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BW Energy’s Planned Angola Entry Challenged by Pre-Emption Rights

Feb 06, 2026

BW Energy has informed that one of the existing joint venture partners in Angola's offshore blocks 14 and 14K has indicated its intention to exercise pre-emption rights in relation to the previously announced acquisition agreement.BW Energy and its partner Maurel & Prom had been notified of the move by a joint venture partner in the two licenses. The agreement signed between BW Energy, Maurel & Prom…

DOF Group ASA Contract Award for Well Intervention Services in North America

Feb 06, 2026

DOF Group ASA (DOF) has announced a substantial* contract award with Shell Offshore Inc. for the provision of Hydraulic Subsea Well Intervention Services.Under the contract, DOF’s regional subsea team in North America will be responsible for the provision of project management…

Saipem’s Underwater Drone Carries Out Autonomous Survey at Njord Field

Feb 06, 2026

Saipem’s first resident underwater drone Hydrone-R has completed an autonomous survey mission over the Arctic coral area of the Njord field offshore Norway, operating without cables or surface vessel support.Hydrone-R Underwater Intervention Drone carried out the mission independently…

Stena Drilling’s Stena Evolution Drillship Gets DNV’s Emissions Notation

Feb 05, 2026

Stena Drilling’s Stena Evolution drillship has received the Abate (P+) notation from classification society DNV.The Abate (P+) qualifier confirms defined design and control of the vessel’s power generation systems, together with an emission…

Exploration Well in Black Sea Offshore Block Comes Up Dry

Feb 04, 2026

An OMV Petrom-operated exploration well, drilled at the Vinekh prospect in Black Sea's Han Asparuh block off Bulgaria, has been assessed as dry, after encountering only non-significant natural gas shows, according to NewMed Energy, one of the partners in the license…

Shell Sells 20% Stake in Brazil’s Orca Deepwater Project to Kuwaiti Firm

Feb 03, 2026

Shell Brasil Petróleo, a subsidiary of Shell, has agreed to sell a 20% interest in the Orca deepwater project offshore Brazil to Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC).Orca, formerly known as Gato do Mator, is a deepwater development located in the pre-salt area of the Santos Basin…

Shell Nigeria Starts Maintenance on Bonga FPSO, Trims Oil Exports

Feb 02, 2026

Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company has begun planned maintenance on its Bonga deepwater oil vessel, a move that will temporarily cut Nigeria’s oil export capacity by about 225,000 barrels per day but could extend the asset’s lifespan…

Equinor Extends Seadrill Drillship’s Stay off Brazil

Jan 30, 2026

Equinor has exercised a one-year priced option for Seadrill’s ultra-deepwater drillship West Saturn for operations offshore Brazil.The exercised option adds $114 million to contract backlog and extends the original contract, which started in 2022…

Subsea7 Gets Shell’s Contract for Deepwater Development off US

Jan 30, 2026

Subsea7 has secured a sizeable contract by Shell for the Kaikias Waterflood project, a deepwater development in the Mars-Ursa Basin, off the Louisiana coast in the United States.The scope of work includes the transportation and installation of a subsea umbilical…

Petronas Plans Ramp-Up in Exploration, Production Over Three Years

Jan 30, 2026

Malaysia's state energy firm Petronas said on Thursday it will ramp up exploration and production over the next three years to strengthen domestic energy security.Petronas said it aims to maintain domestic output at close to two million barrels of oil equivalent per day between 2026 and 2028…

BP in Trinidad and Tobago Interested in Cross-Border Opportunities with Venezuela

Jan 26, 2026

BP's head of Trinidad and Tobago said on Monday the oil and gas major is still interested in cross-border opportunities with Venezuela, despite the government in Caracas suspending all bilateral energy agreements with its neighbor last year…

Noble Scoops $1.3B in Drilling Contracts, Enters Norway's Floater Market

Jan 26, 2026

Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has secured new contract awards for nine rigs totaling about $1.3 billion in backlog, including a three-year deal that marks its entry into Norway’s harsh-environment floater market.The largest…

Europeans Commit to Wind Energy Expansion Despite Trump Criticism

Jan 23, 2026

European governments including Germany, Britain and Denmark will reinforce their plans to massively expand wind power projects on Monday, despite U.S. President Donald Trump stepping up criticism of their green energy agenda, a draft declaration due to be signed by government leaders showed…

DeepOcean Wraps Up Work at US Offshore Wind Project

Jan 23, 2026

Global ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed trenching and survey operations on inter-array cables for a U.S. offshore wind project.DeepOcean’s scope of work encompassed trenching and surveying of the inter-array cables that connect turbines to the offshore substations…

Nigeria Backs Shell’s Bonga South West Oil Project with Fresh Incentives

Jan 23, 2026

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has approved 'targeted, investment-linked' incentives for Shell's Bonga South West deepwater oil project following a meeting with the company's CEO, Tinubu's office said.The proposed incentives are the latest in…

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