
Australian oil and gas companies Beach Energy and Bridgeport Energy have been awarded two new gas exploration permits offshore Australia.

Partners in the Otakikpo marginal field, located offshore Nigeria, have executed service agreements for the next phase of the drilling program.

ExxonMobil’s environment plan for the plug and abandonment of Seahorse/Tarwhine wells offshore Australia is now under assessment by the Australian regulator.

The U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained unchanged at 12 units, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.

Italian oil and gas company Eni has submitted its plans for decommissioning of six platforms on the Hewett field to the UK authorities.

PGS has completed the second GeoStreamer X seismic survey in the Viking Graben. The GeoStreamer X Viking Graben 2020 extension project once again applied PGS’s latest technology innovations for advanced offset-and azimuth-rich data. The project builds on the 2019 GeoStreamer X pilot project in the s

Noble Corporation has received several new contract extensions for its drilling rigs and cancellation of a drilling contract in Vietnam.

Neptune Energy has decided to drill a sidetrack well to further evaluate the size of its Dugong discovery located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

The Odfjell Drilling-owned drilling rig Deepsea Stavanger has recently been mobilized from Norway to South Africa for a drilling gig with French Total.

Aker BP has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to use the Maersk Invincible rig for operations on the Hod field offshore Norway.

Modus has recently completed seabed survey at a new deep water well exploration site in Mediterranean waters, offshore Israel. UK based firm executed the survey on behalf of M-Surveys, part of the Maritech Group using Hybrid AUV (HAUV) technology. The 3000-metre rated Hybrid system carried out the o

Wintershall Dea last December installed three Xmas trees on its Dvalin gas development, which has now moved from the drilling phase to the completion phase.

Hit by the second industry downturn in five years, global awards for FPSO vessels will likely be limited to a single unit in 2020, Rystad Energy believes.

Offshore energy research and advisory firm Axiom has studied how the electrification of platforms can have a meaningful impact on the carbon intensity of offshore oil and gas production. The above chart highlights Axiom’s view on how the 2020-2024 fixed production market has evolved through February