SLB has signed a long-term framework agreement with Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA to support the modernization and development of the country's oil and gas sector.The memorandum of understanding establishes a framework for cooperation across exploration…
TGS has signed an agreement with Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Hydrocarbon and Mining Development to create a large-scale offshore multi-client seismic dataset, marking the first phase of what is planned to become a nationwide MegaSurvey covering the country's offshore basins…
Shell and its partners QatarEnergy and Namibia's national oil company NAMCOR have reported encouraging results from the Merlin-1X exploration well in Petroleum Exploration License 0039 (PEL 0039) offshore Namibia, with the well delivering the…
Viridien and Aker BP have entered into a five-year strategic partnership agreement to strengthen collaboration on multi-client ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition, imaging and technology development for exploration on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…
Eni has signed a petroleum exploration development and production license agreement with the government of The Gambia for the offshore Block A1.Block A1 covers an area of approximately 1,300 square kilometres in water depths ranging from 1,250 metres to 3…
Malaysia’s oil and gas services firm Velesto Energy has secured a contract from Northern Gulf Petroleum (NGP) for the provision of jack-up drilling rig services offshore Thailand.The contract was awarded to Velesto's wholly owned subsidiary…
Carnarvon Energy has secured the Transocean Equinox semi-submersible drilling rig for a multi-well campaign that includes exploration wells in the Bedout Sub-basin offshore Western Australia, with drilling scheduled to begin from April 2027…
Occidental Petroleum is acquiring a 10% stake in Exxon Mobil’s deepwater exploration block offshore Trinidad and Tobago, according to two people familiar with the matter.Exxon was previously the sole owner of the large offshore block, known as UD(1)…
Petronas has confirmed that an incident occurred during lifeboat maintenance work at the Sepat floating, storage and offloading (FSO) unit offshore Malaysia, resulting in three fatalities and one injury.The incident occurred at approximately 12:50 p…
Eni and its partners Petroci and Vitol have approved the final investment decision (FID) for the Baleine Phase 3 project offshore Côte d’Ivoire, advancing development of what the company described as the country’s largest hydrocarbon discovery…
Bangladesh launched an international tender on Sunday for oil and gas exploration in 26 offshore blocks in the Bay of Bengal, offering more attractive terms to foreign companies as it seeks to tackle worsening domestic gas shortages and reduce reliance on costly LNG imports…
BP and its partners have signed three production sharing contracts (PSCs) in Indonesia, expanding the company’s upstream portfolio in the country to 11 oil and gas blocks.Two of the contracts cover the Bintuni and Drawa exploration blocks in Papua Barat near BP-operated Tangguh LNG…
Indonesia's upstream oil and gas regulator SKK Migas signed eight oil and gas contracts on Wednesday at the Indonesia Petroleum Association conference, with total estimated resources of around 13.8 trillion cubic feet of gas.Here are some details…
QatarEnergy has acquired participating interests in three exploration blocks offshore Uruguay from BG International Limited, a subsidiary of Shell.Under the agreements, QatarEnergy has acquired an 18% interest in block ‘OFF-4’, while Shell held 32%…