Category: Business News
STAVANGER, Norway – Equinor has awarded new framework agreements to five suppliers for safety and automation systems for its facilities across the Norwegian continental shelf. The agreements may also be extended to the company’s international E&P activities and for new development projects. Total value of the five-year fixed periods is just above NOK5 billion ($554 million), with three […]
Source: Offshore
Category: Business News
OSLO – For the first time, an exploration well is being drilled in the North Sea where the objective is not to find oil or gas. The well is being drilled south of the Troll field in the North Sea, and the objective is to investigate whether the reservoir in the deep Johansen Formation is […]
Source: World Oil
Category: Business News
ConocoPhillips announced a 10-year plan to buy back $30 billion of shares, equivalent to about half of its current market capitalization, as the oil producer attempts to distance itself from the troubled U.S. shale industry. The company also said it will pay dividends of about $20 billion over the period and limit average capital expenditure to about 10% […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Business News
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s preliminary production figures for October 2019 show an average daily production of 1.82 MMbblof oil, NGL and condensate, an increase of 264,000 bpd compared to September. Read full article HERE.
Source: World Oil
Category: Business News
Commenting on Equinor’s oil and gas discovery near the Fram field in the Norwegian North Sea, announced on 6 November 2019, senior analyst Palzor Shenga at Rystad Energy said: “After a string of recent discoveries, 2019 is shaping up to be the most successful exploration year since 2014 on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).” Conventional […]
Source: Hellenic Shipping News
Published: November 8, 2019