British-based Centrica's ambitions to grow in the North American gas market have been boosted with a Can. $1 billion (£650 million) deal to buy new assets under an upstream venture with Qatar Petroleum International.
[Read more ] • 15.04.2013
Operator Husky Energy has taped a major Norwegian contractor to provide ongoing support at its White Rose offshore field development.
[Read more ] • 10.05.2013
Nexen Inc has obtained the final regulatory clearance it required for the takeover by China's CNOOC.
[Read more ] • 13.02.2013
Nexen has arranged a 30 day extension to a date to finalise its merger deal with CNOOC Limited.
[Read more ] • 28.01.2013
Kvaerner in Canada has landed a US $1.5 billion contract to build a gravity base structure for development of the Hebron field offshore from Newfoundland and Labrador
[Read more ] • 17.03.2013
Project engineering specialist CB and I has reported a rise in third quarter net income US $80.2 million from $72.2 million last year.
[Read more ] • 24.10.2012
Scottish-based Wood Group has advanced its US-based field maintenance capability by buying up a US service provider in the growing shale gas market.
[Read more ] • 03.08.2012
Seadrill's West Aquarius deepwater rig is heading for Newfoundland to start new drilling for Statoil.
[Read more ] • 15.05.2012
Exploration in the world's Arctic wastes has taken another step forward with the start of the first 3D multi-client seismic survey on Alaska's North Slope by CGGVeritas.
[Read more ] • 09.03.2012
A report prepared for Canadian explorer Shoal Point Energy suggests that there are up to 49.4 billion barrels of undiscovered petroleum resources in a region offshore Newfoundland.
[Read more ] • 14.05.2012
Norway's Kvaerner has captured more work on the concrete platform for ExxonMobil's Hebron development offshore Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada worth between US $125 and $150 million.
[Read more ] • 25.04.2012
British-based AnTech is enjoying further success by serving the coiled tubing drilling market – onshore in the US.
[Read more ] • 21.12.2011
Intsok and Statoil are heading onshore, and have sent out a joint invitation to suppliers to join them in a shale gas adventure.
[Read more ] • 22.06.2011
British-based Centrica is expanding in its global footprint by buying up Canadian gas sector assets.
[Read more ] • 09.12.2011
ConocoPhillips chief Jim Mulva is to retire as the US oil major splits into two separate upstream and downstream companies.
[Read more ] • 10.10.2011
TGS and PGS are linking up for another seismic survey targeting areas around Newfoundland in the Labrador Sea.
[Read more ] • 12.09.2011
Offshore services giant Cameron has agreed to buy a drilling equipment division from Le Tourneau.
[Read more ] • 01.09.2011
London listed US onshore explorer Bluebird Energy has signalled plans for a strategic and operational review after its partner decided to sell one of the company's four licence assets.
[Read more ] • 15.08.2011
Archer has acquired Great White's operating companies and expands in the US.
[Read more ] • 01.08.2011
London-listed explorer Leni Gas and Oil has pledged to drill up to nine new wells in Trinidad after securing a farm-in deal.
[Read more ] • 25.07.2011
A British engineering graduate has been appointed to become the head of Amec Oil and Gas in the US.
[Read more ] • 22.07.2011
Aberdeen-headquartered John Wood Group has been booked up by Shell Canada to provide upstream project services.
[Read more ] • 14.07.2011
Houston-headquartered Pacific Drilling has extended a rig construction deal with Samsung Heavy Industries for a new deepwater drillship.
[Read more ] • 24.06.2011
Technip has landed a new deal for the hostile Canadian offshore sector working on the Hibernia Southern Extension project in the Hibernia field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
[Read more ] • 13.05.2011
Norway's DNV has been appointed as the certification authority for the US$1 billion US Cape Wind project – the first offshore wind farm to be built in America and which will kick off the offshore wind energy sector there.
[Read more ] • 05.05.2011
US-based energy contract giant KBR notched up a 45% rise in operating income for the first quarter 2011 to US $144 million from $99 million in the same period last year.
[Read more ] • 28.04.2011
Global service giant Halliburton has warned that bad weather in the US and Australia plus “geopolitical issues” in North Africa and the Middle East are likely to impact its first quarter earnings.
[Read more ] • 29.03.2011
Lundin Petroleum says its new listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange will give the company greater access to a market and to investors with knowledge of the international oil and gas industry.
[Read more ] • 23.03.2011
Explorer Bahamas Petroleum has finalised two new share placings to raise £45.6 million which is to be invested in further 3D seismic acquisition and technical work on its assets.
[Read more ] • 16.03.2011
Houston head-quartered KBR has landed a front end engineering and design study for a new LNG plant planned for Canada.
[Read more ] • 08.03.2011