
France’s energy giant TotalEnergies and Malaysia’s Petronas have kicked off a multimillion-dollar oil and gas exploration campaign off the coast of Papua New Guinea, Oceania. The duo is said to be drilling the country’s first ultra-deepwater exploration well in the Gulf of Papua.

Norwegian energy services provider Aker Solutions has been hired on a long-term assignment to handle engineering and maintenance work on assets located approximately 350 kilometers east of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

French engineering, advisory, and project management services company DORIS is working alongside Perenco Brazil, part of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco, to bring two offshore platforms that have been offline since 2020 back to life, while employing electrification to cut greenhouse gas (GHG

Norway’s oil & gas player Vår Energi has awarded TechnipFMC with an integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (iEPCI) contract for subsea tie-back development projects in the North Sea. TechnipFMC reported on June 25 the iEPCI contract for the Ofelia and Gjøa Nord projects

Dutch offshore floating solar company SolarDuck and the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) have secured a €3.2 million subsidy from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) to develop an offshore floating power hub for remote subsea assets. The Steady Seas research program will advance t

Abu Dhabi-headquartered ADNOC Drilling, one of the Middle East’s drilling and integrated drilling services (IDS) providers, has taken delivery of its first automated walking island rig running on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, accelerating autonomous offshore operations in the United Ara

Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has submitted a proposed program for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of a possible field development in the Barents Sea for public consultation.

Following contracts awarded to Saipem and TechnipFMC, Azule Energy, a joint venture between Italy’s Eni and the UK’s BP, has selected Baker Hughes to deliver subsea production systems for its ultra-deepwater development in Angola. The Greater PAJ project is described as Angola’s first integrated cro

Perenco Vietnam, part of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco, has inked a gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) for a project off the coast of Vietnam, Southeast Asia.

UK-headquartered energy giant BP has joined forces with India’s government-owned energy giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to bolster hydrocarbon output in the Western Offshore Basin (Arabian Sea), seen as India’s “most prolific” offshore hydrocarbon region.

Norway’s oil and gas player Vår Energi is setting the wheels in motion to bring subsea tie-back development projects in the North Sea to life, in a bid to bolster the oil production arsenal on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem is divesting its shareholding in Saudi Arabian Saipem (SAS) to close its shallow water drilling chapter in Saudi Arabia, as it continues its shift to deepwater plays. This move enables ADES Holding Company, part of Saudi Arabia-he

Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has signed on the dotted line to look into establishing a collaboration with Mexico’s state-owned petroleum heavyweight Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in the hydrocarbon realm.

AIM-listed and Singapore-headquartered oil and gas player Jadestone Energy has made inroads in its infill drilling campaign off the coast of Malaysia by putting the first well into production mode, with the second one already drilled and activities at the third now underway.