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Brazil Hits Record Oil and Gas Production in July

Sep 01, 2025

Brazil's oil and gas production of oil equivalent per day (boed) in July, oil regulator ANP said on Monday, exceeding the key level of 5 million boed for the first time ever.Oil output reached 3.959 million barrels per day in the month, up 22…

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…

SPE Offshore Europe 2025 set to drive transformational change for the energy sector

Aug 21, 2025

SPE Offshore Europe 2025 (OE25) will open its doors at the P&J Live from 2-5 September for what is set to be one of the most pivotal in the show’s 52-year history. With offshore energy at the centre of national and international debate, the…

Woodside Posts 24% Drop in First-Half Profit

Aug 18, 2025

Australia's Woodside Energy recorded a 24% fall in its first-half profit on Tuesday, mainly due to lower average realized prices and depreciation costs associated with its Sangomar oil project in Senegal.The company's average realized price for its products was $61…

Angola Seeks Gas Growth as Oil Output Stagnates

Aug 14, 2025

Optimistic over Angola’s untapped gas potential, Azule Energy is considering another gas exploration well after leading the country’s first drilling campaign targeting gas and hitting success last month, the CEO told Reuters.Angola expects gas…

Full Remote Five-Plug Cenenting Ops in Saudi Arabia

Aug 11, 2025

Expro delivered what is said to be the world’s first fully remote five-plug cementing operation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.The milestone operation, executed using Expro’s Generation-X Remote Plug Launcher (RPL) and proprietary SkyHook cement-line make-up device…

Tullow Oil’s New Well off Ghana Delivers ‘Better Than Expected’ Net Pay

Aug 06, 2025

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…

OKEA Spuds First of Two Wells at Bestla Development in North Sea

Aug 05, 2025

Norwegian oil and gas firm OKEA has spudded the first of two production wells at Bestla development, formerly known as Brasse, in the North Sea using Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai rig.The well is being drilled by the rig Deepsea Yantai from the Bestla Subsea Template…

TotalEnergies Starts Up Two Subsea Tie-Back Projects in Angola

Jul 23, 2025

TotalEnergies has started production from the BEGONIA and CLOV Phase 3 projects, adding a total of 60,000 barrels per day of production offshore Angola.The start of production from the BEGONIA and CLOV Phase 3 offshore projects leverages ullage in the PAZFLOR and CLOV floating production…

Expro Launches Advanced BRUTE Tool for Deepwater Wells

Jul 23, 2025

Texas-based oilfield services provider Expro has launched its most advanced BRUTE high-pressure, high tensile packer system, designed to help operators work more efficiently in the extreme conditions of deepwater wells.Engineered for the highest differential pressures in the market…

China Starts Production at Major Oil Field in Bohai Sea

Jul 22, 2025

China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has brought online the Kenli 10-2 oil field (Phase I), the largest shallow lithological oil field offshore China.The project is located in southern Bohai Sea…

Chevron Emerges as Winner in ExxonMobil Dispute Over Guyana Oil Field

Jul 18, 2025

Chevron will proceed with its $53 billion acquisition of Hess, after it prevailed in a landmark legal battle against larger rival Exxon Mobil to gain access to the largest oil discovery in decades.Shares of Chevron were up 3.6% in premarket trading…

CNOOC Finds Oil and Gas in South China Sea

Jul 16, 2025

China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has made a ‘major breakthrough’ in the exploration of metamorphic buried hills in the deep plays in the South China Sea for the first time, as it makes an oil and gas find in Beibu Gulf…

Seatrium Makes First Turnkey FPSO Delivery to Petrobras

Jul 15, 2025

Seatrium has announced the impending delivery of Petrobras 78 (P-78), the first of a series of turnkey floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units to Petrobras.The sailaway ceremony took place two weeks ago at Seatrium’s Singapore yard…

Expro Gets Woodside Job at Trion Deepwater Project off Mexico

Jul 14, 2025

Texas-based oilfield services provider Expro has secured a three-year contract by Woodside Energy to provide tubular running services (TRS) and cementing services for the Trion project, Mexico’s first deepwater oil production facility.Woodside and Expro have a long-standing partnership…

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