QGEP Participações has completed two separate farm-out agreements, one with ExxonMobil and one with Murphy Oil in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin. The farm-out agreements are for Blocks SEAL-M-351 and SEAL-M-428. Additionally, QGEP and its…
CGG has successfully completed acquisition of the first-ever full-scale commercial survey using TopSeis, its latest offshore broadband seismic acquisition and imaging solution. The inaugural TopSeis survey was commissioned by Lundin Norway…
TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract by Statoil for work on the Peregrino Phase II project in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. The contract covers the execution of the subsea…
Production has resumed at the Tamar gas field offshore Israel after a crack was found in an emission pipe used to release natural gas and pressure, according to partner Delek Drilling. Noble was performing upgrade and improvement as planned…
Lloyd’s Register has been tapped for its well management expertise by Ecopetrol Costa Afuera (Ecopetrol Offshore) for offshore exploration drilling operations in Colombia. Ecopetrol Costa Afuera, part of Colombia's state-owned oil company…
A healthy geophysical industry will be needed to enable exploration and production (E&P) companies to find not only unconventional hydrocarbons, but deepwater and conventional oil and gas as well, said Stephen Greenlee, president of ExxonMobil Exploration Co…
Brazil experienced a “historic day in the oil and gas sector” with its 14th Round, as the joint venture of Petrobras and ExxonMobil signed the largest bonus of US$701 million (R$2.24 billion) for a block in the Campos basin. Oddone…
French major Total has appointed Maersk Oil leaders to their new management positions, following current Maersk Oil CEO Gretchen Watkins’s decision to leave the company. The changes will coincide with the US$7.45 billion takeover expected to become effective in Q1 2018…
A well drilled 10km southwest of the producing Goliat oilfield in the Norwegian Barents Sea by Italian major Eni was dry, says the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Well 7122/10-1 S was targeting hydrocarbons in Middle Triassic reservoir rocks (Kobbe formation)…
Liv Hovem will take over as CEO of DNV GL’s Oil & Gas business area, which provides integrated technical assurance and advisory services to operators, suppliers and regulators across the oil and gas value chain, from project initiation to decommissioning…
Well-Safe Solutions has appointed a director of well abandonment, adding to the new company's list of decommissioning experts. Matt Jenkins has joined Well-Safe from Conoco where he led the firm's UK plug and abandonment (P&A) engineering…
Deepwater Gulf of Mexico focused LLOG Exploration has set out plans for developing six projects, following successful exploration work in 2016-17, with nine deepwater wells due to be brought online by the end of 2018. One well is already producing…
Hansa Hydrocarbon's N05-1 exploration well offshore the Netherlands on the GEms licences has made a significant has discovery. Map of Geldsackplate. From Hansa. The Ruby discovery extends across the N04…
Italian major Eni is pushing forward with its exploration efforts offshore Mexico after drilling its latest successful well and signing three new licenses won during Round 2.1 back in June. The firm also says its preparing a development…
Statoil's Aasta Hansteen spar platform topside has been loaded on to a heavy transport vessel and is set to sail for Norway in coming days. The 24,000-tonne topside will take two months to travel from Hyundai Heavy Industries' yard in South Korea to Norway…
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