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Equinor’s North Sea Wildcat Well Yields No Oil and Gas

Sep 19, 2025

Equinor and its partners Vår Energi and Aker BP have drilled a dry exploration well in the North Sea.The wildcat well 34/8-20 S was drilled about 130 kilometres west of Florø, in the Narvi nord prospect.The well was first to be drilled in production license 554 E…

Astro Offshore Expands Fleet with Five New Vessels

Sep 17, 2025

Offshore vessel operator Astro Offshore, an Adani Group company, has acquired five offshore vessels en bloc, raising its fleet size to 49 ships and strengthening its presence in West Africa.The deal includes four platform supply vessels (PSVs)…

Petrofac to Stay on Duty for ONEgas in UK’s Southern North Sea

Sep 15, 2025

Oilfield services provider Petrofac has secured a contract extension from ONEgas West, a Shell UK-operated venture, for asset support services in the U.K.’s Southern North Sea.The contract scope provides services across ONEgas West’s Southern North Sea portfolio…

Australia Clears North West Shelf LNG Plant Operations Until 2070

Sep 12, 2025

Australia gave final approval on Friday for Woodside to operate the country's oldest and second-largest liquefied natural gas plant until 2070, while imposing 48 'strict' new rules in a bid to limit its environmental impact.The decision to extend…

Five-Well Drilling Campaign on BP’s Agenda for Mediterranean Sea

Sep 09, 2025

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…

Astro Offshore Enters West Africa with Acquisition of Two New PSVs

Sep 05, 2025

Offshore vessel operator Astro Offshore, an Adani Group company, has acquired two modern platform supply vessels (PSVs) and entered the West African market, expanding its global footprint.The vessels, Astro Rastaban (built 2020) and Astro Rigel (built 2023)…

TotalEnergies Gets Two Exploration Permits Offshore Nigeria

Sep 02, 2025

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…

Equinor’s Barents Sea Wildcat Fails to Deliver

Sep 01, 2025

Equinor and its partners have drilled a dry well in the Deimos prospect in the Barents Sea.The wildcat well 7117/4-1 was drilled in production license 1238, 135 kilometers west of the Snøhvit field and 260 kilometers northwest of Hammerfest…

Egypt Boosts Gas Production as Two West Delta Wells Come Onstream

Aug 29, 2025

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…

Temis Flotel Set to Support Shell’s Bonga Project off Nigeria

Aug 28, 2025

Offshore vessel operator Nortrans, in partnership with Temile Development Company, has secured a contract for one of its flotels to support operations at Shell’s deepwater asset offshore Nigeria.Nortrans and Temile Development Company secured…

Borr Drilling Scoops $43M in New Jack-Up Rigs Deals

Aug 27, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling has secured new contract commitments for two of its premium jack-up rigs and confirmed the start of operations for one of its rigs offshore Mexico.In the North Sea, Borr Drilling’s Prospector 1 jack…

DP World Wins Contract to For Floating LNG Facility Off Mexico

Aug 25, 2025

Drydocks World, a unit of DP World, a Dubai-owned ports and logistics company, has secured an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for the construction of what it said would be the world's largest floating liquefied natural gas facility off Mexico's west coast…

Triton FPSO Marks First Oil Lifting Following Production Restart

Aug 25, 2025

U.K.-based oil and gas firm Serica Energy has achieved first lifting of oil from the Triton floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the North Sea since the resumption of production in July.Production continues to ramp up in line with the previously stated plan…

Shelf Drilling’s Jack-Up Rig Extends Stay with Chevron off West Africa

Aug 25, 2025

Offshore drilling firm Shelf Drilling has secured a contract extension for the Shelf Drilling Tenacious jack-up rig with Chevron’s subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (CABGOC) for drilling operations offshore West Africa.The extension will begin in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract…

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