UK green energy infrastructure developer, Cerulean Winds, and Ping Petroleum UK announces the signing of an agreement to create one of the UK’s first oil and gas facilities powered mainly by offshore wind.

Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore energy engineering solutions, has been awarded a high-pressure high temperature (HPHT) subsea riser contract with oil and gas operator, Umid Babek Operating Company (UBOC), for the exploration of its HP well on the Babek project in Azerbaijan.

ExxonMobil has made two new discoveries offshore Guyana to the southeast of the Liza and Payara developments in the Stabroek block. The discoveries at Seabob and Kiru-Kiru are the sixth and seventh in Guyana this year, with the total number of discoveries in Guyana at more than 25.

Marco Villa, Chief Operating Officer, Technip Energies will drive dialogue around oil and gas market optimization during African Energy Week (AEW) 2022, Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector, which will take place from October 18 – 21, 2022, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has made a second discovery of natural gas resources in the first exploration well in Abu Dhabi’s Offshore Block 2 Exploration Concession, operated by Eni. The discovery from a new deeper reservoir indicates between 1 – 1.5 trillion standard cubic feet (TSCF) of raw gas in place.

As part of the rollout of its multi-energy strategy in Angola, TotalEnergies announces the launch of the Begonia oil field, and Quiluma and Maboqueiro gas fields developments, as well as its first photovoltaic project in the country, with a capacity of 35 MWp and the possibility of adding 45 MWp in a second phase.

Dolphin Drilling, a leading harsh environment and deepwater drilling contractor, has signed a master frame agreement with IKM Gruppen AS for drilling and well services under its new Well Delivery Model umbrella.

50 years after the Storting (parliament) decided to establish the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), there is still plenty of activity on the Norwegian shelf.

Neptune Energy announces that drilling has commenced on the Ofelia exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.


The African Energy Chamber (AEC) is proud to announce that multinational energy market research firm, Rystad Energy, is the official Intelligence Partner of African Energy Week (AEW) 2022 – Africa’s premier event for the oil and gas sector, which will take place from 18 – 21 October 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa.

TotalEnergies, OML99 operator (40%) in partnership with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC, 60%), announces the start of production from the Ikike field, in Nigeria.

Independent Project Analysis, Inc. (IPA) announces the full commercial availability of its newest software product, TrueCost, which enables upstream oil and gas operators to make faster, more confident decisions about major development projects.

Eni has successfully drilled the Baleine East 1X well, the first exploration well in block CI-802 and second discovery on the Baleine structure, offshore Côte d’Ivoire.

Subsea 7 and Van Oord announces the award of a substantial¹ contract by ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) for the Gas to Energy project offshore Guyana, in water depths of up to 1,450 meters.

BG International Limited, an affiliate of Shell U.K. Limited, has taken the final investment decision (FID) to develop the Jackdaw gas field in the UK North Sea, following regulatory approval earlier this year.

Trelleborg Marine and Infrastructure successfully complete the remote installation of its latest technology in navigation and piloting; SafePilot Offshore.