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  • Wärtsilä to provide main equipment for three LNG-fuelled vessels

    Wärtsilä has announced that it has been selected to supply all of the main equipment for the first LNG-fuelled short-sea Ro-Lo (roll-on, lift-off) vessels to be operated by Finland-based Bore Ltd.   According to the statement, three ships have been ordered, and are under construction…

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  • Ammonia-Fuelled Supply Vessel on the Drawing Board

    Equinor announced on the 23rd January that the world’s first carbon-free ammonia-fuelled supply vessel is on the drawing board.   In a statement posted on its website, the company revealed that it has signed a five-year agreement with Eidesvik Offshore for the modification of the…

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  • CGX wraps up seismic survey over Guyana block

    Seismic services provider PGS has completed a 3D seismic programme on the northern section of the CGX Energy-operated Corentyne block offshore Guyana.   CGX is the operator of the Corentyne Block under a joint operating agreement with Frontera Energy. CGX has a 66.667% participating interest…

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  • Tulip to step up drilling in North Sea Q10-A area

    Tulip Oil has issued an update on its Q10-A gas field development in the Dutch North Sea, which came onstream last year via a newly built platform.   During the fourth quarter of 2019 production totalled 258 MMcm. Tulip is using data from all four…

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  • Microgrids Are Quickly Becoming a Top Solution to Energy Problems

    Microgrids are becoming essential for millions of people around the world.   After earthquakes and aftershocks left Puerto Rico without power, microgrids installed at ten schools continue to run, providing power to residents.   When PG&E shut off power in California to battle high winds…

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  • Oil production in Brazil surpasses 1 billion bbl in 2019

    Total oil production in Brazil in 2019 was 1.018 billion barrels, an increase of 7.78% compared with 2018 levels when 944.117 million barrels were produced, the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels said on the 22nd January   Total natural gas production…

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  • Latest Norway Oil Spending Boom Probably the Last

    Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer has just witnessed its final investment boom, according to Norway’s largest bank.   Last year’s spectacular rebound in oil spending triggered enough of an economic boost to warrant a cycle of three interest-rate hikes in 2019 alone.  …

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  • Neptune hands out engineering and decom services deal for Dutch North Sea assets

    Neptune Energy has awarded a four-year framework agreement for EPCIC (engineering, procurement, construction, installation & commissioning) and decommissioning services for brownfield modification to Stork Worley Integrated Solutions VoF for its Dutch North Sea assets.   The services will comprise of engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning,…

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