
Greek oil and gas company Energean has completed 85 per cent of its Karish project offshore Israel.

Ithaca Energy is moving forward with its plans to develop the Abigail field, located in the UK North Sea as a subsea tie-back.

The European Commission has seen progress in the safety of offshore oil and gas operations following the implementation of the safety directive.

The Covid-19 pandemic hit Australia’s already declining oil and gas workforce hard, causing a loss of over 28,000 jobs this year, Rystad Energy says.

Total and Jadestone Energy have decided to relinquish and terminate its Service Contract 56 offshore Philippines following a decision not to drill a well.

State-owned PetroVietnam has started pumping first gas from its Sao Vang-Dai Nguyet field off Vietnam’s southern coast.

Suriname is offering eight new offshore blocks in the currently unlicensed and underexplored Shallow Offshore acreage of Suriname via a new round.

Houston-based oil and gas company Vaalco Energy has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire Sasol’s 27.8 per cent working interest in the Etame Marin block offshore Gabon.

Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling has secured drilling work for its jack-up rig in Indonesia and a drillship in India.

Equinor’s Johan Sverdrup field is increasing its daily production capacity, expecting to reach around 500,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of the year.

Following the Covid-19 pandemic and the oil price crash in early 2020, for some players in the oil and gas sector consolidation may be the only way to stay solvent.

The U.S. agency BOEM is planning the first Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale for 2021, which outlines all available areas in the region-wide auction.

Stena Drilling’s Stena ICEMax drillship is preparing to set sail soon to the Bahamas to spud the Perseverance #1 well for the Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC).

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has made another oil discovery at the Tanager-1 well off Guyana but the discovery was deemed non-commercial.