Oil and gas company IOG said Monday it had spudded the Blythe H2 well in the UK North Sea at 3.20 a.m. on Sunday 5th March.The well is being drilled by the Noble Hans Deul jack-up drilling rig (to be renamed the Shelf Perseverance) under IOG's contract with Shelf Drilling (UK) Ltd signed in 2020…
After discovering oil and the Graff-1 well in Namibia in 2022, Shell has now made another offshore oil discovery in the country's deep waters.This time, Shell made a discovery at the Jonker-1X deep-water exploration well, QatarEnergy and Namcor…
When Scott Agnew worked on deep sea oil and gas tankers and cargo boats in the 1980s, he used to count whales and dolphins for conservationists' surveys on his voyages around the world.Based in Dundee, Scotland, many of his jobs over the years have been for the offshore fossil fuel industry…
The chief executive of Saudi Arabian state oil company Aramco will not attend an energy conference organized by S&P Global [this] week, the event's updated schedule showed.Amin Nasser, head of the world's largest oil company, had been listed as delivering a keynote address at CERAWeek…
Guyana, the South American country that is home to the world's largest oil discoveries in a decade, next wants to develop its mostly untapped natural gas reserves, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said on Sunday.The nation aimed to diversify its…
Exxon Mobil Corp hopes to get Nigerian government approval to allow the stalled sale of its shallow water oil production operations in the West African country, a top Exxon executive told Reuters. The largest U.S. oil company will keep its deep…
Guyana's coming auction of offshore oil exploration blocks has lured at least 10 companies including Shell, Petrobras, and Chevron, to consider the decade's hottest oil region, people close to the matter said.The South American country is offering 14 offshore blocks…
Breakwater Energy, a subsidiary of EIG, an institutional investor in the global energy and infrastructure sectors, has acquired a 25% interest in Repsol Upstream for a total consideration of around $4.8 billion, including debt, with Repsol holding the remaining 75%…
Shell is reviewing its current plan to reduce oil output by 1% to 2% per year by 2030, Chief Executive Officer Wael Sawan told the Times, against the backdrop of rival BP recently rowing back from hydrocarbon output reduction aims. Sawan took…
Oil prices slumped on Friday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the United Arab Emirates had an internal debate about leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and pumping more oil.Brent crude futures fell $1.57…
German renewable energy firm RWE has appointed Humber-based firm Hobson & Porter to complete the construction of its new offshore wind operations and maintenance facility known as the Grimsby Hub. The contract includes an extension to the existing…
Australian offshore support vessel owner MMA Offshore said Friday it had secured three contracts supporting offshore wind farm developments in Taiwan during 2023.The three contracts, with firm periods totaling 370 days, will increase the company’s…
Brazilian oil company Enauta said Friday it had temporarily halted the production from the 7-ATL-2HP-RJS well in the Atlanta offshore oil field, in Brazil's Santos Basin.Enauta's preliminary assessments indicate failure in the surface equipment (topside)…
French oil and gas services provider Technip Energies announced on Thursday lower annual revenue and guidance for 2023, citing the impact of its exit from a major LNG project in Russia. While the project withdrawal had no financial impact on the company in 2022…
The Australian oil company Carnarvon Energy has named Alex Doering its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective June 1, 2023.Doering is the current Financial Controller at Carnarvon and Joint Company Secretary, and has been with the company…