Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has discovered oil on the Garantiana West prospect in production licence 554, offshore Norway.Recoverable resources are estimated at between 1.3 and 3.6 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent, corresponding to 8-23 million barrels of oil equivalent…
Turkey has shared data on its Black Sea discovery with U.S. energy majors Chevron and Exxon Mobil ahead of possible cooperation in extracting the gas, a Turkish official with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.Ankara has so far insisted it…
Some 1,065 members of two Norwegian labour unions could go on strike on June 17 if wage talks fail, hitting oil exploration and other drilling services, the unions said on Friday.A strike would not affect oil and gas output in the initial round…
Serica Energy has said it has installed new completion equipment at Rhum R3 well in the North Sea, and that 'flow test has now been performed.'As reported late in May, Serica said it had cleared the well of all equipment installed when it was originally completed in 2005…
Norwegian oil firm Equinor has drilled two dry wells near the Fram field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.Using the Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig, Equinor drilled the wells 35/11-25 S and 35/11-25 A in the production licence 090…
French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies (formerly Total) has been crowned the upstream industry’s most-admired explorer for the second year in a row. The accolade is awarded as part of Wood Mackenzie’s annual Exploration Survey. The award ceremony…
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil said Wednesday it had made another oil discovery in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, this time at the Longtail-3 well.'Drilling at Longtail-3 encountered 230 feet (70 meters) of net pay, including newly identified…
Australian oil and gas company Advent Energy has issued a call for tender for the delivery of offshore drilling services for its Baleen-1 well, off Newcastle, Australia.The tender has been issued to multiple drilling contractors who have semi-submersible drilling units in the region…
Offshore drilling rig owner Valaris announced on Tuesday it has been awarded a three-year contract with U.S. supermajor Chevron in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.The contract for the ultra-deepwater drillship Valaris Relentless (VALARIS DS-18) is expected…
Offshore drilling company Transocean has reached a deal with Singapore-based Jurong Shipyard - a Sembcorp Marine subsidiary - to delay the delivery of the ultra-deepwater drillships Deepwater Atlas and Deepwater Titan, originally ordered in 2014…
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil is resuming operations at the Canje Block offshore Guyana with the drilling of the billion-barrel prospect Jabillo-1, using the Stena Carron Drillship.The news was shared by Westmount Energy, a company that owns a stake in one of ExxonMobil's Canje block partners…
Turkey has discovered 135 billion cubic meters of additional natural gas in the southern Black Sea, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, raising the total discovery in the region to 540 billion cubic meters.Last year, Turkey's drillship…
U.S. oil company Talos Energy on Thursday said its drilling operation at the Gulf of Mexico Tornado 3 well was a success.The company said its Tornado 3 sidetrack well ('Tornado Attic' well) successfully discovered pay in-line with pre-drill expectations…
Russian energy companies Novatek and Gazprom Neft on Friday created an exploration and production joint venture which will focus on work in the East Siberian Sea and the Chukchi Sea.As part of the agreement, Novatek acquired a 49% participation interest in OOO Gazpromneft Sakhalin…
Danish offshore drilling firm Maersk Drilling has secured a two-well contract extension for one of its drilling rigs in Brazil.The contract, for the Maersk Developer semi-submersible drilling rig, is with Karoon Energy, which on Thursday announced…
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