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  • Borssele III & IV turbines installed offshore the Netherlands

    Van Oord’s jack-up vessel Aeolus has installed all 77 MHI Vestas V164-9.5-MW turbines at Blauwwind’s Borssele III & IV offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.   As the Balance of Plant contractor, Van Oord was responsible for the design, engineering, procurement, construction, and…

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  • Sea Lion farm-in extended to enable Premier-Chrysaor merger

    Rockhopper Exploration and Premier Oil have agreed to extend the exclusivity period for Navitas Petroleum’s farm-in to the Sea Lion project located offshore the Falkland Islands.   Rockhopper said on the 30th November that the three companies agreed to extend the exclusivity period farm-in to…

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  • Gazprom Sets Date to Resume Nord Stream 2 Pipelay

    Russia can probably get around the latest US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and complete the controversial pipeline, according to industry executives and analysts.   Pipelaying on the project, which is owned by Gazprom PJSC and will bring natural gas from Russia to Germany, will…

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  • South Pars platform goes back online offshore Iran

    Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) has re-started operations at the South Pars Phase 16 gas production platform in the Persian Gulf.   Production had to be shut down following damage to part of the offshore export pipeline in November 2019.   Following reconstruction and…

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  • Danish North Sea reservoir is suited to CO2 storage

    DNV GL has confirmed the feasibility of converting the Nini West reservoir in the Danish North Sea to serve as a CO2 store.   According to Maersk Drilling, following certification of feasibility to DNV GL’s Carbon Capture and Storage certification regime and the international standard,…

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  • BP to Invest More in Middle East Oil Fields

    BP Plc has said it will invest more money in Middle Eastern oil and natural-gas fields even as it transitions to renewable energy and tries to lower emissions.   The company is a major producer in countries such as Iraq, where it operates the world’s…

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  • DNV GL suspends Nord Stream 2 work dreading US sanctions

    Classification society DNV GL has suspended work on Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project over fears of sanctions by the United States.   The United States want to stop the project as it fears the pipeline would strengthen Russia’s economic and political influence over…

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  • Genel announces First Oil at Sarta

    Genel Energy has announced first oil production from the Sarta field (Genel 30% working interest), less than 21 months after the acquisition of the stake was completed.   Production has begun at Sarta with first oil flowing from the Sarta-3 well into the Early Production…

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  • AFBE-UK Scotland launches mentoring programme for next generation

    AFBE-UK Scotland, an organisation which encourages greater diversity and inclusion in the energy and engineering sectors, is launching a mentoring programme. The social enterprise’s latest project, unveiled on the 28th November, has been introduced to inspire the next generation of industry professionals and create leaders in the…

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