In a battle between the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and Chevron in the Australia federal court, the US supermajor lost and will have to pay more than US$232 million (A$322 million) in back taxes, in addition to fines. Wheatstone…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate wants unmanned wellhead platforms to be considered more often as an alternative to subsea tie-back in connection with development decisions. Image: The unmanned…
The joint venture of Zarubezhneft and Petrovietnam Vietsovpetro made a commercial discovery of the Sturgeon field offshore Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Map of Block 09-3/12 (the greyed area)…
Dana Petroleum's Western Isles floating production unit will not be on stream until late 2017, some two years later than originally planned, it was confirmed today. In a statement, China's Cosco Corp (Singapore) said it and a European…
A new study led by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate will look into the benefits and disadvantages of wellhead platforms in a bid to push industry to consider alternatives to subsea tie-backs. The idea is one Norway's Statoil has been considering for sometime…
The geoscience segment of the offshore oil and gas industry was first to be hit, when oil prices took a nose dive from 2H last year. Results from two of the main geoscience players this morning confirm a broad industry outlook that the pain is set to continue well into 2016…
The construction of Amrumbank West offshore wind farm in the German North Sea is complete. Image from E.ON. All 80 turbines are connected to the network. With its full installed capacity of 288 MW now operational…
China’s CNOOC discovered a mid-sized oilfield at the Caofeidian 6-4 oil structure, offshore China. Bohai map. From CNOOC. The Caofeidian 6-4 structure is located in the western…
US-based Era Group’s Brazilian joint venture Aeróleo Taxi Aero received notification from Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) that Petrobras will cancel the ongoing tender process for heavy and medium helicopters, leaving the helicopter with a potential workforce reduction…
With ExxonMobil reported to be moving the Liza discovery in deepwater Guyana into pre-front-end engineering design (FEED) less than five months after confirming the find, the project has the potential to yield significant returns for investors…
Electromagnetic Geoservices EMGS signed a US$7 million contract extension with an oil company in Malaysia. The vessel BOA Thalassa commenced the extension of the survey on 21 October, and expected duration of the survey is approximately 1…
CGG received all necessary permits to start acquiring the industry’s first regional broadband seismic survey of the Barreirinhas basin in the Equatorial Margin of northern Brazil in early November. Oceanic Vega…
Statoil’s Troll field is about to see a natural gas increase of about 83 Bcm this month after the installation of two giant compressors at Troll A, offshore Norway. The US$1.2 billion (NOK 10 billion) project came in at $121 million (NOK 1 billion) under budget…
Alpha Petroleum has lifted the lid on a new FPSO based development for the Cheviot heavy oil field in the UK sector of the North Sea. Alpha has spelled out plans for a 26 well project with a target for first oil in 2021, which will have production of up to 35…
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has pushed back its deadline to make a decision on Shell’s US$70 billion bid for BG Group. The ACCC says the deadline, initially set to September 17, before being delayed until November 12…
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