Italian Eni and French TotalEnergies on Monday began the exploratory drilling of a natural gas well off the coast of Cyprus in the same block where a discovery was made in 2018. On Monday, the Tungsten Explorer drillship arrived off the coast of Cyprus to begin drilling in Block 6, …
Read More »TotalEnergies Starts Work on First Offshore Wind Farm off France
French energy major TotalEnergies has started construction of the Eolmed project, operated by Qair and in which TotalEnergies has a 20 percent stake. This 30 MW project is located some 12 miles off the coast of Gruissan and Port la Nouvelle. The start of production is expected by 2024. The …
Read More »TotalEnergies’ German Refinery is still Importing Russian Oil
A refinery owned by French supermajor TotalEnergies in Germany is expected to continue importing Russian crude oil via pipeline at least through the end of this month, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. The 240,000-barrels-per-day refinery Leuna in eastern Germany is one of two facilities in Germany …
Read More »Big Oil Wants a Piece of the Electric Vehicle Pie
Although electric vehicles (EVs) may appear to be the last thing the oil and gas industry would desire, energy firms are investing heavily in EV technologies, not wanting to miss out on new energy transition opportunities. The likes of Shell, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Equinor, and BP are all backing EV projects …
Read More »Big Oil’s Huge Profits Offset by Russian Asset Write-Offs
The world’s largest international oil firms are expected to book a combined $34 billion in net profits for the first quarter—the largest in more than a decade—but Big Oil will also book asset impairments of the same amount over their decisions to stop Russian operations. Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, and …
Read More »European Gas Prices Rise Once again with Ukraine Supplies Expected to Fall
European natural gas prices edged higher, following seven sessions of declines, with Russian supplies through Ukraine expected to fall. Orders dropped to about 68pc of the amount that Gazprom PJSC can send under its transit contract. The Russian company reiterated that flows were in line with requests from customers. Supplies …
Read More »TotalEnergies, Sempra to Develop Mexican LNG Project
French energy major TotalEnergies and U.S. LNG infrastructure company Sempra have expanded their North American strategic alliance with the signing of two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs). TotalEnergies said that one of the agreements was for the Vista Pacífico LNG export project in Mexico while the other was for the co-development …
Read More »TotalEnergies to Stop Funding Arctic LNG-2 Project and Buying Russian Oil
While it does not operate any oil and gas fields or LNG plants in Russia, the French oil and gas company has minority stakes in several non-state-owned Russian oil and gas companies. These include Novatek (19.4%), Yamal LNG (20%), Arctic LNG 2 (10%) and TerNefteGaz (49%). TotalEnergies is also a …
Read More »TotalEnergies to Halt Russian Oil Purchases by the End of 2022
TotalEnergies has announced it will stop purchasing oil and petroleum products from Russia as soon as possible and by the end of 2022 at the latest. In this way, TotalEnergies wanted to address “serious and unfounded” accusations of “complicity in war crimes” for continuing to work in Russia. The energy …
Read More »TotalEnergies Makes Large Oil Discovery off Namibia
Operator TotalEnergies has made a significant discovery of light oil and associated gas off the coast of Namibia, the company said on Thursday, 24 February. Two sources earlier told Reuters about the large discovery in the Venus-X1 well, the second recent offshore discovery for the southern African country that has …
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