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Atlantic Shores Picks Onshore Cabling Contractor for NJ Offshore Wind Project

May 23, 2024

Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, a 50-50 partnership between Shell and EDF, has selected Creamer-Jingoli to engineer and design the full onshore underground cable route for Atlantic Shores Project 1, New Jersey’s first offshore wind project.Creamer…

Equinor and Partners Invest Over $1.1B in Troll Gas Field’s New Infrastructure

May 24, 2024

Equinor and the Troll partners have decided to invest just over $1.13 billion (NOK 12 billion) to further develop the gas infrastructure in the Troll West gas province, offshore Norway.Equinor said the investment would accelerate production…

Tanzanian LNG Project Delayed as Government Seeks to Change Terms

May 06, 2024

Negotiations for the development of Tanzania's $42 billion liquefied natural gas export plant have been delayed by proposed government changes to a financial agreement reached last year, a government spokesperson and two company sources said…

OPT’s Wave-Powered Tech Nears 15MWh of Renewable Energy Production

May 14, 2024

U.S.-based marine power, data, and services company Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) is approaching 15MWh of renewable energy production from its family of PowerBuoys, which primarily exploit wave energy to generate power.The recent launch of…

Chinese Companies to Explore Iraq Oil and Gas Fields

May 12, 2024

Chinese companies won bids to explore five Iraqi oil and gas fields on Saturday in a licensing round for hydrocarbon exploration that was primarily aimed at ramping up gas production for domestic use.An Iraqi Kurdish company also took two of…

BP-Eni JV Azule Inks Deal for Namibia Offshore License

May 03, 2024

A BP-Eni joint venture and Rhino Resources Namibia have signed an agreement for a 42.5% interest in a block in the country's offshore Orange Basin, the companies said on Friday.The agreement is Azule Energy's first investment in Namibia. Azule…

Australia Backs Long-Term Gas Drilling Despite 2050 Climate Goals

May 10, 2024

Australia's Labor government on Thursday laid out a strategy to boost natural gas development even as it remains committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, highlighting demand from key Asian trade partners.Australia is one of the world's largest exporters of liquefied natural gas (LNG)…

BP’s First Quarter Profits Drop to $2.7B

May 07, 2024

BP reported on Tuesday first-quarter earnings of $2.7 billion, down 40% from a year earlier and missing forecasts due to lower energy prices and a U.S. refinery outage, even as oil and gas production increased.The London-based company held its dividend at 7…

Escalated Middle East Conflict Could Hike Oil Price to $150/barrel, Bloomberg Finds

May 07, 2024

So far, the Israel-Hamas conflict has had limited impact on the global economy. However, an escalation to a direct war between Israel and Iran, could result in oil prices rising to $150 a barrel and global output cut by $1 trillion, according…

Into the Deep: Offshore Production Increasingly Finds Deeper Waters

May 08, 2024

Offshore energy is on a growth trajectory. Rystad Energy wrote in February 2024 that upstream oil majors were diving in to deeper waters. “Despite tightened budgets, frontier drilling is fueling optimism for a productive year, particularly deepwater projects in the Atlantic Margin…

Namibia's NAMCOR Signs Deal with Chevron to Develop Offshore Block

Apr 29, 2024

Namibia's national oil company has signed a development deal with Chevron that will see the U.S. oil major take an 80% operating working interest in an offshore block in the Walvis Basin, it said on Monday.The farm-out agreement with Chevron…

Namibia Targets First Oil Production from Venus Field in 2029/2030

Apr 24, 2024

Namibia is aiming for first oil production from TotalEnergies’ Venus field in 2029/2030, the country's petroleum commissioner Maggy Shino said on Wednesday.The southern African country, which is yet to produce any oil or gas, has become a global…

Esgian Week 18 Report: Confirmations, Terminations and Suspensions

May 05, 2024

Esgian reports an eventful week with contract confirmations, terminations and suspensions in its Week 18 Rig Analytics Market Roundup.Report SummaryContractsBurullus Gas Company, the self-operated joint venture between Shell Egypt, the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS)…

Cyprus Seeks Improvements to Chevron-led Plans for Offshore Gas Field

May 02, 2024

Cyprus said on Thursday it wanted to see improvements to Chevron-led plans to extract gas from an offshore field, giving the consortium led by the U.S. major six months to meet its requirements.There have been protracted talks on the future…

Seatrium and Shell to Collaborate on Floating Production Systems

Apr 14, 2024

Seatrium has inked a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shell Global Solutions International to explore and strengthen collaboration opportunities in floating production systems.The MoU, which focuses on driving project standardisation and replication…

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