Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 2 (ANI): Asserting that Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is the right of the people of Andhra Pradesh, senior Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him not to privatise public sector companies.
Malaysia: PETRONAS launches Malaysia Bid Round 2021
02 Mar 2021
PETRONAS has successfully launched the
Malaysia Bid Round (MBR) 2021 themed Grow Your Energy Portfolio With Us through a virtual event held on 26 February 2021, with over 250 potential and existing investors streaming live from North America, United Kingdom and Europe as well as Asia Pacific. With
13 exploration blocks being offered, the MBR 2021 is set to open up more investment opportunities for investors to explore and monetise hydrocarbon resource potentials in Malaysia.
Out of the 13 blocks, three are situated in the
Malay basin (
Sarawak basin (
ND3A, SK4E, SK328, SK427, SK439 and
SK440). Included in blocks PM342, SK4E, SK328 and SB409 are six discovered fields as a base for investors to explore more, and help accelerate monetisation. MBR 2021 also features the offering of four deepwater blocks (ND3A, 4E, 2W and X) off the coast of Sarawak and Sabah which saw prominent exploration discoveries in re
Mon, Mar 1st 2021 8:02pm
Timothy Geigner
In early February, we discussed an extremely dumb lawsuit brought by a theme park in Utah called Evermore against Taylor Swift, who recently released an album called
Evermore. The whole thing is buckets of stupid, with the Evermore theme park claiming that because it released a couple of songs on Apple Music, this somehow puts them in the same marketplace as Taylor Swift. Then there were complaints that Swift s album pushed search results down for the theme park, which doesn t trademark infringement make.
Swift s response dismantled the claims the theme park made, but when on to note that Evermore theme park had actually gone on social media and responded to messages about Swift s album trying to associate the park with the album. In other words, the only potential for public confusion appears to have been generated by the theme park itself.
Hurricane Energy, the UK based oil and gas company, has provided an update on the previously announced stakeholder engagement process and the timing of further activity on the Lancaster field.
Nigeria: Shell invests to support Nigeria’s domestic gas ambition for industrialization
02 Mar 2021
The
Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), has restated commitment to support the Federal Government of Nigeria’s goal of using the country’s proven gas reserves to trigger economic activities for gas-based industrialization.
SPDC’s Managing Director and Country Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Mr. Osagie Okunbor, said Shell’s support is shown in the company’s multi-billion dollars investment in four of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) ‘Seven Critical Gas Development Projects’.
Speaking at the Nigerian Gas Association’s 12th International Conference and Awards, held virtually on February 25, 2021, under the theme,