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  • World’s largest economies are surpassing pre-Covid oil demand

    Some of the world’s biggest economies are seeing oil consumption turn the corner and even surpass pre-pandemic levels as falling Covid-19 infection rates drive a recovery in activity.   Oil demand in China, the world’s top energy consumer, will be 13% higher next quarter than…

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  • Russian Oil Shipments to USA Set to Surge

    The prolonged shutdown of Gulf of Mexico oil production in the wake of Hurricane Ida is creating an opportunity for Russia to expand its share of the US oil market.   Imports of Russian oil Urals to the US are set to increase in September…

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  • Siemens Gamesa unveils recyclable wind turbine blade

    Siemens Gamesa has introduced the world’s first recyclable wind turbine blade for commercial use offshore.   The company has produced the first six 81-metre (266-foot) long RecyclableBlades at its blade factory in Aalborg.   Many wind turbine components, such as the tower and nacelle, have…

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  • Var Energi granted Barents Sea drilling permit

    Var Energi AS has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to drill in Barents Sea production licence 901.   Well 7122/6-3 S – the first exploration well to be drilled in the licence – will be drilled from the Scarabeo 8 rig…

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  • Lebanon to Get Egyptian Gas via Pipeline in Plan to Ease Crisis

    Egyptian natural gas will be piped to Lebanon via Jordan and Syria to help boost its electricity output under a plan agreed by the four governments on the 8th September to ease a crippling power crisis.   The plan, which an Egyptian minister said would be implemented…

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  • Significant Onshore Australia Gas Discovery Made

    Mineral Resources Limited (MRL) has revealed that recent drilling activity has led to a “significant” gas discovery at the Lockyer Deep 1 project in the onshore Perth Basin, within Exploration Permit EP368.   Drilling commenced at the Lockyer Deep 1 well location in late July…

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  • Noreco enters CCS project in Danish North Sea

    Norway-based oil and gas company Noreco has entered into a CCS partnership with Denmark’s Ørsted and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) together with its partners in the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) on progressing carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the Danish North Sea.  …

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