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BP Dominates US Gulf Lease Sale as Chevron Secures Three Blocks

Mar 12, 2026

A sale of drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday ended with $46.98 million in high bids from oil and gas companies, with a single bid from BP accounting for nearly half of the total, according to a livestreamed U.S. government auction…

IEA Unleashes Record 400M Barrel Oil Stockpile Release Amid Iran War Disruptions

Mar 12, 2026

The International Energy Agency on Wednesday agreed to release a record 400 million barrels of oil from strategic stockpiles to combat a spike in global crude prices since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with the U.S. contributing the bulk of the supply…

EIG’s MidOcean Picks Up Additional Australian LNG Stakes from JERA

Mar 12, 2026

MidOcean Energy, an LNG company backed by U.S. energy-focused private equity firm EIG, has agreed to acquire additional Australian liquefied natural gas project stakes from Japan’s JERA, the companies said on Thursday.The transaction covers JERA’s 0…

Chevron Sells Stake in Two Angola’s Offshore Blocks to Energean for $260M

Mar 12, 2026

Energean has agreed to acquire Chevron’s interests in two producing offshore blocks in Angola, marking the company’s entry into the West African upstream sector.The agreement covers Chevron’s 31% operated interest in Block 14 and a 15.5% non-operated interest in Block 14K…

OneSubsea Bags Third PTTEP Subsea Systems Contract in One Year

Mar 11, 2026

OneSubsea, a joint venture between SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7, has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Thai’s PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) for subsea production systems at a deepwater project offshore Malaysia…

ABL Gets Work on ExxonMobil’s Seventh Guyana Oil Project

Mar 11, 2026

Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been contracted to provide marine warranty survey services for marine operations and installation activities on ExxonMobil’s Hammerhead development offshore Guyana.The Hammerhead project is expected to be the seventh development in the Stabroek Block…

Petrobras’ P-78 FPSO Achieves Gas Injection Milestone in Búzios Field

Mar 11, 2026

The first gas injection on Petrobras’ P-78 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit has been achieved just 61 days after the vessel reached first oil on December 31, 2025.The milestone, achieved on March 2, 2026, marks the transition…

TotalEnergies, Repsol and Shell Bring Lapa South-West Online off Brazil

Mar 11, 2026

TotalEnergies and its partners Repsol and Shell have started production from the Lapa South-West project in Brazil’s Santos Basin.Located approximately 300 km offshore, the project consists of three wells tied back to the existing Lapa floating production…

G7 Holds Off on Oil Reserve Release, Requests IEA Study

Mar 11, 2026

G7 energy ministers stopped short of agreeing on a release of strategic oil reserves on Tuesday and instead asked the International Energy Agency to assess the situation before acting.The IEA said it was convening an extraordinary meeting of its member states on Tuesday…

ExxonMobil Scales Back Middle East Operations, Evacuates Staff

Mar 11, 2026

Exxon Mobil has evacuated non-essential employees from its operations in the Middle East, CEO Darren Woods said in an interview on Tuesday, as the U.S.-Israel war on Iran continues.Some operations have been scaled back to manage oil inventory…

Iran War Exposes Risks of Fossil Fuel Dependence

Mar 11, 2026

The economic risks of the world’s heavy dependence on oil and gas have been laid bare twice in four years - first with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and now with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran - undermining U.S. President Donald Trump’s flagship push to double down on fossil fuels…

Gulf of Mexico Auction Yields Far Fewer Bids Than First Trump Sale

Mar 11, 2026

The Trump administration's second sale of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico in three months attracted far less industry interest than the auction it held in December, according to a sale document posted on a government website on Tuesday…

Chevron and Shell Closing in on Venezuela Oil

Mar 10, 2026

International oil majors Chevron and Shell are closing in on the first big oil production deals with Venezuela since the U.S. capture of President Nicolas Maduro in January, five sources close to the negotiations told Reuters.The deals would…

Drone Strike Sparks Fire at ADNOC’s Ruwais Industrial Complex

Mar 10, 2026

Abu Dhabi state oil giant ADNOC has shut its Ruwais refinery, a source said on Tuesday, after a fire broke out at a facility within the complex following a drone strike, the latest disruption to energy infrastructure due to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran…

Sunda Energy Secures Environmental License for Drilling Ops off Timor-Leste

Mar 10, 2026

Sunda Energy, through its subsidiary SundaGas Banda Unipessoal, has been awarded an environmental license for the drilling of the Chuditch-2 appraisal well offshore Timor-Leste.SundaGas operates the TL-SO-19-16 production sharing contract in the country’s offshore waters…

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