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Alen o shore platform into a hub for the development of future Gulf of Guinea gas elds. Tenaris will produce a total of 21,000 metric tons of line pipe at its Confab welded pipe mill located in Pindamonhangaba, Brazil.
“We are very excited to be awarded this contract by Noble Energy and we are looking forward to demonstrating Tenaris’s technical strength for this project in Equatorial Guinea,” said Gregoire Flipo, Tenaris Vice President of O shore Pipeline services. Noble Energy is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company with a diversi ed high-quality portfolio of both Us unconventional and global o shore assets. tEnARIs, july 23, 2019
Chinguetti decommissioning on track
In Mauritania, the permanent abandonment programme for the wells in the Chinguetti eld is scheduled to commence in the third quarter of 2019.
Following interpretation of 3D seismic acquired over Block C-18 in Mauritania, Tullow has decided not to proceed into the next exploration phase and has withdrawn from the licence. Tullow’s remaining acreage in Mauritania is the C-3 licence which will expire in early 2020.
tUlloW oIl, july 24, 2019
TGS continues MSGBC work
In Q2, TGs continued its seaseep project
in the MsGBC Basin in West Africa. e program will cover an area of approximately 113,500 km2 and will incorporate around 230 cores from the seabed, located based
on multibeam backscatter anomalies. Final results are expected to be available in late
2020.
Acquisition of the Jaan 3D survey in
the southern portion of the MsGBC Basin continued in Q2. e project consists of 11,135 km2 of new acquisition complemented by reprocessing and full pre-stack merging
of existing multi-client 3D and is being undertaken by TGs as operator and majority investor together with PGs and GeoPartners. Final data is expected to be available in Q2 2020.
tgs, july 25, 2019
Supreme Court grants
permission to appeal to
Nigerian Communities in
their fight against Shell
Lawyers representing 40,000 Nigerian farmers and sherman from two communities in the Niger Delta, have been given permission to take their legal claim against the oil giant shell to the UK supreme Court.
e decision will allow the two communities from Bille and Ogale in the Niger Delta to appeal to the UK’s highest court, having su ered from decades of pollution from shell’s pipelines.
ey have taken their case to the English Courts on the basis that Royal Dutch shell (RDs), which is headquartered in London, is legally responsible for the environmental failures of the shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (sPDC), a subsidiary of RDs.
e supreme Court hearing will appeal
a judgment from February 2018, from the Court of Appeal in London, which upheld an earlier High Court judgment, that the English Court does not have jurisdiction over the
claims.
e original High Court Judgment from
January 2017 ruled that RDs was merely a holding company which did not exercise any control over its “wholly autonomous” Nigerian subsidiary, sPDC.
Lawyers from Leigh Day immediately appealed the decision from the Court of Appeal and although the Judges agreed that the High Court’s decision was awed, by
a majority the Court ruled that there was insu cient evidence to hold RDs legally liable (with a strong dissent from Lord Justice sales).
e claimants applied for permission for the case to be heard in the supreme Court. e decision on whether the shell case could proceed was stayed whilst the supreme Court heard a similar case brought by Leigh Day
on behalf of almost 2,000 Zambian villagers against Konkola Copper Mines and its parent company Vedanta Resources Plc.
lEIgH dAy, july 24, 2019
NNPC, Chevron talk on condensate splitter
As part of e orts to grow local re ning capacity, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has called for collaboration with Chevron Nigeria Limited to establish a condensate splitter re nery. e appeal was made ursday by the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, when the management of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) was led by its Managing Director, Je Ewing, on a business visit to the NNPC Towers, Abuja.
A press release by the NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public A airs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, quoted the GMD as saying that setting up re neries to end the shame of fuel importation was not just a responsibility for NNPC alone, but also for its Joint Venture partners.
e GMD also urged CNL to work closely with the corporation to evolve modalities for a downward review of the cost structure of crude oil production in Nigeria in order to boost pro t and revenue for the country.
“We hold Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) in a very high esteem for her e ciency and cost optimization. We look more up to the company to increase production and reserve, reduce cost and increase local re ning capacity”, Mallam Kyari stated.
On cash call, he said NNPC had done very well in meeting its nancial obligations to
the company in the last three years, adding that the move was expected to boost the con dence of JV partners to commit to further investment in the upstream.
He urged the company to further
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