Eni has signed an exploration contract with Côte d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Renewable Energies for the CI-707 offshore block in the Abidjan basin, the company announced on Wednesday.
Rhino Resources Namibia Ltd. has confirmed a significant gas condensate discovery at the Volans-1X exploration well in Block 2914A, offshore Namibia’s Orange basin. The find represents the company’s third consecutive hydrocarbon discovery on Petroleum Exploration License 85 (PEL 85), where Rhino holds a 42.5% operating interest.
“Five years in advance, the new contract guarantees the company the possibility of bringing forward investments of around BRL 6 billion until 2029, speeding up improvements to the electricity system and benefiting more than four million customers throughout the state”.
As one of the UK’s most significant subsea infrastructure assets, the FUKA pipeline has the capacity to carry 36 million cubic metres of gas per day. From there, Victory gas will be delivered to the St Fergus Gas Terminal in north-east Scotland, where it is processed to provide a safe and reliable source of energy to the UK economy.
AXP Energy has confirmed hydrocarbons across several pay zones in its Charlie #1 well, located on the Edward Lease in Noble County, Oklahoma. The well reached total vertical depth of 4,725 ft on Sept. 22, and a full suite of wireline logs was successfully run before 5½-in. casing was set and cemented.
Elea Data Centers has secured a R$2.3 billion (US$500 million) contract from Petrobras to build a large-scale, renewable-powered data center in São Paulo. The 17-year agreement is being described as the largest IT infrastructure award of its kind in Latin America.
The Premier of British Columbia said that “The problem that we have is Smith continues to advance a project that is taxpayer-funded, has no private sector proponent, is not a real project and is incredibly alarming to British Columbians, especially First Nations along the coast,” as quoted by Global News.
Media reports on the news cited sources in the know that remained unnamed and that said the deal included AES’s substantial debt load, at $29 billion, per the Financial Times. Its market capitalization, on the other hand, was valued at $9.4 billion at the time the first reports about the talks surfaced. Later, Reuters said AES’s market cap has risen to $10.94 billion, giving the potential deal a total value of over $40 billion.
“President Trump promised to protect taxpayer dollars and expand America’s supply of affordable, reliable, and secure energy. Today’s cancellations deliver on that commitment. Rest assured, the Energy Department will continue reviewing awards to ensure that every dollar works for the American people,” Wright added.
TotalEnergies has agreed to divest its 39.89% non-operated interests in Norway’s West Ekofisk and Albuskjell fields to Vår Energi and its 20.23% stake in the Tommeliten Gamma field to Orlen Upstream Norway, the French energy giant announced on Wednesday.