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PEMEX makes largest onshore discovery in 15 years

On Friday November 3, Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, announced the discovery of an important reservoir with excellent quality light-crude oil and gas, said to be the most important onshore discovery made by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) in the...

TechnipFMC awarded subsea contract for gas project in Malaysia

TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) and (PARIS: FTI) has been awarded a subsea contract by Murphy Sabah Oil for the Phase 1A Block H Gas Development Project. The project is located in offshore Sabah, Malaysia, at a water depth of approximately...

Regulator cuts UK oil and gas estimates

(BBC) The oil and gas offshore industry regulator has reduced its estimates of the amount of known oil and gas left under UK waters. The amount in known reserves and capable of extraction has dropped from 6.3 billion barrels to...

Shell bets big on Brazil as oil majors snap up offshore blocks

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell Plc won half the blocks awarded in Brazil’s deepwater oil auction on Friday, while rival BP took two blocks and Exxon Mobil Corp one in a historic opening of the pre-salt play to foreign...

Grenada gunning for commercial oil & gas

Global Petroleum Group (GPG) has conducted a search for oil and gas offshore the Caribbean island of Grenada, raising hopes among the population of just over 107,000, that confirmation of a big discovery could be imminent. The New Today reports...

US to offer 77 million acres for oil & gas exploration in Gulf of Mexico

(Energy Business Review) The US Interior Department (DOI) has announced plans to offer 76.9 million acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida in lease sale for oil and gas exploration...

Guyana to consider Chevron’s quest for offshore acreage

Guyana’s Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, says he is excited by the interest being shown by foreign companies looking to tap into the prospects of the country’s oil and gas sector. He made specific mention of US supermajor, Chevron,...

Mexico looking to hold third oil & gas auction in 2018

(Reuters) - Mexico’s oil regulator will likely add another auction in 2018 featuring conventional onshore oil and gas blocks, the head of the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) said on Thursday, potentially teeing up a third tender in an election...

Cultural impact of oil & gas

For centuries, the productive pillars of the Guyana economy have been agriculture, fishing, mining and forestry. Then, in recent decades, we saw efforts at diversification with bold steps taken to develop the services sector with tourism and information and...

Tullow Oil signs exploration contracts offshore Ivory Coast

(Reuters) Tullow Oil has signed four production-sharing contracts in Ivory Coast with an initial investment of $21 million, an Ivorian government spokesman said on Wednesday. The contracts, which include a 10 percent share for state oil company Petroci, span exploration...

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GranMorgu session in Rotterdam draws diaspora interest as Suriname eyes Singapore-level development

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – Suriname is aiming to use its offshore oil resources to drive national development to levels comparable...