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Eni's Indonesia Gas Project to Start Up in 2021

Dec 04, 2018

Energy company Eni aims to start output of natural gas from its offshore Merakes project in Indonesia in 2021, the country's deputy energy minister said on Tuesday.Initial production at Merakes would be 155 million cubic feet of natural gas per day (mmcfd)…

ExxonMobil Makes Discovery Off Guyana

Dec 03, 2018

U.S. major ExxonMobil has made its 10th discovery offshore Guyana and increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to more than 5 billion oil-equivalent barrels, reinforcing potential for at least five floating storage…

BP Names New GoM Platform Argos

Dec 03, 2018

The new floating production unit currently being constructed for the Mad Dog 2 project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico will be named Argos, U.K. oil major BP announced.BP said the name was chosen by the project team and an employee survey and…

Aker BP Acquires Total's Norwegian Assets

Dec 03, 2018

Aker BP announced on Monday that it has completed the $205 million acquisition of Total E&P Norge's Norwegian continental shelf portfolio. Aker BP first announced the deal in July, and this week said all closing conditions have been fulfilled…

Baker Hughes Unveils Aptara

Dec 03, 2018

The new Aptara TOTEX-lite subsea system unveiled last week by Baker Hughes, a GE company, features new lightweight, modular subsea technologies aiming to reduce not just lead times for equipment delivery as well as total cost of ownership for the full life of the field…

IOG Delays North Sea Project Financing

Nov 29, 2018

UK based oil and gas development & production company Independent Oil and Gas Plc (IOG)cautioned that current oil price volatility and capital market conditions aren’t conducive to deliver its financing plan for the core Southern North Sea project before year-end…

Lukoil Sees Production Up 3.5% in 2018

Nov 29, 2018

Russian oil producer Lukoil said on Thursday that it was expecting its hydrocarbon production to increase by 3.5 percent this year.The company also plans an increase in hydrocarbon production of 1 percent next year, a company official said on a conference call…

Gabon Offers 22 Offshore Blocks

Nov 28, 2018

Gabon's Minister of Oil and Hydrocarbons Pascal Houangni Ambouroué has unveiled a new offshore licensing round covering 12 shallow-water and 23 deep-water blocks.A report from global law firm Dentons pointed out that this new bid round for offshore…

High Hopes for Campos Basin

Nov 28, 2018

Although much of the hype surrounding the Brazilian oil and gas market is directed toward the Santos Basin pre-salt, recent and older pre-salt discoveries in existing areas and on recently-awarded blocks within Campos Basin offer significant…

Petronas Q3 Profit Jumps 43%

Nov 27, 2018

Malaysian state-owned energy firm Petroliam Nasional Berhad, or Petronas, on Tuesday said it will increase its dividend payout to the government after its third-quarter net profit jumped on higher revenue and oil prices.The new administration…

DNO Offer for Steady Faroe About Stable North Sea

Nov 27, 2018

Shares in Faroe Petroleum skyrocket 25 percent, as DNO’s takeover bid targets company that engineered low breakeven price.Oil prices might have fallen 30 percent since September’s highs, but there’s still great business to be had for Norway-based North Sea asset player DNO…

Addax Petroleum Extends Yinson’s Adoon FPSO Deal

Nov 25, 2018

Nigeria-focused oil company Addax has extended the charter for the Yinson-owned FPSO Adoon for another three months, pending discussion for a potential longer-term deal.'Unless otherwise expressly defined in this announcement, terms and expressions…

Denovo Delivers First Gas to NGC from Iguana Field

Nov 25, 2018

Independent gas company DeNovo Energy, a subsidiary of the Proman Group, has made its first commercial supply of natural gas from the Iguana field in Block 1(a) off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.According to a release from the company, DeNovo…

Big Oil Digs North Sea's 'Final Frontier'

Nov 23, 2018

'Little hope of THIS rock ever producing oil,' BP geologist Bill Senior scribbled in 1977 on a note assessing a recent oil discovery in a distant corner of the North Sea.That same rock is today the heart of BP's prized Clair field in the West of Shetland region…

Kebabangan to Return to Full Capacity by August

Nov 23, 2018

Malaysia's state energy firm Petronas said on Friday production at Kebabangan gas field in the eastern state of Sabah is expected to return to full capacity by August 2019.A gas leak in January resulted in supply disruption at the gas field…

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