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Aker BP ASA said Wednesday that its previously announced acquisition of Lundin Energy ABs oil-and-gas business is expected to be completed on June 30.

Petrofac Ltd. said Wednesday that it has been selected by Tullow Oil PLC to provide well decommissioning services in Mauritania in a contract with a potential total value of more than $60 million.

Subsea 7 S.A. today announced the award of a major1 contract by Petrobras for the development of the Búzios 8 field located approximately 180 kilometres off the coast of Rio de Janeiro at 2,000 metres water depth in the pre-salt Santos basin.

A report on the safety risk of working in confined spaces, developed by Professor Andrew Woods of the BP Institute at Cambridge University, indicates that many organisations in the oil & gas industries have been operating below the generally tolerable levels of safety risk.

UK Oil & Gas PLC said Friday that West Sussex County Council has approved a two-year planning permission extension to its Broadford Bridge-1z Kimmeridge oil discovery in the United Kingdom.

Australian oil and gas company Karoon Energy has started its intervention campaign on the Baúna field, located offshore Brazil, using a Maersk Drilling-owned semi-submersible rig. After this campaign, the rig is scheduled for work on two more fields for Karoon.

UK Oil & Gas PLC said it has been granted a one-year extension to the Retention Area work programme at its PEDL137 licence, which contains the producing Horse Hill oilfield and its underlying Kimmeridge oil pool.

Odfjell Technology, an integrated supplier of offshore operations, well services technology and engineering solutions, is about to close out work on a three-year drilling project with Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG).

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The UK’s Energy Security Strategy and plans to reduce reliance on energy imports, as well as operational and development outlooks for oil and gas fields featured in the UK North Sea oil and gas sector in the past month.