Chariot Oil & Gas Limited has said today that the previously announced farm-out agreement with AziLat Limited (“AziLat”) on the BAR-M-292, BAR-M-293, BAR-M-313 and BAR-M-314 licences in the Barreirinhas basin, Brazil has been terminated.

5 Fire Engines were last night tackling a serious fire onboard an offshore construction vessel docked at Peterhead Harbour.

Norwegian oil major Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use the Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig to drill two production wells at Gullfaks Sør, offshore Norway.

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) awarded Woodside Energy with Environment Excellence Award at Tuesday night’s APPEA 2015 Conference Dinner in Melbourne.

Faced with competition from mammoth new refineries in the Middle East and soft fuel demand in key markets, Asian refiners are trying a variety of tactics to cope from investing in refineries in emerging markets to using cheaper energy sources.

On February 18, 2015 a condensate leak occurred on the Gudrun platform in the North Sea.

Petrofac, the international oil and gas facilities service provider, has been awarded a contract to support maintenance management system (MMS) implementation for Bumi Armada’s floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO), the Armada Kraken bound for the North Sea.

German oil and gas company Wintershall is ceasing its activities in Qatar and is returning Block 4 North near the North Field offshore Qatar on May 25, 2015.

Transocean Ltd.

Royal Dutch Shell will press on with a campaign to explore the Arctic for oil this summer despite protests in the port city of Seattle, chief executive officer Ben van Beurden said on Tuesday.