Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

9 June 2015

	Cairn India set to touch six-year low on Vedanta merger report Cairn India Ltd., operator of the nation’s biggest oil field on land, headed for its lowest price in more than six years in Mumbai following a report Vedanta Ltd

	Alpha Petroleum plans new North Sea oil field by 2020 Alpha Petroleum plans to bring a new oil field in the British North Sea on stream in 2020 using a floating production system so it can operate there without building pipelines

	Former Centrica boss eyes North Sea assets with private-equity group The former chief executive of Centrica has joined up with the Carlyle Group and CVC Capital Partners to launch a new oil and gas vehicle targeting $5billion in deals

	AWE Limited reaches total depth at Waitsia well AWE Limited has reached total depth at the Waitsia-1 appraisal well in the Perth Basin, Western Australia. The company said the Holmwood Shale was intersected at 3,490metres and total depth was achieved 17metres into the Holmwood Shale

	Repsol signs up to European oil group’s stance on climate change Repsol SA joined its European peers in calling for governments to agree on carbon pricing at a United Nations climate summit later this year, expanding the group of energy companies seeking a voice at the meeting

	Statoil in third Aasta Hansteen find Statoil has made a gas discovery in the Gymir prospect, the third find the Aasta Hansteen area for the company and its PL602 partners. The Norwegian explorer estimates the volumes in Gymir to be in the range of between six and 19 milion barrels of oil equivalent

	Albania delays bidding for onshore blocks Albania has delayed bidding for companies to explore for oil and gas on five onshore blocks for a further month. The country has also delayed bidding for a further two blocks indefinitely

	US shale oil boom grinds to a halt as OPEC keeps pumping The shale oil boom that turned the US into the world’s largest fuel exporter and brought $3 gasoline back to America’s pumps is grinding to a halt

	UKCS - Little change in another quiet year At the time of writing, some seven E&A (exploration & appraisal) wells are active, with this representing no change since last month. Of these current seven, five are exploration and two appraisal in nature, with two in the Gas Basin, four in the Central North Sea and one in the Northern North Sea

	Energy Voice Insights: How the Baker Hughes rig count has continued to fall This infographic shows the how the Baker Hughes rig count - which reached a peak in October 2014 - has dramatically dropped since the oil price decline

	Opinion: Warning light over future for wind power in Scotland Amber Rudd the Tory Government’s new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has made it clear she intends to make substantial changes to onshore wind financial support schemes in compliance with her party’s manifesto pledge to end “new public subsidy” for renewable wind power generation