Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has secured new contract awards for two of its rigs, the drillship West Neptune and the semi-submersible Sevan Louisiana, with a total value of $105 million.

Two UK-headquartered and AIM-listed oil and gas companies – i3 Energy and Europa Oil & Gas – have inked a farm-in agreement (FIA) for a sub-area of UKCS Licence P.2358, containing the Serenity discovery in the UK North Sea.

UK-based and North Sea-focused E&P company NEO Energy has achieved the first gas from its Finlaggan field development, a tieback to the Britannia platform in the UK North Sea.

Abu Dhabi is accelerating plans to sell shares in some oil and gas businesses as the government seeks to deepen its financial markets and diversify its sources of funding.

Just days after exercising a one-well option for Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig, Norway's oil and gas firm Equinor has exercised another one.

It hasn’t been this cheap for shale explorers to raise money on the high-yield bond market since oil was at $100 a barrel in 2014, so they’re jumping on the opportunity to refinance debt at lower rates.

An upstart driller in Mexico aims to provide 10% of the country’s natural gas needs as it develops prospects south of Texas’s border.

Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has lost a dispute in Norway and will have to pay compensation to two offshore workers due to the violation of working hours regulations.

Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has exercised the option to add development drilling of one additional well at the Martin Linge field offshore Norway to the work scope of the low-emission rig Maersk Intrepid.

Norwegian oil and gas E&P company OKEA has announced that Maersk Drilling's Maersk Inspirer jack-up rig has been towed to the Repsol-operated Yme oil field.