
Azule Energy, a joint venture between Italy’s Eni and the UK’s BP, has awarded TechnipFMC another contract offshore Angola, covering the supply of flexible flowlines and risers. The contract has been awarded for the West Hub Tails project, an extension of the Block 15/06 Agogo Integrated Development

Angola’s state-owned oil company Sonangol has found more offshore black gold, augmenting the African country’s oil reserves.

The UK’s offshore energy regulator, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA), has revealed that 56 North Sea wells returned to production last year, with more cost-efficient well interventions helping operators deliver 16 million barrels of oil (boe) from shut-in wells on the UK Continental Shelf (

U.S.-headquartered energy services provider Expro has lined up a new deal for a well abandonment program in the North Sea with an undisclosed oil and gas operator on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

Norway’s oil and gas company Aker BP and its compatriot state-owned partner, Equinor, have come up dry in their latest North Sea exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started operating a 16 MW floating wind platform in the South China Sea, with the unit now supplying electricity to the Lufeng oilfield grid, according to Chinese media.

Italian energy giant Eni has struck a deal with Texas-headquartered oil and gas company APA Corporation to acquire a stake in a block off the coast of Uruguay.

Swedish tidal energy developer Minesto has revealed an electricity generation record in the Faroe Islands, where its tidal power plant set a new production record over the summer, after being upgraded with a new power-take-off (PTO) system that improves energy output throughout the tidal flow cycle.

An appraisal well in the Benguela Basin’s Block 24 has confirmed high-quality reservoirs and delivered Angola’s first full drill stem test (DST) on a non-associated gas reservoir.

Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant, has lined up a new assignment for a 12-year-old jack-up rig off the coast of Norway with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy company ConocoPhillips.

Romania’s national natural gas transmission system operator (TSO) Transgaz has deepened its U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) ties through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Argent LNG, a U.S.-based LNG export developer headquartered in Louisiana, in a push to diversify regional energy supply b

BP has set the wheels in motion to become the sole owner and operator of a deepwater natural gas field by buying the stake its partner, Australia’s energy giant Woodside Energy, holds in the project being developed off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

Murphy Oil is making inroads in developing an oil field off the coast of Vietnam, with the start-up on schedule for the next quarter. The firm is also pursuing other hydrocarbon projects not just in Southeast Asia, but also in other regions of the world.

Chinese state-owned oil and gas giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and its partner, the U.S.-headquartered energy firm ConocoPhillips, have brought online the next expansion segment at an existing oilfield off the coast of China, enabling the project to be home to 19 offshore plat