
Orcadian Energy has brought into its fold all ordinary shares of HALO Offshore UK (HALO) from the joint liquidators of Hague and London Oil.

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has delivered a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier ordered by Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK Line) at the former’s shipyard in Geoje, South Korea.

McDermott has secured a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Repsol for two oil fields that form part of a development project in the Gulf of Mexico’s Block 29 off the coast of Mexico.

Japan’s energy company Inpex Corporation has inked a share sale and purchase agreement (SSPA) with Seascape Energy, a Southeast Asia-focused E&P player, to acquire a participating interest in a production sharing contract (PSC) off the coast of Sarawak, Malaysia from the latter’s subsidiary.

CRP Subsea, part of AIS, has been hired to supply its distributed buoyancy modules (DBMs) to a deepwater oil field project in the pre-salt Santos Basin, off the coast of Brazil.

CNOOC is on top of its hydrocarbon game as it confirms a new first for China with the beginning of production at a development said to be the Asian country’s first offshore multi-layer heavy oil thermal recovery project.

Equinor has found no hydrocarbons in an exploration well, which was drilled using one of Transocean’s rigs in the Norwegian Sea off the coast of Norway.

Canadian natural gas and energy utility FortisBC has filed an environmental assessment (EA) application with the British Columbia Environmental Assessment Office (BC EAO) for the proposed expansion of its existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Canada’s Tilbury Island.

Texas-based litigation firm Hicks Thomas LLP, whose attorneys argued that insurance carriers could not recover on subrogation claims, has confirmed its win in two legal battles related to lawsuits totaling $1.3 billion against builders of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Texas, Unite

French-headquartered ecological transformation company Veolia, Spanish gas grid operator Enagás, and Barcelona City Council have launched a residual cold recovery solution installed at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the Port of Barcelona.

Petrobras has kicked off a new procurement process to secure two more floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessels, which will be deployed in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin off the coast of Brazil.

India’s state-owned natural gas player GAIL has signed a long-term time charter agreement with Japanese shipping company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel to be built by Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI).

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has begun production at another oilfield development project in the South China Sea, off the coast of China.

Shelf Drilling (SHLF) has landed a new drilling assignment for one of its jack-up rigs off the coast of Nigeria in West Africa.