
German oil and gas company Wintershall Dea has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling and completion on the Nova field using the West Mira drilling rig.

The joint proposal from MENCK and LM Handling, both Acteon Group companies, has been selected to support piling operations for a platform installation off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

The U.S. active offshore rig count last week dropped by one unit compared to the previous week, Baker Hughes Company said on Friday in its weekly rig count report.

The UK Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has approved IOG’s field development plan for the Core Project Phase 1 located in the UK North Sea.

FAR Limited has said it is unlikely it will be able to finance its part of the Sangomar project development in Senegal. Therefore, FAR has started a process to sell all or part of its working interest in the project.

Rockhopper Exploration and Premier Oil, partners in the Sea Lion project located offshore the Falkland Islands, have agreed to extend the exclusivity period to Navitas Petroleum, further closing in on a definitive Sea Lion farm-out.

Singapore’s independent oil and gas company KrisEnergy has entered into a credit facility agreement with Kepinvest Singapore to fund the near-term development project in Cambodia’s offshore Block A.

Australia’s largest LNG player Woodside expects low oil and gas prices to continue for the rest of 2020 and into next year due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Cripling worldwide demand caused by the Covid-19 restrictions has seen oil, gas and LNG prices at its lowest levels for decades. Demand

ConocoPhillips went from a profit in the first quarter last year to a loss in the same period of 2020 after being hit by impairment charges and lower oil and gas prices.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract by Equinor for the drilling of three and plugging of one well on the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.

Lundin Energy saw its quarterly revenues grow on the back of Johan Sverdrup start-up. As a result of strong performance from the Norwegian fields, Lundin has increased its full-year production guidance.

The Norwegian Government has decided to make oil production cuts in an attempt to more rapidly stabilise the oil market.

French energy major Total has joined a project to explore the potential of powering offshore oil and gas platforms with floating wind and wave energy. The O/G Decarb innovation project will examine the possibility of using a combined wind and wave technology on a floating foundation to store energy

Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has approved Beach Energy’s plan for a geophysical and geotechnical seabed assessment on the Trefoil offshore field.