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Offshore drilling company Noble Corp. said Tuesday it had won a contract with TotalEnergies, to redeploy the harsh-environment jackup rig Noble Regina Allen for the drilling of three horizontal wells at the Fénix project in southern Argentina. TotalEnergies subsidiary, Total Austral, awarded the contract to Noble Drilling. The contract is expected to start in the... Continue Reading →
Norway-based seismic specialists TGS and PGS ASA said Monday they had agreed on the principal terms of a merger of TGS and PGS "to create a strong full-service energy data company." The transaction is expected to be completed as a statutory merger pursuant to Norwegian corporate law, with merger consideration to PGS shareholders in the form... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed to the market on 09/13/2023, informs that the request to start the environmental licensing process for ten areas in the Brazilian sea for the development of offshore wind energy projects aims to assess the technical-economic and environmental viability of areas with strong potential for... Continue Reading →
(OM) Azule Energy, the joint venture between BP and Eni, and Equinor have signed a production sharing agreement for block 31/21 offshore Angola with the country’s National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels. The award, related to Angola’s 2021/2022 Limited Offshore Licensing Round, covers a 4,500-sq km deepwater area in the Lower Congo basin, 170... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Global investment of $2.7 trillion a year is needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and avoid temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius this century, a report by consultancy Wood Mackenzie said on Thursday. Scientists have said the world ideally needs to limit global average temperature rise to 1.5C this century to avoid catastrophic effects from climate change.... Continue Reading →
Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a subsidiary of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), is running tests at the University of Edinburgh’s FloWave facility, to determine the potential for floating platforms that can be used by both offshore wind and wave energy devices. The move has been prompted by a report by Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) exploring the synergies... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that on Thursday (September 14) it signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with TotalEnergies and Casa dos Ventos to evaluate renewable energy projects in Brazil. The aim is to develop joint studies to study business opportunities in onshore wind, offshore wind, solar and low-carbon hydrogen in the country, using... Continue Reading →
(OET) Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has notched new emissions reduction milestones, thanks to two of its giant fields in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin recording emissions below the world average last year while its carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) efforts paid off, enabling it to get ranked as the largest in... Continue Reading →
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has submitted a request with Ibama to start the environmental licensing process for ten areas in the Brazilian sea intended for the development of offshore wind energy projects. Of this total, seven areas are in the Northeast (three in Rio Grande do Norte, three in Ceará and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Shell (SHEL.L) plans to increase its oil production by 5,000 barrels per day (bpd) in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation to 50,000 bpd by the end of the year despite limitations on investment, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Ricardo Rodriguez, Shell's CEO in Argentina, said at an oil and gas conference in Buenos Aires... Continue Reading →
