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December 04, 2019
Royal Dutch Shell won a court ruling preventing environmental protesters from boarding unmanned oil installations in the North Sea.
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December 03, 2019
A comprehensive report into the changing energy landscape has called for urgent action to progress low carbon technologies critical to the UK and Scottish Government’s net zero ambitions.
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December 03, 2019
Last month, the UK fracing industry suffered a fatal blow as the Conservative government ended its support for the practice over concern that it causes earthquakes. The move, ahead of a general election set for Dec. 12, effectively bans fracing.
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December 02, 2019
The multi-million pound contract is for the provision of drilling operations and maintenance services on CNRI’s Ninian South, Ninian Central and Tiffany platforms.
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November 20, 2019
Rovco has utilized its technology and subsea expertise to inspect all 56 turbines at the Galloper Wind Farm, which generates enough green electricity to power the equivalent of 380,000 homes.
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November 19, 2019
Planned to start in early 2020, the survey has already received significant industry interest and is being prefunded in part by BP. First results are targeted for Q1 2021.
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November 07, 2019
Infrastructure solutions company Costain has secured some £4m worth of design, engineering and consultancy contracts for the energy market, shaping the future for sustainable operations and improved efficiencies at several UK onshore gas terminals.
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November 07, 2019
“Over $26 billion is to be spent on UK decommissioning by 2030,” said Paul Main, a Wood Mackenzie Ltd. analyst focused on the upstream supply chain. By that time, companies will be spending more on removing redundant oil and gas facilities than developing new fields, he said.
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November 03, 2019
The move, just weeks ahead of a general election, effectively bans new wells using hydraulic fracturing technology.
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October 30, 2019
Dolphin Drilling has announced a two-month contract extension with i3 Energy for use of the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig and agreed to enter into a four-year strategic operations agreement between both companies.
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October 30, 2019
ABB has been selected by energy companies SSE Renewables and Equinor to supply its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) Light converter systems to connect the world’s largest offshore wind farms in the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea to the UK transmission network.
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October 24, 2019
International SOS, which previously had a minority stake in Iqarus through a joint venture, is becoming the majority shareholder and taking sole ownership of the business in Aberdeen.
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October 17, 2019
The next generation of the UK’s oil and gas industry are being called upon to make their voices heard on key issues including the energy transition and climate change at a new event being held in Aberdeen on Thursday 24 October.
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October 16, 2019
A unit of Delek Group Ltd. is seeking alternative means of financing to complete its $2 billion acquisition of some of Chevron Corp.’s North Sea oil and gas assets after initial funding arrangements hit stumbling blocks, according to people familiar with the matter.
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October 15, 2019
Hunting’s TEK-HUB is opening the technology initiative in a bid to support energy industry innovators in Europe and beyond.
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October 08, 2019
Jersey Oil and Gas PLC has revealed the findings of a new independent evaluation of its recently acquired Greater Buchan Area project in the North Sea.
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October 07, 2019
Petrofac has been awarded a contract to support the concept appraisal and selection phase of Jersey Oil and Gas’ (JOG) Greater Buchan Area development in the North Sea.
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October 04, 2019
The contract scope involves the engineering, procurement, construction, transportation and installation of a 30km gas export pipeline, a gas export riser and associated subsea infrastructure, for tie-ins at the Haewene Brim FPSO.
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September 30, 2019
Neptune Energy’s UK managing director, Pete Jones, said: “This is an important milestone for the Seagull project and a further demonstration of how the development is progressing at pace, following the award of the SPS and SURF contract to TechnipFMC in July.”
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September 30, 2019
ConocoPhillips has completed its previously announced transaction to sell two ConocoPhillips UK subsidiaries to Chrysaor E&P Limited for $2.675 billion, plus interest and customary adjustments.
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September 27, 2019
Operating across the Beryl and Forties fields, Apache’s North Sea business has demonstrated its commitment to the basin with what is understood to be the largest life of field contract award in the history of the oil and gas sector in the UK.
