Equinor and its partner Shell have completed a joint acquisition of the 49% interest held by Schlumberger in the Bandurria Sur onshore block in Argentina’s Neuquén province...

The company said in an operational update that it expects to spud the exploration well in March, targeting 0.6 trillion cu-ft of gas initially in place. Located in Block 12 offshore Israel, between the company’s Karish and Tanin leases...

The fourth annual Global Energy Talent Index (GETI) has been released, showing that oil and gas professionals are concerned at a perceived lack of investment in their training and development...

Located in 1,500-m water depth in the US Gulf of Mexico, Oldfield was designed to test a sub-salt Miocene prospect located in Mississippi Canyon, targeting approximately 10 million BOE net to Kosmos. The well did not encounter commercial quantities of hydrocarbons and will now be plugged and abandoned. Kosmos will drill three additional infrastructure-led exploration wells in the Gulf of Mexico in 2020.

The grants from the National Academies of Sciences will help ABS fund two projects focused on strengthening safety culture in the offshore oil and gas industry. One project will see the development of an integrated offshore energy industry safety culture evaluation, benchmarking and improvement toolbox, while the other will provide recommendations for data science technologies to aggregate essential exposure data and enable analysis of safety incident rates.

ExxonMobil has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion BOE and made a further oil discovery northeast of the producing Liza field at the Uaru exploration well...

The exploration sector heads into 2020 facing increasing pressure from the energy transition. The shift to a low-carbon world poses a fundamental challenge...

ADES has announced that it has extended the contract for the ADMARINE 261 in Saudi Arabia. The performance of the high-efficiency jackup rig ADMARINE 261 has resulted in a contract extension of one-year, which will be effective upon the expiration of the current contract in February 2020...

Maersk Drilling has secured a two-well contract extension from Aker BP for the Maersk Integrator, an ultra-harsh environment, low-emission jackup rig...

Keppel Offshore & Marine has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Keppel FELS, made its first rig delivery in 2020 safely, on time and within budget...