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Rockhopper-Italy to work jointly over €247m award

Rockhopper Exploration plc and Italy must work together over the €247m Ombrina Mare award, before the oil and gas explorer is allowed to take legal action. PROVISIONAL STAY The ICSID award relates to compensation from Italy’s ban on oil and gas exploration within 12 miles of the Italian coastline, which affected Rockhopper’s activities. In October […]

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Hurricane directors-PCAs purchase total 1.5m shares

Hurricane Energy plc reported a purchase of a total 1,483,776 ordinary shares by directors and persons closely associated (PCA) with them. The company’s chairman Philip Wolfe and Lucy Wolfe (PCA of chairman) purchased 1,354,556 shares each at 7.6 pence; Kaye Bridgewater PCA of chief executive officer Antony Maris: 64,610 each at 7.7 pence; Nicolie Chaffe […]

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Harbour notes oil discovery offshore Mexico

Harbour Energy plc said that the Kan-1 exploration well had discovered oil in the joint venture (JV) Block 30 in the Sureste Basin, offshore Mexico. KAN-1 The Kan-1 exploration well lies 25km off the Tabasco coast in 50 metres of water. Harbour said that the well was drilled to a total measured depth of 3,317m […]