OKEA buys in as Wintershall exits Brage field
Norwegian late-life specialist OKEA will buy Wintershall Dea’s stakes in a trio of Norwegian fields, including operatorship of the Brage field, 76 miles west of Bergen.
Norwegian late-life specialist OKEA will buy Wintershall Dea’s stakes in a trio of Norwegian fields, including operatorship of the Brage field, 76 miles west of Bergen.
Wintershall Dea is increasing its stake in the Reggane Nord project, in Algeria, with the German company talking of long-term growth.
Germany has officially launched construction of an LNG terminal at Wilhelmshaven, while signing up preliminary agreements for four FSRUs.
Wintershall DEA says it will not “advance or implement” any oil and gas projects in Russia, and will write off its €1 billion (£830 million) financing of Nord Stream 2.
OMV will not go ahead with its purchase of a stake in Gazprom’s Urengoy gas and condensate field. It is also “reviewing” its involvement in Nord Stream 2.
BP, Wintershall DEA and IOG are among the North Sea firms which are monitoring UK Government sanctions against Russia, and could be impacted as tensions escalate.
Norway has dished out 53 licences in its latest round of awards for oil and gas exploration.
Despite “long-term headwinds”, it’s “full steam ahead” for Norwegian oil and gas operators next year, according to Wood Mackenzie.
Ineos and Wintershall DEA have decided to move ahead with the Greensand CCS pilot project in Denmark.
Westwood Global Energy reports that there were two exploration and one appraisal wells active as of July 28. Key wells in July include frontier play tests at Stovegolvet and Stangnestind, both of which completed. A total of 17 exploration wells have completed to date in 2021, from which seven commercial discoveries have been made giving a 41% commercial success rate to date.
Gazprom EP International has restarted production in Libya, where it works with Wintershall Dea.
Neptune Energy, the oil and gas explorer backed by Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners, is working with financial adviser Rothschild & Co. to explore potential options including an IPO, according to people familiar with the matter.
Around 200 jobs are at risk on a Seadrill North Sea rig after a spate of safety incidents saw its contract terminated, a union has said.
BP has started up gas production at the Raven field, offshore Egypt.
Thinking back to her early days as an engineer from Peterhead, Dawn Summers feels a “heavy obligation” to help bolster diversity and inclusion in oil and gas, particularly with young women.
Westwood Global Energy reports that there were five exploration well programmes active on the Norwegian Continental Shelf as of February 24. A total of three exploration wells have completed to date in 2021, from which one commercial discovery was made with total resources of c. 57 mmboe, giving a 33% commercial success rate.
Wintershall Dea of Germany saw losses widen to more than £1billion in 2020 as Covid-19 brought down commodity prices.
Private-equity backed Neptune Energy will buy interests in several German oil and gas fields from Wintershall Dea.
Business intelligence company, Offshore Network, are next month hosting the Upstream Digital Transformation Conference, a digitalisation event, but not one that’s looking at technology. Instead the event focuses on the ‘people’ aspects of digital transformation, with sessions including discussions on culture change, skills and collaboration.
Private equity firms that piled into oil-production assets in the past few years now find themselves stuck, and forced to contemplate novel ways to make an exit.
The insidious nature of National Socialism in Germany between 1933 and 1945 meant its impact was felt across society, from the dinner table to the boardroom.
Netherlands-based Wintershall Noordzee has completed the third development well at the Sillimanite field in the southern North Sea.
Wintershall DEA will “rely” on remote working as the norm once the Covid-19 pandemic is over.
Sonatrach has begun using its R-OB1 oil pipeline, rehabilitating a previous link dating from 1959.
Russo-German firm Wintershall Noordzee has overcome Covid-19 to start production from a second well at the Sillimanite gas field in the southern North Sea.