
Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has signed contracts with Aibel worth around NOK 5 billion (about $560 million), including options.

Russian oil and gas company Lukoil has made an oil discovery within the Yoti West structure at Block 12 located offshore Mexico.

IOG plc expects to continue working on a UK North Sea project soon following repairs to a damaged Noble Corporation-owned rig.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Energy Norway a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea.

CNOOC Limited has started production from the Lufeng oil fields regional development project located offshore China.

Spain’s Repsol has been forced to halt production from its Yme field less than a month after the oil production started.

Borr Drilling’s jack-up drilling rig has spudded Kistos’ Q11-B well in the Dutch North Sea.

Jersey has appointed new members to its board, which are expected to possess the expertise required to complete the farm-out process for the GBA development project in the North Sea.

Neptune Energy has extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai rig to include additional wells in the North Sea next year.

The Petroleum Safety Authority has discovered a total of four irregularities and improvement points during an audit of the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Reacher jack-up rig.

The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged at 15 last week, based on Baker Hughes’ weekly rig count report from last Friday.

French energy major TotalEnergies is preparing to drill a wildcat well in waters offshore Namibia, using a Maersk Drilling-owned drillship.

Norway’s oil production in October 2021 exceeded the NPD’s predictions by 2.8 per cent, while the gas output also experienced a boost compared to September.

Brazilian Petrobras has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Santos Basin pre-salt, in a pioneer well in the Aram block.