(Reuters) - BP chief executive Bernard Looney is betting on hydrogen to power future low-carbon businesses as the governments of major economies stump up cash to develop the fuel to decarbonise. Low-carbon hydrogen already has a big fan-base and is forecast to play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industries and... Continue Reading →
(OE) The Dutch government on Friday said it would appoint gas grid operator Gasunie to oversee plans to develop a hydrogen network in the North Sea, Energy Minister Rob Jetten said in a letter to parliament. The Dutch government is due on Dec. 8 to debate in parliament over ambitious plans to shift much of... Continue Reading →
Malaysian FPSO leasing company Yinson has agreed to start preliminary activities for the provision of an FPSO for Eni, BP JV in Angola, called Azule Energy. Under the agreement with Azule Energy, Yinson will kick off preliminary activities for the provision, operation, and maintenance of a floating, production, storage, and offloading asset for the Agogo... Continue Reading →
Sweden-based Maha Energy has signed a binding term sheet regarding a business combination with DBO 2.0 S.A. (“DBO”) for a consideration of 36,775,410 new shares in Maha. According to Maha, DBO is a private upstream oil and gas company focusing on mature offshore fields in Brazil formed in 2017. The company says that DBO has... Continue Reading →
The director of production development at Petrobras, João Henrique Rittershaussen, declared that the tender for contracting the P-81, foreseen for the Sergipe Aguas Profundas project (SEAP 1), will be launched in the coming months. This time, the bidding will gain a new format compared to the previous process and will be carried out under the... Continue Reading →
Total production for October was 4.180 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), of which 3.245 million barrels of oil per day (bbl/d) and 148.747 million cubic meters of natural gas per day (m3/d ). In oil, there was an increase of 3.1% compared to the previous month and 16.8% compared to October 2021.... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the award of an integrated field support vessel (FSV) contract, Norway’s DOF Group has secured multiple new jobs in the Atlantic region with an undisclosed operator in West Africa. DOF disclosed on Monday that the duration of this contract is 365 days. However, the deal also entails optional 365 days. Under the terms of... Continue Reading →
(OET) Australia’s oil and gas company Karoon Energy has completed the drilling of two wells at a field, located in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The first oil from this field, which will be developed as a subsea tie-back, is slated for the first quarter of 2022. Karoon hired a rig in April 2021 to perform well... Continue Reading →
Heerema Marine Contractors has recently installed the first of 27 Vestas V174 – 9.5MW turbines at the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, offshore Germany, using a floating installation method, for which the parties involved say is unique. Namely, the turbine was installed using Heerema's Thialf semi-submersible crane vessel instead of... Continue Reading →
(OE) German renewable energy firm RWE said Friday it had bought the Irish company Western Power Offshore Developments Ltd, which is in the early stages of developing the East Celtic wind farm project offshore Ireland. The East Celtic wind farm site , which could have a capacity of 900MW, is located around 10 kilometers offshore of Wexford and Waterford in Ireland. "RWE’s adoption of the project as part of... Continue Reading →
