EMAS AMC, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Ezra Holdings, has won subsea contracts worth nearly $70 million, including work with a new client in the Middle East. The scope of work in the Middle East is for a national oil company,…

Seismic contractor Polarcus Limited has received a Letter of Intent (LoI) from Maersk Oil for a 4D marine seismic survey offshore Denmark. Maersk Oil awarded the LoI to the company providing marine seismic services on behalf of the Danish Underground…

Wood  Group has secured its third front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Woodside-operated proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) Development. Under a new 12 month  contract awarded by Shell, Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will carry out flow…

New Zealand Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges on Wednesday announced the award of nine new oil and gas exploration permits for Block Offer 2015. Block Offer 2015 includes three onshore permits and six offshore permits, all in the Taranaki…

Wood Group, an international energy services company, has been awarded a framework agreement with Statoil. The agreement is expected to create approximately 250 jobs. On Tuesday, the Norwegian oil major Statoil dished out maintenance and modification agreements worth NOK 24…

W&T Offshore, an independent oil and natural gas producer, announced on Tuesday a discovery at the Ewing Banks 954 A-8 exploratory well located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.  The well, which recently reached total depth, represents the second discovery…

Statoil, an oil and gas company, has awarded Aibel, an oil services company, a new maintenance and modification (M&M) contract worth approximately $864.4 million, plus options. Through the new agreement, Aibel will have continued responsibility for 12 offshore installations and…

UAE’s Mubadala Petroleum and China’s China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have penned a deal to cooperate more in the oil and gas exploration and production sector. The non-binding strategic co-operation agreement was signed during a ceremony in Beijing by Sultan…

Malaysia’s Icon Offshore, a provider of offshore support vessels, has received a letter of award to provide one utility tug vessel to an oil company. In its Bursa Malaysia filing on Friday, Icon did not name the oil company, but…

Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 248, is in the process of completing the drilling of a wildcat and appraisal well, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD), the wildcat well…