W&T Offshore, Inc. has announced that it has enhanced its capital structure by entering into a transaction with its wholly-owned special purpose vehicles (the “SPVs”) and Munich Re Reserve Risk Financing, Inc. (“MRRF”). In this transaction, the Company transferred 100% of its Mobile Bay Area producing assets (the “Mobile Bay Assets”) and related gas treatment […]

French group Total, one of the world’s biggest energy companies, is preparing to change its name to TotalEnergies to signal its diversification towards cleaner energy sources. Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie francaise des petroles, The Company is set to unveil the new name on May 28 during a shareholders’ general assembly. Recently, Total has […]

Total and ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel  (AMNS) have signed an agreement for the supply of up to 500,000 tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year until 2026.  The LNG will be sourced from Total’s global portfolio and offloaded either in Dahej or Hazira LNG Terminal, on the West Coast of India. AMNS will use the […]

Halliburton Company and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical ASA has announced a collaboration to bring advanced seismic imaging to fiber optic sensing. The alliance will provide operators with advanced insight to determine their reservoir potential for oil and gas production or carbon storage. The Halliburton FiberVSP™ and Odassea™ distributed acoustic sensing solutions will now incorporate TGS’s seismic imaging […]

Maersk Drilling has sold the jack-up rig Maersk Guardian (now named Guardian) to New Fortress Energy, and the parties have further entered into an agreement about the sale of the jack-up rig Mærsk Gallant with anticipated closing in June 2021. The total sales price for the two rigs is USD 31m in all-cash transactions. The […]

The Algerian government has recently examined two draft executive decrees defining the procedures for obtaining authorizations to construct structures for pipeline transportation of petroleum products, and a pipeline transportation system. This new development the countrys oil and gas sector , was done during its executive meeting chaired by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad, According to a […]

Tethys Oil has released update on the exploration well Thameen-1 on Block 49 onshore Oman that was drilled to its final total depth and wireline logging operations completedThe drilling of the Thameen-1 exploration well stands out as quite a transformational event for Tethys Oil and certainly as the most significant event during the first quarter […]

With the recent signing of a progress acknowledgment statement between BUA Group and Axens of France for the former’s proposed 200,000barrels per day refinery in Akwa Ibom, KBR, Inc. has announced that it has been awarded a contract to complete the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for BUA Group’s new, modern refinery facility in Nigeria. The […]

Heirs Oil & Gas (HHOG), the leading African integrated energy company, has recently repositioned the company’s management team towards achieving a greater opportunities in the sector amid COVID 19 pandemic that is currently affecting the global economy in general. The company has announced the appointment of Osayande Igiehon as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 4, 2021, together […]

Elkem has successfully commissioned its industrial pilot for battery materials in Kristiansand, Norway, starting industrial scale pilot production for customers. As the next step towards large-scale production, Elkem is now establishing Vianode as a new company and brand dedicated to develop and produce sustainable and high quality active anode materials to meet the needs of […]