Dutch offshore services provider Boskalis has engaged its heavy transport vessel Blue Marlin to move a recently converted floating production unit (FPU) to Angola, ahead of its deployment at Congo’s first natural gas liquefaction project.The cargo…
BW Energy has started a process to potentially acquire Azule Energy’s non-operated interests in Block 14/14K, offshore Angola.According to BW Energy, the move is part of its continuous consideration of opportunities to acquire assets in line with its stated strategy…
ExxonMobil has made a final investment decision for the Hammerhead development offshore Guyana, after receiving the required regulatory approvals. Hammerhead, the seventh project on the Stabroek block, is anticipated to come online in 2029.The…
Chevron, the world’s third-largest oil company, and investment fund Westlawn have joined Anadarko Petroleum in a consortium to explore offshore oil and gas blocks in Peru, in a move officials said could boost energy security and attract further global investment…
BP's recent discovery of a giant oilfield offshore Brazil has reignited investor enthusiasm, echoing the aggressive exploration era two decades ago when companies were thirsty for resources amid fears the world was running out of oil.The announcement of the Bumerangue discovery…
Egypt signed three investment agreements worth more than $121 million for oil and gas exploration in the Western desert, Suez Gulf and north of Sinai, the Egyptian petroleum ministry said on Sunday.The deals were with Parenco Egypt, Dubai-based Dragon Oil and Apache…
Oslo-listed oil and gas company Panoro Energy has appointed Eric d'Argentré as its new Chief Operating Officer and President.D'Argentré has extensive expertise in operations, drilling, field development, HSE and project delivery having held…
Africa-focused oil and gas company Afentra has signed Heads of Terms with Angola’s National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) for a Risk Service Contract covering offshore Block 3/24, its first operated license in the country.The formal award is expected in the coming months…
China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started production from the Wenchang 16-2 oil field development project in the northern part of South China Sea.The project is located in the western Pearl River Mouth Basin…
Azule Energy, the joint venture between Italian oil and gas explorer Eni and BP, expects to invest another $5 billion in Angola over the next four to five years, Eni's Chief Operating Officer Guido Brusco told Reuters on Wednesday.The latest…
Chevron has signed a preliminary agreement with Angola's national oil and gas concessionaire ANPG to explore for oil in the country's offshore block 33/24, the U.S. oil major said on Wednesday.The risk services contract with Angola's National Oil…
French offshore services provider Bourbon has signed a five-year charter contract with ExxonMobil to supply new 34-meter crewboats for oil and gas personnel transfers offshore Angola.The vessels will operate between Soyo and Block 15, about 80 miles offshore…
Equinor has proven petroleum in a wildcat well in Norwegian Sea, drilled by Transocean’s Transocean Encourage semi-submersible drilling rig.The well 6506/12-PB-3 H was tested the Smørbukk Midt prospect, located between Smørbukk and Smørbukk Sør about 250 kilometres southwest of Brønnøysund…
Shearwater Geoservices has been awarded a deepwater Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) seismic survey in Ghana’s Jubilee and TEN fields, operated by Tullow and its partners.It will be the first deepwater OBN project offshore Ghana, following Shearwater’s…
Shearwater Geoservices has secured a deepwater Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) seismic survey work offshore Angola by ExxonMobil’s affiliate Esso Exploration Angola Block 15 Limited.The two-month project is scheduled to begin during the third quarter of 2025…