GE Oil & Gas has signed a framework agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS to provide subsea operations services for the company’s operated fields Tordis, Vigdis, Snorre and Troll, located northwest off the coast of Stavanger. GE Oil & Gas will run the services from their...

The Well Control Institute (WCI) has been hard at work establishing priorities and near-term goals, said Steve Kropla, Vice President of IADC’s Offshore Division...

The UK Oil & Gas Authority has approved the development of the largest new field discovered in the UK North Sea for a decade, per Wood Mackenzie research. The Maersk Oil operated high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) Culzean field in the UK Central North Sea is expected to produce...

Sonangol and Cobalt International Energy have announced the signing of a Sale and Purchase Agreement for Sonangol to acquire all of Cobalt’s 40% participating interest in Blocks 21/09 and 20/11 offshore Angola for $1.75 billion...

The partners in the Johan Sverdrup development have received the final approval of the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for Phase 1 of Johan Sverdrup from the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE)...

Shell has awarded a contract to OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, to deliver the industry's first 15,000-psi subsea pump system to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico at approximately 9,500 ft (2,900 m)...

After extensive review and under a robust array of safety requirements, BSEE Director Brian Salerno today announced that Shell has received approval of one Application for Permit to Modify (APM) to conduct exploratory drilling activities into potential oil-bearing...

Schlumberger has expanded its Gulf of Mexico multiclient wide-azimuth seismic data portfolio by launching a new survey in the Campeche Basin. The acquisition of the industry’s first multiclient wide-azimuth survey offshore Mexico will cover...

BG Group recently announced first oil from the Cidade de Itaguaí FPSO vessel – the sixth unit to start production across BG Group's discoveries in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The FPSO will produce from the Iracema North area of...

Statoil, the operator of PL146/PL333, and its partner Total E&P Norge have made a gas and condensate discovery in the Julius prospect in the King Lear area in the North Sea...