Drilling & production

PetroNeft, an exploration and production company operating in Russia, has completed the farmout of Licence 61 to Oil India.

Woodside has finalised an agreement with Chariot Oil & Gas to farm-in to the prospective Doukkala Basin offshore Morocco.

Lundin has entered into an agreement to sell an additional 15% interest in PL359, which contains the Luno II discovery, to Wintershall.

AGR Software Solutions has been awarded a software contract with Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas.

Repsol has made a new hydrocarbons discovery in the Teak field, offshore Trinidad and Tobago.

Andrew Speers, Managing Director at Petroplan takes a look at how the oil and gas industry is dealing with the imminent skills shortage.

A European oil and gas company successfully drilled the first complete Dopeless® technology well in Alaska in March 2014.

Statoil will increase the Oseberg Øst field recovery rate by means of a drilling campaign starting up in the summer of 2015.

Technip has won a contract for Total E&P UK for the Edradour Subsea Development, north west of the Shetland Islands.

McDermott has announced the successful completion of the Ayatsil-B drilling platform for PEMEX in the Bay of Campeche.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) offers analysis of UK imports and exports of selected energy products.

Statoil is divesting equity in blocks 38 and 39 in the Kwanza basin offshore Angola.

Linc Energy plans to drill three wells in the Arckaringa Basin in South Australia, as part of the next phase of exploration of this significant asset.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea were yesterday granted full membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

The Energy Institute (EI) is celebrating its centennial year, and has awarded HRH The Price of Wales an Honorary Fellowship in celebration.