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Saipem Secures $260M Drillship Deal with Eni in West Africa

Jul 22, 2026

Saipem has secured an offshore drilling contract worth approximately $260 million from Eni for a long-term development drilling campaign offshore Côte d'Ivoire.The contract will see the Santorini drillship deployed on the campaign from early 2027 under a firm drilling program…

Chevron Halts Petronius Output as Tropical Storm Nears

Jul 22, 2026

Chevron has shut in production at its Petronius platform in the U.S. Gulf of America and evacuated all associated personnel to shore as Tropical Storm Bertha approaches.The company said production from its other Chevron-operated assets in the Gulf remains at normal levels…

Equinor Profit Jumps on Wartime Energy Prices

Jul 22, 2026

Equinor on Wednesday reported a sharp rise in second-quarter profits, as expected, lifted by a surge in oil and gas prices as the war in the Middle East disrupted global energy supplies.The Norwegian group's adjusted earnings before tax for the April to June period rose to $11…

CorPower Gains World-First DNV Wave Energy Prototype Approval

Jul 21, 2026

CorPower Ocean has been awarded the world’s first DNV Prototype Certificate for a wave energy converter (WEC), marking a major leap towards bankable, utility-scale wave energy.The CorPower C4 has been certified by DNV under DNV-SE-0120, Certification of Wave Energy Converters and Arrays…

Norway's Offshore Oil, Gas Output Tops June Forecast

Jul 21, 2026

Norway's combined oil and gas production exceeded an official forecast by 3% in June, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) said on Tuesday.Norway is Europe's largest supplier of natural gas and a major producer of oil, but output varies…

ADNOC Approves $6.2B Offshore Umm Shaif Gas Project

Jul 21, 2026

ADNOC has made a $6.2 billion final investment decision (FID) to develop the Umm Shaif Gas Cap project offshore Abu Dhabi with partners TotalEnergies, Eni and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).The development is expected to produce…

Vår Energi, BlueNord Merger to Create Europe's Largest Independent Producer

Jul 21, 2026

Vår Energi and BlueNord have agreed to combine their businesses in a cash-and-shares transaction that will expand Vår Energi into Denmark and create what the companies said would be Europe's largest independent oil and gas producer.The transaction…

Oceaneering Wins Five-Year Contract in Qatar

Jul 20, 2026

Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that its Integrity Management and Digital Solutions (IMDS) segment has been awarded a five-year inspection and asset integrity services contract by a Qatar-based oil company. The contract includes two optional one-year extensions…

Velesto Frees Up Drilling Rig After Early Contract Termination off Indonesia

Jul 20, 2026

Malaysia-based offshore drilling contractor Velesto Energy has mutually agreed with PC Ketapang II, PC North Madura II and PETRONAS North Ketapang to terminate, without cause, a contract for the NAGA 8 jack-up drilling rig offshore Indonesia…

OneSubsea Gets Two Production Boosting Jobs for Vår Energi

Jul 20, 2026

OneSubsea, a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions and Subsea7, has secured two contracts from Vår Energi covering subsea production infrastructure at the Balder and Goliat fields offshore Norway.The first contract covers the design and…

All Production Wells Come Back Onstream at Karoon Energy’s Baúna Field

Jul 20, 2026

Karoon Energy has returned all production wells at its Baúna project offshore Brazil to service after restarting the PRA-2 well, lifting field output to about 22,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd).Production from the PRA-2 well resumed on July…

Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Nordkapp Secures Another Year with Aker BP

Jul 20, 2026

Odfjell Drilling has received confirmation from Aker BP that the firm contract for the Deepsea Nordkapp semi-submersible rig has been extended by one year.The extension increases the rig's firm backlog through the end of 2028, after which Aker BP retains further extension options…

Jadestone Energy Lifts Malaysia Production with Second Online Well

Jul 20, 2026

Jadestone Energy has brought the second well in its 2026 Malaysia infill drilling campaign onstream at 2,800 barrels of oil per day (bpd), extending the program that has increased production from the East Belumut field by more than 150%, or about 6…

ADES Boosts Backlog with $230M Nigeria, North Sea Deals

Jul 20, 2026

Saudi Arabian oil and gas drilling contractor ADES Holding has secured two offshore drilling contracts in Nigeria and the U.K. North Sea, worth $229 million combined, strengthening its backlog and jack-up fleet utilization.The larger of the…

DEME to Install Foundations at Zeevonk Offshore Wind Farm

Jul 20, 2026

Belgium marine contractor DEME has secured a contract to transport and install foundations for the first phase of the Zeevonk offshore wind farm in the Netherlands.The project, jointly owned by Vattenfall and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners through its Energy Transition Fund I…

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