LONDON, UK, January 27, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Norway’s offshore safety regulator has given top German oil and gas producer Wintershall Dea the all clear to carry out light well intervention work on four separate fields off Norway’s coast using a mobile offshore unit (MOU) belonging to Island Offshore. It was revealed on Thursday, 26 January […]
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The first coal mine in Britain for 30 years has been given the go-ahead by the government, prompting a storm of protest from green groups and MPs across the political spectrum Michael Gove, the levelling-up secretary, granted approval for the mine in Whitehaven in Cumbria on Wednesday evening in a controversial decision that has been […]
The UK will build its first new coalmine for three decades at Whitehaven in Cumbria, despite objections locally, across the UK and from around the world. Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, gave the green light for the project on Wednesday, paving the way for an estimated investment of £165m that will create about 500 […]
OSLO: The Norwegian energy ministry on Thursday said it had approved operator Equinor‘s plan for new investments in the North Sea Oseberg petroleum fields, which will boost gas exports to Europe from 2026. Equinor and its partners estimated that the amended development plan will increase output at Oseberg by 31.2 million cubic metres (mcm) of […]
Equinor and its partners estimated that the amended development plan will increase output at Oseberg by 31.2 million cubic metres (mcm) of oil equivalent, or around 196 million barrels of oil equivalent, 87% of which will be gas output. “Most of this is gas that can be delivered to the European markets,” Minister of Petroleum […]
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Scottish government does not have the legal authority to hold an independence referendum without agreement from Downing Street, scuppering plan to hold a vote next year. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, in June told the parliament in Edinburgh that she wanted to hold a plebiscite in October […]
The Navi-Star cargo ship docked beside grain silos at the Port of Odesa on Friday.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times ODESA, Ukraine — The first shipments of grain since the beginning of the war in Ukraine have been loaded onto freighters at Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea, getting ready for their first voyages […]
The British energy giant announced on Monday that it will develop the Jackdaw gas field, 150 kilometres east of Aberdeen in Scotland, which is expected to come online by 2025. At peak production rates, Shell predicts the gas field could provide up to six percent of UK gas output. It comes after the North Sea […]
Some 3,000 women a year will receive the life-extending medication Alpelisib, health bosses announced. And 650 patients with a certain type of breast cancer will win access to Trodelvy, which has been given the green light for NHS use despite being preliminarily rejected earlier this year. Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now […]
The board is backing a bid by a consortium comprising Australia’s Kinetic Holding Company and Spain-based infrastructure firm Globalvia. The 1,500p-a-share offer represented a premium of 10.2 per cent to Go-Ahead’s closing price. It came at the end of a day in which the firm first revealed the approach by two suitors. The other was […]