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  • Gazprom restarts Nord Stream 2 pipe laying in Danish waters

    The consortium behind the Gazprom-led Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline has resumed pipe laying offshore Denmark despite mounting pressure on the project from Washington.   According to an article by Reuters, construction of the link, which would double the capacity of the existing Nord…

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  • BPC Looks Beyond The Bahamas for 2021

    Shortly before Christmas, Bahamas Petroleum Company Plc (BPC) revealed that it had spudded a well 10-plus years in the making off The Bahamas with Stena Drilling’s IceMAX drillship.   BPC reported on the 8th February that drilling has concluded at the Perseverance #1 well after…

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  • Equinor granted Barents Sea drilling permit

    Equinor Energy AS has been granted a drilling permit for a wildcat well in Barents Sea production licence (PL) 532 by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.   The area in the licence consists of parts of Blocks 7219/9, 7220/4, 7220/5, 7220/7 and 7220/8.   Well 7220/7-4…

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  • Danish offshore wind farm marks production milestone

    On the 4th February production from Ørsted’s Horns Rev 2 offshore wind farm in Denmark topped 10 billion kWh.   Horns Rev 2 is in the North Sea, 30 km (19 miles) off the Danish west coast.   At its inauguration in autumn 2009, Horns…

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  • Rosneft and BP Agree to Cooperate on Carbon Management and Sustainability

    Rosneft Oil Company and BP have signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement focused on ‎supporting carbon management and sustainability activities of both companies.   The agreement ‎builds on years of partnership between the two companies and formalises key elements of their ‎collaboration on sustainability and work…

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  • Royston signs FPSO engine maintenance deal with Bluewater

    Royston has signed a framework agreement with Bluewater Services to supply engine overhaul, repair and associated services on two FPSOs operating in the UK North Sea.   Under the agreement, Royston will carry out planned engine maintenance and emergency repairs on the FPSOs Haewene Brim…

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  • Americas, Africa to dominate high-impact exploration

    Drilling of high-impact oil and gas prospects in 2020 suffered due to the global pandemic, but the overall results were nevertheless positive, according to Rystad Energy.   The success rate rose from 32% in 2019 to 41% and pushed discovered volumes to 3.2 Bboe, a…

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  • Shell Produces Fuel for Pioneering KLM Flight

    Air France-KLM’s Dutch arm has operated a passenger flight from Amsterdam to Madrid which the carrier says was the first in the world to use sustainably derived synthetic aviation fuel.   The Boeing 737-800 narrow-body plane carried 500 litres of the fuel produced by Royal…

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  • Providence gets green light for Barryroe site survey

    Oil and gas exploration firm Providence has secured the approval from the Irish government to undertake a seabed and shallow geophysical survey and an environmental baseline and habitat assessment survey, at the K-Site location, Barryroe in the North Celtic Sea.   The offshore survey, when…

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