
China’s CNOOC Limited has started production from the Luda 21-2/16-3 regional development in the Bohai Sea.

Oil and gas company Premier Oil has signed sale and purchase agreements with oil major BP for the acquisition of its interests in the Andrew Area and its Shearwater assets, under revised terms announced in June.

After securing exclusivity for the farm-out of Providence’s Barryroe field through $3 million investment, SpotOn Energy took a new step in the farm-out process.

The U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained unchanged at 12 units for the second week in a row, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.

Maersk Drilling has secured an additional one-well contract from Aker BP for the low-emission jack-up rig Maersk Integrator.

French energy giant Total said Friday it has signed a $14.9 billion senior debt financing deal for its Mozambique LNG project, the biggest project financing ever in Africa. The project includes the development of the Golfinho and Atum natural gas fields located in Offshore Area 1 concession. Gas wil

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer over 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for November 2020.

Norwegian oil production has dropped below predictions made by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) after being above the limit for two months in a row.

A former chief executive officer (CEO) of Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) arrived back to Mexico on Friday to face corruption charges.

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) has revealed a target to reduce the collective average carbon intensity of member companies’ aggregated upstream oil and gas operations to between 20 and 21 kilograms of CO2 emissions per barrel of oil equivalent by 2025, from a collective baseline of 23 kg

BP’s environment plan for the Ironbark-1 exploration well has been approved by the Australian offshore regulator, NOPSEMA, and BP is preparing to drill the well in October 2020.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, also known as OPEC+, have agreed to curb oil supply from August as the global economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vår Energi is resuming its drilling activities in the Barents Sea and the North Sea, which were postponed this spring due to the corona pandemic and oil price collapse.

Brussels-based contractor BESIX has been selected to build the marine facilities of the Mozambique LNG project in partnership with Mota-Engil.