Offshore

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April 30, 2021
While Noia is currently reviewing the government's Oil and Gas Industry Recovery Task Force Report recommendations, the association is initially pleased with the recommendations and the approach of the task force to deal with current challenges and prepare for the future.
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January 07, 2021
The Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association (NEIA), Noia, and the Oil and Gas Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador are working together to accelerate awareness and the pursuit of clean technology opportunities in Canada's offshore oil and gas industry.
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December 03, 2020
"The funding will help maintain the project in warm suspension during 2021 and hopefully position it for a full restart in 2022 and the path to first oil," Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association CEO Charlene Johnson said in a statement.
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September 30, 2020
Newfoundland and Labrador’s 2020 Independent Oil and Gas Resource Assessment results show 11.1 billion barrels of oil and 24.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas potential offshore.
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September 25, 2020
While Canada's leaders promise measures to protect oilfield livelihoods, shale drillers in the U.S. are working to minimize the impacts of a potential Biden victory.
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September 24, 2020
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the establishment of a new offshore exploration initiative to provide companies with the incentive to drill more wells in the best prospects.
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September 09, 2020
“Unfortunately, the delay caused by COVID-19 and continued market uncertainty leaves us no choice but to undertake a full review of the project and, by extension, our future operations in Atlantic Canada," said Husky CEO Rob Peabody.
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September 03, 2020
On September 3rd, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with VOCM Open Line host Paddy Daly who asked pointed questions about supporting the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore oil and gas industry. The responses of the prime minister did not provide any commitment or clarity, despite months of a crisis in the offshore, advocacy by the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association (Noia), as well as information sharing by Noia, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and other stakeholders.
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July 28, 2020
Using data acquired in partnership with PGS, this study offers seamless subsurface interpretation for the entire offshore East Coast Canada and is available for immediate licensing.
Article
July 2020
Several times, over a period from mid-April to June 4, Canadian federal officials—principally as voiced by Natural Resources Canada Minister Seamus O’Regan—declared that they recognized that the NL offshore oil and gas industry is important, and that action would happen “soon.”
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July 2020
One of the more exasperating, outrageous situations being played out in the global upstream industry is the Trudeau administration turning a deaf ear, so far, to repeated requests and pleas for federal officials to lend substantive help to Newfoundland and Labrador’s (NL) offshore oil and gas industry.
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July 07, 2020
Community and business leaders, as well as supporters throughout Canada, are united to send a clear message to the Government of Canada that action is needed to attract investment in the offshore oil and gas industry and help thousands of Canadians get back to work.
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July 03, 2020
A month after Natural Resources Canada Minister Seamus O’Regan said an announcement was coming “very soon,” the offshore oil and gas industry is still waiting for assistance to help it recover from COVID-19 and remain globally competitive.
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June 24, 2020
Canadians have sent more than 2,000 letters of support asking the federal government to invest in Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil and natural gas industry.
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June 19, 2020
K&D Pratt has expressed grave concern for the economic future of the province without a solid investment from the Government of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore industry.
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June 18, 2020
Recently, the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil and Gas Industries Association (Noia) wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seeking a commitment to support the region’s oil and gas companies, and their employees, in the face of depressed oil prices.
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June 15, 2020
The current economic crisis in the offshore oil & gas sector has impacted PanGeo Subsea’s overall revenue and operations. The company was prepared to support early stages of a new offshore development with hopes for pre-installation survey imagining campaigns and further “close to home” debris surveys.
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June 12, 2020
Per Canada’s CBC News, a report this week has stoked some optimism in the Newfoundland and Labrador oil and gas sector, with a description of another “potentially commercial discovery” in the Flemish Pass Basin.
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June 04, 2020
Canadian banks’ exposure to oil and gas loans has surged to a record as energy firms tapped credit lines to combat plunging oil prices.
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June 03, 2020
Noia wrote Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to request a response to pleas from the industry and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to provide assistance to help the offshore oil and gas industry recover from COVID-19 and remain globally competitive.
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May 26, 2020
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight Ball, along with provincial Minister of Natural Resources Siobhan Coady, expressed support for a focused initiative to persuade the federal government to provide immediate assistance to East Canada’s offshore industry, which has been hit hard by Covid-19 and the collapse of oil prices.
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