Energy

Talos Energy Inc. announces that the Company entered into and completed a transaction to acquire Whistler Energy II, LLC ("Whistler") on August 31, 2018. Year to date gross production from Whistler's assets is approximately 1,900 barrels of oil equivalent per day ("Boepd"), or net production after royalties of approximately 1,500 Boepd, of which 82% is oil.

The new Rapid Innovation Grant scheme is now available through Marine-i and is attracting considerable interest from innovative marine technology businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Lundin Norway has conducted a successful well test over a ten-day period on Rolvsnes in the North Sea. The test confirms a completely new exploration concept on the shelf. Lundin Norway says the test shows that they can produce oil and gas from fractured and weathered basement rocks.

Brazil stands out globally as one of the most promising offshore oil and gas basins with a significant remaining resource base. In addition, the country has a huge potential within renewable energy.

Equinor and partners at Gullfaks and Snorre have decided to explore the possibilities of supplying the Gullfaks and Snorre fields with power from floating offshore wind. This could be the first time an offshore wind farm is directly connected to oil and gas platforms.

Equinor is on track to maintain profitable production from the NCS at current level towards 2030. After 2030 the NCS will enter a more mature phase. It is therefore necessary to introduce new measures to tackle the future challenges of declining production from the big fields, ageing installations and the need for reduced CO₂ emissions.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have prepared a draft programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) evaluating the environmental impacts of oil and gas activities on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore California.

The world's first virtual tour of an offshore gas platform allows you to explore the platform of the largest producing gas field in the whole UK sector.

On 20 August 2018, a key Iranian official confirmed what many have expected for weeks: France’s Total is leaving the massive South Pars gas field in response to U.S. sanction threats against companies that do business in Iran.

Wilton Engineering has completed its first tranche of offshore wind farm structures, which have departed its Teesside base for the North Sea.

The Carbon Trust and Fistuca, in conjunction with industry partners (E.ON, EDPR, EnBW, Equinor, Ørsted, Shell, Sif, SSE, Van Oord, and Vattenfall) announces the successful completion of the offshore test of the Fistuca BLUE 25M hammer as part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator BLUE PILOT project. The offshore test was carried out on 13^th August 2018, using Van Oord’s offshore heavy lift installation vessel, Svanen, off the coast of the Netherlands.

By Glenne Legg, Partner; Jim Brown, Partner; Mike Wray, Partner; and Chris Hart, Counsel and Mariner, HFW Law Firm

The United States is home to one of the largest and fastest growing wind markets in the world, according to US Department of Energy reports. A drive across west Texas, Oklahoma or the plains of Kansas will reveal large scale wind farms.