{"id":928510,"date":"2026-10-11T03:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928510\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:02:12","slug":"premier-says-hes-confident-in-future-of-bay-du-nord-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928510\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Says He\u2019s Confident in Future of Bay du Nord Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/premier-tony-wakeham-bay-du-nord-update.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Premier Says He's Confident in Future of Bay du Nord Project\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Tony Wakeham speaks about the recent agreement for Shell to purchase a 30 per cent stake in the Bay du Nord project (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Premier says he\u2019s confident in the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/07\/10\/equinor-fully-committed-to-bay-du-nord-project-says-vp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay du Nord with Shell\u2019s new 30 per cent stake in the project.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>BP pulled out of Bay du Nord in July, leaving Norway-based Equinor as the sole investor in the deep-water field.<\/p>\n<p>Shell, a new entry to the Newfoundland offshore, has since stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Wakeham believes Shell\u2019s involvement is good for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s a very positive reflection on all of that. That this project is drawing attention all around the world,\u201d he told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re seeing interest from major players in our offshore oil and gas (sector) that haven\u2019t been here before. That\u2019s reflected in the number of conferences I\u2019ve attended. There\u2019s a renewed interest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham speaks about the recent agreement for Shell to purchase a 30 per cent stake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-928510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}