Oil and gas producer Hess Corp and Conocophillips both expect production for 2019 to be higher than this year even as they spend roughly the same amount of money on exploration, the companies said on Monday.Investors have been urging U.S. oil…
Italy's Eni said it has started production from the Vandumbu field in Block 15/06 through West Hub N’Goma floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO).Block 15/06 is located approximately 350 kilometers northwest of Luanda and 130 kilometers west of Soyo…
The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday it is responding to a crude oil discharge in Rattle Snake Bayou, southwest of Port Sulphur, La.Coast Guard watchstanders in New Orleans received a report from the National Response Center that the well was reported to be leaking…
Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday it would expand the Shearwater gas hub in the British North Sea, its seventh project to get the green light in the ageing basin this year.The project, a joint venture with Exxon Mobil and BP, will include a modification…
Brazil environmental regulator Ibama on Friday said it had denied a permit to French oil major Total SA to drill in the environmentally sensitive Foz do Amazonas Basin for a fifth and final time.Ibama said in a statement that it agreed with…
Spirit Energy confirmed on Friday it it has taken over operatorship of the Babbage gas field in the U.K. North Sea, where it holds a 13 percent interest.The Europe-focused oil and gas operator has also taken on operatorship of the nearby Cobra licence…
Equinor has received government approval for its plan to boost output and extend the lifetime of Troll, Norway's largest oil and gas field, the company said on Friday.The field accounts for about 40 percent of the natural gas reserves on the…
U.S. crude inventory declined last week. The latest weekly survey results by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) indicate a fall of 7.3 million barrels in the week ended November 30. This follows a 10-week streak of crude inventory…
Apache Corporation announced it has begun producing from its Garten development on Block 9/18a Area-W in the U.K. sector of the North Sea, ahead of the initial target of first-quarter 2019. The discovery well, which is located 6 kilometers south of the Beryl Alpha Platform…
Faroe Petroleum announced Wednesday the commencement of the Cassidy exploration well 8/10-7 S in the Norwegian North Sea.The Cassidy prospect sits within the PL405 Oda licence (discovered in 2011) and is being drilled back-to-back with the production wells on the Oda structure…
Canadian integrated energy company Suncor said it has restarted production from the Terra Nova floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), approximately 350 kilometers east-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada in the North Atlantic Ocean…
New North Sea, Baltic Sea pipeline adds to Norway’s $20.5 billion 2019 spendNorway — that most capital-intensive of oil provinces — will see investments offshore increase by $2.34 billion in 2019, after a year that saw seven oilfield projects…
Royal Dutch Shell expects production at its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) unit to start at the end of the year, a spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday.'We continue to progress Prelude towards operations, with safety and quality being our main focus…
Energy company Eni aims to start output of natural gas from its offshore Merakes project in Indonesia in 2021, the country's deputy energy minister said on Tuesday.Initial production at Merakes would be 155 million cubic feet of natural gas per day (mmcfd)…
U.S. major ExxonMobil has made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana and increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels, reinforcing potential for at least five floating storage…
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