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Eni Posts Best Results Since 2012 after Strong Q4

Feb 18, 2022

Italian energy group Eni posted its best yearly result since 2012 after profits in the fourth quarter surged to beat expectations, boosted by higher oil and gas prices.Adjusted net profit in the three months to December came in at 2.11 billion euros ($2…

Wilhelmsen Acquires Stake in Reach Subsea

Feb 17, 2022

Wilhelmsen has acquired a 21% stake in Reach Subsea ASA, and together the firms will form a strategic partnership to commercialize the Reach Remote concept, bringing Reach Subsea into new industry verticals and geographical regions.Jan Eyvin Wang…

Archer Knight to Support All Neptune Energy's Diving Ops on UKCS

Feb 17, 2022

Archer Knight has secured a diving technical authority contract award with oil and gas firm Neptune Energy. The three-year deal will see the company providing Neptune Energy with specialist support for all diving operations in the UK.Under the deal…

PHOTO & VIDEO: Johan Castberg FPSO Sets Off for Norway

Feb 17, 2022

Singapore's Sembcorp Marine has delivered the Norwegian Barents Sea-bound Johan Castberg FPSO to Equinor. The FPSO has set off for Norway, loaded aboard Boskalis' Boka Vanguard semi-submersible heavy transportation vessel.Johan Castberg is Sembcorp Marine’s first EPC newbuild FPSO…

Interest in CCS Picking Up: Aker Carbon Capture, Northern Lights JV Partner Up

Feb 17, 2022

Aker Carbon Capture has signed a deal with Northern Lights JV to collaborate on the realization of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects in Norway and across Europe.'Together, the two companies represent a full value chain offering from carbon capture through transport and storage…

Repsol Beats Forecasts Thanks to High Oil and Gas Prices

Feb 17, 2022

High oil and gas prices helped Spain's Repsol REP.MC to post earnings above market expectations on Thursday, giving it more financial firepower to spend on low-carbon operations investors are increasingly demanding of energy companies.Benchmark…

Oil and Gas Firms in Norway Raise Investment Forecasts

Feb 17, 2022

Oil and gas firms in Norway have raised this year's investment forecasts as they seek to benefit from pandemic-era tax incentives intended to boost activity, a national statistics office (SSB) survey showed on Thursday.The biggest business sector in Norway now expects to invest 159…

Report: Saipem to Rethink Green Push After Profit Warning

Feb 16, 2022

Italy's Saipem is set to take a more cautious approach to new green business after delays to a wind farm project helped to tip the energy contractor into issuing a profit warning, two sources close to the matter said on Wednesday.Saipem, a [company…

Vår Energi Shares Drop after $7.9B Eni Spin-off

Feb 16, 2022

Shares of Vår Energi, the largest pure-play oil exploration and production (E&P) company to list globally in almost a decade, fell 4.9% as it made its Oslo stock market debut on Wednesday.A spin-off from Italy's Eni, Vår Energi declined to 26…

Oil Spills from Eni's Irish Sea Pipeline

Feb 16, 2022

Oil has spilled from an Eni-operated oil pipeline in the Irish Sea, the UK Energy & Climate Change Minister Greg Hands MP said on Twitter Tuesday.'I am being kept regularly updated following a release of oil from a pipeline in the Irish Sea…

Nova Innovation to Develop 15MW Tidal Array at Yell Sound, Shetland

Feb 16, 2022

Tidal energy company Nova Innovation plans to develop its largest tidal energy array to date at Yell Sound in Shetland. The company has been awarded an Option Agreement from Crown Estate Scotland to develop a 15MW tidal array at Yell Sound, between the islands of Yell and Bigga…

Equinor Extends Offshore Drilling Contracts with Archer, KCA Deutag, and Odfjell Drilling

Feb 16, 2022

Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor has exercised extension options worth 8 billion Norwegian crowns (~$898,7 million) with Archer, KCA Deutag, and Odfjell Drilling. The contracts include drilling, completion, intervention services, plugging…

Putin: Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Would Strengthen Europe's Energy Security

Feb 15, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated on Tuesday after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which is still awaiting regulatory approval, is a 'purely commercial' project which will strengthen Europe's energy security…

Aker BP to Use Odfjell's Deepsea Nordkapp Drilling Rig for KEG Development Wells

Feb 15, 2022

Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has exercised a scope-based option to use Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Nordkapp semi-submersible drilling rig to drill development wells at the recently approved Kobra East Gekko (KEG) project.Odfjell Drilling…

Chantiers de l’Atlantique to Build Offshore Substation for RWE's Polish Baltic Sea Project

Feb 15, 2022

Renewable energy giant RWE has selected Atlantique Offshore Energy, the marine energy business unit of the French company Chantiers de l’Atlantique, for the delivery of the electrical offshore substation for the F.E.W. Baltic II, offshore wind project in the Polish Baltic Sea…

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