Australia’s oil and gas giant Woodside Energy has signed a deal with the Australian subsidiary of U.S.-headquartered energy major ExxonMobil to assume the operatorship of assets situated off Victoria’s Gippsland coast.
Yinson Production, a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur-based energy infrastructure and technology company Yinson, has landed a lease and operate contract for a newbuild floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit destined to serve the Block B gas field off the coast of Vietnam, Southeast Asia.
Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat), Qatar’s shipping and maritime player, has joined forces with the Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) to set up the first financing package for 25 conventional liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers being constructed in Korea.
Eni Congo, a subsidiary of Italy’s energy giant Eni, has hired six vessels on a multi-year assignment from Bourbon, a French maritime services provider, to support operations at its fields off the coast of Congo.
Texas-based exploration and production player Beacon Offshore Energy has begun oil and natural gas production from a deepwater project connected to a floating production system (FPS) facility in the Gulf of America, formerly the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
Ukraine’s state-owned energy company Naftogaz Group has signed an agreement with the Ukrainian subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) for the purchase of natural gas.
Aker BP has made arrangements with JAPEX Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX), to trade partial interests in two fields for the Japanese player’s Northern North Sea assets.
Oslo-listed oil and gas E&P player BW Energy has picked a semi-submersible rig owned by Northern Ocean (NOL) and managed by Odfjell Drilling for a drilling assignment in Namibia’s Orange Basin.
UAE-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has secured one new contract and one extension for two vessels from its fleet.
Valaris has won a new batch of rig assignments and extensions, enabling three drillships and three jack-ups to secure work in different geographies.
Chevron has cleared all the hurdles in its path to bring Hess Corporation, a fellow oil and gas player, into its fold. As a result, the companies are taking steps to blend their operations, enabling Chevron to expand its oil and gas arsenal, with four regions pinpointed as the ones where this merger
Malaysian oil & gas services provider Sapura Energy has secured new contracts with Chevron’s Thailand subsidiaries, as well as with Thai national oil & gas company PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP), that together have a value of over RM 500 million (roughly $118 million). The contracts with the
Canada-based Valeura Energy, an oil and gas company, has made a move to acquire partial stakes from Thailand’s national oil and gas player, PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP), in two offshore blocks off the coast of Thailand.
PTTEP, Thailand’s national oil and gas player, has made a play for a stake, which Hess Corporation, now part of Chevron, holds in the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Area (MTJDA).
