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Shell announced yesterday that it has switched on a 100MW battery system in a village in Wiltshire that it claims is the largest in Europe. The oil and gas major said the grid-connected storage system will play a significant role in helping to balance UK electricity demand, and would be …

Canada-based ShaMaran Petroleum has agreed to acquire a stake of 18% in the Sarsang licence in the Kurdistan region of Iraq from TotalEnergies. Under the deal, ShaMaran will purchase a 100% stake in TotalEnergies subsidiary TEPKRI Sarsang, which holds production sharing contract (PSC) interest in Sarsang block. HKN Energy owns …

Shell will join a project in Norway to produce hydrogen from natural gas while capturing the emissions, Aker Clean Hydrogen (ACH) said on Monday. Countries across Europe are looking at ways to produce emissions-free hydrogen to help reduce carbon emissions and avert global warming. Clean hydrogen can be produced from …

Norway’s state-controlled energy company Equinor is confident there is a long-term role for hydrogen produced from fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage, the company’s senior vice president for low-carbon solutions Grete Tveit told S&P Global Platts. The development of “blue” hydrogen from fossil fuels with CCS would pave the …

Eni has announced an oil discovery on the Eban exploration prospect in CTP Block 4, offshore Ghana. The Eban – 1X well is the second well drilled in CTP Block 4, following the Akoma discovery. Preliminary estimates place the potential of the Eban–Akoma complex between 500 and 700 million boe …

BP has commenced production from the East South flank, the new phase of its Shah Deniz II gas field in Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan. Planned to reach full production rates in the third quarter of this year, the deepwater flank has a production capacity of 400 million standard cubic feet …

Qatar Petroleum has signed agreements with TotalEnergies to acquire a stake in three offshore exploration blocks in South Africa. The assets involved in the deal include the South Outeniqua block, DWOB block, and OBD block. Under the deal, the state-owned firm will acquire a stake of 25% in the approximately …

Qatar Petroleum has signed a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Shell for the supply of 1 million tons per annum (MTPA) of LNG to China for 10 years. LNG deliveries will commence in January 2022 to various LNG terminals in China. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for …

BP company has announced the increase in production volume in the concession area, Block 61, from one billion cubic feet per day to one and a half billion cubic feet per day. A statement issued online by Oman News Agency (ONA), said: “BP company raised the volume of production in …

Masdar, a subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company and one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, has announced a strategic agreement with Iraq to develop solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in the country with a minimum total capacity of 2GW (gigawatts). Iraq, the second-largest oil producer in the Organisation of Petroleum …