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Wood Mackenzie, an energy intelligence group, expects the number of exploration wells in the North Sea to increase by 25 percent this year.
The Papua New Guinea government has cleared Total and its Papua LNG project partners to go ahead with the project.
Norwegian offshore vessel operator Solstad Offshore has won a contract extension for its construction support vessel Normand Pacific.
Brazilian oil firm Petrobras has said that the binding phase has started for the sale of 11 shallow water fields in the Campos Basin in what is known as Garoupa Cluster.
Philippine utility First Gen Corporation said it has selected Japan’s JGC Corporation as its preferred EPC contractor for the Batangas LNG terminal project.
Russian giant Gazprom said its natural gas production during the first eight months of the year has hit an estimated 331 billion cubic meters.
More than 160 people have been rescued from a Philippine RoRo vessel which tilted to one side.
Siemens Gamesa has commissioned 147 out of the 174 7MW wind turbines on the Hornsea Project One, reaching 1GW of operational capacity at the world’s largest wind farm. The wind turbines are being installed at the site some 120 kilometres offshore Yorkshire by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel
The first unit in the class was delivered in June 2019.
International compressor supplier TMC Compressors of the Seas (TMC) has been awarded a contract to supply the compressed air system to Golar LNG’s Gimi FLNG vessel which will operate offshore Mauritania and Senegal.
Russia’s largest shipping company Sovcomflot swung to a profit during the first half of the year 2019 on the back of improved market conditions.
The newbuild is to be delivered from Samsung Heavy Industries in 2021.
Equinor plans to start production from the North Sea field sometime this autumn.
