ExxonMobil has made a discovery at Whiptail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The Whiptail-1 well encountered 246 feet (75 meters) of net pay in high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs. Drilling is also ongoing at the Whiptail-2 well, which has encountered 167 feet (51 meters) of net pay in high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs.

Malaysia is expected to contribute about 12% or 3.1 billion cubic feet (bcf) of global natural gas production in 2025 from key offshore planned and announced projects (new-build projects) that are expected to start operations between 2021 and 2025, according to GlobalData.

Every year and following the publication of the BP Statistical Review, Rystad Energy releases its own assessment to provide an independent, solid and clear comparison of how the world’s energy landscape changed last year.

Energy services partner AGR has won a Well Management contract for an exploration well in WA-519-P, adjacent to the Equus Gas Project offshore Australia.

The Norwegian authorities have granted consent for start-up of the Duva field in the North Sea, where the operator Neptune Energy estimates the reserves at about 11 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent (71 million barrels of o.e.)

Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, announces the final investment decision (FID) for Whale, a deep-water development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that features a 99% replicated hull and an 80% replication of the topsides from our Vito project.

TotalEnergies and Technip Energies signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement to jointly develop low-carbon solutions for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production and offshore facilities to accelerate the energy transition.

ICR Integrity (ICR), a leading global industrial maintenance and integrity company, providing solutions for the oil and gas, power generation, defence, utilities and renewables industries, has been awarded a three-year contract with Shell UK, with extension options, for the provision of Technowrap™ engineered composite repairs, as well as Quickflange™ weldless connectors, for all its UKCS assets.

Neptune Energy has welcomed an announcement by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) to award a subsidy to the PosHYdon project, the world's first offshore green hydrogen pilot on a working platform.

Shell Trinidad and Tobago (through BG International, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc) has announced that production has started on Block 5C in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) in Trinidad and Tobago. This marks a significant milestone in the delivery of gas both domestically and internationally through Atlantic LNG.

There is more than one way to achieve the Paris Agreement targets, and more than one way to achieve a low carbon future.

Subsea 7 has announced the award of a sizeable⁽¹⁾ contract in the Middle East.

Wellesley Petroleum AS and Equinor Energy AS have signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement covering several development assets on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The transaction is as follows:

The activity level on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) has been high in the first six months of the year – despite the Covid situation. Eight discoveries have been made, production remains high, and many new development projects are on the drawing board.

Energy transition topics will take center stage at the SPE Offshore Europe 2021 virtual conference taking place from September 7-10, 2021.

Recent exploratory success offshore Suriname, where four discoveries have been made in Block 28 in 2020, shows promise to become an oil production hot spot in the near to mid-term, according to GlobalData.