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Shell’s Brent Delta platform topside has reached a UK yard where it will be decommissioned. To remind, the topside was lifted off its offshore location last week by Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit vessel, in an effort that has been described as the world record in lifting. The topside weighs around 24,000 tons. The lift, using the largest construction […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance
Shell has submitted a decommissioning plan for the Brent oil and gas field to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Following submission, an extended 60-day public consultation has been initiated on recommendations to decommission the North Sea field. The field, located 115 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands has produced around three billion […]
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Business & Finance, Business developments & projects, Exploration & Production, Transition
Wintershall Dea has decided to divest its interest in the Gulf of Suez concession after 38 years of production.
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Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, announced a new gas discovery on the West El Manzala concession in the Nile Delta, Egypt. The Begonia-1 discovery well encountered 15 m of net pay in a good quality sandstone reservoir of the Lower Abu Madi Formation. On test […]
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Allseas-owned dynamically positioned single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has removed Shell’s 24,000 t Brent Delta platform topsides from the UK North Sea setting what the company claimed was the world record in lifting. Following its arrival to the Brent field on Thursday, the vessel performed the lift on Friday, April 28, 2017. The Shell-operated […]
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During the recent International Conference on “Deltas in Times of Climate Change II”, the Delta sessions that focused on the current status and future development of river deltas in Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Myanmar, USA, Colombia, Egypt and the Netherlands sparked a huge interest among visitors. Eight cases were presented according to a framework of […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
Petroceltic International plc (“Petroceltic” or the “Company”), the upstream oil and gas exploration and production company focused on North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions announces its participation in a joint venture with Edison International Spa (“Edison”) which was the successful bidder for two blocks, North Thekah and South Idku, in the Egyptian […]
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Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced a new gas discovery in the Nile Delta, Egypt. The discovery was at West Sama-1 in the West El Qantara Concession. This new field discovery comes after the first successful drilling in the Komombo Concession earlier in the […]
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ACE Winches has mobilized a six point mooring system to anchor the ‘Iron Lady’ barge being used on the Brent decommissioning project. The equipment, designed and manufactured by ACE Winches at their global headquarters in Aberdeenshire is now in situ and being supported by a team of ACE Winches offshore personnel. As part of the Brent […]
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UK-based energy giant BP has signed concession amendments for the Temsah, Ras El Barr and Nile Delta Offshore concessions in Egypt. These amendments allowed for the economic development of the Nooros development, where the company recently achieved record production, BP said in its statement on Tuesday. “BP is proud to progress the acceleration of its […]
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U.S. Gulf of Mexico operator LLOG has confirmed making the Nearly Headless Nick discovery on Mississippi Canyon block 38. The discovery, first announced last week LLOG’s partner BP, is set to be brought on stream this year, LLOG, the operator, said.
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British oil company BP has signed concession amendments for the Temsah, Ras El Barr and Nile Delta Offshore concessions in Egypt. The company said that the amendments allowed for the economic development of the Nooros development, where the company recently achieved record production. Hesham Mekawi, Regional President, BP North Africa said: “BP is proud to […]
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Business developments & projects, Project & Tenders
U.S. LNG export project developer Venture Global LNG is looking to start the pre-filing process with FERC for a proposed CP2 LNG project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
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U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has secured more than 1.7 million acres for exploration offshore Egypt.
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Two Norwegian and two Ukrainian oil workers being held hostage in Nigeria were freed on Tuesday as the government promised to crack down on a surge in unrest in Africa’s largest oil producer. About 16 foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in five separate abductions in the past two weeks in the oil-producing Niger Delta. […]
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Shell’s Brent Bravo platform topside has arrived at Able UK’s Able Seaton Port following its removal from the UK North Sea with the giant Pioneering Spirit vessel earlier this week.
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Britain’s BP Plc aims to double natural gas production in Egypt in the next four years despite weak oil prices as Egypt’s burgeoning energy market offers hope for its battered economy.
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Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics
U.S. LNG export facilities have endured a fair share of Hurricane activity in 2020, with this being the second most active Atlantic hurricane season on record.
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Delta Marine Consultants have signed a license agreement with the Swiss company SEL AG for the use of XblocPlus for the Marina Porto Albania Project. Under the project, the blocks will protect the marina against the Adriatic Sea’s severe storm waves, including 2.5m³ XblocPlus on the breakwater back area, in combination with 3m³ Xbloc units […]
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Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East’s largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced its financial results for the quarter ended 31st March 2011, with a Net Profit after tax of AED 92 million, a 180% increase compared to the first quarter of 2010, and a 56% increase compared to the last quarter […]
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Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology
Dutch tidal energy developer Tocardo has signed an agreement with DELTA power utility company for the purchase of clean electricity generated by its tidal energy array on the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier.
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Eni said it has made an important gas discovery in the Nooros exploration prospect, located in the Abu Madi West license in the Nile Delta, 120 kilometers north-east of Alexandria, Egypt.
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Eni said it has made an important gas discovery in the Nooros exploration prospect, located in the Abu Madi West license in the Nile Delta, 120 kilometers north-east of Alexandria, Egypt.
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Allseas-owned giant vessel Pioneering Spirit has arrived at the Shell-operated Brent field located in the UK sector of the North Sea to perform its heaviest lift until now. The twin-hulled, 382 meters long and 124 meters wide vessel executed its maiden heavy lift of the Yme offshore platform in the North Sea off Norway in August 2016. […]
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Able UK, a specialist for decommissioning and disposal of offshore oil and gas structures, has posted a video on its website showing the arrival of Shell’s Brent Delta platform to Quay 6 at Seaton Port on May 2, 2017. The platform topside was removed on April 28 by Allseas-owned giant vessel Pioneering Spirit which was […]
