Royal Dutch Shell Plc is shutting production at four Gulf of Mexico offshore platforms and evacuating all workers from those locations because of the threat from Tropical Storm Ida, the company said on Thursday night.The Ursa, Mars, Olympus…
Offshore drilling firm Noble Corporation will sell four jack-up drilling rigs to drilling company ADES for $292 million. Noble Corp, which recently acquired Pacific Drilling, expects to generate around $285 million in cash from the ADES transaction net of fees…
UK-based oil and gas company Spirit Energy has said it has discovered more gas at its Grove field in the UK North Sea, close to the UK–Netherlands median line.The Grove North East development well (49/10a-G7) encountered carboniferous reservoir units at the target depth…
UK-based oil company IOG, focused on developing its Southern North Sea gas fields, has renamed its Core Project and the associated Thames infrastructure.IOG, which changed its own name from Independent Oil & Gas to IOG in April, has said that the Core Project would now be named Saturn Banks Project…
Chinese national offshore oil and gas company CNOOC has started production from its Bozhong 26-3 oil field expansion project in the south of Bohai Sea, The field is located in an area with an average water depth of around 21 meters. 'In addition to fully utilizing the existing processing facilities…
Brazilian oil company Enauta said Thursday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Malaysia's FPSO specialist Yinson for direct and exclusive negotiation of FPSO supply contracts for the 'Definitive System' of the Atlanta field in the Santos Basin…
Denmark and Costa Rica are trying to forge an alliance of countries willing to fix a date to phase out oil and gas production and to stop giving permits for new exploration, government ministers said and documents showed.Burning fossil fuels…
Indonesia's navy is preparing to charge the captain of a ship accused of loading oil illegally in Cambodia and anchoring in Indonesian waters without permission, according to local authorities and the vessel owner.Bahamas-flagged tanker MT Strovolos…
Africa-focused oil firm VAALCO Energy has signed a binding letter of intent with World Carrier Offshore Services Corp. for the provision and operation of a Floating Storage and Offloading (“FSO”) unit at VAALCO’s Etame Marin field offshore Gabon…
Malaysia's Sapura Energy has won the FEED contract for the design, construction, and installation of the Wellhead Platform (WHP) for Dorado offshore development in Western Australia.The WHP will be an unmanned installation, located in 90 meters water over the Dorado oil and gas field…
Belgian offshore installation contractor DEME Offshore is set to upgrade the crane capacity on its DP2 jack-up installation vessel ‘Sea Installer’ from 900 tonnes to 1,600 tonnes. The crane, to be built by the Dutch crane manufacturer Huisman…
U.S. oil and gas company Talos Energy, focused on oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico, said Wednesday it was, with its partner Carbonvert, the sole winning bidder for the Texas General Land Office's ('GLO') Jefferson County, Texas carbon storage site located near Beaumont and Port Arthur…
Offshore seismic services firm PXGEO said Wednesday it had secured an Ocean Bottom Node marine seismic acquisition contract.The project, in the North Sea, is expected to start in the second quarter of 2022.In a brief statement released Wednesday…
Oil prices dropped on Wednesday but stayed above $70 a barrel, taking a breather after recent days' strong rally as Mexico was set to resume crude production following a major outage.Brent crude fell 33 cents, or 0.46%, to $70.72 a barrel by 0904 GMT…
Completions company Tendeka has appointed Jonathan Abbott as its new chief technology officer (CTO).Abbott, appointed to drive Tendeka's next generation of products and systems, takes on the role with almost 20 years’ international experience in operations…