Portugal’s Galp, Brazil’s Petrobras, U.K.’s Shell and Agência Nacional do Petroléo de São Tomé e Principé (ANP-STP) have formed a joint venture focused on early-stage exploration block offshore the African country.Galp has reached a farm-in agreement with KE STP Company…
Australia gave final approval on Friday for Woodside to operate the country's oldest and second-largest liquefied natural gas plant until 2070, while imposing 48 'strict' new rules in a bid to limit its environmental impact.The decision to extend…
U.S. oilfield services provider Halliburton has been cutting staff in recent weeks, according to two sources familiar with the matter, marking the latest workforce reduction in the U.S. oil industry as it faces rising costs and a period of lower prices and volatility…
Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi has informed that the Jotun floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, deployed at the Balder field in the North Sea, reached peak production ahead of schedule.The Jotun FPSO is now producing…
Offshore wind developer Orsted won shareholder approval on Friday for a $9.4 billion emergency rights issue to help fund U.S. projects thrown into uncertainty by President Donald Trump's opposition to the renewable energy source.The stakes are high for the Danish state-controlled firm…
China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started production from the Wenchang 16-2 oil field development project in the northern part of South China Sea.The project is located in the western Pearl River Mouth Basin…
U.S. oil and gas producer ConocoPhillips will cut 20-25% of its workforce as part of a broad restructuring, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday, after five sources told Reuters that CEO Ryan Lance detailed the plans in a morning video message…
Egypt's petroleum ministry said on Friday that two new wells in the deepwater West Delta have gone online, adding about 60 million cubic feet per day (mcfd) of natural gas to the country's output.Egypt seeks to boost gas production after increasingly turning to imports to meet domestic demand…
There are early signs that some Asian countries are stepping up their imports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) as part of trade deals with President Donald Trump.Asia's imports of the super-chilled fuel are on track to hit an eight-month high of 2…
Two SLB OneSubsea subsea compressor stations recently came online at Shell’s Ormen Lange field, the second largest gas field in Norway, setting the record for the deepest installation of such systems ever.The SLB OneSubsea subsea compressor stations…
Maintenance at major gas fields and onshore processing plants will curb Norwegian natural gas supply by around a third during the first half of September, as Europe's biggest supplier readies the system for the busy winter demand season.'We…
U.K.-based oil and gas firm Serica Energy has achieved first lifting of oil from the Triton floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the North Sea since the resumption of production in July.Production continues to ramp up in line with the previously stated plan…
Work is underway at three new wells in the Zohr gas field in the Mediterranean in the current financial year, Egypt's petroleum ministry said on Tuesday.Another well, the Zohr-6 well, has added about 65 million cubic feet per day of gas to Egypt’s output…
U.S. oil and gas producer ConocoPhillips said on Thursday it would secure 4 million tonnes per annum of liquefied natural gas from Sempra's Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 project in Texas to serve key global markets.Commercial activity in the U.S.…
Australian gas producer Santos on Monday agreed to further extend the exclusivity period for an $18.7 billion takeover bid from a group led by Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC), and reported a better-than-feared 22% drop in first-half profit…