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Shell Joins 20 Rivals in Norway's Latest Exploration Round

Sep 11, 2026

Norway's energy ministry said on Friday it has received applications from 21 oil and gas companies seeking exploration acreage in the government's annual mature-areas (APA) licensing round.The number of companies rose by one from last year's APA round…

ExxonMobil Taps Saipem, Jan De Nul for Rovuma LNG Work

Sep 10, 2026

Saipem and Jan De Nul have signed a letter of intent with ExxonMobil for preliminary work on the offshore portion of the Rovuma LNG Phase 1 development in Mozambique, ahead of a potential engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract…

Boskalis’ Windpiper Starts Maiden Job at Polish Wind Farms

Sep 10, 2026

Boskalis’ recently commissioned Windpiper subsea rock installation vessel has started its maiden project at the Bałtyk 2 and Bałtyk 3 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, placing its first rocks to protect the projects’ export cables.The 227-meter-long vessel loaded nearly 45…

GEOS’ Energy Paradise PSV to Stay with Peterson into 2027

Sep 10, 2026

Golden Energy Offshore Services (GEOS) said Peterson has exercised a further well option for the platform supply vessel (PSV) Energy Paradise, extending its firm employment into early 2027.The option has an anticipated duration of about 100 days and an estimated contract value of $3…

Vår Energi Picks Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Bergen for Multi-Year Drilling Ops

Sep 10, 2026

Odfjell Drilling has received a letter of award from Vår Energi for a three-year drilling campaign with the Deepsea Bergen rig starting in early 2028, with the firm backlog valued at about $518 million.The work will begin after completion of…

Senegal Opens 109 Oil and Gas Blocks to Investors

Sep 10, 2026

Senegal plans to offer 109 oil and gas blocks at a roadshow to local and foreign investors, the West African country's energy minister, El Hadji Abdourahmane Diouf, said.Senegal has 113 oil and gas blocks, Diouf said, adding that only four of them are already under contract…

Asia's Oil Industry Braces for Prolonged Hormuz Disruption

Sep 10, 2026

Asia's crude oil industry has a good idea of how to end the current crisis created by the Iran conflict. But they also know their wish is unlikely to be granted and they are hunkering down for an extended disruption to supplies from the Middle East…

TotalEnergies Finds Oil in Angola’s Block 17, Grows Interest in Two More

Sep 10, 2026

TotalEnergies has made a new oil discovery at Acacia-5 in Angola's Block 17 and expects to bring it into production just three months after the June 2026 discovery, while expanding its exploration portfolio with operated interests in two additional offshore blocks…

Petronas Awards Estuary Cluster PSC to Harvester Energy

Sep 10, 2026

Petronas has awarded a production sharing contract for Malaysia's Estuary Cluster to Harvester Energy and handed over enhanced seismic data for the Mutiara Cluster to DIALOG Resources, advancing development of discovered oil and gas resources in two Malaysian basins…

TotalEnergies, Partners to Invest $10b in Angola

Sep 09, 2026

French oil major TotalEnergies will invest $10 billion with partners in Angola over the next five years to bolster production across various projects, Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said at an oil conference in Luanda on Wednesday.Angola,…

DNV: Industrialization, Standardization Could Slash North Sea Offshore Wind Costs

Sep 09, 2026

DNV, the independent energy expert and assurance provider, has quantified how standardizing turbine designs and securing predictable project pipelines could reduce the average lifetime cost of electricity from North Sea offshore wind by up to 28% by 2050 in a high-volume scenario…

ExxonMobil Makes New Oil Discovery in Angola’s Offshore Block 15

Sep 09, 2026

ExxonMobil has made a new hydrocarbon discovery at the Vicango East-01 exploration well in Angola’s offshore Block 15, marking the third discovery in the prolific block in the past four years.The well encountered about 25 metres (82 feet) of high-quality…

SLB, Shearwater Launch Multi-Client 3D Seismic Survey off Brazil

Sep 09, 2026

SLB and Shearwater GeoServices have launched a 3D multi-client seismic survey offshore Amapá in Brazil’s Equatorial Margin, targeting an underexplored area that has attracted increased interest following the recent Morpho hydrocarbon discovery…

ABS Backs Hanwha Ocean’s Standardized FPSO Design

Sep 09, 2026

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued basic design review certification to Hanwha Ocean for a standardized floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) design targeting deepwater projects in South America and West Africa.The…

Vallourec, Aramco Expand Tubulars Partnership

Sep 09, 2026

French tubular solutions provider Vallourec has signed an agreement with Saudi Aramco covering the supply of Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG), further expanding a relationship between the companies that dates back more than six decades.The agreement…

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