SFL Corporation has signed an offshore drilling contract in Canada with a subsidiary of the Norwegian oil firm Equinor for the harsh environment semi-submersible rig Hercules. The estimated contract value is approximately $100 million.The contract is for one firm well plus one optional well鈥
Spending on conventional oil and gas exploration is on the rise and is set to top $50 billion this year, led by offshore investments, however, discovery volumes are falling to new lows, despite the rising investments. This is according to Rystad Energy鈥
Africa Oil Corp. has entered an agreement to increase its operated working interest (鈥淲I鈥) in Block 3B/4B, located in the Orange Basin offshore South Africa and, the company says, on trend with the Venus, Graff, La Rona and Jonker oil discoveries in the nearby Namibia鈥
French oil major TotalEnergies has been named the upstream industry's most admired explorer and has received the Discovery of the Year award in Wood Mackenzie's annual Exploration Survey. This is TotalEnergies' third time winning the most-admired explorer award鈥
Oil and gas companies have intensified the hunt for new deposits in a long-term bet on demand, as they reinvest some of the record profits from the fossil fuel price surge driven by the Ukraine war, according to data and industry executives鈥
Norwegian offshore drilling company Odfjell Drilling has, on behalf of Northern Ocean, agreed a contract extension for the Deepsea Bollsta drilling rig with Shell.The contract extension for the offshore drilling rig, owned by Northern Ocean鈥
After a slowdown in activity during 2020/2021 due to soft commodity prices, demand for FPSOs is picking up.With exploration hotspots like Namibia鈥檚 Orange Basin and the East Mediterranean delivering new finds, the FPSO market outlook is healthy鈥
Africa Oil Corp.'s President and CEO Keith Hill has informed the Board of his intention to step down from his executive role at Africa Oil.'Mr. Hill has led the Company for more than fourteen years and has presided over major milestones, including鈥
云顶赌场老虎机 oil and gas exploration spending will increase more than 20% globally this year and the growth will continue into the next, oilfield services firm SLB said on Wednesday.'云顶赌场老虎机 is experiencing a renaissance, with significant breadth and anticipated durability鈥
SFL Corporation Ltd. has signed a $50 million contract with a subsidiary of Portugal's Galp Energia to deploy the harsh environment semi-submersible rig Hercules in Namibia.The contract is for two wells plus optional well testing and is expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2023鈥
Norwegian offshore seismic services company PGS said Monday that a client had terminated its seismic survey contract, first announced in March.On March 2022, PGS said it had secured a 3D exploration acquisition contract with 'a major international energy company鈥
Shell will keep oil output steady or slightly higher into 2030 as part of CEO Wael Sawan's efforts to regain investor confidence as the energy giant wrestles with poor returns from renewables while oil and gas profits are booming, company sources said鈥
Oil and gas company Sintana Energy said Friday that over 50% of 3D seismic survey data has been gathered from Petroleum Exploration License 87 (鈥淧EL 87鈥) and the surrounding area in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia. To remind, Australian oil鈥
Chevron has launched a sale process for its oil and gas assets in Congo as the U.S. energy giant continues to focus operations on newer and more profitable production, industry sources said.The Congo assets could fetch up to $1.5 billion, according to two sources close to the process鈥
Following the recent departures of two Odfjell Drilling-managed semi-submersibles from Norway to Africa, four more rigs have been contracted to work outside of the North Sea region in an upcoming period, with three of them managed by Transocean鈥
