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Dutch Court Rules Against Dos Santos in Oil Asset Case

Jul 27, 2021

A Dutch court has ruled a half-billion-dollar stake in the Portuguese oil company Galp linked to Angolan ex-first daughter Isabel Dos Santos must be handed over to Angola, lawyers for the southwest African country's state oil company said on Tuesday…

Wellesley, Equinor Swap Offshore Assets in Norway

Jul 27, 2021

Stavanger-based oil firm Wellesley Petroleum on Monday said it would swap certain oil and gas assets offshore Norway with the Norwegian energy giant Equinor. Equinor will take a 40% participating interest in licenses PL090 JS, PL248 I and PL925…

HFW Helps Shanghai Shipyard in $170M Drillship Case Dispute

Jul 27, 2021

Law firm HFW said Tuesday it had advised Chinese shipbuilder Shanghai Shipyard on a UK Court of Appeal win relating to a US$170 million payment under a shipbuilding contract for an offshore drillship.The Court of Appeal overturned an April 2020…

Wintershall Dea: Europe Needs More Gas from All Sources

Jul 27, 2021

Oil and gas producer Wintershall Dea, which has a 70% gas portfolio, on Tuesday said Europe needed multi-sourced gas to support decarbonization away from coal and to create a platform for future hydrogen production from carbon-free energy.Wintershall…

First Subsea Bags Offshore Wind Deals with Gov't Support

Jul 27, 2021

UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK's export credit agency and a government department, said Tuesday it had helped Scottish firm First Subsea land multi-million-pound export opportunities with offshore wind farms overseas. 'First Subsea Ltd, a…

FPSO Giant SBM Offshore Wins Seabed Rights for UK Floating Wind Project

Jul 27, 2021

SBM Offshore, one of the world's largest FPSO leasing firms in the oil and gas sector, has, via a joint venture, moved a step closer towards securing rights for a floating wind farm project in the Celtic Sea, off the coast of Wales in the UK…

Higher Oil Prices, Lower Spending Boost Wintershall Dea's 2Q Result

Jul 27, 2021

Wintershall Dea posted strong second-quarter 2021 earnings as it benefited from firmer oil prices and reduced spending, its earnings report showed on Tuesday.The company, owned jointly by BASF and Russia's LetterOne, posted earnings before interest…

ONGC, Coast Guard Prevent Disaster as LPG Tanker Goes Adrift Near Offshore Installations

Jul 27, 2021

Indian oil and gas explorer ONGC said Monday it had, together with Coast Guard, helped avert a possible disaster relating to an empty LPG Tanker ‘Gas Yodla’ which went adrift after engine failure in the Arabian Sea on  July 24, 2021. 'At 6:35 PM on that day…

BP Fined $69,000 for Failing to Report Offshore Well Results

Jul 26, 2021

The UK oil and gas regulator Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) on Monday fined BP with a £50,000 (around $69,100) fine and served it with a Sanction Notice for breaching a license condition by failing to report the progress and results of two extended well tests at the Vorlich offshore field…

Shell Sanctions Whale Deepwater Development in Gulf of Mexico

Jul 26, 2021

Oil major Shell has reached a final investment decision for its Whale deepwater field development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Discovered in 2017, Whale will feature a semi-submersible production host in more than 8,600 feet (2621 meters) of water with 15 oil-producing wells…

Systematic's Software to Optimize Ops on All RWE Offshore Wind Farms

Jul 26, 2021

Renewable energy firm RWE has signed an agreement with Danish software company Systematic to deploy an innovative information management tool across its global fleet of offshore wind farms.Systematic will supply its marine management tool, called SITE…

TotalEnergies Finds Buyer for Power from Belgian Offshore Wind Farm

Jul 26, 2021

French energy firm TotalEnergies has via Lampiris, its energy supply affiliate in Belgium, signed a Corporate Power Purchase Agreement with Air Liquide. TotalEnergies will supply 50 GWh per year of renewable electricity over a period of 15 years…

North Star Renewables Names SOV Operations Director

Jul 26, 2021

Aberdeen-based offshore wind vessel firm North Star Renewables has named Steve Myers as SOV operations director.As part of this newly created role, Myers, who most recently worked for wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa Renewables, will oversee…

Santos' New Well at Van Gogh Offshore Oil Field Hits Output Record

Jul 26, 2021

Australian oil and gas company Santos has started oil production from the Van Gogh Phase 2 Infill Development, offshore W. Australia, hitting a production record.Santos had announced a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Van Gogh Infill Development Phase 2 Project in March 2020…

Dutch Gov't Grants Subsidy for Offshore Green Hydrogen Project

Jul 23, 2021

The Dutch government has this week awarded a 3.6 million euro subsidy to the PosHYdon project, dubbed the world’s first offshore green hydrogen pilot on a working platform. With this subsidy, the companies which are part of the PosHYdon, can start up all activities for this pilot…

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