US onshore driller Helmerich & Payne (H&P) has closed its $1.97 billion acquisition of UK competitor KCA Deutag, and in the process it acquired the remaining 10% of KCA Deutag that had been held by Italian contractor Saipem.
The financial curbs on oil trading firms, 2Rivers DMCC and 2Rivers Pte Ltd. will clamp down on Russia’s oil revenues and drain President Vladimir Putin’s “war chest,” the UK government said in a statement on Tuesday. The two firms were “key lynchpins in enabling the trading of Putin’s precious oil,” it said.
The Italian EPC player will support the development of offshore facilities for the transportation and storage of CO2 in the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) and Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT) projects – part of the UK’s East Coast Cluster of carbon projects.
The UK government has admitted in court that its approval of the giant Rosebank oilfield off Shetland was unlawful. Government lawyer Chris Pirie KC accepted at an Edinburg court that the previous Conservative administration did not include “the effects on climate of the combustion of oil and gas to be extracted from the fields.”
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Oct. 30 confirmed a three percentage point hike in North Sea oil and natural gas taxation along with the removal of an investment allowance, but refrained from a more draconian hike amid industry warnings of a hit to investment and a risk of accelerating output decline.
Britain’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves has raised the Energy Profits Levy on North Sea oil and gas producers to 38% in her first budget for the Labor government.
In a statement posted on its website, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) said its latest resources and reserves report shows that the NSTA’s estimate for proven and probable UK oil and gas reserves at the end of 2023 is 3.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
The two United Kingdom firms that last year marketed Guyana’s oil from two offshore platforms in the Stabroek Block will be doing so again, for a one year fiscal period.
The Italian oil and gas company Eni has completed the combination of its upstream oil and gas assets in the United Kingdom with Ithaca Energy. The £754m (€900m) merger deal, however, excludes Eni’s East Irish Sea assets and CCUS activities.
Fitch Ratings is maintaining Ithaca Energy plc’s (Ithaca) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of ‘B’ and senior unsecured rating of ‘B+’ on Rating Watch Positive (RWP). The Recovery Rating is ‘RR3’.