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’.
Investment firm LetterOne, owned in part by sanctioned Russian oligarchs Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman, has acquired a minority stake (14.87%) in Harbour Energy, which is the UK’s biggest oil and gas company with operations in Norway, Southeast Asia, Germany, North Africa and Argentina.
UK is among a group of five richer nations which have together issued two-thirds of oil and gas licenses since 2020, according to the IISD
Oil and gas exploration worldwide has surged to the highest level in five years, despite hundreds of nations agreeing to “transition away” from fossil fuels in energy systems at last year’s UN Climate Summit.
TotalEnergies will sell its entire interest in the UK’s West of Shetland gasfields to the Prax Group, the French company said on Thursday.
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Blue hydrogen and LNG import-reliant gas-CCUS projects could derail the UK’s net zero target and exhaust the carbon budget, Carbon Tracker analysts have reported.
The future of new oil and gas projects in the UK has been thrown into doubt following a landmark decision by the Supreme Court.
Under supportive policies, investment in domestic offshore energy sectors such as oil and gas, offshore wind, hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage technology could surge by more than 50%, rising from approximately £13 billion last year to over £20 billion by the early 2030s, according to a new report
Luxembourg-domiciled Subsea7 has tucked a new assignment in the UK under its belt, which will enable it to work on the development of a field that will be tied back to an existing floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel working in the North Sea.
UK-based produced water treatment specialist Adaptive Process Solutions (APS) has conducted a field trial of its microbubble infusion unit (MiFU) technology aboard a floating production, storage, and offloading installation (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea, resulting in lower oil in water (OiW) levels.