Velesto has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with PT Indonesia Drilling Energy for the sale of its jack-up drilling rig, NAGA 3, for a total cash consideration of $63 million.The divestment of NAGA 3, built in 2010, is in line with the group's ongoing fleet optimization…
Petrobras’ P-79 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit has departed South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean shipyard bound for Brazil’s Búzios field, where it will add 180,000 barrels-per-day production capacity by 2026.The P-79 set sail on November 11 from Hanwha Ocean shipyard in Geoje-Si…
ADES Holding has secured a two-year contract through its subsidiary Shelf Drilling for the Compact Driller standard jack-up with Brunei Shell Petroleum, a joint venture between the Brunei government and Shell.The Compact Driller deal mars ADES…
Murphy Oil Corporation has drilled an appraisal well at the Hai Su Vang oil field offshore Vietnam, confirming a larger hydrocarbon column and strengthening the field’s recoverable resource potential.The Hai Su Vang-2X appraisal well was drilled in Block 15-2/17 in the Cuu Long Basin…
China's state-owned oil and gas firm China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has started production from the Weizhou 11-4 oilfield adjustment and satellite fields development project in South China Sea.The project is located in the Beibu Gulf Basin…
Indonesia announced a round of oil and gas block tenders on Monday, offering eight new blocks to contractors, an energy ministry document showed, amid efforts to increase energy reserves.Indonesia's oil and gas production has been on a downtrend in the past decade due to depleting reserves…
U.K.-based Pharos Energy, an independent energy company with assets in Vietnam and Egypt, has started a six-well drilling campaign offshore Vietnam designed to lift production from two of its existing fields and open new development opportunities…
Oil India has exercised its option to extend the drilling contract with Dolphin Drilling for the semi-submersible rig Blackford Dolphin.Further to the initial three-well firm campaign over an estimated 14-month duration, agreed in March 2024…
MODEC has outlined plans merge its wholly owned subsidiaries MODEC America and SOFEC from the start of 2026, bringing SOFEC fully into the group as a new Mooring Solutions Business Unit.SOFEC, known for its permanent mooring systems and fluid transfer technologies…
Harbour Energy has agreed to sell its operated interests in the Natuna Sea Block A field and the Tuna development project in Indonesia to Prime Group for $215 million in cash, as the U.K.-listed producer continues to streamline its portfolio…
Eni has exercised an option to keep a semi-submersible rig from Ventura Offshore Midco, a subsidiary of Brazilian offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore, operational offshore Indonesia.This is the second of four optional wells exercised…
The holiday season would not feel complete without festive greetings from offshore industry companies - and once again, they have delivered.While most of us are busy wrapping presents, planning family dinners, and counting down the days to the New Year…
India is seeking over $30 billion in compensation from Reliance Industries and BP in an arbitration case for gas it says the companies failed to produce from offshore fields, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.A tribunal…
Record-breaking 239,709 attendees from 172 countries gathered at ADIPEC 2025, reaffirming UAE’s convening power and its role as a global hub for energy, partnerships and innovation. ADIPEC 2025 generated an estimated US$400 million in economic benefits for Abu Dhabi’s economy…
Finder Energy has agreed to acquire the Petrojarl I floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel from Amplus Energy for $15 million in cash and shares, in a move the company said will accelerate development of its Kuda Tasi and Jahal (KTJ) oil fields project…
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