French oil major TotalEnergies beat expectations for fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday as higher trading profits in the gas market helped it offset some of the impact of low oil prices and weak fuel demand.Adjusted net income for the final three months of 2024 was $4…
A Scottish court has invalidated Britain's approvals for two major North Sea oil and gas projects, delivering a significant victory to environmental groups and raising uncertainty over future fossil fuel developments in the UK.The Court of Session…
Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday offered 26 offshore oil and gas blocks in its largest-ever auction of areas for deepwater exploration and production, according to an official notice.The twin-island Caribbean country, Latin America's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG)…
ConocoPhillips Sabah Gas, a subsidiary of the global energy company ConocoPhillips, has taken over the operatorship of Kebabangan Cluster Production Sharing Contract (KBBC PSC) in Malaysia.The transfer took effect on 21 January 2025, making…
Russia said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas flows to Turkey and Europe.The Russian defence ministry said the attack was aimed…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that the potential bankruptcy or sale of the operator of the completed but never launched Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would amount to 'theft'.Lavrov, speaking at a news conference in Moscow…
Orlen Upstream Norway has drilled a dry well as part of exploration campaign in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea.The wildcat well 6305/10-1 was the first exploration well in production license 1055, which was awarded in 2020 (Awards in predefined areas (APA) 2019)…
Petrobras, on behalf of the Tupi field consortium, has extended charter and service agreements for the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Cidade de Angra dos Reis, announcing also the upgrades to the vessel.The amendments…
Global energy technology company SLB has secured a series of major drilling contracts by Shell to support capital-efficient energy development across its deep and ultra-deepwater assets in the U.K. North Sea, Trinidad and Tobago, Gulf of Mexico and others…
Oil and gas major Shell has started the production at its deepwater Whale floating production facility in the Gulf of Mexico.The Whale production facility is in the Alaminos Canyon Block 773 and is adjacent to the Shell-operated Silvertip field…
U.S. President Donald Trump in his first day of office on Monday suspended new federal offshore wind leasing pending an environmental and economic review, saying wind mills are ugly, expensive and harm wildlife.Former President Joe Biden supported the offshore wind industry…
Shell trimmed its liquefied natural gas production outlook for the fourth quarter on Wednesday and said oil and gas trading results are expected to be significantly lower than in the previous three months.In a trading update ahead of Jan. 30 full-year results…
Oil fell 1% on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down its cost during his address at the World Economic Forum.Uncertainty over how Trump's proposed tariffs and energy policies would affect global economic growth and energy demand also weighed on prices…
ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy on Friday began exploratory drilling for natural gas in a prospect west of Cyprus, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides said on X.The east Mediterranean has yielded some major gas discoveries in recent years, and…
BP will cut over 5% of its global workforce, it said on Thursday, as part of CEO Murray Auchincloss' efforts to reduce costs and rebuild investor confidence in the energy giant.Around 4,700 employees and 3,000 contractor positions will be cut this year…