
Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi has made a discovery at the Rødhette exploration well, located in the Barents Sea off Norway.

Orcadian Energy has reached a non-binding agreement with Carrick Resources related to a farm-out of a prospect in the UK North Sea.

Tailwind has revealed that the Evelyn development well, in the UK North Sea, has been drilled, completed, and tested using a Stena rig.

Turkey’s TPAO is preparing its drillship Yavuz for a mission in the Black Sea with the vessel now heading to the Port of Filyos.

Greenpeace will be looking to appeal a decision by a UK court after losing its case against BP over a permit to drill in a North Sea field.

Lundin Energy is in the process of concluding the drilling of a wildcat well in the North Sea after encountering disappointing results.

Lukoil has concluded an agreement on acquiring an interest in the Shah Deniz gas project in the Caspian Sea from Petronas.

Equinor has awarded COSL Offshore Management a contract to drill on Statfjord Øst field off Norway with the COSLPromoter rig.

UK petroleum regulator has not approved Shell’s proposed plan for an ultra-high pressure/high-temperature gas field in the UK North Sea.

Activists from Extinction Rebellion Scotland have blocked an oil rig maintenance facility, demanding a stop to fossil fuels extraction.

PGNiG has started drilling an exploration well offshore Norway following a takeover of Ineos’ Norwegian assets.

Lundin Energy has achieved the first oil from the Solveig field, a subsea tie-back development into the Edvard Grieg platform offshore Norway.

Germany plans to auction off sites in its North Sea Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the purpose of producing green hydrogen offshore, with auctions expected to start as early as 2022. The Ordinance on Auctioning Sites for Alternative Energy Generation in the German Exclusive Economic Zone entered

COSL Drilling Europe has been awarded a contract from Ithaca Energy for wells in the central North Sea on the UK Continental Shelf.