TDI-Brooks, in collaboration with GeoPartners Ltd and the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL), has secured a contract for a multi-client multibeam echo sounder (MBES) and seep sampling survey for offshore Liberia. The project will provide…
Amplitude Energy has signed a binding agreement to purchase a 50% interest in VIC/L35, containing the Artisan gas field in the Offshore Otway Basin, Australia, from Beach Energy.Artisan is an existing discovered resource in the Offshore Otway Basin…
Baker Hughes announced Tuesday a major contract extension with Petrobras to provide integrated solutions for well construction across Brazil’s Santos Basin.Baker Hughes will expand the company’s comprehensive well construction operations in several of the basin’s oilfields…
ABL has been hired to support Esso Australia Resources as preparations advance for what the company described as Australia’s largest offshore decommissioning campaign in the Bass Strait.The Gippsland Decommissioning Campaign #1 Project is expected…
Australia's Santos will prioritise LNG and oil growth in three core regions, including Alaska and Papua New Guinea, under a new strategy that also includes reducing net debt by $2.5 billion by 2030.'We are now laser-focused on investment in major oil and LNG production across three regions…
Vietnam's state energy firm Petrovietnam has invited investors to participate in an open tender for an offshore oil and gas block in the South China Sea, it said on Monday.The invitation is for the Block 17 in the Cuu Long basin, on the country's continental shelf…
Woodside Energy will consider matching an offer from Inpex to buy PetroChina’s stake in the Browse gas fields off the coast of Western Australia, CEO Liz Westcott said on Wednesday.Inpex on Friday said it would take PetroChina’s 10.67% stake…
Offshore seismic services firm Shearwater Geoservices has secured an ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition project for the Jackdaw field in the UK sector of the North Sea by Adura.The two-month survey will deliver high-resolution OBN data…
Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras will soon declare the commercial viability of a still-unnamed new discovery at the offshore Aram block in Santos basin, Chief Executive Magda Chambriard said on Monday.The CEO had said last week the firm hoped to have two producing wells at the block by 2030…
Italian energy group Eni is considering deploying a third Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) platform offshore Mozambique, a company spokesperson said.Eni took a final investment decision on its second platform, Coral North, in October last year…
Offshore drilling contractor ADES Holding has extended the contract for Shelf Drilling Winner rig with Tenaz Energy Netherlands from a one-year to a three-year firm term for operations in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.The company said the contract…
Offshore drilling contractor ADES Holding has secured a new contract in Nigeria for its Main Pass IV standard jack-up rig.The contract has a one-year firm term with an additional one-year unpriced option, with the firm term value of the contract of $48…
Inpex has agreed to acquire a 10.67% participating interest in the Browse joint venture offshore Western Australia from PetroChina International Investment (Australia) – CNPC.The Japanese energy company said subsidiary Inpex Mirai Upstream signed…
The substructures for fixed offshore wind turbines weigh thousands of tonnes. Only about five vessels in the world can lift that much weight. So now researchers are testing an alternative: an unusually wide barge.Using experience gained from the oil and gas industry…