UK small cap player Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has signed a Letter of Intent to use Maersk Drilling's Maersk Resilient jack-up rig to drill the Harvey appraisal well in the southern sector of the UK North Sea. The well is expected to be started in July…
Much has been made of an expected recovery for offshore. We share that optimism. We think there will be around 20 final investment decisions (FID) for floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSO), nearly 60 subsea projects and a total of 330 trees going ahead this year…
The world’s largest developer of offshore wind farms Ørsted announced Tuesday it will proceed with building two wind farms offshore Taiwan as the country continues its push to attract investment in renewables.Changhua 1 and 2a will be constructed in 2021 and 2022…
Neptune Energy said on Thursday it has agreed with partners BP and Japex on a final investment decision (FID) for the Seagull oil and gas field in the UK North Sea.Neptune, which acquired its 35% interest in Seagull from Apache in 2018, operates the field…
Australia's Woodside Petroleum in recent months has awarded several oil and gas engineering contracts to Subsea 7 for two projects offshore Australia and one off Senegal, the offshore services company said on Wednesday.The three contracts awarded…
Shell upstream boss Brown sees 'no merit' in tax claim. Separately, Shell to fast track Whale development in Gulf of Mexico.Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday that Nigeria's claims that it was owed billions in taxes could delay the development…
A surge in final investment decisions (FIDs) this year on new petroleum projects worldwide could see sanctioned volumes of oil and gas – excluding shale and tight oil and gas prospects – nearly triple compared to last year’s tally.The collective…
Australia's largest independent oil and gas company Woodside said it has awarded a contract to Bechtel (Western Australia) Pty Ltd to undertake front-end engineering design (FEED) for its proposed brownfield expansion of existing Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities…
Energean Oil & Gas expects to make a final investment decision (FID) for the Karish and Tanin fields offshore Israel in early 2018 as new gas sale purchase agreements (GSPAs) provide further momentum for the FID. Karish and Tanin fields…
North Sea minnow Independent Oil and Gas has signed a letter of intent with Offshore Design Engineering for work on its Blythe Hub and Vulcan Satellites Hub development. ODE will provide technical and operational support ahead of final…
Ophir Energy is holding out hope that the Fortuna FLNG project offshore Equatorial Guinea will reach final investment decision (FID) by the end of the year, however, the company still has a few hurdles to pass. Fortuna FLNG…
BW Offshore and Panoro Energy have agreed on a final investment decision (FID) for the Dussafu project offshore Gabon, with first oil set for next year. Map of Dussafu, from Panoro. Panoro…
Ophir Energy is expecting to have the Fortuna FLNG project final investment decision (FID) off Equatorial Guinea settled in the coming months, as the company moves to decrease costs by cutting 15% of its global workforce. Thailand operations…
ExxonMobil and partner Hess have made a final investment decision to proceed with a US$4.4 billion first phase of development of the giant Liza field, in the Stabroek block, offshore Guyana. The firm says it has also had positive results on its latest well on the field…
The Guyanese government is expected to grant ExxonMobil and its partners a production license for the giant Liza project ahead of the partnership’s final investment decision (FID), which is set for this month. Map of Stabroek…
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