The Yolla-6 development well at the BassGas project offshore Australia has been successfully tied-in to export facilities on the Yolla platform and production from that well has commenced, according to partner AWE Ltd. Image from Origin…
Oil major Shell today said the oil price downturn could last for several years, as it revealed 6500 expected staff and contractor reductions in 2015, as well as further capital and operational spending cuts. “Operating costs are expected to fall by over $4 billion…
Global upstream oil and gas deal activity, including capital markets and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), totaled US$19.3 billion from 125 transactions in June 2015, marking a $4.3 billion decrease in value from the $23.6 billion across 119 deals posted in May 2015…
While at first the oil price seemed to spur a rash of big M&A deals in 2014 and early 2015, analysts at GlobalData and IHS say the market could slow if the oil price doesn’t increase. Jeannie Stell reports. Image from Baker Hughes…
Despite over 37 billion bbl remaining in proven reserves, oil production in Nigeria is forecast to falter due to underinvestment, with the country’s oil and gas sector in desperate need of reforms and transparency to reverse this trend, according…
China’s national oil companies, Sinopec and CNOOC, want more interests in Brazil’s oil and gas assets, reports Seeking Alpha. The two companies bought into Brazil’s giant deepwater oilfields two years ago, and now seek to increase their holdings as Petrobras continues to sell assets…
Hungarian exploration outfit MOL Group has completed a deal with UK independent Ithaca Energy, giving it its first step into the Norwegian offshore sector. MOL has bought Ithaca's Norwegian subsidiary, which has stakes in 14 licenses…
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Dolphin Drilling selected learning technologies provider Atlas Knowledge to deliver a new system to manage the competence and training of its workforce in the UK. The contract will employ Atlas to oversee the installation and development…
Norway-based geoscience firm TGS has agreed to buy seismic firm Polarcus' multiclient library, excluding Australia, for US$ 27.5 million and future share on library late sales. The move was described as enabling Polarcus to 'navigate the current challenging market environment…
Husky Energy started production from the South White Rose project in the Jeanne d'Arc basin offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The first well has been brought online and the second well is scheduled to start up in late summer. Net peak…
AtComedia, publisher of Offshore Engineer (OE), is proud to announce the launch of Mexico Midstream Exhibition and Conference 2016 to be held in Monterrey, Mexico, on 16–18 February 2016 that brings together upstream, midstream and downstream…
Fugro is providing wave measurements to support construction operations at an improved oil recovery (IOR) project on the Norwegian continental shelf, around 225km west of Stavanger. The subsea infrastructure on the Alvheim field…
As expected, Hercules Offshore Inc. plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection next month as a final solution to its US$1.2 billion debt woes. The firm is one of the first to crash and burn as a result of insufficient cash flow due…
AGR released new functionality for its bespoke well data software, iQx that will improve the analysis of spatial well data by using data collected from more than 6000 wells drilled on the Norwegian continental shelf. The new GEO module is aimed at geologists and petroleum engineers…