
Waldorf Production has inked a deal to buy the entire share capital of Alpha Petroleum from Shorelight Partners to bolster energy security.

A 400-ft jack-up drilling rig built by CIMC Raffles has joined the fleet of Italy’s contractor Saipem following a naming ceremony in China.

Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has made a gas discovery off Norway near the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea.

Shell has received approval from Norway’s authorities for a development plan for its gas subsea compression project in the Norwegian Sea.

Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved a plan for the development and operation for Aker BP’s field in the North Sea.

Upstream oil and gas company Serica Energy has spudded the North Eigg exploration well located off the UK.

ConocoPhillips has come up dry in a wildcat well, which was drilled using a Transocean-owned rig in the Norwegian Sea near the Fenja field.

United Oil & Gas’ North Sea discovery, envisioned as a subsea tie-back, has been valued at £109.1 million on an unrisked basis.

Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved a development plan for the ConocoPhillips-operated cross-border field in the North Sea.

Shell has failed to find commercial volumes of hydrocarbons in a North Sea exploration well and the well is being plugged and abandoned.

PetroRio has started production from a well located in a field within the Northern Campos Basin off the coast of Brazil.

Houston-based Vaalco Energy plans to add two more wells to the work scope of a Borr Drilling-owned jack-up rig in Gabon.

Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has secured a new drilling contract from BP for operations offshore Canada.

Petrofac has been selected by Tullow Oil to provide operations services for the Jubilee offshore development in Ghana, West Africa.