While taking a deep dive into the floater rig market and top floating rig managers based on the current total backlog for 2026, Westwood Global Energy, an energy market research and consultancy firm, has spotlighted five offshore drilling players – Transocean, Noble, COSL, Seadrill, and Valaris – as
With instability and vulnerabilities looming across global markets and power systems in the wake of the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, South Asia’s planned multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure expansion is exposed to economic and energy security risks, according to Global
Qatar’s state-owned oil and gas giant QatarEnergy has confirmed missile attacks at multiple liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, which sustained significant damage during the assault that left the targeted LNG infrastructure in flames.
Italy’s energy giant Eni has taken final investment decisions (FIDs) for two gas projects off the coast of Indonesia, Southeast Asia. The company expects these projects to strengthen not only domestic supply but also LNG exports, while leveraging existing infrastructure to accelerate time to market.
Australia’s engineering company Worley has been given the green light to move forward with all works related to the second phase of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Louisiana, which will up the United States’ energy infrastructure ante.
Three players – the UK-headquartered and AIM-listed Afentra, Etablissements Maurel & Prom S.A. (M&P), and Angola’s national oil company Sonangol E&P – have signed off on the acquisition of the interest Etu Energias holds in two offshore blocks in this country on the western coast of Southern Africa.
Brazilian oil and gas company PRIO, formerly known as PetroRio, has brought online the first well at its subsea tie-back project in the Campos basin off the coast of Brazil.
Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has boosted South America’s energy arsenal with a new gas discovery off the coast of Colombia.
Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has unveiled a new oil discovery in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, which was drilled with a semi-submersible rig owned by COSL Drilling Europe, an offshore drilling player.
Norwegian authorities have given the go-ahead for production drilling activities Norway’s oil and gas player Aker BP is planning to undertake in the North Sea on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NOC), with a rig owned by Noble Corporation, a U.S.-headquartered energy giant.
A liquefied natural gas (LNG) shutdown has led Qatar’s state-owned oil and gas giant QatarEnergy to issue a contractual force majeure notice to LNG buyers.
Germany’s Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE) has finalized a multi-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with Argentina’s Southern Energy (SESA) against the backdrop of rising energy security concerns that are looming over Europe and the globe in the wake of the U.S.-Israel military opera
Three players – Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor, Kongsberg Maritime (KM), a technology player, and Hanwha Drilling, a provider of offshore drilling services – have forged an alliance to develop the next generation of remote dynamic positioning (DP) technology to establish new standards for
Subsea7 has secured an extension to the contract with Turkish Petroleum Offshore Technology Center (TP-OTC) announced in August 2025 for the third development phase of Türkiye’s largest natural gas field. The variation order announced today, March 4, represents an extension to the contract announced
