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NKT Concludes First Cable Installation Phase for O&G Scheme Off Norway

Mar 10, 2025

Danish power cable maker and services provider NKT has completed the first installation campaign Norway to connect Aker BP-operated Yggdrasil offshore oil and gas area to shore.NKT said the first installation campaign in the Norwegian fjords and in the North Sea has been completed…

Shell Launches Next Phase of Malaysia's Deepwater Project with First Oil Production

Mar 10, 2025

Sabah Shell Petroleum Company (SSPC), a subsidiary of Shell, has produced first oil from Phase 4 of the Gumusut-Kakap-Geronggong-Jagus East (GKGJE) deepwater development off Malaysia.The Phase 4 production is flowing to the existing Gumusut…

Egypt Launches Bidding Round for Offshore Oil and Gas Blocks

Mar 05, 2025

The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt has opened a licensing round, offering seven offshore blocks in the Mediterranean Sea and six exploration areas in the Gulf of Suez and the Western Desert in an effort to attract further investments in the country’s oil and gas industry…

Expro Nets $10M in Contracts for OMV Petrom’s Black Sea Gas Project

Mar 05, 2025

Texas-based oilfield services provider Expro has secured major contracts from OMV Petrom, totaling more than $10 million, for the Neptun Deep gas project in the Black Sea.The contracts involve Expro’s subsea landing string (SSLS), SeaCure cementing technology…

Libya Plans First Oil Exploration Bidding Round in Almost 20 Years

Mar 04, 2025

Libya plans its first bidding round for oil exploration in more than 17 years, Masoud Suleman, acting Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), announced in a televised address on Monday.Libya is Africa's second-largest oil producer and…

Expro Gets On Board CCS Scheme Off Netherlands

Feb 27, 2025

U.S.-based oilfield services provider Expro has secured a contract to supply tubular running services (TRS) as part of a major Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project in the Netherlands.The contract includes the recompletion and conversion…

Galp Makes Another Oil and Gas Discovery at Orange Basin Off Namibia

Feb 25, 2025

Galp, together with its partners NAMCOR and Custos, has hit oil and gas in another well drilled at PEL83 license at Orange Basin, offshore Namibia.The Joint Venture partners have drilled, cored and logged the Mopane-3X well (Well #5) which spud on January 2…

CNOOC Brings Online Second Phase of Luda Oil Field Project in Bohai Sea

Feb 21, 2025

China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started production at Luda 5-2 North Oilfield Phase II Development Project in the central part of Bohai Sea.The main production facilities at the project…

Environmental Groups File Lawsuit to Block Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plans

Feb 20, 2025

Environmental groups on Wednesday moved in court to block President Donald Trump’s administration from allowing offshore oil drilling along broad swaths of U.S. coastline, in what appeared to be the first legal challenges to the Republicans’ efforts to boost fossil fuel production…

Brava Energia Signs Supply Deal with Trafigura for Atlanta Oil

Feb 13, 2025

Brazilian oil and gas firm Brava Energia has signed a contract with Trafigura for the sale of oil from the Atlanta field, offshore Brazil.The contract is for the sale of a total volume of 6MM barrels of oil produced by the consortium in Atlanta field…

TotalEnergies Starts Drilling Ops Offshore Namibia

Feb 07, 2025

French energy major TotalEnergies has started drilling the first of the planned two wells in oil and gas blocks offshore Namibia.On February 3, 2025, the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Mira spud the Marula-1X exploration well within the southern part of Block 2913B…

Masdar’s Terna Energy and Motor Oil to Develop Greece’s First OW Farm

Jan 28, 2025

Terna Energy, a subsidiary of Masdar Group, has teamed up with Motor Oil for the development of first offshore wind farm in Greece.The procedures for the participation of the Motor Oil Group, through its subsidiary Motor Oil Renewable Energy (MORE)…

Oil set for fourth week of gains on US sanctions

Jan 17, 2025

Oil prices edged lower on Friday but remained on course for a fourth consecutive week of gains, as the latest U.S. sanctions on Russian energy trade added to worries about oil supply disruptions.Brent crude futures were down 41 cents, or 0.5%…

First Oil Starts Flowing from FPSO Atlanta Off Brazil

Jan 02, 2025

Brazilian oil and gas company Brava Energia has started production from the Atlanta floating, production storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit offshore Brazil.The achievement makes Brava Energia the first independent oil and gas company in the…

Chevron’s Sanha Lean Gas Connection Project Achieves First Gas off Angola

Dec 24, 2024

The Sanha Lean Gas Connection, led by Chevron’s Angolan subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, has achieved first gas production as part of the project that will supply gas from Block 0’s Sanha field to Soyo power plants and the Angola LNG plant…

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