Drilling & production

BP is selling four mature producing deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico to Marubeni Oil and Gas for US$ 650 million.

Japan has made an agreement to co-operate with Vietnam on nuclear technologies and materials.

Santos has agreed a deal to supply 750 PJ of natural gas from its Cooper Basin gas assets to the Gladstone LNG project.

Demand for met coal has prompted United Coal to reopen the Affinity mine in West Virginia, which has been closed since 1985.

ENI has been awarded a gas storage license to develop a gas storage facility under the North Sea in the depleted Deborah field.

Technip has been awarded a contract for the supply of Integrated Production Bundles to the Papa Terra field in Brazil’s Campos Basin.

A look at what is currently happening in France as a result of the pension and retirement strikes.

Curtis LNG and Gladstone LNG have received conditional environmental approval by the Australian government.

After detecting traces of BTEX around eight coal seam gas wells in southern Queensland, Australia, Origin Energy has suspended drilling operations until it can find the source of the contamination.

E.ON has announced it is canceling plans to build the UK's first commercial CCS coal-fired plant at Kingsnorth in Kent.

Shale gas will radically transform the global energy landscape and replace other fuel types thanks to new technology, according to Datamonitor.

CNOOC is to purchase 33% of Chesapeake’s acreage in the Eagle Ford shale project.

A brief outline of the conclusions drawn at the American Petroleum Institute’s Annual Meeting.

Subsea UK’s chief Alistair Bernie has highlighted Britain’s’ great potential in the emerging offshore renewables market and also our shortfalls. By his estimation, the UK is in danger of repeating the same mistakes it made when the North Sea first started opening up.

According to Russian government documents, Novatek will begin construction of an LNG liquefaction plant on the Yamal peninsula in 2012.