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France's TotalEnergies is exploring a sale of a 50% stake of a portfolio of renewable projects in Europe and the US, including Greece,according to two people familiar with the matter.

The French energy group is sounding out advisers for a sale of a stake in wind and solar power assets across the US, Spain, Portugal, France and Greece, the sources said.

The Slovenian manufacturer Akrapovič has signed a new technical partnership with Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) to become the official exhaust supplier for the Repsol Honda team in MotoGP, the elite class of motorcycle racing, from 2023.

The geological region that stretches to the North from the Adriatic in the area of ​​Italy and Croatia and descends to the Ionian Sea and Western Greece to the South has yielded discoveries of oil and natural gas deposits.

Exploration by major oil companies is ongoing, while Croatia, Montenegro and Albania have stepped up their efforts with rounds of concessions.

Bolivian President Luis Arce announced Saturday the discovery of major new reserves of natural gas that officials said could eventually bring in $260 million a year.

Over 30 areas have been identified for hydrocarbon exploration in the Ionian Sea and off the coast of western and southern Crete, the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reported on Sunday.

The map of "plots" was presented by Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management chief Yiannis Basias at an energy conference on the Eastern Mediterranean, ANA-MPA said.

The first attempt at oil and gas prospecting off Silistar in the Black Sea has failed.

At the end of March "Shell International Exploration and Development Italia", in which Shell has a 50 percent share, the Australian Woodside Energy - 30 percent, and the Spanish Repsol - the remaining shares, conducted three months of prospecting in Block Khan Kubrat.

The final two of four concessions for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation in the Ionian Sea are set to be signed on Tuesday by Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis, the head of Hellenic Hydrocarbon Research Management, Ioannis Basias, and the contractors. 

Three month exploration drill for oil and gas in the deep waters of the Black Sea near Burgas begins on 1 April 2019. Shell International Exploration & Development Italy SPA, reported on Tuesday to journalists.

French oil giant Total and its partners Austria's OMV and Spain's Repsol have started drilling a third well in a block off the Bulgarian coast in the Black Sea, Total's Bulgarian business said on Wednesday, reports Reuters. 

SOFIA (Bulgaria), July 10 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria is preparing to launch a procedure to award an oil and gas prospecting and exploration permit in Tervel offshore block in the Black Sea, the energy ministry said on Tuesday.