Idle time for a drilling rig costs about $250,000 an hour. AI is being embraced across the industry to ensure it doesn’t happen.A while back, an energy major had an unfathomable, intermittent problem with its drilling operations. It was beginning to cost big money, and experts from IBM were called in. After an extensive AI and human examination of historical sensor data, the problem was determined to be caused by whale song during the mating season which was reverberating in the drill pipe…
After what we would argue has been an incredibly eventful 2024 with massive deals, tremendous dayrate developments, further charterer backlog build, and the first series of newbuild orders in years, now comes the time when we turn our gaze towards 2025…
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded Hanwha Ocean an Approval in Principle (AIP) for its Pre-FEED standard FPSO design intended to create an asset optimized for deployment in the deep waters of West Africa.The FPSO design is 340 meters long and capable of storing approximately 2…
Golar LNG has decided to call off the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) vessel conversion job with Seatrium, following the sale of a Moss type liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Golar Gandria for demolition.The first two floating liquefaction…
India-based oil company Reliance Industries Limited has exercised an option under the previously agreed firm contract with Transocean for its Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 drillship.Offshore drilling contractor Transocean informed that a four-well…
China's CNOOC has sold its U.S. subsidiary, together with its upstream oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico, to British chemicals group INEOS, according to a CNOOC statement issued on Saturday.The Chinese oil and gas major said CNOOC Energy Holdings U…
Sunda Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Timor-Leste government and state-owned companies, setting out the framework for joint evaluation of a development concept for gas resources on the Chuditch PSC, including pipeline…
Italian classification and marine engineering consultancy RINA has secured a contract from Petronas CCS Solutions to carry out a pre-FEED study for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Malaysia.The contract covers the Northern hub, located in Kerteh…
French energy major TotalEnergies has completed the acquisition of OMV’s and Sapura Upstream Assets’ in SapuraOMV Upstream (SapuraOMV), an independent gas producer in Malaysia.SapuraOMV’s main assets are its 40% operated interest in block SK408 and 30% operated interest in block SK310…
Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC) is looking at more oil and gas opportunities in Indonesia's Natuna Sea, its country representative said on Monday, with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto looking to boost the country's production…
Malaysia’s state-owned energy giant Petronas has awarded Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for three oil and gas clusters and one exploration block offered under the Malaysia Bid Round (MBR) 2024, with Shell and ConocoPhillips among the winners…
Sunda Energy, the AIM-quoted exploration and appraisal company focused on gas assets in Southeast Asia formerly known as Baron Oil, has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with an unnamed drilling contractor for the use of its…
The value of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, rose to a record 20 trillion crowns ($1.8 trillion) on Friday, doubling its value in just five years as oil and gas revenue flowed in and stock markets rose.Built since 1996 as rainy-day savings…
It was likely a fairly easy decision for OPEC+ to once again delay plans to increase oil output.The soft state of global demand is by itself sufficient reason to justify the decision at this week's meeting of the group to defer winding back some of its production cuts until at least April…
Sembcorp Industries has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Chevron’s Singapore branch to import up to 0.6 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) year, starting from 2028.The LNG deliveries will take place over the course of 10 years as agreed by the companies…
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