Total, operator, and its co-venturers Qatar Petroleum and Petronas have won the C-M-541 deep offshore block in the 16th Bidding Round held by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP). The acreage is located in the pre-salt Campos Basin...

The National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels of Angola has announced the terms of reference, bidding rules and qualification criteria of its 2019 bid round, starting the countdown to a 12 November 2019 deadline for operators and interested parties wishing to bid on the 10 frontier blocks located in the Namibe and Benguela Basins...

ADES has announced that it has entered, through its subsidiary, into a second deepwater drilling campaign with a an international oil company for deepwater drilling services in the Egyptian Mediterranean area...

Shelf Drilling has announced that it has received an award for a three-year contract for the Trident II jackup rig with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India. The planned start-up of operations is Q1 2020...

SIMMONS EDECO has announced that it has completed an onshore drilling campaign for a major oilfield services company in Mexico. The contract required SIMMONS EDECO to provide onshore drilling services on a field in the south of Mexico...

Halliburton announced that it was awarded an international license for ExxonMobil’s patented Non-Aqueous Fluid Gravel Packing technique for gravel pack completions. Hole stability and shale inhibition are keys to successful installation of open-hole completions...

Equinor is the operator for 21 projects in the implementation phase, with a total investment of around NOK 210 billion. 20 of these are on the Norwegian shelf or at Norwegian onshore facilities...

Keppel Offshore & Marine's subsidiaries, Fernvale and FELS Offshore, entered into a settlement agreement with subsidiaries of Sete Brasil including Urca, Frade, Bracuhy, Portogalo, Mangaratiba and Botinas...

Dolphin Drilling has secured further work for its Borgland Dolphin semisubmersible drilling rig to start in early 2020. The company has won a contract with AS Norske Shell in Norway to provide rig support for the drilling and completion of a gas producer well on the Knarr field...

Conventional oil and gas discoveries during the past three years are at the lowest levels in seven decades and a significant rebound is not expected, according to a new report by IHS Markit...