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August 24, 2022
New figures show domestic gas production in the first half of 2022 was 26% higher than the same period in 2021, which is enough to heat almost 3.5 million UK homes for a year.
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August 24, 2022
Neptune Energy has begun an infill drilling campaign at its operated Cygnus gas field in the southern North Sea, with the potential to unlock enough gas to heat an additional 200,000 UK homes per year from this winter.
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August 12, 2022
As the race to number 10 accelerates, Offshore Energies UK has written open letters to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss asking them to help consumers over the short and long term by ensuring the next cabinet prioritizes reliable and cleaner energy produced in the UK.
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August 08, 2022
Britain needs to keep developing new oil and gas fields in the North Sea even as it rolls out major offshore wind and carbon capture and storage projects across the country, according Shell’s UK head of upstream.
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August 04, 2022
The forecast fell £1.5 billion to £44.5 billion last year – contributing to a total cut of £15 billion since 2017, when the North Sea Transition Authority introduced a baseline estimate of £59.7 billion and set a target of reducing costs by 35% to £39 billion by end-2022.
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July 28, 2022
Neptune Energy has begun drilling on the Ofelia exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, the company announced.
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July 27, 2022
Supply chain companies in the UK offshore oil and gas sector are in prime position to win work in carbon capture and storage if urgent action is taken by governments and industry, a new report indicates.
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July 27, 2022
The search for carbon storage sites, wind farm locations and potential hydrocarbon fields has received a significant boost as more than 132 terabytes of seismic data has been uploaded on to the National Data Repository.
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July 26, 2022
Schlumberger announced an award to OneSubsea and its alliance partner, Subsea 7, by Kosmos Energy Gulf of Mexico Operations, for an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract for the Odd Job field in the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 21, 2022
The British government needs to publish detailed plans on decarbonizing the economy if it wants to prevent a “disorderly” transition to net-zero emissions by 2050, members of Parliament’s upper chamber said Thursday.
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July 19, 2022
A4I gives UK companies of any size access to the UK’s top scientists and most advanced facilities, techniques and technologies in the world. It aims to boost productivity and competitiveness by helping companies to solve problems in innovative ways.
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July 14, 2022
New laws imposing £5 billion of new taxes on the UK’s offshore oil and gas operators risk driving away investors and undermining the nation’s future energy supplies, the industry’s leading trade body has warned.
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July 13, 2022
OEUK warmly welcomes the news that Stuart Payne has been appointed to lead the North Sea Transition Authority at what continues to be a crucial and challenging period for the industry.
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July 12, 2022
A trio of exciting new low-carbon technologies are set to generate 26,000 new UK energy jobs by 2030, according to research by Robert Gordon University.
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July 12, 2022
Through the UK Government’s Floating Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Scheme, up to £160 million will be made available to scale-up the deployment of floating offshore wind and to invest in key areas where the UK has competitive advantage.
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July 11, 2022
TechnipFMC will continue to provide a wide range of engineering, studies and technical services to Neptune Energy, including installation work and operational support for Neptune’s development projects and producing fields.
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July 06, 2022
The industry body for the UK offshore energy industry welcomed the UK Government’s decision to change the Energy Profits Levy in response to concerns from the country's offshore oil and gas companies.
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July 05, 2022
A set of reports due to be published in the coming months will show how companies in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry supply chain can expand to cleaner energies, including carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offshore wind.
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July 05, 2022
Urgent moves to bring forward the construction of “energy islands” – giant new offshore renewable energy conversion and transmission plants – are being supported by a major new safety advisory and assurance study.
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July 05, 2022
North Sea-focused oil and gas operator Ithaca Energy announced that its acquisition of Siccar Point Energy, an Aberdeen-based energy company, has been completed with all conditions having been met.
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July 03, 2022
Norway approved higher production from key natural-gas fields in an effort to maintain record exports as Europe reels from cuts in Russian supply.
