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Chevron has strengthened its exploration position offshore Greece by agreeing to enter Block 10 in the Kyprissiakos Gulf in the southern Ionian Sea, according to a recent Helleniq Energy news …
Longitude has secured its first contract with an undisclosed oil and gas operator for a newly developed live mooring line tension monitoring system for FPSO operations. The Proper Live Load …
Aker BP has issued more details of a recent stabilization task on the Idun Nord subsea well in the Norwegian Sea, conducted remotely from shore with DeepOcean. The operation at …
Shell, alongside its partners QatarEnergy and NAMCOR, has reported encouraging exploration results from its Merlin-1X exploration well in Petroleum Exploration License No. 0039 (PEL 0039), offshore Namibia, further advancing its …
Centrica subsidiary Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Net Zero (MNZ) Peak Cluster development in the East Irish Sea area has moved a step closer to enactment. The company claims this will be …
Viridien has entered into a partnership agreement with Aker BP concerning multi-client ocean-bottom node (OBN) seismic data acquisition, imaging and technology development for the Norwegian major. The five-year cooperation framework …
Ghana’s Minister of Energy has approved Tullow Oil’s long-term offshore Greater Jubilee Plan of Further Development. This allows for drilling of up to 20 more wells on the deepwater Jubilee …
Petrobras has formed an agreement to farm into 50% of the Equinor-held Itaimbezinho Block in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil. Upon completion, Equinor would retain a 50% operated position, with …
Suriname has emerged as a high-potential but still-maturing offshore E&P frontier within the Guyana-Suriname Basin, sharing the same prolific petroleum system that powers Guyana’s success. While it lags Guyana in …
CNOOC Petroleum Europe has asked ABB to perform modernization upgrades to the automation and control systems on the Buzzard platform in the UK central North Sea. The company will upgrade …
PXGEO has signed a one-year framework agreement with Equinor to conduct autonomous inspection trials with the Saab Sabertooth underwater intervention drone. The work tests will be designed to assess and …
TGS advances Equatorial Guinea MegaSurvey TGS has signed an accord with Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Hydrocarbon and Mining Development of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea to develop a multi-client offshore …
A University of Aberdeen spin-out has developed a method to produce green hydrogen directly from seawater, aiming to overcome key barriers tied to cost and freshwater use. The company, Hychor, …
Woodside Energy plans to exercise its right to pre-empt the sale by PetroChina International Investment (Australia) of a 10.67% stake in the Browse Joint Venture (BJV) to INPEX, according to …
SLB has signed a framework agreement with PDVSA to support the revival of Venezuela’s oil and gas sector. Their memorandum of understanding (MoU) sets out the basis for a collaboration …
SLB’s OneSubsea joint venture has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract by bp to deliver a subsea boosting system for the Thunder Horse Field in the Gulf of …
Shell says that its Mars tension leg platform has produced its one billionth barrel of oil, becoming the first single offshore platform in US waters to achieve this landmark. Shell …
PETRONAS Carigali has entered agreements for various producing upstream interests offshore Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak. EnQuest Petroleum Production Malaysia will assume operatorship and participating interests in the Balingian, SK8 and …
PTTEP has signed a memorandum of agreement with Thailand’s Departments of Fisheries and Mineral Fuels to repurpose decommissioned offshore wellhead platform jackets in the Gulf of Thailand as artificial reefs. …
VAALCO Energy reported that early results from its latest development well offshore Gabon look encouraging. The Ebouri-5H well was completed and placed on production at the top of the structure, …
The French government has published a call for tenders notice in the Official Journal of the European Union on June 11, 2026. The call launches the process to award development …
However, their role has expanded beyond simple financing mechanics. “Long-term charter model has two important characteristics, i.e. as a financial means to convert operator’s pre-production phase capex to post-production phase …
Beacon Offshore Energy has reported that it has reached key milestones across two of its operated deepwater developments in the US Gulf of Mexico, including completing a first development well …
Equinor and its partners are moving toward a fourth phase of development on the giant Johan Sverdrup field in the Norwegian North Sea. The focus will be on the Tonjer …
