Equipment & Logistics News Oil & Gas

Neptune awards £100m drilling services contract

Neptune Energy has awarded a contract of more than $100 million to Tenaris for equipment and services to support drilling activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. GJØA AREA The five-year contract, with two options for two-year extensions, covers the manufacture, transport, handling and repair of a range of casing materials used in offshore drilling activities. […]

Metals & Minerals News

Oriole’s new earn-in partner restarts Senala exploration

Oriole Resources plc reported the restart of exploration work by its new earn-in partner at the Senala gold project in Senegal. JOINT VENTURE On 26 April, former Canadian partner IAMGOLD Corporation completed the sale of its Senegal subsidiary AGEM to Moroccan miner Managem Group. Oriole currently has a 41.65% interest in the project. DRILLING Managem […]

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Prospex Energy connects Selva gas plant

Prospex Energy plc has completed construction of the gas plant and connection to the gas grid at the joint venture (JV) Podere Maiar-1 wellsite of the Selva field in the Po Valley, Italy. ACHIEVEMENT Following final operational and safety inspections, delivery of gas to the market expected to begin by the end of May. Po […]

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Union Jack swings to £3.6m profit from 340% rise in revenue

Union Jack Oil plc recorded its first net profit of £3,606,624 post tax from a 340% increase in oil revenues mainly from the Wressle joint venture in the East Riding of Yorkshire. FINANCES The company’s audited results for the year ended 31 December 2022 showed revenues from oil sales of £8,507,050 (2021: £1,894,875) from Wressle […]

Metals & Minerals News

Scotgold finds lower than expected grade at Cononish

Scotgold Resources Ltd said it had encountered “lower than expected grade” at 19m of the 115m strike length in Cononish gold and silver mine near Tyndrum in Scotland. OPERATIONS The company added that long hole stoping was “progressing well” and “for the most part” in line with the 2023 mine plan. A total of 1,956 […]