Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi to review the Italian group's investments in the African country and discuss new initiatives, the energy company said on Tuesday.Eni, which is the operator of Egypt's offshore gas field Zohr…
Nigeria will begin a fresh round of oil licensee auction from next month, the oil regulator said on Tuesday in London, as part of plans to revive idle assets and grow production.'We are announcing that we are ready, following the approval of…
Oil and gas have not only fueled economies but created rivalries, territorial disputes and wars. In the last one hundred years or so, since petroleum resources have been commercially extracted it is central to numerous armed conflicts. Some notable examples…
Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency has issued planning approval for Vattenfall’s 630 MW Nordlicht 2 offshore wind farm in the North Sea, clearing the way for construction to move ahead.The Nordlicht II project will consist of 44 turbines of 15 MW each…
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has secured a series of new contracts and extensions worth about $190 million in the North Sea and Middle East regions, lifting its total contract backlog to $4.5 billion.The latest awards include a mix of…
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has secured a five-well contract with BP’s subsidiary BP Exploration Delta for VALARIS DS-12 drillship in Egypt.The contract is expected to begin in the second quarter 2026 and has an estimated duration of 350 days…
Nigeria has commissioned its first wholly owned Floating Storage and Offloading vessel near its Bonny export terminal, one of the companies which developed it said, as Africa's biggest oil producer seeks to improve its crude export infrastructure…
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has approved a sales purchase agreement (SPA) by TotalEnergies for its entire 12.5% stake in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 118, which contains Bonga offshore field, to Shell's SNEPco and Eni's Nigerian Agip Exploration (NAE)…
MCS Group’s Photo Realistic 3D Cloud (PRC) technology has been deployed in the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) gas field development offshore Egypt, improving accuracy and reducing subsea survey time for Burullus Gas Company, a joint venture between…
BP has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Egyptian government to evaluate opportunities for a five-well drilling program in the Mediterranean Sea.The program, at water depth ranging from 300 to 1,500 meters, is designed to accelerate…
TotalEnergies, together with its partner South Atlantic Petroleum, have signed the Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for two exploration licenses offshore Nigeria.The PSC was signed for the PPL 2000 and PPL 2001 licenses, in which TotalEnergies is the operator with 80% working interest…
The installation of the approximately 20-kilometer-long offshore pipeline for the Porthos CO2 transport and storage project has been completed. The pipeline will transport captured CO₂ from the Rotterdam port industry to storage reservoirs under the North Sea…
Egypt has signed four agreements with international firms worth more than $340 million to explore oil and gas in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta, the Petroleum Ministry said on Saturday.The deals, signed by the state-owned Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS)…
Egypt's petroleum ministry said on Friday that two new wells in the deepwater West Delta have gone online, adding about 60 million cubic feet per day (mcfd) of natural gas to the country's output.Egypt seeks to boost gas production after increasingly turning to imports to meet domestic demand…