Drilling & production

Woodside has agreed to assume operatorship of the Bass Strait assets, unlocking potential development of additional gas resources, following an historic agreement with ExxonMobil Australia (ExxonMobil).

This program is federally funded under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which specifically provides US$850 million in grants to reduce, monitor, measure, and quantify methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.

Baker Hughes and Chart Industries have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Baker Hughes will acquire all outstanding shares of Chart’s common stock for US$210 per share in cash, equivalent to a total enterprise value of US$13.6 billion.

According to the EIA, most of this growth was in New Mexico from crude oil produced from federal lands in the Permian Basin.

Pantheon Resources has announced it has spudded the Dubhe-1 appraisal well at the company’s Ahpun oil field on the North Slope of Alaska.

Chevron Corporation has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Hess Corporation following the satisfaction of all necessary closing conditions, including a favourable arbitration outcome regarding Hess’ offshore Guyana asset.

With the closing of the transaction, former ChampionX shareholders now own approximately 9% of SLB’s outstanding shares of common stock.

ExxonMobil, the Company’s carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) partner for this project, will be transporting and permanently storing the CO2.

Seatrium to propel offshore innovation with first turnkey FPSO delivery to Petrobras.

Perenco has announced the completion of the acquisition of the Greater Angostura producing oil and gas assets and associated production facilities from Woodside Energy in Trinidad & Tobago. The finalisation of the deal, combined with Perenco’s existing operation of the Teak, Samaan and Poui (TSP) and Cashima, Amherstia, Flamboyant and Immortelle (CAFI) fields, aligns Perenco as a major oil and gas producer in country.

The agreement is to acquire a 60% working interest (paying 80%) in the Sark well, planned to be drilled early 3Q25, located in Central Oklahoma, US.

Expro to deliver advanced tubular running and cementing services for Woodside’s first ultra-deepwater development offshore Mexico.

The primary objective of the CM-1 workover is to restore oil and associated gas production from the Mt. Messenger sands and to remove flow restriction from sand production identified during prior operations.

The agreement provides a framework for bp to assess a range of technical data and to effectively work with NOC to evaluate presented opportunities and determine the feasibility of future development and exploration programmes.

Vallourec, a company specialising in seamless tubular solutions, has secured two contracts to supply Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) to support the drilling operations of CNOOC and PetroChina in Iraq. These contracts carry potential revenue of over US$130 million.