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February 13, 2023
The Noble Innovator offshore rig arrived at the new $483.91 million Aberdeen South Harbour for a 60 - 90 day period of maintenance by Noble Corporation.
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February 13, 2023
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has been awarded two contracts by Equinor for the Irpa and Verdande field developments, located in the Norwegian Sea. The two projects will be executed in a consortium between DeepOcean and Subsea7.
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February 10, 2023
Estonia’s Eesti Gaas AS will in the next few weeks issue a tender to buy seven LNG cargoes for delivery from April through September into Inkoo, a new floating terminal in Finland, a spokesperson said.
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February 09, 2023
JDR will engineer, design and manufacture two subsea umbilicals, that range from 10-13 km in length, to provide vital power to two new platforms located at the A/B shallow gas field.
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February 09, 2023
The Heimdal Terrace OBN survey will span an additional 500 square kilometer area under receivers (AUR) to increase the contiguous multi-client OBN coverage in the region to 3,778 square kilometers AUR.
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February 09, 2023
According to preliminary estimates, the size of the discovery is between 17 and 47 MMboe, of which the majority is oil. The two exploration wells of the discovery were drilled by the Transocean Spitsbergen rig.
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February 09, 2023
The discovery occurred in the operated 7122/8-1S Countach well in PL229 (Goliat), north-west of Hammerfest.
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February 07, 2023
Multiple sources have reported calls by opposition politicians and union leaders for another increase in the windfall taxes on energy producers, linked to BP’s latest global profits announcements. OEUK said such a levy risked breaching global tax agreements and could never be implemented.
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February 07, 2023
The acreage includes the Harald gas fields, for which the company is already assessing CO2 storage opportunities within the framework of the Bifrost project, as well as a saline aquifer that could increase CO2 storage volumes and bring a competitive solution to the market.
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February 03, 2023
The agreements will secure the majority of the power needed for the existing manufacturing activities and also the additional power required for planned investments into electrification and hydrogen production as part of INEOS Inovyn Norway's plans to decarbonize its assets in Norway.
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February 01, 2023
With the start-up of production from the 10th well, the Neptune-operated Cygnus gas facility is now capable of producing enough natural gas to meet the needs of approximately 2 million UK households, underlining the important contribution of Cygnus to UK energy security.
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February 01, 2023
Under current projections, the project has the capacity to store up to one gigaton of CO2 - which equates to roughly three years’ worth of UK CO2 current emissions.
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February 01, 2023
The Barents Blue concept is to make ammonia from natural gas from the Barents Sea, capture the CO2 and store it under the seabed. The Polaris CO2 storage under the Barents Sea was selected as the CO2 storage solution for the Barents Blue project.
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January 30, 2023
Equinor awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract the low-carbon hydrogen production plan H2H Saltend to Linde Engineering. Equinor also awarded an operation and maintenance service contract to Linde company BOC.  
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January 26, 2023
BiSN signed a three-year contract, which features two one-year extensions, to provide this operator with Wel-lok™ alloy plugs for its ongoing offshore UK P&A campaign in the North Sea.
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January 24, 2023
This is an important step for Germany's energy sector, as the Adorf field provides enough gas to heat “more than 100,000 households,” according to Neptune Energy’s Managing Director Andreas Scheck.
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January 24, 2023
PGS will acquire 4D surveys over the Gullfaks and Gudrun fields over the summer of 2023.
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January 24, 2023
Produced in partnership with Scotland-based documentary maker Thomas Hogben, ‘The Time is Now: the UK’s changing energy industry’ intimately captures the hopes, fears and ambitions of some of the people working on the frontline of the UK’s energy transition.
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January 23, 2023
The Press Association has reported a speech by Rachel Reeves at the Fabian Society Conference, saying that a Labour government would extend the windfall tax on UK North Sea operators from 75% to 78%. In response, OEUK said the impact of such changes would be disastrous for the UK’s energy supplies and future energy security.
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January 23, 2023
GMS has signed a contract to provide construction and developmental support for a major offshore wind farm in France. The contract is due to complete in Q1 2023.
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January 20, 2023
TotalEnergies awarded the first contract- the LAPA Southwest (LAPA SW) development project- to Saipem and partner Aker Solutions do Brasil. Equinor also awarded a contract to Saipem for the Irpa pipeline project.
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