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ConocoPhillips Finds Gas Offshore Australia

Nov 17, 2025

ConocoPhillips Australia has confirmed a natural gas discovery at its Essington-1 exploration well in the Otway Basin, marking the first find in the basin since 2021.The well, located in permit VIC/P79 about 53 km offshore Port Campbell and 12 km from existing production infrastructure…

Archer Scoops $110M Oil Services Extension off UK

Nov 14, 2025

Oilfield services firm Archer has secured a five-year contract extension for platform drilling and maintenance services in the U.K. with an estimated contract value of $110 million.The extension will start on May 1, 2026 in direct continuation of the current contract…

Colombia's Ecopetrol Could Close 2025 with Five Additional Wells Drilled

Nov 14, 2025

Colombia's state-run energy company Ecopetrol expects to execute about $6.3 billion in investments in 2025, equivalent to 90% of its target, executives from the company told Reuters in an interview on Thursday, adding it could close the year with five additional exploratory wells drilled…

THREE60 Energy to Supply Offshore Crew for Vår Energi

Nov 13, 2025

Aberdeen-based offshore energy industry services firm Three60 Energy has signed a new long-term contract with Vår Energi for the provision of temporary contract workers.The agreement, effective from 1 November 2025, represents a continued and valued partnership between the two companies…

AGR Secures Five-Year Staffing Deal with Vår Energi

Nov 13, 2025

AGR resourcing services business, part of the ABL Group, has entered into a five-year frame agreement to deliver technical personnel and workforce to Vår Energi.Vår Energi is a leading independent upstream oil and gas company on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS)…

Viridien, TGS Deliver Results of OBN Survey in Gulf of America

Nov 12, 2025

Viridien, in collaboration with TGS, has made available the early out results from the Laconia Phase III ultra-long offset ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Gulf of America.The initial 5Hz Acoustic TLFWI (AFWI) Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) products from the Laconia Phase III survey are now available…

Rhino Resources Prolongs Deepsea Mira's Stay off Namibia

Nov 12, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean and oil and gas firm Rhino Resources have signed a contract extension for Deepsea Mira semi-submersible drilling rig for work offshore Namibia.The contract for Deepsea Mira with Rhino Resources, signed in July 2025…

Equinor Drills Third Dry Well in Snorre Area Offshore Norway

Nov 11, 2025

Equinor and its partners have drilled a dry well in the Snorre area in the North Sea, offshore Norway.The wildcat well 34/6-9 S, or Avbitertang, was drilled in production license 554, 35 kilometers northeast of the Snorre field and 125 kilometers west of Florø…

BOEM Advances Offshore Minerals Planning Efforts in American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands

Nov 10, 2025

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced key developments in its offshore critical minerals planning, with the completion of Area Identification offshore American Samoa and the release of a Request for Information and Interest for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands…

Dolphin Drilling Pursues $105M Payment as Nigerian Receiver Takes Control of GHL

Nov 10, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling is seeking to recover $105 million awarded in arbitration against Nigeria’s General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL), after the country’s debt recovery agency appointed a receiver to take control of the company…

Trump Finalizes US Gulf Lease Sale, Proposes Alaska Sale

Nov 09, 2025

The Trump administration will hold an auction for drilling oil and gas off the U.S. Gulf next month and has proposed another in a waterway in southern Alaska, it said on Friday.The lease sale in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump refers to as the Gulf of America…

NOD, IGI Renew Agreement for Maintenance of Geochemical Database

Nov 07, 2025

The database with released geochemical data is updated twice a year with data from recently released wells in Diskos.The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has renewed the agreement with IGI (Integrated Geochemical Interpretation) to update the database for the next five years…

Aker BP’s Well in North Sea Comes Up Dry

Nov 07, 2025

Aker BP and its partners have drilled a well in the Yggdrasil area in the North Sea, which proved to be dry.The well 30/11-16 S, or ‘Natrudstilen’, was drilled in production license 873, just over one kilometer east of Fulla and 155 kilometers west of Bergen…

Equinor Cleared for Drilling Job in Barents Sea

Nov 07, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Barents Sea.The permit is for a wellbore 7220/7-5 in production license 532, operated by Equinor with 46.3% working interest.Equinor’s partners in the license are Vår Energi with 30%…

Halliburton Gets Shell’s Drilling and Completions Contract Offshore Nigeria

Nov 07, 2025

Halliburton has secured an integrated drilling and completion services contract for the HI gas field development in OML 144 offshore Nigeria by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), in collaboration with Sunlink Energies…

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