Equinor has acquired a 9.8% stake in Ørsted, becoming the second largest shareholder in the company after the Danish State, which holds a controlling stake.Equinor's ownership position has been built over time, through a combination of market purchases and a block trade…
Brazilian oil giant Petrobras is set to reopen a closed oil well in its large offshore Roncador field in a bid to quickly obtain natural gas, the company's chief said on Thursday.The well, located off the Brazilian coast northeast of Rio de Janeiro…
India will not buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 project, which is sanctioned by Western countries, Oil Secretary Pankaj Jain said on Friday.'We will not buy (supply from) Arctic LNG 2. We are not buying any sanctioned commodity…
Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has received approval from its board to acquire a 10% stake from TotalEnergies in Deep Western Orange Basin (DWOB) block, offshore South Africa.The DWOB block is located in deep waters in the Orange Basin…
Brazilian oil and gas company PRIO has signed a sale and purchase agreement with SPEP Energy Hong Kong Limited and Sinochem International Oil for the acquisition of 40% interest in the Peregrino and Pitangola fields in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil…
The chief executive of Brazilian oil company Prio is 'optimistic' about talks with China's oil and chemicals firm Sinochem for the potential purchase of a stake in the Peregrino oil field, he told Reuters on Wednesday.No binding agreement has been reached so far…
Danish subsea cable and services firm NKT has taken part in the repair of export cables at 600 MW Gemini offshore wind in the Netherlands, which has been put back to full operation.A group of cable and energy specialists, including a repair team from NKT…
Turkish state energy company Botas has signed a 10-year agreement to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from French oil major TotalEnergies beginning in 2027, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Wednesday.The deal, which was…
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to greenlight U.S. oil producer Chevron's purchase of Hess as soon as this week, two people familiar with the matter said, leaving Exxon Mobil's challenge to the $53 billion deal as its final hurdle…
South Korean conglomerate Hanhwa Group has offered to acquire all of the shares it does not own in Singapore's Dyna-Mac Holdings, valuing the offshore oil and gas contractor at S$669.2 million ($513.90 million).Hanhwa's units Hanhwa Aerospace and Hanwha Ocean already own a 25…
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill is looking to buy more assets or create a larger player by merging with peers, the company's CEO said on Wednesday.Norwegian-born billionaire John Fredriksen lost the control of the company, once the world's largest driller by market cap…
China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) ha started production from its Wushi 17-2 oil field development project in Beibu Gulf in South China Sea.The main production facilities include a new wellhead platform and an oil and gas processing terminal…
Talos Energy and its partners have discovered commercial quantities of oil and natural gas in the Ewing Bank 953 well in the Gulf of Mexico.The EW 953 well encountered approximately 127 feet of net pay in the target sand at approximately 19…
President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced final approval of a wind project off the coast of Maryland, bringing the U.S. halfway to its goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of the clean energy technology by 2030.The project is the 10th approved by Biden's Interior Department…
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone said on Friday it will buy a majority stake in an offshore support vessel operator for $185 million, expanding its fleet and diversifying beyond port operations.Astro Offshore, in which Adani Ports will buy an 80% stake…