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  • Rig market, oil & gas mergers and JV blockbuster moves mark 2024

    2 January 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    A consolidation wave is sweeping across the challenging and shifting global energy landscape, as companies in the hydrocarbon exploration and production (E&P) and offshore drilling domains, alongside others across the entire energy industry and supply chain, race to secure their spots among the top contenders with a long market life span to benefit from a spike in global energy demand.

  • South Korea’s Mar LNG imports rise YoY

    16 April 2018
    Ports & Logistics

    Liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports into South Korea rose 22.5 percent in March year-on-year, according to the customs data. The country received 4.30 million tonnes of LNG last month, as compared to 3.51 million tonnes in the corresponding month the year before. Qatar, the world’s largest LNG exporter, Qatar, remained the dominant source of South […]

  • InterOil Scales-Up Operations in Papua New Guinea

    29 January 2014

    InterOil announced the relocation of core functions from its 100-person office in Cairns, Australia, to support expanding operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Cairns office will close by the end of the year. The decision to increase capacity in PNG comes as InterOil is finalizing an agreement with Total S.A. of France to develop […]

  • Canadian 20MW ocean energy hybrid sets sights on ‘big oil’

    2 March 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Waterotor International Corp, a Canada-based hydrokinetic energy company, has unveiled a 20MW hybrid offshore renewable energy system that can simultaneously extract power from slow moving water and wind.

  • Dryad: 15 seafarers kidnapped in latest attack in GoG

    12 March 2021
    Human Capital, Safety, Vessels

    Fifteen seafarers have been kidnapped from a Maltese-flagged vessel identified as MT Davide B some 213 nautical miles off South Cotonou, Benin, Dryad Global reports. The kidnapped individuals formed part of a total of 21-member crew including Ukrainian, Romanian and Philippine nationals. According to Dryad, the incident occurred on March 11 and is understood to […]

  • AI-enhanced newbuild rig trio enlarging UAE giant’s drilling fleet thanks to $733 million oil field gig

    4 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ADNOC Drilling has tucked a new multimillion-dollar assignment under its belt with ADNOC Offshore for drilling work at a huge oil field.

  • Dana Gas starts drilling Merak-1 well off Egypt

    22 May 2019

    Middle East’s private sector natural gas company Dana Gas has commenced drilling operations at its Merak-1 well, offshore Egypt, classified as ‘world-class prospect.

  • Lamprell: Record Breaking Year

    19 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Lamprell, a provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore energy industry released financial results for 2014. According to the company, this was a record-breaking year with a net profit reaching USD 118 million, up 224% compared to the year before. The group completed nine projects in the last year, all […]

  • UK: Valiant Petroleum Abandons Viola Duster

    26 October 2010
    Business & Finance

    Valiant Petroleum plc announces that its operated Viola North exploration well (Licence P1629, Block 30/18b) has reached a depth of approximately 16,000 ft TVDSS (~4,875 metres) and while the Fulmar sand formation was encountered, no hydrocarbons were present in this location. The well will be plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. Despite difficult weather […]

  • North Sea operators fined amid crackdown on risks to UK’s net-zero and energy security

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

    UK’s regulator North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) has fined EnQuest, Equinor, and Spirit Energy a total of £265,000 or $322,437.

  • TechnipFMC pays $301.3M to settle Brazil bribery case

    26 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Oilfield services company TechnipFMC has agreed to pay $301.3 million to the U.S. and Brazilian authorities to resolve anti-corruption investigations in Brazil and relating to the intermediary, Unaoil.

  • MMT elects acting CEO as search for permanent replacement goes on

    15 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    Sweden-based marine surveys specialist MMT has appointed an acting chief executive officer (CEO) as of January 1, 2018.

  • Video: Ems Transfer of AIDAnova

    12 October 2018

    Great shots of AIDAnova squeezing down the river Ems.

  • Saipem loses another Black Sea pipeline contract?

