The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) received nearly US$563 million (CAD $758 million) in work commitments in its latest deepwater bid round for the East Newfoundland and Jeanne d’Arc regions, offshore the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador areas…
Houston-headquartered SAExploration has won a ca.US$35 million contract to provide a 3D deepwater ocean-bottom marine project in West Africa. SAE expects to initiate this project in late 2016 and complete it in Q1 2017. The project will…
OMV has entered a deal to sell its UK subsidiary, OMV UK, to Siccar Point Energy for up to US$1 billion in a move that will see the Austrian company give up its stake in the Chevron-operated Rosebank deepwater project in the North Sea. Image from OMV…
After some rough starts, Mexico’s energy future might be headed in the right direction. Mexico’s upcoming deepwater round and the state owned oil firm Pemex’s upcoming joint ventures were up for discussion at a recent event held by Rice University’s Baker Institute…
Shell and its joint venture partners, Pavilion Energy and Ophir Energy, have started its Tanzanian drilling program. The program, covering two wells in Block 1 and 4, in the Mafia Deep basin off Tanzania, will target >1 Tcf of gas, according to Ophir…
Anadarko Petroleum posted a net loss of US$830 million in Q3 2016, as the US independent moves forward with its deal with Freeport McMoRan (FCX) and shifts its focus to oil with the deepwater Gulf of Mexico on its priority list. Walker…
Houston headquartered Hyperdynamics has signed a letter of award with drilling contractor Pacific Drilling for use of the Pacific Bora drillship on a deepwater drilling campaign offshore Guinea, West Africa, starting Q2 2017. The unit…
Offshore Ireland explorer Providence Resources has inked a letter of intent for use of a deepwater drilling rig to drill on the deep water Druid prospect in the southern Porcupine Basin in 2017. The Druid prospect is in Frontier Exploration…
It took a long time for exploration to make its impact offshore East Africa. Now it has, will there be another wait for LNG projects to look profitable? Professor Alex Kemp reflects. Image from iStock…
A flurry of major gas discoveries in East Africa in 2012 shone a spotlight on the region. Four years later, while efforts to bring some of those resources to market via LNG developments are progressing, the exploration effort offshore appears to be in the doldrums…
Exploration firm Far Ltd. has disputed announcements by both Woodside Petroleum and ConocoPhillips that a deal between the two firms over assets in Senegal has completed. The deal has seen Woodside acquire 100% of the shares in ConocoPhillips' Senegal business…
First oil on EnQuest's Kraken heavy oil field in the UK North Sea is on track for 1H 2017 after the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the project set out for a deepwater anchorage. Vessel operator Bumi Armada…
Global offshore oil production (including lease condensate and hydrocarbon gas liquids) from deepwater projects reached 9.3 MMb/d in 2015. Deepwater production, or production in water of depths greater than 125m, has increased 25% from nearly 7 MMb/d a decade ago…
French oil major Total has made a deepwater oil discovery in the Black Sea, Bulgaria, opening up a new play. The discovery was announced in Total's Q3 results and while unnamed has been identified as the Polshkov-1 well, which the firm…
Mexico’s national oil company Pemex has awarded French seismic firm CGG a major contract to deliver an orthogonal wide-azimuth integrated solution designed to optimize subsalt seismic imaging in the geologically complex deepwater of the Perdido area…
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