Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG), is working to bring its TLP-103C well at Tilapia licence offshore the Republic of the Congo into production. The Tilapia field is located 1.8 kilometres offshore of the Republic of the Congo, located in the Lower Republic of…
Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation has awarded Neptune Energy operatorship of an oil exploration license in the Gulf of Suez. The North West El Amal offshore concession (originally offered as block 4) covers 365 square kilometres (141 square miles) in the central part of Gulf…
Equinor has awarded Kvaerner a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the planned Hywind Tampen wind power project in the Norwegian North Sea. Kvaerner’s brief is to mature the design of concrete substructures for potentially 11 wind turbines based on Equinor’s floating offshore wind…
BHP’s board has approved $696 million in funding to develop BP’s Atlantis Phase 3 project in the US Gulf of Mexico, BHP announced on the 13th February. BP approved a US$1.3 billion expansion for the Atlantis Phase 3 development in early January. BHP…
BP Developments Australia Pty Ltd, acting operator of a joint venture in Western Australian offshore exploration permit WA-359-P, has signed a contract for a rig to drill the Ironbark-1 wildcat well. Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc’s Ocean Apex semi-submersible drilling rig will begin the programme…
Ampelmann, an offshore access solutions provider, has opened a new office in Sakhalin in a move to expand its presence in the local market. Ampelmann said on the 12th February that the office would be manned by a full-time team of two – operations…
Somalia is inviting bids for 15 blocks across various basins under the country’s 2019 offshore licensing round. Delegates from the country’s Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources outlined the terms in London last week at an event organised by Spectrum Geo. The…
Chevron Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth pledged to work closely with the US to remain in Venezuela despite a spiralling crisis which has led rival oil major Total to retreat. “Our strong intent is to stay on the ground in Venezuela and be part…
Meridian Energy Group Inc has let a contract to Winkler Companies LLC to provide site control for a full-conversion refinery in Winkler County, Texas, in the heart of the Permian basin. The Permian basin refinery, which will process local crude form the Delaware basin…
Equinor Wind US has announced deployment of a cutting-edge, specialised buoy designed to gather information, an important step in the development of its offshore wind lease site in the “New York Bight,” which will provide wind energy to New York and the region to help…
