The Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has brought online the second phase of the giant Johan Sverdrup oil field in the North Sea, off Norway. Production started at 11:15 a.m. local time, on Wednesday, December 15.At plateau, the Johan Sverdrup field will produce 720…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has agreed to acquire a 24.9% shareholding in Austrian oil and gas group OMV from Abu Dhabi state fund Mubadala Investment Company, the two companies said on Wednesday. Upon closing of the transaction,…
Former Elliot Management activist fund manager Franck Tuil on Thursday told Wood Group to buy back some of its stock to avoid becoming a takeover target, sending shares in the oil services provider up by the most in six weeks.It is the first public campaign for his $600 million multi-strategy fund…
Scana's PSW Technology has secured a contract to sell a deepwater riser system to offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean.'The agreement involves the sale of a complete marine riser system to Northern Ocean for ultra-deepwater operations…
The Norwegian oil and gas company DNO said Monday it had acquired an additional 10 percent stake in the Berling field development project from Sval Energi AS. DNO now owns a 30% stake in the 2018 gas and condensate discovery, previously known as Iris Hades offshore Norway…
Germany is bleeding cash to keep the lights on. Almost half a trillion dollars, and counting, since the Ukraine war jolted it into an energy crisis nine months ago.That's the cumulative scale of the bailouts and schemes the Berlin government…
The Italian energy industry services firm Saipem has decided to buy the 7th-generation Santorini drillship from Samsung Heavy Industries, citing rising dayrates and an optimistic forecast for offshore drilling rig demand.To remind, Saipem first chartered the drillship from Samsung in late 2021…
Oil and gas company Valeura Energy has agreed to buy three offshore blocks in the Gulf of Thailand from Mubadala Petroleum's subsidiary, Busrakham Oil & Gas.Valeura will acquire operated interest in in three offshore licences in the Gulf of Thailand that include the Nong Yao (Licence G11/48)…
Five developers selected to build the first floating wind farms in U.S. federal watersTo support the California Energy Commission’s planning goals of 2-5 GW of offshore wind by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045 as well as a federal target to deploy 15 GW of floating wind by 2035…
Deepwater drilling contractor Transocean said Wednesday it had secured contracts worth $1.04 billion in total for two of its ultra-deepwater drillships.The contracts are for the ultra-deepwater drillships, the Deepwater Corcovado and the Deepwater Orion…
As the dust settles from Wednesday's California floating wind auction, and developers begin to discuss their plans, energy industry intelligence firm Intelatus says development of the floating wind manufacturing and installation supply chain must speed up…
The British government stood firm on its windfall tax on the oil and gas sector in a meeting with industry executives on Friday, two sources with knowledge of what was discussed said.Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt rebuffed requests from North…
The two largest U.S. oil companies - Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp - disclosed plans to increase outlays on energy projects next year amid high oil demand and prices.While spending more, it will be less than half the combined $84 billion they spent in 2013…
KBR has won a contract to provide engineering services for an offshore energy storage project for CrossWind, a joint venture (JV) between Shell and Dutch utility company, Eneco.KBR will perform a front-end engineering design of the baseload…
Australian offshore vessel operator MMA Offshore has completed the sale of its shipyard in Batam, Indonesia.The planned sale was first announced back in May when MMA Offshore said it would sell its shipyard facility to Wasco Engineering Group…