Oil & Gas Operators

Majors Call For Oil and Gas Carbon Pricing

Major oil and gas companies, BG Group plc, BP plc, Eni S.p.A., Royal Dutch Shell plc, Statoil ASA and Total SA, today announced their call to governments around the world and to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to introduce carbon pricing systems and create clear, stable, …

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ENI: 2014 Results – yoy NET Profit down 16%

Board of Directors approved group results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2014 (unaudited). Financial highlights Record cash flow1 over the last six years: €5.37 billion for the quarter (up 69%); €15.09 billion for the full year 2014 (up 37%); Leverage decreased to 0.22 (0.25 at the end …

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Eni Sells its Stake in South Stream

Eni entered into an agreement for the sale of its 20% stake in South Stream Transport B.V. to Gazprom. Following the transaction, Eni will recover the capital invested to date in the project, calculated coherently with existing agreements. Before the agreement, South Stream Transport was owned by Gazprom with a …

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ENI: CEO, Claudio Descalzi, Meets With The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov

The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov, and the Minister of Energy, Vladimir Shkolnik, met Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi today in Astana. In the meeting, Claudio Descalzi illustrated the positive progress of Eni’s activities in Kazakhstan, with a particular focus on the projects for the Kashagan and Karachaganak fields, and Eni’s …

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Kashagan Restart Slips to Optimistic Summer of 2016

Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oilfield may resume production in the first half of 2016 under an “optimistic scenario”, Kazakh Oil and Gas Minister Uzakbai Karabalin said on Wednesday, putting off his earlier estimate of the restart date. Production from the oil deposit in the Caspian Sea, one of the world’s biggest …

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Tenaris Awarded Karachaganak Contract and to Open Premium Threading Facility

Tenaris has entered into a long-term agreement with KPO (Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V.) for the supply of OCTG, TenarisHydril premium connections and field services for the oil and gas company’s developments in the Karachaganak field, which occupies more than 280 square kilometers of northwest Kazakhstan and has reserves of more than 2.4 billion …

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NCOC Appeals $737 mln Ecological Flaring Fine on Kashagan

A consortium developing Kazakhstan’s huge Kashagan oilfield said it had appealed a 134.2 billion tenge ($737 million) fine by a regional Kazakh authority for ecological damage at the site in the Caspian Sea reported Reuters. The fine adds to the woes of the multinational group, which has already spent about …

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Gazprom Neft: Increases Stake in SeverEnergia

Yamal Development (a 50:50 joint venture between JSC Gazprom Neft and JSC NOVATEK) has acquired a 60 percent holding in Arctic Russia B.V. from Italy’s Eni. Arctic Russia B.V. owns a 49-percent equity interest in SeverEnergia. Following the transaction Gazprom Neft’s stake in SeverEnergia will increase to 40.2 percent. Gazprom …

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Rosneft Sums up Results of Offshore Operations in 2013

Rosneft summed up the results of its offshore operations last year. The company received licenses for 17 new offshore blocks, namely Zapadno-Matveyevsky, Zapadno-Prinovozemelsky, Russky, Severo-Pomorsky-1, Yuzhno-Prinovozemelsky, Anisinsko-Novosibirsky, Severo-Karsky, Ust-Lensky, Ust-Oleneksky, Severo-Vrangelevsky-1, Severo-Vrangelevsky-2, Yuzhno-Chukotsky, Albanovsky, Varneksky, Vostochno-Sibirsky, Vostochno-Pribrezhny, and Amur-Limansky ones. Another two offshore blocks were awarded to Rosneft upon discovery. …

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Rosneft and Eni Agree Principal Terms of Trading Supply Deals and Cooperation in Logistics

Igor Sechin, Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board, and Paolo Scaroni, Eni CEO in the presence of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and Italy’s Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, signed a term sheet on mutual crude supply and a heads of agreement on logistics opportunities. These agreements outline principal …

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