Shell's and TotalEnergies' Graff and Venus deepwater discoveries off Namibia have put southern Africa under the exploration spotlight. With deepwater offering high productivity reserves, it's a spotlight that's likely to linger for a few years yet…
Lebanon is preparing to offer a compromise to U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein to resolve a dispute with Israel over maritime gas resources, three Lebanese officials with knowledge of the negotiations told Reuters.Hochstein landed in Beirut on Monday at the invitation of the Lebanese government…
Italian oilfield services firm Saipem has confirmed it has recently been awarded a limited notice to proceed (LNTP) by BW Offshore, for the early-stage engineering services for the supply of an FPSO unit to be supplied to Shell for the development of the Gato do Mato field offshore Brazil…
Norway's petroleum output could be reduced by unspecified amount if workers go on strike at nine offshore fields on Sunday, the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association (NOG) said on Friday.Some 845 workers out of roughly 7,500 employees on offshore…
The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday that his group could stop Israel from extracting gas from a maritime field that Beirut says lies in disputed waters, adding Hezbollah is 'not afraid of war.'Lebanon warned Israel on Sunday against…
Bourbon Mobility said it has been tapped to provide additional support Saipem for the construction of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim field off the coast of Mauritania and Senegal, with the chartering of two vessels…
Oilfield services company Danos said it has been brought on to support the Promethean Decommissioning Company (PDC) and Petrofac alliance to decommission multiple facilities in shallow water fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The project, which began at the end of May…
Ecuadorean state-run oil company Petroecuador on Thursday announced two auctions, hoping to attract private company bids for a flagship offshore natural gas field and a contract to modernize the Esmeraldas refinery.Petroecuador is seeking a…
Perenco Trinidad & Tobago said this week it had held the ground-breaking ceremony for the 'Macarius Power,' , the first platform to be installed in the Teak, Samaan & Poui (TSP) fields since the 1980s.Perenco T&T and its local partners launched…
Norway's OSM Offshore AS won a contract with Equinor to upgrade and modify the Heidrun B Floating Storage Unit (FSU).The Heidrun B vessel unit is operating at the Heidrun field at the Halten bank in the Norwegian Sea. The FSU was delivered from…
Qatari national oil and gas company QatarEnergy has selected France's TotalEnergies as its first international partner in the North Field East (NFE) expansion project, dubbed 'the single largest project in the history of the LNG industry.'The…
The leader of a union representing Norwegian oil workers said she would recommend to members a wage deal the union struck with oil companies as it was 'good enough', she told Reuters.Two of three unions that negotiated the agreement last week…
Oil tanker operator International Seaways has sold its 50% stake in two floating storage and offshore (FSO) vessels, the FSO Asia and FSO Africa, to its joint venture partner Euronav NV. The purchase price values the two FSO vessels at $300 million in total…
James Fisher and Sons plc said its James Fisher Subtech (JF Subtech) arm has completed a subsea inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) contract for North Sea oil and gas producer NEO Energy on its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel…
A consortium of Aker Solutions, Siemens Energy and Doosan Babcock has been awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for SSE Thermal and Equinor’s proposed Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station, which could become the UK’s first power station with carbon capture and storage…