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The Norwegian government announced Tuesday it intends to allow seabed extraction for minerals on the country’s continental shelf saying Norway needs minerals “to succeed in the green transition”. Made a day after the United Nations adopted a historic pact to protect the high seas, the announcement drew condemnation from environmental …

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. has entered a deal for technical studies on technologies that would enable ammonia to be used to power vessels. The agreement with Winterthur Gas & Diesel AG (WinGD) will test the gas commonly used for fertilizers on “large, low-speed two-stroke marine engines” currently being developed by …

Eni SPA is campaigning for the use of its first renewables-based diesel among partner fuel transporters as part of its decarbonization strategy. The Italian state-controlled company says its HVOlution brand is produced using 100 percent renewable raw material based on European Union parameters. It has launched a promotional program targeting …

Abu Dhabi’s main energy company will sell a 15% stake in its logistics and shipping unit in an initial public offering, kicking off the second listing of one of its businesses this year. Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. will offer about 1.11 billion shares in Adnoc Logistics & Services, it …

The USA pipeline safety agency has filed a draft regulation aimed at strengthening industry measures to curb methane emissions and prevent hazards to people and the environment from the country’s nearly three million miles of gas pipelines. The proposal by the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety …

Italy’s newest and fourth regasification facility has received its first liquefied natural gas (LNG), paving the way for the startup of a project supplier Eni SPA said can serve about seven percent of domestic demand. The supply came from Egypt, among several countries in Africa where state-controlled Eni has strengthened …

An ExxonMobil spokesperson has confirmed to Rigzone that the company has exercised its right to withdraw from its joint operating agreement with Patriot Energy for Block VMM37 in Colombia. “We notified the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarbons of our intent to withdraw from the E&P contract for VMM37, and to discuss …

Europe has negotiated through the winter of a crisis that threatened to choke energy supplies and overwhelm its economy, but officials are warning that the squeeze may not yet be over. Fears of blackouts and freezing homes have faded for now, and gas reserves remain far fuller than normal. The …

Denmark is salvaging an unidentified object found next to a Russian gas pipeline damaged in a blast last September, as investigators continue to seek who was behind the attack. The operation comes two weeks after German authorities said they searched a vessel that may have transported explosives used in the …

Spain, the biggest European buyer of liquefied natural gas from Russia, is urging importers not to sign new contracts with Moscow as it seeks to crimp revenues for the Kremlin’s war machine. LNG importers in Spain received a letter from the government asking companies not to sign up to new …