Qatar Petroleum said on Wednesday it has entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 30 percent participating interest in the Tarfaya Shallow Exploration Permit, a series of 12 neighboring offshore blocks along the Atlantic coast of Morocco…
U.S. oil and gas major Exxon Mobil Corp said on Thursday it had found natural gas offshore Cyprus, a region already known for some of the world's largest such discoveries.The east Mediterranean island is located in the Levant basin, where both…
Sixteen oil and gas firms have submitted applications for one or more of five Ghanaian offshore blocks in the West African country's first exploration licensing round, its energy ministry said.The interest is a major vote of confidence in Ghana…
Qatar Petroleum announced that it will manage and operate the Idd El-Shargi North Dome (ISND) field following the expiry of the Development & Production Sharing Agreement (DPSA) with Occidental Petroleum of Qatar on October 6, 2019.Qatar Petroleum…
ExxonMobil has won additional acreage in Brazil’s 5th pre-salt bid round, adding more than 71,500 net acres to ExxonMobil’s deepwater portfolio offshore in the Latin American country. This makes the largest publicly traded international oil…
Lebanon's Council of Ministers has approved the awards of two exclusive petroleum licenses for exploration and production in Lebanese Blocks 4 and 9 for the consortium composed of Total, Eni and Novatek. The three companies, acting as a consortium…
Three companies, Eni, Total and Novatek, acting as a consortium have made the only bids in Lebanon's first offshore licensing round. The three companies together bid on Blocks 4 and 9, says the Lebanese Petroleum Administration. Block…
This week, France’s Total and Qatar Petroleum (QP) will officially take over operatorship from Maersk Oil of the giant Al-Shaheen oil field offshore Qatar for a term of 25 years. Al-Shaheen. Image from Maersk Oil…
Lebanon has extended the deadline for the results of the second pre-qualification round in the country’s first-ever offshore licensing round, to give companies more time to respond to requests from the Lebanese Petroleum Administration (LPA)…
US supermajor ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum signed an exploration and production sharing contract with the government of the Republic of Cyprus for Block 10. Block 10 PSC signing. Image from Qatar Petroleum…
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection and survey firm Cyberhawk Innovations has won a three-year framework with Dubai Petroleum for UAV inspections across all of its offshore assets. The agreement, which has the option to renew on a yearly basis for two years…
Shell has awarded the duo of Sulzer and FMC Technologies a subsea multiphase boosting pump contract to upgrade one of the pumping modules in the supermajor’s Parque das Conchas, a deepwater oil field off the coast of Brazil. Image from Sulzer…
In a coup for French major Total, and a blow to Denmark-based Maersk Oil, Qatar Petroleum has awarded Total a 30% interest in the concession covering the offshore Al-Shaheen oil field for a period of 25 years beginning 14 July 2017. Qatar…
Shell has started oil production from the third phase of its Parque das Conchas (BC-10) development, offshore Brazil, in hopes of adding up to 20,000 boe/d. The Espirito Santo FPSO. Image from SBM Offshore…
Qatar Petroleum has reached an agreement with Chevron Morocco Exploration, a subsidiary of Chevron Corp., to acquire a 30% participating interest from Chevron’s 75% share in three deepwater offshore leases in the Kingdom of Morocco: Cap Rhir Deep…
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