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Oil Prices Steady Amid Fears Over Slowing China Demand

Apr 18, 2022

Oil prices steadied on Monday as worries over slowing demand in China prompted investors to take profits on gains made earlier in the day on concerns over tight supply and the deepening Ukraine crisis.Brent futures LCOc1 were up 27 cents, or 0…

Morocco Considers Onshore, Offshore Options for LNG Import Facility

Apr 18, 2022

Morocco is studying options at several ports to build a floating or land-based facility to import liquefied natural gas (LNG), Energy Minister Leila Benali said on Friday.Morocco relied for much of its gas needs - about 1 billion cubic meters…

Lime Petroleum to Buy MOL's Stake in Two Norwegian North Sea Licenses

Apr 18, 2022

Lime Petroleum, a subsidiary of Rex International has signed an agreement with MOL Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Hungarian oil company MOL, to acquire MOL's 40 percent interest in two licenses in the North Sea, offshore Norway.The licenses being acquired are the licenses PL820 S and PL 820 SB…

Proposed Tidal Energy Array Could Supply 40% of Faroe Islands' Electricity Consumption

Apr 15, 2022

Tidal energy technology developer Minesto this week launched a plan for large-scale build-out of tidal energy arrays in the Faroe Islands.The plan includes four new verified sites that would supply 40% of the nation’s growing electricity consumption…

Greek Recoverable Gas Reserves Seen Topping 600 bcm

Apr 15, 2022

Greece could be sitting on tentative recoverable gas reserves of more than 600 billion cubic meters, a senior executive of its hydrocarbons commission said on Thursday, as Athens accelerates gas exploration to cut its reliance on Russian energy…

Le Pen's Renewables Ban Plan is an 'aberration', Macron Says

Apr 15, 2022

Marine Le Pen's plan to ban wind turbines is an 'aberration', Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday as France's presidential election campaign moved away from the two candidates accusing each other of being authoritarian to focus on concrete policies…

Brazil: Shell Pays $1,12B for Atapu Field Stake

Apr 15, 2022

Brazilian oil firm Petrobras has this week received R$ 5.26 billion (around $1,12 billion) from Shell for its share of 25% in compensation for the Atapu offshore block.Atapu is the block acquired by the consortium composed of Petrobras (52.5%)…

Malaysia: Hess Awards Workforce Deal to T7

Apr 15, 2022

Integrated energy solutions provider T7 Global manpower subsidiary T7 Intelligent Resources has secured a 2-year contract with the U.S. oil firm Hess in Malaysia.The contract, worth RM6 million (around $1,4 million) is for the provision of technical…

TotalEnergies Shareholders Deposit New Climate Resolution for AGM - document

Apr 15, 2022

A group of minority shareholders in TotalEnergies TTEF.PA will present to the shareholders meeting a resolution asking the oil and gas major to detail its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a copy of the resolution showed.The group consists of 12 French shareholders representing 0…

One-year Term: Petrobras Elects New CEO

Apr 14, 2022

Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras on Thursday formally elected Jose Mauro Coelho as its chief executive for a one-year term, ending weeks of turmoil in which the government struggled to fill the top position.Coelho, a government technocrat…

Saipem Shares Possible Cause of Crane Vessel Tilting Incident in Norway

Apr 14, 2022

Italian energy services company Saipem, whose Saipem 7000 crane vessel with 275 people aboard tilted in a fjord in Norway on Thursday morning, released a statement on Thursday evening, confirming the incident had occurred, and sharing preliminary info on the likely cause…

ExxonMobil Working to Store CO2 in Depleted Offshore Fields in Australia's Gippsland Basin

Apr 14, 2022

U.S. oil major said ExxonMobil said Thursday today was undertaking early front-end engineering design studies (pre-FEED) to determine the potential for carbon capture and storage to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from multiple industries in the Gippsland Basin…

Italian Judge Clears Saipem, Two Former Managers of Misleading Investors

Apr 14, 2022

An Italian judge has cleared energy services group Saipem and two former managers from charges of misleading investors in a share sale more than six years ago, judicial sources and lawyers told Reuters on Tuesday.Milan prosecutors had asked the judge to put Saipem…

Offshore Wind: All 17 ScotWind Lease Round Winners Get Green Light to Proceed to Development Stage

Apr 14, 2022

Crown Estate Scotland, a government body that manages the Scottish seabed rights, has confirmed that all 17 successful ScotWind offshore wind leasing round applicants now have option agreements in place meaning that their projects can move into the development stage…

Petronas Starts Production From BTJTB-T2 Well Offshore Indonesia

Apr 14, 2022

Image for illustration only ©GoodVibes - Photo/AdobeStockMalaysian oil and gas company Petronas has achieved its first hydrocarbon from the Bukit Tua Phase-2B’s BTJTB-T2 well located within the Ketapang Block, offshore East Java, Indonesia.  The BTJTB-T2 well was spudded on September 30…

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