Esso Australia, ExxonMobil’s Australian subsidiary, has started drilling for the nearly $200 million Kipper 1B project, which will bring online much-needed additional gas supply from the Gippsland Basin.The project is using Valaris’ VALARIS…
Offshore wind developers Flotation Energy and Cobra have received full onshore and offshore planning approval for their 100 MW White Cross floating wind project in the Celtic Sea.The proposed offshore wind farm, located 52km off the Devon coast…
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has secured contracts with Talos Energy and Murphy Oil for two of its drillships for operations in the Gulf of America.The first contract is with Talos Energy for the West Vela drillship for two-well drilling job…
Tullow Oil has restarted the drilling campaign at Jubilee field offshore Ghana, with the first well that came onstream delivering ‘better than expected’ net pay during drilling operations with Noble Corporation’s Noble Venture drillship.Tullow Oil brought the the J72-P well…
Fugro has secured a contract from Shinfox Energy for geotechnical services to support the development of its 700 MW Youde offshore wind farm off the west coast of Taiwan.Fugro will use its Taiwan-flagged vessel, Pacific Hornbill, an IOVTEC-managed DP2 vessel…
Taihan has secured a turnkey contract to supply and install over 100 kilometers of inter-array subsea cables for Korea’s largest offshore wind development, the Anma offshore wind power project.The contract, valued at approximately $129.3 million (KRW 181…
BG International limited, an affiliate of Shell, has made a final investment decision (FID) to develop the Mina West gas discovery in Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea.Shell (60%) will operate the field alongside partner, Kufpec (Egypt) Limited (KUFPEC) (40%)…
Equinor and its partners have drilled a dry well in the Garantiana NV prospect in the North Sea.Wildcat well 34/6-8 S was drilled in production license 554, which was awarded in 2010 (Awards in pre-defined areas 2009). This is the eighth well drilled in this production license…
Taihan’s cable laying vessel (CLV), PALOS, has successfully completed the installation of export cables for the 364.8 MW Yeonggwang Nakwol offshore wind farm in South Korea.The project, being developed Nakwol Blue Heart, is located near Songido…
The joint venture partners in PEL 79 license, which include the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR) and Giraffe Energy Investments, have secured a 12-month extension to the exploration period for offshore blocks in Namibia’s Orange Basin…
Shell has been granted environmental authorisation to drill up to five deep-water wells off South Africa's west coast, the company said on Friday.The oil major applied for authorisation last year and plans to drill exploration or appraisal wells…
Engineering consultancy Longitude Engineering, a branch of Oslo-listed ABL Group, has secured a contract to provide detailed engineering and project management services for Petroleum Marine Services (PMS), the main contractor for the Phase XI…
The TotalEnergies West of Shetland offshore assets it agreed to sell to Prax Group last year remain under the French oil major's ownership, it said on Wednesday, so will not be subject to disposals resulting from liquidation proceedings affecting the British company…
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted OKEA a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Brage field.The drilling permit is for the well 31/4-A-15 B in production license 055, and will be done via Brage production, drilling and accommodation facility…
Hindustan Oil Exploration Company said on Friday it has temporarily suspended production at one of its oilfields in western India due to adverse weather and is monitoring the situation to resume output when the weather improves.The floating…