
Italian oil major Eni has started gas production from the Merakes project located in the East Sepinggan block in the Makassar Strait, deep offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

UK oil and gas company EnQuest has signed a share purchase agreement with Whalsay Energy to purchase their 100 per cent equity interest in the P.1078 licence containing the proven Bentley heavy-oil discovery.

Offshore services provider Archer Limited has signed an offer letter with Moreld laying out principle terms to purchase 100 per cent of the shares in DeepWell AS.

The United States Department of Energy has earmarked $75 million for cost-shared development projects including carbon capture systems and decarbonization of natural gas power and industrials sectors.

UK-based Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has signed off the Blythe and Southwark platforms as mechanically complete earlier this month.

French major Total declared force Majeure on its Mozambique LNG project only months after resuming activities at the Afungi site.

The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. is down by one unit over the last week, according to a weekly rig count report by Baker Hughes.

Offshore Energy continues with its new In focus weekly feature, spotlighting the latest energy transition developments, after our first edition went online on 16 April. Following last week’s news on the U.S. oil giant Chevron’s entrance into the offshore wind market and note that the company has not

BW Offshore has decided to recycle its laid-up FPSO Berge Helene despite previous plans to use it on a project development located in Brazil.

Equinor and partners have decided in favour of Troll West electrification and are submitting the plan for development and operation.

Empyrean Energy has awarded a contract to the Australian team of AGR to assist with well planning and engineering for the Jade prospect drilling offshore China.

Equinor and its partners Petoro, Total, Neptune, and Wintershall Dea have decided to develop the Askeladd Vest project off Norway.

In case Romgaz finalizes the takeover of the Neptun Deep project from ExxonMobil, Romania’s OMV Petrom will become the operator.

Shelf Drilling has received a three-year contract for one of its jack-up drilling rigs with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in India.