The spending plans of oil majors BP and Equinor are unaffected by the more than 25 percent drop in oil prices since early October, their CEOs said on Wednesday.Oil and gas companies were boosted over the first nine months of the year by a recovery…
Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said Wednesday it had signed agreements to cease participation in several oil fields in Brazil's northwest region.The company said it had reached a $370 million deal with Perenco to cease its operations in the Polo Nordeste…
Malaysia's state energy firm Petronas said on Friday production at Kebabangan gas field in the eastern state of Sabah is expected to return to full capacity by August 2019.A gas leak in January resulted in supply disruption at the gas field…
Energy giant BP has taken its first oil from the Clair Ridge mega-project in the U.K. North Sea in a “major milestone” that is the culmination of many years of work.Clair Ridge, the second phase of the development of the Clair Field, 75 kilometers west of Shetland…
Oil and gas companies operating in Norway have raised their investment forecasts for 2019 to 175.3 billion Norwegian crowns ($20.6 billion) from 165.1 billion seen in August, a survey by the country's statistics agency (SSB) showed on Thursday…
Dutch offshore construction and engineering company Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) intends to divest a significant part of its activities in the field of design and fabrication of complex steel constructions for the offshore market.HFG has…
Aberdeen-headquartered Faroe Petroleum has started drilling the Brasse East exploration well off the coast of Norway.The oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK announced…
U.S. offshore drilling contractor Rowan announced on Wednesday that its charter contract with Fieldwood Energy for the Rowan Reliance will be transferred to the Rowan Resolute under the same contractual terms, which includes a one-year, firm term plus three 90-day options…
U.S. supermajor Chevron announced that its operated Big Foot deepwater project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has started crude oil and natural gas production.The field is located approximately 225 miles (360 km) south of New Orleans, La., in a water depth of approximately 5…
Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor plans to drill more exploration wells internationally and more onshore wells in 2019 compared to this year, the company's head of exploration said on Tuesday.'In general, there will be more international activity…
U.K. Continental Shelf focused Azinor Catalyst Limited announced on Thursday an oil discovery at its 9/14a-17B well and associated side-track on the Agar-Plantain Prospect in the North Sea.The initial 9/14a-17B well on the Agar-Plantain Prospect…
Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom, said on Thursday that it had opened a second hydrocarbon field in the Okhotsk Sea.(Reporting by Olesya Astakhova; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Andrey Ostroukh and Adrian Croft)
Lukoil announced Wednesday that it has completed the construction of the second production well from the wellhead platform at the Yury Korchagin field in the Caspian Sea.The single-bore well with horizontal completion was drilled from a jack-up rig in the eastern part of the field…
Vietsovpetro, a Vietnam-Russia oil joint venture, will start crude oil production at the Ca Tam field offshore southern Vietnam from Jan. 15, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.Ca Tam is the first new field to be brought…
Southeast Asia focused upstream oil and gas company KrisEnergy announced on Monday that the Mist jack-up rig has begun drilling the Montha-1 exploration well in the G10/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand.The well, located approximately…