and bringing the long-delayed development closer to FID as regional security improves.
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November 20, 2025
TotalEnergies has formally rejected allegations linking its Mozambique LNG project to violence reported in 2021, citing early site evacuation and ongoing official investigations into the claims.
News
November 17, 2025
TotalEnergies has signed a €5.1 billion all-stock agreement to acquire a 50% stake in EPH’s flexible power generation platform, marking one of the company’s most significant moves yet to scale its gas-to-power integration strategy across Europe.
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