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Thousands of retired Shell employees - many who would have worked at its old North Sea HQ in Tullos - are furious after the firm declined to top up payments in line with inflation. Pic: Shell's office complex at Tullos, Aberdeen.

Fury as north-east pensioners left out of Shell profit bonanza

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By Erikka Askeland

Renewables and Energy Transition

CCU International lands six-figure deal with Unilever-SCI consortium

By Allister Thomas

NECCUS CEO Ronnie Quinn addresses the Scotland Net Zero Roadmap launch event in Edinburgh.

NECCUS unveils roadmap to decarbonise three-quarters of Scotland’s industrial emitters

By Andrew Dykes

SSEN rules out repair of £30m Pentland Firth East cable after fault

Features

Sweet 16: The key North Sea projects due to come onstream before 2027

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The East Med’s export problem

The SIRI Platform is part of Denmark's Project Greensand CCS development

Ineos to ‘use the learning’ from Danish CCS project to inform Aberdeenshire’s Acorn

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Decom Week 2023 to facilitate operator-supply chain conversation

By Reporter

Lara McGrath from UK Export Finance speaking at ETIDEX 2022 session 1 - Energy Transition Forum

Accelerating green exports in the UK

By Reporter

Aramco to Send Representatives to Aberdeen’s Energy Export Conference

By Reporter

Opinion

Time to move forward with confidence to deliver on the potential of ScotWind

By Andy Macdonald, director of development and operations, ORE Catapult

Chancellor’s new support will be ‘defining moment’ for UK CCS

By Stuart Haszeldine, SCCS Director and Professor of Carbon Capture & Storage, University of Edinburgh

Offshore wind farm logistics risk becoming a quayside carpark

By Alex Fyfe, managing director, Heavy lift Projects Ltd

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Hartshead strikes deal to use Shell platform as tie-back host for North Sea gas fields

22/03/2023

Australia’s Hartshead Resources (ASX:HHR) has struck a deal with the Shell (LON: SHEL) to use the latter’s Leman Alpha platform as a tie-back host.

Rigs & Vessels

Blackford Dolphin kicks off drilling in Nigeria

21/03/2023

Once the Blackford Dolphin completes its work for General Hydrocarbons, it will stay in Nigeria for work with Peak Petroleum, at a higher day rate.

Sparrows avoid strikes as workers secure 10% pay rise

21/03/2023

Sparrows workers on BP installations have shelved plans to strike after agreeing on the equivalent of a 10% pay rise.

E&P

Eco Atlantic sets out Orange Basin drill plans

21/03/2023

Eco Atlantic has begun the regulatory process of applying for an exploration well offshore South Africa in the Orange Basin.

Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela's oil minister, listens during an interview in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday, June 10, 2021. El Aissami, personally sanctioned by U.S. Treasury over allegations of drug trafficking, is confident all will be forgotten because there's so much money to be made rebuilding Venezuela's oil industry. Photographer: Gaby Ora/Bloomberg

Venezuela’s oil minister resigns amid PDVSA corruption probe

21/03/2023

By Bloomberg

Venezuela’s Tareck el Aissami resigned as the nation’s oil minister as an investigation escalated into corruption claims inside state-oil company Petroleos de Venezuela.

NSTA launches probe into firm suspected of undermining UK energy security

21/03/2023

The industry regulator has launched an investigation into a potential breach of licence commitments by a North Sea operator.

OEUK boss calls on government to rebuild investor confidence

21/03/2023

By Andrew Dykes

The head of Offshore Energies UK will emphasise the importance of investor confidence in the North Sea alongside the sector’s safety leadership at the group’s HSE conference on Tuesday.

A valve control wheel connected to crude oil pipework in an oilfield near Dyurtyuli, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. The flaring coronavirus outbreak will be a key issue for OPEC+ when it meets at the end of the month to decide on whether to delay a planned easing of cuts early next year. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

China’s Russian energy imports balloon to $88bn since war

21/03/2023

By Bloomberg

In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, roiling energy markets across the globe, China’s appetite for Moscow’s oil, gas and coal has grown apace, with imports rising by more than half.

No jobs affected as Aberdeen’s AGR is bought over by ABL Group

20/03/2023

AGR, an engineering firm with offices in Aberdeen, has been acquired by the energy and marine consultancy group, ABL.

LNG

Exxon issues Rovuma LNG tender but financing in focus

20/03/2023

ExxonMobil has issued a call for companies to build an onshore LNG plant in Mozambique, amid signs of new confidence in the conflict afflicted north.

Europe

G-7 set to hold off revising Russian oil price cap this week

20/03/2023

By Bloomberg

Group of Seven nations are unlikely to revise a price cap on Russian oil this week, despite initial evidence that crude is selling well below the current $60 threshold.

Equinor offloads minority stake in Statfjord feild in $220m deal

20/03/2023

Equinor has signed a deal to offload 28% of its working interest in the Statfjord area to fellow Norwegian firm, OKEA.

Window of opportunity to preserve liveable climate rapidly closing, says IPCC

20/03/2023

By Press Association

There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and secure a safe and liveable future for the global population, according to a new UN report.

Dunnottar Castle and Bowdun Head. Stonehaven.

ScotWind

Developers name giant offshore windfarm after Stonehaven’s Bowdun Head

20/03/2023

By Erikka Askeland

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Developers of a massive offshore wind farm planned off the coast of Aberdeenshire have named it after Stonehaven’s distinctive coastal landmark, Bowdun Head.

Serinus Energy intends to prove up its cash generation skills this year in Tunisia and Romania, after having ditched its debt.

Rigs & Vessels

Serinus struggles with rig delivery woes at Sabria

20/03/2023

“Given the state owned, monopolistic nature of CTF the company was deprived of normal contractual remedies and was forced to wait until a suitable rig became available,” he continued.

UK gas specs widened in bid to boost North Sea supplies

20/03/2023

By Andrew Dykes

The government has sanctioned plans to widen quality limits on gas that can be accepted into the UK grid in a bid to shore up energy security and boost North Sea supplies.

E&P

Lukoil sees room for more in Congo

20/03/2023

Gas volumes will also grow, he said. It is currently producing 1.5 billion cubic metres per year and this will grow to 5.5 bcm “at the next development stage" Tass reported the manager as saying.

‘Tsunami’ of unrest to hit North Sea as 1,400 workers ready to strike

20/03/2023