Maersk Drilling has received the Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for the Maersk Integrator jack-up drilling rig, deeming the rig good for deployment in Norwegian seas.

Shell has extended a contract for a Prosafe-owned offshore accommodation rig in the Philippines.

BPZ Energy an independent oil company with assets in Peru, has announced that its Board of Directors has determined that it is in the best interest of the Company’s stakeholders for the Company to undertake an organized process to attempt to sell, in a single transaction, substantially all of its assets, subject to the necessary approvals by the bankruptcy court overseeing the Company’s Chapter 11 case.

Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels, known as ANP, will offer will offer 269 blocks in its 13th bidding round scheduled for October 7, 2015.

The federal government must reveal the extent of offshore fracking occurring in the Gulf of Mexico under a legal settlement filed last week in U.

EMAS AMC, a global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas (O&G) industry, today announced that its flagship subsea construction vessel, Lewek Constellation, has established an industry record for pipelay in the U.

Despite surging production from U.

Trapoil, the independent oil and gas exploration, appraisal and production company focused on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) region of the North Sea, informed that operations have started on the Niobe (Licence P.

Panoro Energy ASA, a London-based oil and gas E&P company focused on West Africa, has entered into a rig contract with Saipem for the Scarabeo 3 drilling rig to carry out the drilling and completion programme for the Aje Field Cenomanian oil development, offshore Nigeria.

Three more tendons designed to link Chevron Corp's Big Foot deepwater oil project to the Gulf of Mexico seabed have sunk, escalating concerns about how long it will take for the project to start.