NextGeo has completed post-lay trenching for the Bouri gas utilization project offshore Libya. It is operated by the Mellitah Oil & Gas joint venture. Subsidiary company Rana Subsea collaborated with …
The platform jacket for the Neptun Deep Gas project in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea has departed Saipem’s shipyard in Arbatax, Sardinia. Neptun Deep is a joint development …
bp has launched a formal process to sell minority stakes in two of its flagship projects in the US Gulf of Mexico, the Kaskida and Tiber (Tiber-Guadalupe) projects, according to …
“The new center will be focused on understanding pathways to unlock greater investment in resource development and infrastructure expansion across the energy landscape in the region,” said Ken Medlock, senior …
Delfin Midstream Inc. says that it has made the final investment decision (FID) for the first FLNG vessel of the Delfin LNG project under development offshore Louisiana. Delfin FLNG 1 …
bp recently held advanced talks to sell its UK North Sea assets to Ithaca Energy in a deal worth nearly £2 billion ($2.69 billion), according to Reuters and the Financial …
The new approach is part of the company’s broader decline management strategy for the field as it transitions to a more complex and mature production phase. “By increasing reservoir contact, …
Jeremy Beckman has been Editor Europe, Offshore since 1992. Prior to joining Offshore he was a freelance journalist for eight years, working for a variety of electronics, computing and scientific …
Sonardyne has signed a memorandum of understanding with AMOG to develop an integrated subsea asset monitoring service for offshore energy infrastructure. The agreement will combine Sonardyne’s subsea monitoring, positioning and …
All 54 monopile foundations for the Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm in the UK North Sea are now in place, according to a June 3 company press release. The project, …
Saipem has lifted a new gas recovery module onto the DP4 platform at the Bouri field offshore Libya in the Mediterranean Sea. The installation, performed by the crane vessel Saipem …
MDL supports Uaru flex-lay operation Maritime Developments Ltd (MDL) has devised a transpooling arrangement to support Saipem’s flexlay operations for the Uaru Field development in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. …
SBM Offshore plans to sell a 45% stake in special purpose companies associated with the lease and operation of the FSO Chalchi to Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK). Pending approvals, …
What is inside a digital twin? Again, to generalize, a digital twin consists of three distinct parts: The details of the physical offshore structure; The computational capacity to create a …
Conrad Asia Energy subsidiary West Natuna Exploration has executed a binding contract for a jackup rig to drill the Mako gas field development wells offshore western Indonesia. Mako is in …
Mermaid Subsea Services (Thailand) has entered a joint venture agreement with DS Global Offshore Engineering Singapore, a subsidiary of Chinese private company DS Global Offshore Engineering (Tianjin). The duo plans …
TGS has acquired Apparition Geoservices, gaining exclusive access to the Swiss company’s simultaneous source acquisition and separation technology. The two parties have collaborated since August 2023, performing R&D and testing …
Eni and Petronas have formed Searah, a 50:50 joint venture that combines their respective E&P businesses in Indonesia and Malaysia. It follows a memorandum of understanding announced in February 2025. …
Among the other shared goals are field life extension and improving long‑term returns from offshore assets. The parties will implement their operating experience and technical capabilities and UTP’s laboratory facilities …
QatarEnergy has announced an oil discovery with “encouraging results” from the Merlin-1X exploration well in the Petroleum Exploration License 39 (PEL 0039), offshore Namibia. Merlin-1X is the tenth well drilled …
Equinor has contracted Moreld subsidiary Ocean Installer to perform well tie-in activities for the deepwater Bacalhau project in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. The 4.5-year award carries options for an …
The AiP confirms the system’s compliance with Bureau Veritas’ machine learning requirements, recognizing Wison’s progress in integrating AI-enabled and digital technologies into FPSO operations to support greater efficiency, reliability and …
CNR International has restarted production from the Baobab Field on the CI-40 Block offshore Côte d’Ivoire. It follows a period offline for the Baobab Ivoirien FPSO, which underwent a life …
As part of the East Coast Cluster (ECC), one of the UK's flagship CCS clusters, advanced monitoring systems are due to be deployed at the Endurance CO 2 store in …
Another defining feature of this project is that the monopiles will be partially submerged, floated and towed long distances to the wind farm site with the monitoring equipment already in …
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