Aker BP will cut its quarterly dividend payments by two-thirds due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the plunge in crude prices, the Norwegian oil firm said on Wednesday after reporting a better-than-expected first-quarter core profit.Earnings before interest…
Offshore jack-up rig company Seafox has increased its ownership in rival and takeover target Gulf Marine Services to 16.39 percent by acquiring 9,38 million shares in GMS on the market at a price of 10 pence per share on Tuesday.The Dutch company also made a 'no increase' statement…
Equinor will shut down its Melkoyea liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant for two weeks of maintenance in the second half of May, the Norwegian oil and gas company said on Wednesday.The shutdown of the plant, also called Hammerfest LNG, which liquefies…
Nigeria will not hold 'substantive' oilfield bid rounds until prices recover, the head of the state oil company said on Tuesday in a web conference.Mele Kyari, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, also said…
Norwegian oil firm Equinor is offering to sell its remaining 4.88% stake in Swedish competitor Lundin Energy, bookrunners Morgan Stanley and SpareBank 1 Markets said in a statement on Tuesday.Equinor's sale of up to 14 million shares follows…
Hydraulic repair, manufacturing and rental company Logan Industries delivered a custom A-frame to TechnipFMC for one of the services company's new state-of-the-art remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV), which will deploy later this year…
Oil and gas company Hilcorp has received permission from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to carry out a geohazards survey in the federal waters of Cook Inlet, off the coast of Southcentral Alaska. The area to be surveyed is in lower Cook Inlet…
Franco-American oil services company TechnipFMC plans to cut up to 700 jobs across its sites in Norway due to the turbulent oil market situation, a spokesman for the company said on Tuesday.TechnipFMC, whose customers include major oil companies…
French energy major Total promised to pay a steady cash dividend and said it can break even with low oil prices after the impact of the coronavirus outbreak and a collapse in fuel demand led to a 35% first-quarter profit fall.It also raised its climate ambitions…
Offshore cable specialist Nexans has extended the charter for the construction support vessel Polar King.News of the extension was shared on Tuesday by GC Rieber Shipping, the owner of the vessel. According to GC Rieber Shipping, Nexans Skagerrak…
Norwegian seismic survey player Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has secured a seismic node survey contract with Norway's Equinor.AGS said Monday that the final agreement had been reached following a letter of intent signed in February.The survey is…
Malaysia's offshore vessel provider Alam Maritim has won a contract with Sapura OMV Upstream.Alam Maritim said Monday that the contract awarded by the oil and gas company was for the provision of underwater services.The value of the contract is around RM6…
IEV, an asset integrity services provider to the oil and gas industry, has won a contract to provide advanced inspection solutions for an oil company in Malaysia.Singapore-based IEV said Monday it had won the contract through its 49%-owned associate…
Oil and gas output from some of the world's top oil companies is set to drop by nearly 11% in the second quarter of 2020 to levels not seen in at least 17 years, according to Reuters calculations. The output cuts are driven by an unprecedented…
Spain's Repsol reported a 28% fall in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, becoming the latest oil and gas company to show the deep damage done to its balance sheet by the coronavirus laying waste to energy demand.Oil prices fell 65% in the period…