Westwood Global Energy reported that Repsol has opened commercial packages for its outstanding jack-up tender for drilling offshore Malaysia and is going through final evaluations before sending it to Petronas for approval.
UK-listed Harbour Energy is seeking a deep-water drilling rig as it prepares to probe the deep waters of Indonesia’s North Sumatra basin.
If necessity truly is the mother of invention, then the oil and gas industry has it down to a fine art.
Santos is seeking buyers for a 20-30% stake in its large Dorado oil project and Bedout exploration portfolio offshore western Australia estimated to be worth up to $200 million. Significantly, there is expected to be global interest in the sales process, which could be particularly appealing for Asian national oil companies (NOCs).
Repsol is studying the potential of a giant geological carbon capture and storage project in Sakakemang in Indonesia.
Repsol and Petronas are on track to drill the much-anticipated Rencong-1X wildcat in the frontier deep waters of Indonesia’s North Sumatra basin.
Upstream merger and acquisitions (M&A) deals are expected to rebound in Asia Pacific this year after plunging to their lowest level this century in 2020, when the pandemic and collapse in oil and gas prices killed activity.
TechnipFMC will lead a consortium made up of some of the biggest names in renewables to construct and test its new offshore green hydrogen production system.
Guyana is the world’s most exciting frontier oil and gas exploration area. There’s a lot of oil, it’s good quality and it’s relatively cheap to produce. It has attracted a host of major players, including Hess, CNOOC, Total, Repsol, Qatar Petroleum, Tullow and, above all, ExxonMobil.
A pair of oil and gas fields controlled by Japanese companies offshore Vietnam could become a potential flash point in the disputed waters of the South China Sea as Beijing continually seeks to aggressively assert its claims.
Repsol’s potential fast-track development of its Kali Berau Dalam (KBD) giant gas discovery in Indonesia is at risk as the company struggles to agree an attractive sales price with the government.
After reporting a $5 billion loss, Malaysian national oil company (NOC) Petronas is eager to see new money flow into its domestic upstream sector, especially as the majors, such as ExxonMobil, seek to exit the Southeast Asian nation.
Mubadala Petroleum has put its Southeast Asia portfolio up for sale for $2 billion. The Abu Dhabi-based company will be following in the footsteps of ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Murphy Oil, Hess, Repsol and Eni, all of which are looking to sell assets in the Asia region.
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Beijing has increased pressure on Hanoi thereby derailing yet another upstream project in the South China Sea.
Eni has confirmed the presence of a giant gas and condensate field in Block 114 in the Song Hong Basin off Vietnam.
A “marked increase” has been noted in the number of workers going out to North Sea platforms, according to industry chiefs.
Subsea technology and services company Cortez Subsea has clinched a five-year deal to provide an inspection management system offshore Malaysia.
Oil majors are “falling short” of global climate goals despite their updated emissions targets, according to a new report.
An Aberdeen-based offshore inspection specialist is celebrating the completion of a project in the North Sea.
The chief executives of 12 major oil and gas firms have written an open letter saying the Covid-19 pandemic won't delay climate action but has instead "sharpened" the focus on it.
The UK is poised to lead the way as operators increase spending on North Sea decommissioning work amid low oil prices, according to a new report.
China has arguably triumphed in its face-off with Malaysia over oil and gas exploration in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.
European oil majors have made great strides in setting out plans to reduce greenhouse gases, but they aren’t enough to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, according to a report by money managers overseeing more than $19 trillion.
Repsol and the National Oil Corp. (NOC) are making progress with their plans to produce LPG at the Sharara oilfield, in southern Libya.