UK/UKCS
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August 13, 2019
Predictive analysis services provider OPEX Group has secured a new multi-million-pound contract with CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, for digital services across the company’s UKCS assets.
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August 13, 2019
Iran expects an oil tanker seized by the UK in the Strait of Gibraltar in July will be released soon, the semi-official Fars News agency reported Tuesday, a move that could help to ease concerns about the safety of shipping routes in the Middle East.
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August 05, 2019
The UK is “spearheading” an international mission to protect shipping in the Persian Gulf, which will see the Royal Navy work with the U.S. to protect vessels amid an ongoing confrontation with Iran.
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July 30, 2019
BP is “certainly not sending British ships and crews” through the Strait of Hormuz, the only way for tankers to reach the world’s biggest oil-exporting region, Chief Executive Officer Robert Dudley said in an interview.
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July 30, 2019
The owner of a British tanker seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month raised concerns about the safety of the crew still on board.
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July 29, 2019
Efforts to secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz are ramping up as the UK said a second warship arrived in the area and South Korea may deploy its own unit as part of a multinational force.
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July 24, 2019
Neptune Energy and its joint venture partners BP and JAPEX today announced TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation Target Cost contract for the Seagull development oil project in the UK North Sea.
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July 19, 2019
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz amid soaring tensions in one of the world’s critical energy chokepoints.
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July 19, 2019
A former oil executive pleaded guilty to five counts of corruption in the U.K. as part of one of the white-collar financial crime prosecutor’s biggest bribery investigations.
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July 15, 2019
The Dales Voe decommissioning facility in Shetland is one step closer to becoming a center of excellence for recycling offshore structures from the North Sea with the arrival of two new installations for decommissioning by strategic partners Veolia and Peterson.
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July 14, 2019
The European Union is poised to freeze most high-level contacts with Turkey and cut the flow of funds to the country, while holding back for now on sanctions that could target Turkish companies involved in offshore drilling in the eastern Mediterranean.
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July 12, 2019
Britain raised the threat level to the highest possible for ships operating in the Persian Gulf as tensions escalate in a region accounting for a third of seaborne petroleum trade.
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July 11, 2019
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has launched the 32nd Offshore Licensing Round with 768 blocks or part-blocks on offer across the main producing areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Acreage is on offer in the Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, Southern North Sea and the West of Shetlands.
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July 11, 2019
Cuadrilla today confirmed that it will return to hydraulic fracturing and flow testing of natural gas at its flagship Lancashire site in Preston New Road, near Blackpool.
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July 10, 2019
Total has signed an agreement to divest several UK non-core assets to Petrogas NEO UK Ltd, the exploration and production arm of the Oman-based conglomerate MB Holding.
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July 07, 2019
Iran said an oil tanker that was seized by British forces near Gibraltar wasn’t destined for Syria.
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July 04, 2019
Rever Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, continues to consolidate its North Sea presence, announcing the successful completion of three standalone contracts for energy major, Total E&P UK.
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July 04, 2019
British special forces seized a supertanker off Gibraltar suspected of carrying Iranian oil to Syria in violation of European and U.S. sanctions against the war-torn country.
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July 01, 2019
Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) announced today the company has closed on the sale of its UK business, which consists of the Brae area fields and Foinaven, to RockRose Energy PLC.
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July 01, 2019
Tata Steel has secured a contract to provide high frequency induction (HFI) line pipe for an oil and gas project north-east of Shetland in the UK North Sea.
