
The Edinburgh-based start-up Mocean Energy has secured a major investment to advance the design of its Blue Star wave energy device, and drive its adoption in subsea oil and gas sector.

TechnipFMC has received a Notice to Proceed with the construction of the Energía Costa Azul (ECA) liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Baja California, Mexico.

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.

NextDecade Corporation has selected Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation to perform essential improvements to the Brownsville Ship Channel.

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.

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.

Energy services company AGR has begun decommissioning work on Ireland’s first indigenous gas wells on PSE Kinsale Energy’s gas fields in the Celtic Sea.

LOC Mexico, a subsidiary of marine and engineering consultancy LOC Group has secured its third contract this year from Permaducto, an enterprise part of the Mexican oilfield services and infrastructure development firm Protexa. Under the contract, LOC Mexico will provide marine warranty survey (MWS)

Sempra Energy said its unit, ECA Liquefaction (ECA LNG), has reached a final investment decision (FID) for its LNG export project in Baja California, Mexico.

Dutch FPSO provider SBM Offshore has begun the topside integration phase on the Liza Unity FPSO in a yard in Singapore.