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  • US Court Imposes 45-Day Deadline for El Faro Legal Claims

    5 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Florida-based district court has determined December 21st as the final deadline for the filing of legal claims on behalf of the family members of the 33 crew members of the ill-fated cargo ship El Faro, Reuters reports. The ruling comes on the back of last week’s request for court protection lodged by Tote Services, owner of […]

  • QatarEnergy joining Chevron’s West Mediterranean exploration project ahead of drilling ops

    11 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Qatar’s state-owned energy giant QatarEnergy has inked an agreement with U.S.-headquartered oil major Chevron to buy a working interest in the concession agreement for a block in the Mediterranean Sea offshore Egypt.

  • Baron to enter Wick prospect in North Sea

    19 February 2018

    Baron Oil has entered into an option agreement with Corfe Energy to be assigned part of its rights to farm into UK North Sea license P2235.

  • RWE Dea Completes 3D Seismic Survey Offshore Suriname

    9 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Only five months after RWE Dea’s arrival in Suriname the German company announces the successful completion of a 3D seismic acquisition program in the offshore Licence Block 52. Following the data acquisition, the data will now be processed with the results becoming available for interpretation in the second quarter of next year. RWE Dea is […]

  • RWE Dea Wraps Up Seismic Survey Offshore Suriname

    9 December 2013

    Only five months after RWE Dea’s arrival in Suriname the German company is pleased to announce the successful completion of a 3D seismic acquisition program in the offshore Licence Block 52.   Following the data acquisition, the data will now be processed with the results becoming available for interpretation in the second quarter of next […]

  • MedcoEnergi buys oil and gas blocks in Tunisia

    16 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    MedcoEnergi has entered into an agreement, effective 1 January 2014, to acquire 100% of the shares of Storm Ventures International (Barbados) Ltd. (“SVI”) from Storm Ventures International (BVI) Ltd. (the “Seller”) for a base purchase price of US$ 114.03 million, excluding an amount payable for working capital (which is subject to a customary post-closing adjustment). […]

  • Wood Group fined in deadly offshore platform fire case

    24 February 2017

    The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday ordered Wood Group PSN, a Houston-based division of an oil and gas services company Wood Group, to pay $9.5 million in two separate cases involving its conduct in the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, Wood Group PSN was ordered to pay $7 million for falsely reporting over several years […]

  • UK player increasing its stake offshore Angola

    19 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Environment, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Transition

    Afentra plc has inked a deal with Croatia’s INA-Industrija Nafte to acquire the latter’s interests in two blocks offshore Angola.

  • OGX Files Judicial Recovery Request

    31 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Eike Batista’s OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A  announces that given its adverse financial situation and accumulated losses, as well as the recent due and forthcoming interest payments of a great part of its debt, urgently filed, today, along with its subsidiaries OGX Petróleo e Gás S.A., OGX International GmbH and OGX Austria GmbH, a […]

  • New CEO takes helm at Rocksource

    12 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    Rocksource, an exploration company focusing on the Norwegian Continental Shelf,  has named Roar Tessem as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). After Rocksource and its previous CEO, Terje Arnesen, mutually agreed that Arnesen will step down from his position on June 1, 2015, the board of the company has chosen Tessem as the new CEO. The company […]

  • JX Nippon looking to sell UK North Sea assets for $1.5 bln

    26 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Japan’s JX Nippon has decided to sell its oil and gas assets in the UK North Sea including its stakes in several biggest fields in the region.

  • Dana Gas Signs Deal for North El Arish Block

    18 February 2014

    Dana Gas said that it has signed an agreement for the North El Arish (Block 6) Concession Area, offshore the eastern Nile Delta. The 2,980 sq. km block was awarded in April 2013 as part of a competitive bidding process. This is the company’s first offshore block in Egypt, covering water depths from 20 up […]

  • With inroads made in Sonangol and INA deals, UK firm expects entry into Angola early next year

    14 December 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Afentra has made progress on completing deals with Sonangol and INA-Industrija Nafte to acquire interests in blocks offshore Angola.

