
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has been awarded two one-well contracts for one of its drillships by oil major Shell.

Italian oil major Eni has started production of the Cuica field, in Block 15/06 of the Angolan deep offshore, via the Armada Olombendo FPSO vessel.

Russian independent oil company Lukoil has started drilling its first exploration well at Block 12 located in the southern area of the Gulf of Mexico.

The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged for the second week in a row, according to rig count reports by Baker Hughes.

Oil and gas company Deltic Energy has entered into a binding, conditional farm-out agreement concerning five of its Southern North Sea gas licences with Cairn Energy.

The Norwegian authorities have granted Repsol the consent for the start-up of the Yme field in the North Sea, 20 years after the last time the field was on stream.

Norwegian oil and gas company DNO has spud the Gomez exploration well in production license 006C in the North Sea offshore Norway.

Swedish oil company Lundin Energy has started production from the extended well test (EWT) at its Rolvsnes offshore field – the first subsea tie-back development for the Edvard Grieg platform.

Partners in Equatorial Guinea’s offshore producing Block G have completed the first of three planned infill wells at the Okume complex, Panoro Energy stated.

After a three-unit drop the week before, the number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged last week, according to weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes.

Murphy Oil is expecting its floating production system for the King’s Quay project to reach a shore base in the Gulf of Mexico soon.

Beacon Offshore has signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy to deliver a floating production and storage unit for the Shenandoah project.

BHP has approved a total of $802 million in capex to execute the Shenzi North project and to move the Trion project into the FEED phase.

A pump on the seabed gives the Equinor-operated Vigdis field in the North Sea a boost that increases production by around 16 million barrels.