French oil firm Total plans to start production at Azerbaijan's Absheron gas field in the Caspian Sea in 2021 after getting positive results from the drilling of a first well, a senior company official told Reuters.The decision to start production at the field…
Exxon Mobil Corp on Friday reported a 49 percent fall in first-quarter profit that missed forecasts due to weakness across its major businesses that showed the turnaround at the company remains a work in progress.The largest U.S. oil producer…
Anadarko Petroleum Corp,which is the target of a bidding war between Occidental Petroleum Corp and Chevron Corp, reported a 7.2 percent fall in adjusted quarterly profit on Thursday, as it sold oil at lower prices.The oil and gas producer said adjusted net income fell to $259 million…
Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd on Thursday posted a 4 percent rise in first-quarter revenue on higher realized prices for its oil and gas.Revenue rose to $1.22 billion for the three-months ended March 31, compared to $1.17 billion a year ago…
Romanian-based Black Sea Oil & Gas, controlled by private equity firm Carlyle Group LP, said on Thursday it has decided to go ahead with its $400 million offshore gas project in Romania, the first such project to be developed in 30 years.The…
Africa's offshore oil and gas potential remains largely unexploited, and 2019 may turn out to be a good indicator on whether countries with shallow-, deep- and ultra-deepwater hydrocarbon resources can make headway in attracting exploration and production investments…
The wheels of discovering and exploiting hydrocarbon resources offshore the Union of the Comoros, off Africa's east coast, may have been moving albeit slowly since 2008 when the government first invited bids for exploration of oil and gas in the Indian Ocean's volcanic archipelago…
Energy giant BP has taken its first oil from the Clair Ridge mega-project in the U.K. North Sea in a “major milestone” that is the culmination of many years of work.Clair Ridge, the second phase of the development of the Clair Field, 75 kilometers west of Shetland…
French oil and gas major Total said on Tuesday that the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from Australia's Ichthys LNG project has been exported following the production start-up at the end of July.Ichthys LNG, with reserves of…
India's Reliance Industries Ltd has shut down an offshore oil and gas field on the eastern coast of India, the company said in a statement on Friday, after seeing a natural decline in output for months.The closure marks the beginning of the…
Azerbaijan's SOCAR and US engineering house KBR's joint venture has been awarded a front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for topsides on Total's Absheron Early Production Project. The platform will be at SOCAR's Oil Rocks facility…
Halliburton announced today (9 November) that it worked with the Akwa Ibom state government to inaugurate and open Nigeria’s first oil and gas training center fully-equipped with oilfield operations tools. The Akwa Ibom Oil and Gas Training…
The UK Department of International Trade (DIT) is urging UK companies to invest in Azerbaijan’s oil and gas sector, citing the opportunities available in the “Motherland of Oil.' “People who think they know about Baku and Azerbaijan should take another look…
Premier Oil has entered into an infrastructure partnership for the Tolmount gas development in the Southern North Sea, as the company looks to deliver first oil from Catcher in 2H 2017. Map of Catcher…
Energean has closed its deal with Delek Group, Avner Oil Exploration, and Delek Drilling for 100% stake in the I/16 Tanin and I/17 Karish leases, offshore Israel, paving the way for Energean to stick to its plan of first oil at the two fields in 2020…
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