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  • Aasta Hansteen gas field officially open

    Norway has officially opened the Aasta Hansteen offshore gas field, developed via the world’s largest and the country’s first spar platform.   The Aasta Hansteen field, named after a Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist, sits in the northern sector of the Norwegian Sea, 120…

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  • Canada Approves Job Creating TMX Project

    The Government of Canada has approved the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project, which will twin the existing Trans Mountain oil pipeline and expand the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, British Columbia.   The project will create thousands of jobs, enable increased production from western producers…

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  • CGG to analyse offshore Abu Dhabi OBN data

    ADNOC has contracted Subsurface Imaging, part of CGG’s Geoscience division, to perform time and depth imaging of large volumes of data from what may be the world’s largest ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic survey to date.   The contract started last month and could run…

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  • Tlou Energy provides update on the Lesedi CBM project

    Tlou Energy has announced that the Lesedi 3 production pod has successfully reached Critical Desorption Pressure (‘CDP’).   CDP is the pressure at which gas begins to come out of the coal after a careful dewatering process.   Highlights Lesedi 3 has reached CDP  …

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  • Anadarko dishes out contract awards for Mozambique LNG development

    Anadarko has awarded a number of contracts for its Mozambique Golfinho/Atum development following a final investment decision for the project.   The Anadarko-operated Mozambique LNG project will be Mozambique’s first onshore LNG development, initially consisting of two LNG trains with total nameplate capacity of 12.88 Mtpa…

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  • Dominican Republic set to open first licensing round

    On the 17th June it was reported that the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Energy and Mines will open its first licensing round at an event in partnership with Wood Mackenzie on the 10th July, with an offering of 14 blocks.   The offering, which closes…

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  • Equinor finds oil, gas in dual-target Norwegian Sea well

    Equinor’s latest completed well in the Norwegian Sea has led to two discoveries in the Norne area.   The semi-submersible Transocean Spitsbergen drilled the Snadd Outer Outer/Black Vulture prospects in production licence 159B.   There were two reservoir objectives: an upper drilling target with an…

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