Ocean Rig UDW has announced today that certain of its subsidiaries have entered into an Omnibus Agreement with Eni Angola pursuant to which Eni has exercised its option to extend the contract for the drillship Ocean Rig Poseidon for a further one year until the second quarter of 2017
Eni has started production from Nené Marine field, offshore Congo, just eight months after obtaining the production permit and 16 months following the exploration discovery
Gazprom has acquired Eni, Wintershall and EDF’s minority interests (amounting to 50 per cent) in the South Stream Transport joint operating company over the New Year period, following a snap decision from Russian president Vladimir Putin to ditch the project in early December
The prime minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov, and the minister of energy, Vladimir Shkolnik, met Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi in Astana to bolster exploration and production relations
Eni has successfully completed the production test on the Minsala Marine 1 NFW, located in the Marine XII Block offshore Congo (Brazzaville), 35 kilometres from the shoreline and 12 kilometres from the recent Nené Marine discovery
Eni has started production of first oil from the West Hub Development Project in Block 15/06 in the Angolan Deep Offshore, approximately 350 kilometres northwest of Luanda and 130 kilometres west of Soyo
Russian president Vladimir Putin called time last night on the South Stream pipeline project to link southern Russia to the EU via a subsea pipeline landing in Bulgaria, citing unfavourable EU legislation as the chief cause, and overseen a new agreement that will see the subsea pipeline redirected south to Turkey
Gazprom and Eni have held a meeting in Sochi to discuss further energy cooperation and their partnership over the South Stream gas transmission project
Eni has signed an agreement with the Turkmenistan government to extend its exploration and production licence in an onshore area of Turkmenistan in exchange for a 10 per cent farm-out of interest to state entity Turkmenneft
