The Minister of the Environment and Housing announced that a new Petroleum Act and a suite of regulations to guide and govern oil exploration in The Bahamas has been completed and is now to be placed before the House. Map from Bahamas Petroleum…
Australia's Tangiers Petroleum says it intends to exit the Tarfaya Block off Morocco after the Tao-1 well showed dry and exceeded budget. The Tarfaya block is the company's only holding in Africa. The company is now faced with either…
Nearly 50 companies have made applications for licenses in the Norwegian government's lates licensing round. The deadline for applications ended September 2. Norway's Ministry of Energy and Petroleum said applications had been received…
Lundin Petroleum has started drilling exploration well 33/12-10 S on the Vollgrav South prospect, 250km west of Florø, between the Gullfaks and Statfjord fields, in production license 631. The main objective of well 33/12-10 S is to test…
Lime Petroleum Norway, a jointly-controlled entity of Malaysia-based Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad and Singapore-based Rex International, surrendered three licenses in the North Sea, following the deadline for a drill or drop decision by 23 July 2014…
The US Energy Information Administration’s new “Today in Energy” brief looks at how Mexico’s crude oil exports to the United States have declined, while US exports of petroleum products to Mexico have increased. The US imported 850,000 bbl/d of crude oil from Mexico in 2013…
Minexco Petroleum Inc., the African focused private Oil and Gas Exploration Company, provided details of the petroleum agreement between its subsidiary AGM Petroleum and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), for their joint project in the South Deepwater Tano Basin…
Brunei Shell Petroleum awarded Maersk Drilling a four-year contract for the jackup rig Maersk Completer for operations offshore Brunei. The contract will commence in December 201, in direct continuation of its current contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum…
Statoil ended a joint license agreement with Bahamas Petroleum. Bahamas Petroleum says Statoil is dropping its involvement in the agreement following its exploration successes elsewhere and a subsequent review of its global portfolio…
Technip has won a contract from Qatar Petroleum for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of a bridge linked living quarters platform and a utility platform. The project location is within Qatar Petroleum offshore facilities…
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) began drilling of exploration well 16/4-7 in PL544. The well will target the Biotitt prospect, which is located some 35 km south of the Edvard Grieg Field and 46 km southwest of the Johan Sverdrup Field…
Anne Næss Myhrvold has taken over today as the director general of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). Born in 1996, she has worked for BP Norge since 2002 and has been a member of this company’s top management as head of health…
Lebanon's Petroleum Administration has revealed the results of a pre-qualification process to select companies who will be able to bid in its first offshore exploration round. Of 54 companies applying to take part, 46 have been approved to bid in the round…
AGR’s Petroleum Services in three-year accordPetroleum Services, part of AGR has been awarded a well management contract from independent Norwegian E&P company Noreco.The agreement commenced January 1, 2013 and includes well management services for an initial 3 year period…
Faroe Petroleum has won acreage in the Dreiki area on the Icelandic Continental Shelf. Faroe will operate seven license blocks south of the Jan Mayen Ridge inside the Arctic Circle northeast of Iceland. Faroe will hold 67.5% interest in blocks IS6708/8…
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