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Offshore drilling contractor Valaris said Monday it had secured contracts for two drillships and one jack-up rig. One of the drillships in question is the Valaris DS-8, which secured a three-year, $500 million contract with Petrobras in Brazil, including a $30 million mobilization fee. The rig has been preservation stacked in Las Palmas, Spain, and... Continue Reading →
(Bloomberg) – Colombians protesting the poor state of roads took more than 80 police officers and oil workers hostage after raiding an oil field owned by a unit of China’s Sinochem Group, according to local media reports. A policeman and a civilian are dead. Social media videos show how the unarmed police were placed in... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Denmark has resumed its review of two of 33 offshore wind farm applications suspended last month over worries of breaching European Union state aid rules, the Energy Agency said on Friday. Denmark, which aims for a fivefold increase in offshore wind power capacity by 2030, has allowed energy companies to submit unsolicited applications... Continue Reading →
After discovering oil and the Graff-1 well in Namibia in 2022, Shell has now made another offshore oil discovery in the country's deep waters. This time, Shell made a discovery at the Jonker-1X deep-water exploration well, QatarEnergy and Namcor, Shell's partners in the PEL-39 Exploration License, offshore Namibia, said Monday. Using the Deepsea Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig, the Jonker-1X... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Guyana, the South American country that is home to the world's largest oil discoveries in a decade, next wants to develop its mostly untapped natural gas reserves, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Sunday. The nation aimed to diversify its oil sector and secure new sources of revenue before the energy transition to renewables... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Exxon Mobil Corp hopes to get Nigerian government approval to allow the stalled sale of its shallow water oil production operations in the West African country, a top Exxon executive told Reuters. The largest U.S. oil company will keep its deep-water assets in Nigeria despite a change in the government's leadership, Exxon Global Upstream... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Guyana's coming auction of offshore oil exploration blocks has lured at least 10 companies including Shell, Petrobras, and Chevron, to consider the decade's hottest oil region, people close to the matter said. The South American country is offering 14 offshore blocks, a move to speed economic development and reduce an Exxon Mobil-led consortium's dominance... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) - Strength in Brazil's real currency will soon be challenged by rising worries about an ongoing downturn in Latin America's No.1 economy and disagreements among policymakers, a Reuters poll of foreign exchange specialists showed. The currency has been relatively stable close to 5.20 per U.S. dollar for months after a weak spell in the... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) -Petrobras could face lawsuits for breach of contract after the company halted planned asset sales at the request of Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government, specialist lawyers said on Friday. Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the state-controlled company is formally known, was asked this week to halt for 90 days divestitures worth... Continue Reading →
Breakwater Energy, a subsidiary of EIG, an institutional investor in the global energy and infrastructure sectors, has acquired a 25% interest in Repsol Upstream for a total consideration of around $4.8 billion, including debt, with Repsol holding the remaining 75%. Repsol Upstream owns and operates Repsol’s globally diversified portfolio of upstream assets, comprising more than... Continue Reading →
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