Wintershall Dea’s controversial wildcat well near the closed-off Lofoten archipelago in northern Norway was ultimately unsuccessful, analyst Rystad Energy said.Rystad Energy’s senior exploration analyst Palzor Shenga said, “This stands as a…
Partners in the Northern Lights project will drill an exploration well south of the Troll field in the North Sea with the objective to not find oil and gas.Wildcat well 31/5-7 Eos is being drilled to investigate whether the reservoir in the…
Italian offshore services company Saipem said it has secured two new contracts for work related to offshore wind development projects in Scotland and Taiwan.The two contracts, worth approximately €750 million ($826.4 million) combined, represents…
A new research and technology center backed by Chevron and Woodside has been launched at The University of Western Australia (UWA) to study long subsea tiebacks.The Center for Long Subsea Tiebacks laboratory located at UWA will focus on long…
Saudi Aramco has received bids for its shares totalling $44.3 billion so far, lead manager Samba Capital said on Friday, putting its initial public offering on track to be over-subscribed.The state-owned oil giant plans to sell 1.5% of the company's shares for as much as 96 billion riyals ($25…
Two Equinor personnel have been injured from an explosion on the Heimdal platform in the North Sea on Thursday, the Norwegian energy company said.There were 70 people on board the Equinor-operated platform when a portable nitrogen gas container…
Offshore services company Subsea 7 said it has been awarded a contract from Woodside for the execution of phase 2 of the Julimar-Brunello Project, approximately 200 kilometers offshore North Western Australia.Subsea 7 said its full scope of work will be to design…
Brazilian oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA on Thursday trimmed its oil and gas production outlook for next year, weighing on its shares despite more ambitious long-term output forecasts in its new five-year strategic plan.Petrobras, as the state-run firm is known…
Offshore wind industry is set to gain a foothold in new markets in the next five years, with the Asian markets playing a significant role.China has significant ambition for the build-out of offshore wind – and added more capacity in 2018 than any other country…
Oil and gas company, ONE-Dyas, a joint venture between Oranje-Nassau Energie B.V. (ONE) and SHV Holdings that owns Dyas, has its quest for an extension of its upstream investment programme offshore Gabon approved for its offshore Kowe project…
PetroRio, a Brazilian independent oil company specialized in revitalizing mature oil fields, has excelled at using cutting edge recovery technology, and applying an efficient program of reservoir management to pinpoint mature fields with potential to increase recovery…
The EU Commission’s big goals for offshore wind – between 230 and 450 GW by 2050 – are achievable provided the right investments in electricity grids and Governments take the right approach to maritime spatial planning, said a report.According…
Decommissioning activity in the UK North Sea in 2019 has seen a significant ramp up, with 23 projects approved in the basin so far this year, and another eight likely to come.But, while costs continue to fall, more still needs to be done to reduce spending…
ConocoPhillips has received the green light from Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority to drill an exploration well in block 25/7, slightly west of the Balder/Ringhorne fields in the center of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.Well 25/7-9 S belongs to production licence 917…
The European offshore wind industry needs an area equivalent to the size of Ireland to install enough turbines to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, a target for most EU members, a leading industry group said in a report.Fighting climate change…