The COVID-19 pandemic has stymied oil and gas activity, a phenomenon which has now affected the drilling market both in terms of wells drilled and in terms of related demand for drilling equipment.
OPEC, Russia, and other oil producers are set to meet on Wednesday to decide on the oil output policy from August onward.
A total commitment of at least $151 billion from G20 governments in support of fossil fuels has been made available in their energy recovery policies, data from the Energy Policy Tracker shows.
The oil and gas industry has historically been a hard place for female workers. Now, with the oil and gas industry transitioning towards green energy, women workers could be the fresh workforce injection companies desperately need.
Noble Corporation has received several new contract extensions for its drilling rigs and cancellation of a drilling contract in Vietnam.
As much as 40 per cent of maintenance work carried out by floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel operators was described as “unnecessary” by a report from UK’s classification society Lloyd’s Register (LR).
The worldwide offshore rig count in June 2020 dropped by 65 rigs year-over-year and 2 rigs sequentially, according to a report by Baker Hughes.
The coronavirus pandemic will have a dramatic impact on energy supply and demand in the short term and will have lasting impacts once the pandemic dissipates but on its own will not be enough to advance the world’s progress towards the Paris climate ambitions, classification society DNV GL said.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been an eventful time during which many steps were taken by governments, political organizations, the EU, and oil companies to plan a faster, more efficient, and more impactful energy transition. Here we look at a sequence of events working in favour of the transition to gr
Seadrill has received a contract suspension for the jack-up drilling rig AOD II operating in the Middle East due to changes in the drilling program.
Polarcus is taking further actions to streamline its business and adjust operational capacity to align with current market conditions. This follows on the $15 million cost reduction plan implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic and oil price volatility. The company has additionally streamlined and r
OPEC’s Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) has made assurances of achieving 100 per cent conformity from all participating countries during the next three months.
The Covid-19-caused downturn is set to cause a 25 per cent yearly drop in global demand for oilfield services (OFS), a Rystad Energy analysis shows.
In its global energy outlook, Rystad Energy revealed that the Covid-19 downturn will expedite peak oil demand, putting a lid on exploration efforts in remote offshore areas and as a result reducing the world’s recoverable oil by around 282 billion barrels.
