Atlantic Petroleum says the Orlando field development in the UK North Sea continues to progress to end of 2016 field oil. The field, in Block 3/3b in the northern North Sea, is being developed as a subsea tie-back to the CNR International operated Ninian Central platform…
Tullow Oil announced that its subsidiary Tullow Exploration & Production has agreed to sell its operated and non-operated L12/L15 block interests and non-operated Q4 and Q5 block interests to AU Energy, a subsidiary of Mercuria Energy Group…
Baker Hughes Inc. completed the acquisition of Weatherford’s pipeline and specialty services business for US$250 million. The total consideration includes $241 million in cash and $9 million in retained working capital. The purchase…
Noble Energy has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) to supply Jordan’s National Electric Power Co. Ltd. (NEPCO) gas from the Leviathan field, located off Israel, the company announced on 3 September 2014. In the US$15 billion deal…
Noble Energy announced successful results for the Katmai exploration well and the Dantzler-2 appraisal well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Katmai exploration well Noble is reporting great news at Katmai with total gross resources for the well estimated between 40 and 100MMboe…
Heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea for use on Total's Egina FPSO. The order, worth about SEK 240 million…
Oil samples have been recovered in the FAN-1 exploration well being drilled offshore Senegal, said partner in the project by FAR Ltd. The well is being drilled by Cairn Energy (operator), ConocoPhillips, Far and Petrosen - the Senegalese national oil company…
Greece-based exploration firm Energean Oil & Gas has launched a US$225 million investment program to develop 30MMbbl of reserves in North West Greece and to increase production from the Prinos, Prinos North and Epsilon fields to 10,000bbl/day by 2016…
Carin Energy found oil samples in the FAN-1 exploration well offshore Senegal, according to joint venture partner, FAR Ltd. FAN-1 and SNE-1 in 3D seismic. From Far. FAR says elevated gas…
Santos announced the discovery of gas-condensate at the Lasseter-1 exploration well in WA-274-P, located in the Browse basin, offshore Western Australia. The Lasseter-1 well is located approximately 35km east-southeast of Santos’ Crown…
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. announced it completed its acquisition of Jersey-based oil and gas services company Kentz Corp. Ltd. The acquisition of Kentz supports SNC-Lavalin’s ongoing transformation into a global Tier-1 engineering and construction (E&C) company…
GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd. appoints Ruud Zoon as managing director. Zoon joins from GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.V. where he has been managing director since 2010. He has 30 years of energy industry experience, holding senior management positions in locations including the Netherlands…
A power cut at Shell’s Nelson platform, 124 miles off Aberdeen in the North Sea, saw 148 of the 167 on board airlifted to the nearby Borgholm Dolphin flotel on Tuesday (19 August). Nineteen workers remained on the rig while the problem is resolved…
Chinese industrial conglomerate Fosun International Ltd. is buying Australia’s Roc Oil Co. Ltd. in an all-cash, A$474 million (US$441 million) transaction. Sydney-based Roc Oil has assets from Australia to Malaysia, China, and the UK North Sea…
Venari Resources LLC announced that it has raised an additional US$1.3 billion of equity commitments, bringing the total raised to $2.4 billion. Map of Shenandoah and Coronado prospects. Image from Anadarko…