China starts work on Iraqi pipeline
Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has started work on a 272km oil pipeline from Iraq.
Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has started work on a 272km oil pipeline from Iraq.
Former RWE Dea Norge managing director Hans-Joachim Polk has affirmed the company's commitment to the North Sea after taking over the same role in the UK.
A former UK Government energy policy adviser who faced a storm of criticism for suggesting fracking should take place in “desolate” areas of the North East has said he actually meant “unloved” areas of the country such as parts of the North West.
Italian oil major Eni has made an “important" oil and gas find off the Congolese coast.
Aberdeen oil and project management company EPC Offshore has been bought by engineering group Costain.
Australian exploration firm Karoon Gas says its discovery in the Santos and Campos basin off Brazil could be almost double the previously predicted size.
Aral Petroleum Capital, a subsidiary of Caspian Energy, received a loan of $3million (nearly £2billion) to test the 316 well in West Zhagabulak.
Equatorial Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Nodding Donkey, has completed drilling its first borehole in Botswana.
Dallas-based exploration firm Exco Resources has completed a $685million deal for Chesapeake's operations in the Eagle Ford shale formation in south Texas.
Wood Group Kenny has secured an $18million contract to provide engineering services for BP's operations in Angola.
Two oil companies are named on a secret list of firms linked to rogue private investigators, it emerged yesterday.
Africa’s oldest national park, which could be worth a billion dollars a year if developed sustainably, is under threat from oil exploration, campaigners have warned.
An increasing number of oil thefts from Nigeria and rising costs took their toll on Royal Dutch Shell after the oil supermajor revealed a 'disappointing' second quarter earnings fall.
ConocoPhillips is to farm into three of Cairn Energy's blogs off the coast of Senegal.
Work started yesterday on Premier Oil’s new UK North Sea base at the £125million Prime Four business park at Kingswells, Aberdeen.
Abu Dhabi state-owned oil exploration firm Taqa has blamed operational issues after recording a £30million second quarter loss.
The company behind the Gulf of Mexico gas rig which burned for two days last week following a blowout saw second quarter profits rise to $16.6million.
Oil and gas production has resumed on ConocoPhillips' Ekofisk operations after a two month shutdown.
Statoil has completed a £953million asset swap deal with Wintershall, which will see the German oil and gas producer's output from the Norwegian continental shelf increase from 3,000 to 40,000 barrels a day.
Canadian oil firm Talisman has lowered its production estimates for the year after ongoing production problems in the North Sea.
Oil and gas firm OMV says it is looking to hire another 1600 new staff within the next three years as it looks to expand its exploration work.
Tullow said talks to sell its North Sea and Dutch assets were continuing after seeing profits drop 45% to £313million for the first half of the year.
Eastern European-focused exploration group JKX Oil and Gas said it has completed three of the fracs on its R103 well in the Ukraine.
The boss of energy company Cuadrilla has said it has “no intention of ruining the countryside and won’t ruin the countryside” as anti-fracking protesters started a seventh day of action.
US focused oil firm Nighthawk says it has completed the purchase of the remaining 25% working interest in its Smoky Hill and Jolly Ranch projects.