The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has published the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Alaska’s manmade island, the Liberty Project, in the Beaufort Sea. Map of Liberty…
Eni has increased its estimate of resources in place at the Amoca field offshore Mexico to 1 billion boe, following a successful appraisal well that is prompting the Italian giant to accelerate its development plan. Map from Eni…
Upon completing the analysis of royalty rates for offshore oil and gas leases, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has decided to lower royalty rates for the Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 249. BOEM has set the royalty rate at 12…
Mexico is celebrating its successful shallow water round, Round 2.1, which has awarded 10 of 15 blocks in the Gulf of Mexico today (19 June). Image of Juan Carlos Zepeda, kicking off Round 2.1…
Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has a won a legal battle for the sale of a set of shallow water fields, in the states of Ceará and Sergipe. The Brazilian giant revealed today (25May) that the 3rd Federal District Court of Sergipe dismissed…
NXT Energy Solutions has started work on the first-ever Stress Field Detection (SFD) Multi-Client Survey in the Gulf of Mexico. NXT’s patented SFD Technology has been approved by the Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos, (CNH), for work credits by exploration companies in Mexico…
Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd. (SMD) has signed a contract with Van Oord for the manufacture and delivery of a QTrencher 1600. This contract follows the successful deployment of SMD’s QTrencher 1400 on Van Oord’s Gemini Wind Farm. Scheduled for delivery in Q1 2018…
Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG) has awarded GSP Offshore a contract to drill two exploration wells in the XV Midia Shallow Block, on the Romanian Black Sea Continental Shelf. The GSP Uranus, from GSP…
The Hoang Long Joint Operating Co. resumed the 2017 Te Giac Trang (TGT) drilling program, offshore Vietnam, according to partner SOCO International. The Te Giac Trang Field of Block 16-1, is in the shallow water Cuu Long Basin, offshore southern Vietnam…
Audrey Leon speaks with Cesar Granados, Mexico country manager at Weatherford, to get the service company’s perspective on Mexico’s newly opened oil and gas industry, and what role Weatherford aims to play in it. A…
Australia-based explorer Pura Vida Energy has agreed in principal a deal with a rig contractor to fund a share of the costs of a three-well drilling program offshore Gabon, west Africa, in return for a share of future production on any discoveries found…
Eni signed two new concession agreements for the North El Hammad and North Ras El Esh, in the shallow waters in Egyptian Mediterranean Sea, as a result of the EGAS 2015 international bid round. Eni is the operator of the North El Hammad block with 37…
Mexico is delaying the country’s shallow water bid round, Round 2.1, by three months in a move that regulators hope will garner more participation, increased competition and investments. Image of Mexico's deepwater round…
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, has unveiled high-tech spool base facilities at L&T’s fabrication facility at Kattupalli, in Chennai. These facilities are being employed to execute a prestigious…
Vaalco Energy has closed on the purchase of an additional 3.23% participating interest (2.98% working interest) in the Etame Marin Permit, offshore of the Republic of Gabon from Sojitz Etame, which represented the full interest owned by Sojitz Etame in the concession…