Reach Subsea, a subsea services company, said Thursday it had agreed to buy the offshore survey services firm iSurvey in a transaction valued NOK 135 million ($15,1 million). Separately, it was announced that Wilhelmsen had acquired a 21% stake in Reach Subsea…
Russian oil company Lukoil has completed the acquisition of a 9.99% interest from Malaysia's Petronas in the Shah-Deniz gas field in Azerbaijan.The transaction value amounted to $1.45 billion, Lukoil said Friday.Following the completion of the deal…
France will build at least six new nuclear reactors in the decades to come, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, placing nuclear power at the heart of his country's drive for carbon neutrality by 2050.Macron said the new plants would…
TotalEnergies swung back to profit in 2021 thanks to higher hydrocarbons prices, it said on Thursday, with net income of $16 billion and adjusted net income of $18.1 billion, the highest since record years in 2007 and 2008.The French oil major…
Oil prices retreated on Friday after wild swings during the week, as the prospect of extra supply from Iran returning to the market outweighed fears of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, which could disrupt supply.Brent crude LCOc1 futures fell 68 cents…
UK-based Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) has appointed Billy Hamilton as Managing Director, following on from his role as Sales Director for the Group. The company, recently bought by OEG Offshore, said Hamilton has worked on developing the market…
Oslo-listed subsea services provider Reach Subsea has won a contract in the Mediterranean Sea for start-up early in Q2 2022, representing about 130 project days. The project, with an undisclosed client, involves the support of an Ocean Bottom…
Saudi Aramco has bought a 7.4% stake in Norwegian industrial software group Cognite from oil firm Aker BP, Cognite said on Wednesday.The price for the stake was 'around 1 billion Norwegian crowns,' or about $113 million, an Aker BP spokesperson told Reuters…
Exxon Mobil Corp has bet billions of dollars on offshore drilling in Brazil, an area it once abandoned and now sees as key to its future.But five years into its comeback, the U.S. oil giant has yet to make a major oil discovery as an operator…
Deepwater drilling specialist Transocean said Monday it had secured around $87.7 million in offshore drilling contracts since its last quarterly rig fleet report.In its report, Transocean said it had won contracts for five offshore drilling rigs…
Norwegian oil and gas firm Vår Energi, a spin-off from Italy's Eni, said its planned stock market listing in Oslo will value the company at 70 billion crowns ($7.8 billion), the low end of the company's intended range.Eni last month announced…
Turning around Siemens Gamesa will take time, the CEO of its majority shareholder Siemens Energy said on Wednesday, adding that the latest profit warning from the wind turbine maker was 'frustrating'.Siemens Gamesa, the world's largest maker of offshore wind turbines…
Brazilian oil company Enauta has completed the acquisition of the FPSO OSX-2 for the Definitive System of the Atlanta Field in Brazil for $80 million.Atlanta Field is located in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, and is fully owned by Enauta…
Shell boosted its dividend and share repurchases on Thursday after its fourth-quarter profits soared to $6.4 billion on the back of higher oil and gas prices.Shell, which moved its headquarters from The Hague to London last month, said it expected…
Brazilian oil company Enauta has hired the Alpha Star semi-submersible drilling rig to drill the fourth production well at its Atlanta field in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.Enauta expects to start drilling in the fourth quarter of 2022…