Australian offshore regulator NOPSEMA has started an investigation into an incident involving a piece of equipment on Eni’s Woollybutt offshore field, which emerged from the depths of 50 meters subsea to the ocean surface.
Noble Corporation has been awarded a contract by Equinor for drilling three wells at the Valemon field from the summer of 2021, using the Noble Lloyd Noble drilling rig.
Following its third price collapse in 12 years, the oil and gas industry may be facing a period of transformation. The industry managed to recover from the previous two downturns and continue with business as usual, but this time it seems the recovery might look a bit different from the ones before.
Norwegian seismic player PGS has completed its 2020 acquisition campaign in Angola’s Namibe Basin. The vessel Ramform Sovereign has completed the project offshore Angola using multisensor GeoStreamer technology. PGS noted that it has achieved operational and geological objectives successfully and sa
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started drilling the Bue well on the offshore Fenja field in the Norwegian Sea.
Oil major Petrobras has completed the drill stem test in the area of the Jupiter discovery, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt offshore Brazil.
Oil major ExxonMobil has made its 18th discovery offshore Guyana at the Redtail-1 exploration well.
Equinor has decided to drill new wells on its operated Martin Linge field, located offshore Norway, due to barrier deficiencies discovered in previous wells.
Oil and gas exploration company Chariot Oil & Gas has revealed that its Lixus license offshore Morocco, which contains the undeveloped Anchois gas discovery, could potentially hold more gas than previously thought.
PGS and Ocean Floor Geophysics (OFG) have signed an agreement under which OFG has acquired the exclusive rights to use the hardware, software and intellectual property associated with the PGS towed streamer CSEM system. Oslo-listed PGS receives shares in Canada-based OFG as settlement for the transa
French oil major Total has opted to resign from its role of operator for five exploration blocks, located in the Foz do Amazonas Basin offshore Brazil.
The worldwide offshore rig count in August 2020 dropped by 74 rigs year-over-year but is up 3 rigs sequentially, according to a report by Baker Hughes.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. climbed up by two units over the last week, according to a report by Baker Hughes Company.
Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has entered into a data licensing agreement with an undisclosed international oil company. The late sale is related to the company’s OBN seismic data library over Utsira in Norway. The Utsira OBN seismic data library is now in its final stage of data processing. Processing