  • America and UK put two Russian oil majors on blacklist, as US sanctions spree spreads to 183 ‘shadow fleet’ vessels

    13 January 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    The latest raft of sanctions, which comes from the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom (UK), targets Russia’s energy sector by focusing on two giant Russian oil producers alongside means of enabling crude oil production and exports.

  • ExxonMobil expands exploration acreage in Egypt

    1 January 2020

    U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil has secured more than 1.7 million acres for exploration offshore Egypt.

  • First gas flows from project off Egypt

    10 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Energean has achieved the first gas from a well located offshore Egypt while the remaining wells are expected to come online later this year.

  • Stena Drilling drillship comes to spud Chevron’s prospect in West Mediterranean as Egypt anticipates oil & gas growth with further exploration

    4 November 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Stena Drilling has brought one of its drillships back to Egyptian waters to embark on a drilling assignment with Chevron in the mostly unexplored West Mediterranean (West Med) blocks off the coast of Egypt.

  • Atlantic Petroleum restructures debt

    14 March 2017

    Atlantic Petroleum, a Faroese oil and gas company with assets in the North Sea, has refinanced its debt with its main creditor Eik Bank. Atlantic said on Monday that it had revised terms for the DKK 66 million ($9.5 million) debt to Eik Bank and that the new terms would see the debt paid back […]

  • Flame-Defying Maritime Pilots Win IMO Bravery Award

    29 November 2017

    Two maritime pilots who defied fire to bring a burning ship to safety, averting a major maritime catastrophe, received the 2017 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea during the 2017 IMO awards ceremony, held on November 27. Pilots Captain Michael G. McGee and Captain Michael C. Phillips, from Houston, United States, were recognized for […]

  • Five new blocks for Shell in Egypt. Exploration to start ‘soon’

    13 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Oil and gas giant Shell has been awarded five production sharing contracts in Egpyt for three concessions in the Western Desert and two concessions in the Offshore Nile Delta.

  • US Navy Starts Search for El Faro Remains

    20 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Navy deployed Fleet Ocean Tug USNS Apache (T-ATF 172) from Norfolk, Virginia, on October 19, to begin searching for wreckage from the missing U.S.-flagged container ship El Faro which went missing off the Bahamas on October 1 near the eye of the Hurricane Joaquin, and is presumed to have sunk. The USNS Apache is deploying to a […]

  • BP finds gas offshore Egypt

    27 March 2017

    British energy firm BP has made a gas discovery in the North Damietta Offshore Concession in the East Nile Delta, Egypt. The Qattameya Shallow-1 exploration well was drilled to a total depth of 1,961 meters in water depth of approximately 108 meters using the El Qaher II jack-up rig. The wireline logs, pressure data and […]

  • US Navy Starts Search for El Faro Remains

    20 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    U.S. Navy deployed Fleet Ocean Tug USNS Apache (T-ATF 172) from Norfolk, Virginia, on October 19, to begin searching for wreckage from the missing U.S.-flagged container ship El Faro which went missing off the Bahamas on October 1 near the eye of the Hurricane Joaquin, and is presumed to have sunk. The USNS Apache is deploying to a […]

  • ACCIONA Wins Contract to Build Shipyard in Brazil’s Açu Port Complex

    14 July 2011

      The LLX-OSX companies (part of the Brazilian holding group, Grupo EBX) have awarded ACCIONA a contract for the engineering, design and construction of the breakwaters for a shipyard (Estaleiro) in São João da Barra, in Brazil. The shipyard will be the largest of its kind in Latin America and is set to become a […]

  • USA: Gulf LNG Terminal Officially Opens

    27 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, announced today that its co-owned Gulf LNG regasificationand liquefied natural gas storage facility on the Gulf of Mexico has successfully begun operations. GE made the announcement at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi, joined by Gov. Haley Barbour and executives of El Paso Corporation. […]