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Equinor Finds Oil and Gas Near Troll Field in North Sea

Aug 25, 2025

Equinor and partners have struck oil and gas in the Fram area, nine kilometers north of the Troll field in the North Sea.The discoveries were made in exploration well 35/11-31 S in production license 090, operated by Equinor with 45% working interest…

Saipem Wins FEED Contract For Abadi LNG Project FPSO Module In Indonesia

Aug 13, 2025

Saipem, through its subsidiary PT Saipem Indonesia, in its role as leader of the consortium which also includes PT Tripatra Engineers & Constructors, PT Tripatra Engineering, and PT McDermott Indonesia, has received formal notification of the…

INPEX Awards Saipem FEED Contract for Indonesian FPSO

Aug 12, 2025

Saipem has been awarded a FEED contract for the FPSO module of the Abadi LNG project, located in the Masela Block, Indonesia.The contract was granted following a technical and commercial pre-selection process. It now enters a competitive dual FEED phase…

Inpex Picks FEED Contractors for Abadi LNG Onshore Plant

Aug 06, 2025

Japan’s Inpex Corporation has started Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) work for the onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant component of the Abadi LNG project in Indonesia’s Masela Block.The start of the FEED phase for the onshore LNG…

Inpex Kicks Off FEED Work for Abadi LNG Scheme Offshore Indonesia

Aug 04, 2025

Inpex Masela, a subsidiary of Japan’s Inpex and the operator of the Abadi liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in the Masela Block in Indonesia, has started Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) work for the scheme, with Saipem, Worley, Technip…

Pandion Energy Divests Interests in Three Norwegian Assets to Inpex

Jul 22, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas company Pandion Energy has entered into an agreement to sell its participating interests in three assets comprising seven production licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) to Inpex Idemitsu Norge, owned by Japan’s Inpex…

OMV Drills Dry Well in Norwegian Sea

Jul 16, 2025

Oil and gas firm OMV has drilled a dry wildcat well in the Hoffmann prospect in the Norwegian Sea.The wildcat well 6606/4-1 S was drilled in production license 1194, which was awarded in 2023 (Awards in pre-defined areas 2022).OMV is the operator of the license with 40% working interest…

Vår Energi, TechnipFMC to Fast-Track Development of North Sea O&G Fields

Jul 08, 2025

Vår Energi has entered into a collaboration agreement with TechnipFMC Norge for delivery of subsea projects utilizing its integrated model to fast-track future developments in the Gjøa area in the North Sea.Vår Energi has entered into the collaboration…

Bonaparte CCS Project Awarded Major Project Status

Jul 02, 2025

The Bonaparte CCS project has been awarded Major Project Status by the Australian Government. It is the first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project to receive the status in Australia.The Bonaparte CCS Assessment Joint Venture is…

ENEOS Gets Extension for Gas Block off Malaysia

Jun 20, 2025

Japan’s ENEOS Xplora, through its subsidiary ENEOS Xplora Malaysia, has signed an extension of production sharing contract (PSC) with Petronas for a block located off the coast of Sarawak in Malaysia.The PSC extension is for the block SK10 and will run for ten years…

Norway Grants Permit for Equinor’s Drilling Plan in North Sea

May 23, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor Energy and its partners a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.The permit is for wellbore 35/11-31 S in production licence 090, operated by Equinor with 45% working interest…

Petronas, Inpex Secure Oil and Gas Exploration Rights off Indonesia

May 22, 2025

Petronas Energy Serpang, in association with Inpex and EO Serpang (EOS), have jointly been awarded rights to explore the Serpang Working Area located offshore Eastern Java in Indonesia.The award comes as part of the second Indonesia Petroleum…

ADNOC Partners with ExxonMobil, Occidental to Boost UAE Oil and Gas Capacity

May 16, 2025

ADNOC has signed agreements with ExxonMobil to expand the capacity of United Arab Emirates (UAE) Upper Zakum field, and with Occidental to explore increasing Shah Gas field’s capacity, as part of multiple strategic agreements that could potentially enable $60 billion of U…

DeepSea Bollsta Set to Spud Two Wildcat Wells in Norwegian Sea

May 09, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted OMV (Norge) a drilling permit for two wildcat wells in the Norwegian Sea, which will be drilled with Odfjell Drilling-managed DeepSea Bollsta semi-submersible rig.The permit is for wellbore 6606/4-1 S and 6606/4-1 A in production license 1194…

EnQuest Bags Two Production Sharing Contracts off Indonesia

Apr 23, 2025

U.K.-based oil firm EnQuest, and its joint venture partners, have been confirmed as the winning bidders for two Production Sharing Contract (PSC) blocks in Indonesia’s Papua Barat, including Gaea and Gaea II.The blocks present a multi-Tscf unrisked…

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