OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Austria-headquartered oil and gas player OMV, has received a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for a wildcat well duo in the Norwegian Sea, enabling it to undertake drilling activities this month with a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drillin
The Surfrider Foundation is among the members of a coalition of conservation organizations represented by Earthjustice, which have banded together to take legal action against the Trump administration to prevent the approval of new offshore drilling plays in U.S. waters.
Houston-based oil and gas company Murphy Oil has found oil in the Cuu Long Basin offshore Vietnam.
SBM Offshore, a provider of the design, construction, installation, and operation of offshore floating facilities, has received a stamp of approval for its NearZero floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) design from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), a classification society.
A drillship, owned by the U.S.-headquartered offshore drilling giant Noble Corporation, is slated to begin its new drilling campaign in western Africa later this month, after Tullow Ghana, a subsidiary of the UK-based Tullow Oil, wrapped up a 4D seismic survey over its fields off the coast of Ghana.
Dolphin Drilling has confirmed that its 35-year-old semi-submersible rig is now focused on its plug and abandonment (P&A) mission in the UK sector of the North Sea.
TotalEnergies is getting ready to embark on drilling activities off the coast of Suriname with a drillship owned by Stena Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.
Kimmeridge Texas Gas (KTG), an affiliate of the energy-focused alternative investment manager Kimmeridge, has won a new multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement (SPA) for its LNG export terminal currently under development on the west bank of the Calcasieu Ship Channel at t
3D at Depth, a subsidiary of Kraken Robotics, has tucked its 1,000th subsea metrology under its belt, thanks to an assignment on a life extension project off the coast of Angola, West Africa, which is operated by TotalEnergies EP Angola, a subsidiary of France’s energy giant TotalEnergies.
BP has hired Subsea Integration Alliance (SIA), a strategic alliance combining the strengths of SLB OneSubsea and Subsea7, to handle work related to bringing its natural gas subsea development project off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago to life.
A joint venture, consisting of Shell (through BGEPIL), Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), has wrapped up work on what is said to be India’s first offshore facilities decommissioning project.
Bermuda-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Valaris is divesting a jack-up from its rig fleet to boost its financial flexibility.
Valaris has won a multi-well drilling assignment for one of its drillships in West Africa with an undisclosed oil and gas operator.
PRIO is expanding its interest in a field off the coast of Brazil by buying the stake Norway’s Equinor holds in what is considered to be its largest operated field outside Norway.
