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Shell to buy 30% of Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project

The deal sees Shell acquire a non-operated interest in the offshore development planned east of St. John's.

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A depiction of the field layout for the Bay du Nord oil project in offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. (BW Offshore)

What this story says

  • Shell will acquire a 30% non-operated interest in the Bay du Nord offshore oil project from Equinor.
  • Equinor will retain a 70% operating interest in the project, located about 500 km east of St. John's, Newfoundland.
  • The Bay du Nord development is estimated to cost C$14 billion and a decision on proceeding is expected early next year.
  • This project would be Canada's first deepwater oil development.

Who covered it

Left 40%(4)Centre 60%(6)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 10 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 9 of the 19 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

68/100

Craft

85/100

Hype

15/100

19 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 10 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Shell has agreed to acquire a 30% non-operated interest in the Bay du Nord offshore oil project from Equinor. Equinor will keep a 70% operating interest in the development. The project is located approximately 500 kilometres east of St. John's, Newfoundland, and would be Canada's first deepwater oil development.

The estimated cost for the Bay du Nord development is C$14 billion. Equinor is expected to make a decision on whether to proceed with the project early next year. The deal follows BP's earlier decision to sell its interest in the project.

Coverage comparison

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated or centre-rated reports mention the specific detail that the Bay du Nord project would be located farther away from shore than any other offshore oil project globally, a detail noted in the full report from CBC News.

Tags:#Shell#Equinor#BayDuNord#OilProject#CanadaEnergy

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 4 times, most recently on 9 Oct 2026, 19:00, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

4 rated outlets

  • Reports from the left-rated outlets focused on the agreement for Shell to acquire a 30% stake in the Bay du Nord oil project off Newfoundland. They stated that Equinor would retain a 70% operating interest and noted the project's location approximately 500 km east of St. John's. The estimated cost of C$14 billion and its status as Canada's first deepwater oil development were also mentioned.

Centre

6 rated outlets

  • Centre-rated reports highlighted Shell's agreement to take a 30% stake in Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project. These reports mentioned that Equinor would retain the remaining 70% interest and that the project is estimated to cost C$14 billion. The decision on whether to proceed with the development was noted as expected early next year. Some reports also referenced BP's prior decision to sell its interest in the project.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Shell to buy 30% of Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project?
Of the 10 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 40% are rated left, 60% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 19. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Shell to buy 30% of Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 10 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Shell to buy 30% of Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project biased?
Shell to buy 30% of Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project is one event reported by 19 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Shell to buy 30% of Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Shell to buy 30% of Equinor's Bay du Nord oil project?
19 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What is the Bay du Nord oil project?
The Bay du Nord is a proposed offshore oil development located about 500 km east of St. John's, Newfoundland. If it proceeds, it will be Canada's first deepwater oil development.
What is the estimated cost of the Bay du Nord project?
The development of the Bay du Nord project is estimated to cost C$14 billion. A decision on whether to proceed with the project is expected early next year.
What is Shell's involvement in the project?
Shell has agreed to acquire a 30% non-operated interest in the Bay du Nord oil project from Equinor. Equinor will retain the remaining 70% operating interest.

Read it at the source

19 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

4

Centre

6

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

9
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