The U.S. government agency Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has held a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale, yielding more than $120 million in high bids.
Equinor has been served with a notice of order from the country’s offshore safety agency following a serious lifting incident on the Oseberg B platform.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has lowered its 2020 oil demand forecast to negative -9.8 million barrels a day.
Transocean has been awarded contract extensions for two of its drillships that have been working for Petrobras.
A survey by the Norwegian statistics bureau SSB has revealed that oil and gas companies in Norway have boosted investment plans in recent months.
Norwegian seismic player TGS has kicked off the Malvinas 3D project in Argentina and scored two surveys offshore Brazil. The Malvinas survey was first announced to the market on 4 August this year. The BGP vessel Prospector will acquire approximately 5,000 square kilometres, which will bring the tot
Ithaca Energy is moving forward with its plans to develop the Abigail field, located in the UK North Sea as a subsea tie-back.
The European Commission has seen progress in the safety of offshore oil and gas operations following the implementation of the safety directive.
Oil and gas major Shell has partnered with marine robotics firm Ocean Infinity to combine expertise and assets to execute multiclient seep hunting projects. The companies believe that combination of Shell’s specialist seep hunting expertise and Ocean Infinity’s ‘Armada’ fleet of robotic ships, will
Total and Jadestone Energy have decided to relinquish and terminate its Service Contract 56 offshore Philippines following a decision not to drill a well.
State-owned PetroVietnam has started pumping first gas from its Sao Vang-Dai Nguyet field off Vietnam’s southern coast.
Suriname is offering eight new offshore blocks in the currently unlicensed and underexplored Shallow Offshore acreage of Suriname via a new round.
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling has secured drilling work for its jack-up rig in Indonesia and a drillship in India.
Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup field is increasing its daily production capacity, expecting to reach around 500,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of the year.
