Austrian oil and gas group OMV signed a concession agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for a 5 percent stake in the Ghasha offshore gas and condensate fields, strengthening its position in the region, it said on Wednesday.The…
Italian energy giant Eni announced that Indonesia has approved its investment plan for the Merakes project, located in the Kutei Basin, offshore East Kalimantan.Eni will now start work on developing the project, which will involve drilling and constructing subsea wells in water depths of 1…
The global engineering company based in Oslo Aker Solutions announced that it will provide engineering services for BP’s Clair South project in the UK North Sea.The pre-FEED (Front End Engineering and Design) contract, which was awarded in September…
Angola’s Sonangol and British supermajor BP on Monday signed an agreement to progress to final investment decision (FID) for the development of the Platina field in the BP-operated deepwater Block 18, offshore Angola.Platina would be BP’s first…
Lundin Petroleum must redesign the electricity supply to its Edvard Grieg oilfield, in line with plans laid when the company won permission to develop the North Sea resource in 2012, the Norwegian energy ministry said on Friday.Currently powered with gas turbines…
Mexico aims to lift oil and gas production by almost 50 percent in the next six years and in January will award infrastructure and drilling contracts to develop 20 fields, state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos said on Saturday.Octavio Romero, chief…
The number of new oil and gas projects will rise five-fold next year from a 2015 trough but overall spending is still unlikely to be enough to meet future demand, consultancy Wood Mackenzie said in a report.Shaken by a sharp drop in oil prices in recent months…
Independent global completions service company Tendeka said it has launched a new technology that increases oil recovery by improving injected water conformance in fractured reservoirs or by ensuring effective placement of matrix stimulation acids…
British oilfield services company Hunting Plc expects oil and gas producers to defer some projects as a recent decline in crude prices could hit their short-term budgets, it said on Monday.Oilfield service companies, including U.S.-based Schlumberger…
Production from the Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea began Sunday, opening a new region for gas export to Europe, Norway's Equinor announced Monday.The Aasta Hansteen field, named after the Norwegian feminist, social commentator…
Africa focussed Australian oil and gas FAR Limited has begun front-end engineering design (FEED) activities for phase-one development of its SNE oil field offshore Senegal.The FEED will aim to finalise budget, schedule and technical definition…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Equinor the green light to extend the operation of the Norne floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) and associated facilities until the end of 2036.'The consent has been granted…
For carbon capture and storage (CCS) to make a meaningful contribution towards decarbonizing our energy system, it needs to start with a bang, not a whimper₁. Scale projects are needed now if CCS is to stand any chance of benefiting from the…
Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's second-largest energy producer, said on Friday it expects average upstream production to rise 10 percent in 2019, even after implementing Alberta's mandated output cuts.Alberta has mandated temporary output cuts of 325…
UK-based oil and gas exploration firm i3 Energy PLC said its Serenity prospect in the North Sea 'provides significant organic growth' for its Liberator development.The company estimates that Serenity contains P50 stock tank oil-initially-in-place of 197mln stock tank barrels…