
UK-based and AIM-listed Sunda Energy, formerly Baron Oil, is setting the stage to undertake its planned drilling campaign on a gas field off the coast of Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia.

Petronas Carigali, Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas heavyweight Petronas, has taken steps to divest a partial stake to SMJ Energy (SMJE), a company wholly-owned by the Sabah state government, in a production sharing contract (PSC) for fields in shallow waters off the coast of Sabah, offshore of Ea