Floating production specialist SBM Offshore has accepted an out of court settlement over allegations relating to the Petrobras corruption scandal - but says this doesn't amount to an admission of guilt. The allegations were made in December…
Oilfield services giant Schlumberger has inked its second floating LNG-related deal within a space of days - this time taking a stake in a development project. After inking a memorandum of understanding with LNG carrier and floating LNG firm Golar LNG late last week…
Despite the already difficult North Sea market and painfully high cost levels, a new research report published today by DNV GL reveals that more short-term cost cuts are expected in 2016. Sixty-five percent of UK respondents think mistakes made in previous downturns are being repeated…
Mexico’s federal government has entered into an exclusive agreement with Platts to utilize its oil and natural gas price data in the nation’s pricing formulas as part of its energy reform policy. Image…
Sky-Futures, the provider of drone inspection services for the global oil and gas industry, completed the first ever oil and gas inspection by drone in the Gulf of Mexico last week for a global oil and gas service and drilling company. Drone…
Golar LNG signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Schlumberger to co-operate on the global development of greenfield, brownfield and stranded gas reserves. Under the MOU, Golar and Schlumberger have agreed to jointly market gas monetization solutions to owners…
Petrobras stopped production from its P-31 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit offshore Rio de Janeiro for the second time this month, after gas and oil leaks occurred earlier this week, according to the Sindipetro Norte Fluminense union…
Oil services giant Schlumberger posted more than a US$1 billion loss in its Q4 and full year 2015 results, in addition to a further 10,000 job cuts, bringing its workforce reduction to some 30,000 for the year. Kibsgaard…
Woodside Energy and partner Daewoo International have started drilling their latest exploration well offshore Myanmar just weeks after announcing a gas discovery in the region. The latest well, the Thalin-1 well in Block AD-7, was spudded 20 January…
JX Nippon E&P is gearing up to drill an exploration well on the Loanan prospect west of Shetland. The Japanese exploration firm has awarded Norway's Odfjell Drilling a contract to use the semisubmersible Deepsea Stavanger for the well…
CGG is to start a multi-client airborne gravity and magnetic survey offshore South Africa this month ahead of a new licensing round expected in the region later this year. The Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA) has authorized the program…
The BW Athena floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is to be demobilized from the Athena field in the UK North Sea next month. The move, which had been expected, will the see BW Athena leave the field Athena and Anglia fields…
Irish oil explorer Providence Resources has agreed to a license deal with seismic firm Searcher Seismic covering its Newgrange prospect in the southern Porcupine basin. Searcher had already announced a major new multi-client 3D seismic program…
Swedish exploration and production firm Lundin Petroleum is to sell the floating production vessel Bertam to Malaysian state-backed M3nergy for US$265 million. The deal, expected to complete in Q1, is subject to certain completion conditions…
Global offshore deepwater drilling services provider Ocean Rig UDW received a termination notice from Italian giant Eni for the Ocean Rig Olympia deepwater drillship. According to Ocean Rig, “due to the dramatic fall of the crude oil price and the volatile market context…