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Spirit, Premier pick up UK acreage in licensing round

Premier Oil and Spirit Energy have added a total of 14 new blocks to their UK North Sea portfolio in...

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Kato Energy submits proposal for Amulet offshore project

Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has ...

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UK: OGA offers offshore blocks to 65 firms

The UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has offered for award 113 licence areas over 259 blocks o...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Jadestone sets up new offtake model for Stag

Jadestone Energy has set up a new offtake arrangement for the Stag oil field following Altera’...

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  • Vessels
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Equinor's Johan Castberg project under investigation

Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has launched an investigation into challenges related to the comp...

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  • Regulation & Policy
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Gas leak reported on Gulf of Mexico platform

The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday responded to a report of a natural gas release from an oil platform ...

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  • Environment
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Turkey to continue exploring disputed area in Mediterranean

Turkey is carrying on with its exploration attempts in a disputed area of the East Mediterranean unt...

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OMV Petrom enters Total's Black Sea block

OMV Petrom has entered the Total-operated Han-Asparuh exploration block located in the Black Sea off...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Oil output still down following Hurricane Laura

Even though Hurricane Laura has moved from the Gulf of Mexico onto the mainland, almost 70 per cent ...

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  • Safety
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Gulf of Mexico operators returning after Hurricane Laura

Oil and gas operators in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico are slowly returning to their offshore facilities f...

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  • Safety
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Wintershall Dea rejects U.S. sanctions for Nord Stream 2

German oil and gas company Wintershall Dea, one of five western partners in the Nord Stream 2 gas pi...

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Two workers airlifted from Statfjord B after incident

Two workers were evacuated on Tuesday from Equinor’s Statfjord B platform offshore Norway afte...

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  • Safety
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Norway: Tax relief to increase investments in oil and gas

A survey made by the Norwegian statistics bureau SSB revealed that oil and gas investment in Norway ...

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  • Market Outlooks
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U.S. and Norway enter offshore energy partnership

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Norweg...

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Trump administration mulls allowing longer offshore tiebacks

The U.S. government is considering changes to policies for oil companies operating in the offshore G...

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Equinor to use Odfjell rig for Gullfaks drilling

Equinor has received safety consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Deepsea Atl...

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BPC granted force majeure extension for Bahamas licence

Bahamas Petroleum Company has been granted an interim force majeure extension to the second explorat...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Wellesley ready to drill Norwegian Sea wildcat

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wellesley Petroleum a drilling permit for a wildcat ...

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  • Exploration & Production
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OGA: Offshore energy industry to aid UK in reaching net-zero

The integration of offshore energy systems, including oil and gas, renewables, hydrogen, and carbon ...

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New law to fund US infrastructure maintenance with O&G money

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law a bipartisan bill which would use royalties from off...

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Somalia to reveal first licensing round winners in 1Q 2021

Somalia will reportedly announce the winners of its first oil and gas licensing round in early 2021 ...

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Spirit Energy bites dust near Ivar Aasen field

Oil and gas company Spirit Energy has hit a duster near the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of ...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Vital role of O&G industry in achieving net-zero by 2050

A green energy transition will require the industry to make real progress in reducing its carbon foo...

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  • Transition
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UOG scoops Tullow's stake in Jamaican offshore licence

Oil and gas company United Oil & Gas (UOG) has been assigned Tullow Oil’s stake in the Wal...

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ConocoPhillips gets drilling permit for Norwegian Sea well

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted ConocoPhillips a drilling permit for a well lo...

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  • Exploration & Production
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