Moroccon authorities have approved a farm-in deal between London based exploration minnow Chariot Oil & Gas and Australia's Woodside on the Rabat Deep Offshore permits I-VI. Woodside is committed to pay 100% of the 3D seismic acquisition…
Australian explorer Cooper Energy said while it still intends to divest its Tunisian portfolio, the exit may take longer than expected. Cooper Energy originally announced plans to divest its Tunisian assets in June 2013 in order to focus on its Australian assets…
The Israel Anti-trust Authority advised Noble Energy and its Leviathan field partners of its decision to not submit the Consent Decree to the Anti-trust Tribunal for final approval. Maps from Noble. Noble…
BPZ Energy completed the Corvina CX15-14D development well offshore Peru. Block Z-1 map. From BPZ. The CX15-14D well is located in Block Z-1 and is to the west of the six previously drilled CX-15 wells…
African Petroleum signed a non-binding term sheet agreement with a private London-based independent oil and gas company to farm-in to African Petroleum’s 100% owned Liberian LB-08 license. LB-08 is situated in a highly prospective region offshore Liberia…
KBC Advanced Technologies won a US$5 million seven-year contract with a major European based oil field services company for the licensing of KBC’s upstream simulation portfolio. This contract covers Maximus, Multiflash and Petro-SIM for…
BG Group is selling two modern tri-fuel diesel electric (TFDE) LNG carriers to GasLog for US$460 million, a deal that will help the company pay down its debt. Methane Becki Anne. From BG Group. The…
Nova Scotia's government has granted four awards that will help tidal energy developers deploy the first turbine arrays in the Bay of Fundy. In October, developers at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) applied to the Department…
Australian exploration firm AWE has agreed a one year contract extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Umuroa, operating on the Tui Area oil project, offshore New Zealand, from Norway-based BW Offshore. As a result, the contract period has been extended to Q4 2016 (from Q4 2015)…
Ocean Yield delivered the survey vessel Geco Triton to Schlumberger subsidiary WesternGeco, netting US$8.2 million for the vessel. Geco Triton was built in 1991 and remains under a charter arrangement to WesternGeco until December 2015…
Norwegian oil exploration firm North Energy has launched a strategic review after being approached over potential strategic opportunities as market conditions remain difficult. The firm says the continued low oil price presents challenges…
Ithaca Energy has appointed Roy Buchan as its Chief Operations Officer, starting 5 January 2015, and announced that Chief Development Officer John Woods is to leave the company on 31 January. The move comes as Ithaca nears first production…
Swedish exploration and production firm Lundin Petroleum says it has made a sub-commercial discovery on the Storm prospect, offshore Norway. The Storm wildcat well 33/2-1 on production license 555 was drilled 200km northwest of Florø…
The two compression modules on board of FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba MV24 have been successfully commissioned for MODEC. The high pressure modules, developed by MAN Diesel &Turbo (MDT) in Switzerland, will maintain field pressure thus maximizing oil production…
Hess’s Australian subsidiary, Hess Exploration Australia Pty Ltd. and the North West Shelf (NWS) signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) for Hess to develop its natural gas discoveries in its deepwater permits offshore northwestern Australia…
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