    9 July 2015
    Project & Tenders

    Russian gas giant Gazprom has reportedly cancelled the Turkish Stream pipeline construction contract it had with Italian oilfield services contractor Saipem. According to Russian Tass news agency, Gazprom, through its South Stream Transport BV subsidiary sent the cancellation notice to Saipem, citing inability to reach agreement on many working and commercial matters of the Turkish Stream […]

  • MainOne’s Subsea Cable Experiences Fault

    21 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance

    MainOne, a West African telecom services provider, has experienced a fault on its submarine cable system, 3000km offshore Portugal. The outage, the first of its kind since the cable system came into operations, has caused disruptions in service to the international connectivity customers in West Africa, the company informed. Following the outage, the company mobilized a repair vessel […]

  • Gazprom’s gas exports to Europe rising

    9 June 2017

    Russian giant Gazprom said its natural gas exports to Europe rose over the period of first five months in 2017, compared to the corresponding period last year. The company exported 9.5 billion cubic meters, 13.3 percent more than in the same period of 2016. In total, Gazprom has exported a record 179.3 billion cubic meters […]

  • Kogas’ nine-month LNG imports rise YoY

    17 November 2017
    Ports & Logistics

    South Korea’s LNG importing giant Kogas reported an increase in LNG imports for the first nine months of 2017, compared to the corresponding period last year. 

  • Total Ups Stake in Russian Novatek

    9 December 2011
    Project & Tenders

    Total has increased its stake in Novatek by finalizing the acquisition of an additional 2% interest in the Russian company for around 800 million dollars. Following this transaction, Total owns a 14.09% of share capital in Novatek. This transaction effective as of yesterday was finalized through the acquisition of shares from Novatek’s two main shareholders as […]

  • Equinor to restart Hammerfest LNG plant on June 18

    28 May 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Norwegian energy giant Equinor plans to bring back online its Hammerfest liquefied natural gas export plant on June 18 following planned maintenance. The LNG operator said earlier this month it would close the export facility for scheduled maintenance for two weeks starting on May 15. However, the company then extended the shutdown to June 30 […]

  • COSLPromoter Gets Clearance to Operate in Norway

    8 November 2012

    The Petroleum Safety Authority in Norway (PSA) this week awarded an Acknowledge of Compliance (AoC) to COSLPromoter rig owned by Stavanger-based COSL Drilling Europe. This means that the semi submersible drilling rig, built by CIMC Raffles, is now approved for operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Jørgen Arnesen, CEO of COSL Drilling Europe said: “Our […]

  • DSME picks up LNG carrier order from Maran Gas

    15 February 2019
    Project & Tenders, Vessels

    South Korea’s shipbuilding giant Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has received an order to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier for a Greek company.

  • Statoil shuts down production on Heimdal after fire alarm

    25 November 2016

    Norwegian oil company Statoil has reportedly shut down production from the Heimdal field following a fire alarm on the platform offshore Norway. According to a report by Aftenblad, a Norwegian news website, the alarm went off early on Friday morning but the situation was quickly resolved as there was no evidence of a fire. The news […]

  • Top news of the week December 21-26, 2015

    27 December 2015

    Shell plans more cuts after BG deal Hague-based energy giant Shell said Tuesday it reduced capital spending plan for next year as it prepares to finalize the combination with BG in a low oil price environment. Egypt expanding LNG infrastructure Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum recently revealed a US$324 million investment into infrastructure projects that will […]

  • HMM to Buy Algeciras Terminal Stake for USD 104 Mn

    12 May 2017
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipping giant Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) has reached an agreement to buy a 100 percent stake in Spain’s Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTIA). Under the deal, which will be officially signed on May 15, the company will pay KRW 117.6 billion (USD 104.1 million) for the stake in the terminal, situated at Port of […]

  • CNOOC takes operatorship of West African block

    29 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Chinese crude oil producer CNOOC is taking over operatorship of a block located in the offshore joint development zone between Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.  African-focused exploration company Impact Oil and Gas is farming out a 65% participating interest in a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) and associated joint operating agreement in the AGC Profond block to CNOOC. The […]