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Repsol's Loss Widens on Low Prices, Writedowns

Feb 20, 2020

Spain's Repsol on Thursday reported a 36% fall in adjusted net profit and a net loss for the fourth quarter of 2019, battered on all sides by lower oil and gas prices and one-off charges mainly related to a bid to cut carbon emissions. Oil majors…

Wintershall Noordzee Starts Gas Production from Sillimanite Field

Feb 20, 2020

Wintershall Noordzee has started gas production from its operated Sillimanite field in the North Sea area between the UK and the Netherlands.The company, a joint venture of Wintershall Dea and Gazprom EP International, said Thursday the unitized gas field…

Alphabet Winds Down Makani

Feb 19, 2020

Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced that it is calling it quits on its efforts to build and monetize its Makani wind energy kites.Google acquired Makani, which developed airborne wind turbines and aimed to make wind energy more accessible and affordable…

Norway's Daily Oil Production to Spike 6.7% by 2020 End

Feb 19, 2020

Norway's daily oil production is expected to be 6.7% higher at the end of this year than at the end of 2019, as a major oilfield ramps up output, forecasts published by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) showed on Wednesday.The country's preliminary oil output in January stood at 1…

Indonesia: Inpex Finds Buyers for Masela Gas

Feb 19, 2020

A unit of Japan's Inpex Corp signed on Wednesday a memorandum of understanding to supply gas to Indonesian state companies PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) and PT Pupuk Indonesia.It would be the first sales deal for gas produced from Indonesia's…

Tower Resources: Farm-out Talks Progressing Well

Feb 19, 2020

Tower Resources Cameroon SA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Africa-focused Tower Resources Plc, has hinted at good progress on the ongoing discussions with potential farm-in parties into the Thali PSC offshore Cameroon.The progress in the negotiations…

Neptune Brings Online HPHT Well in Dutch North Sea

Feb 19, 2020

Neptune Energy has started gas production from the new L5a-D4 well. According to Neptune, the well sits in the deepest producing gas field of the Dutch North Sea.L5a-D4 is a high pressure, high temperature well located in the L5a-D field, around 100 kilometers north of Den Helder…

Romania's Romgaz Eyeing Stake in Neptun Deep Offshore Project

Feb 18, 2020

Romania's Romgaz said it has agreed with OMV Petrom and Poland's PGNiG to make a joint offer for Exxon Mobil's 50% stake in a long-stalled offshore natural gas project in the Black Sea if the U.S. company decides to sell.State-owned Romgaz would…

Pertamina, Petronas Swapping Crude Oil

Feb 18, 2020

Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina signed a framework agreement with Malaysia's Petronas to sell and buy crude this year, Pertamina said in a statement on Tuesday.The agreement is a follow up to their plan last year to swap crude…

Funding Granted for Offshore Wind-To-Hydrogen Project

Feb 18, 2020

Gigastack, a project designed to create renewable hydrogen from offshore wind at industrial scale, has been awarded GBP 7.5 million funding for the second phase of the project.Led by ITM Power, Ørsted, Phillips 66 Limited and Element Energy…

Petronas' 2nd FLNG Sets Sail for Malaysian Offshore Field

Feb 18, 2020

Malaysian oil and gas giant Petronas has said that its second FLNG Unit, the PFLNG Dua, has set sail from South Korea, and is on its way to the Rotan gas field, offshore Malaysia.The journey, which started from the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in Korea…

Posco Strikes Gas Offshore Myanmar

Feb 18, 2020

South Korea's Posco International has made a gas discovery at the Mahar well offshore Myanmar.Located in Block A3, the well was drilled using the Maersk Viking drillship in a water depth of 1000 meters.The Korea Herald has reported that the…

Pemex Signs Contracts for New Oil Projects

Feb 18, 2020

Mexican national oil company Pemex has begun signing contracts with oilfield service firms specifically invited to submit bids for a new batch of priority exploration and production projects, the state-owned company's chief executive said. CEO…

Five Oil Majors Sign Offshore Exploration Deals in Egypt

Feb 17, 2020

Egypt has reached initial agreements with five major energy firms to explore for oil and gas in deep waters off its western coast on the Mediterranean, the petroleum minister said, the first such deals in that offshore region. The five companies are Royal Dutch Shell…

Chrysaor Backs Mocean Subsea

Feb 16, 2020

Mocean Energy, global wave energy player, has teamed up with energy major Chrysaor, subsea energy storage experts EC-OG and AUV specialist Modus in a project to look at using renewables for subsea power.The project, funded by the partners together with the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC)…

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