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BP profits fall on oil-price volatility

(Market Watch) BP PLC said Tuesday its profit dropped by 12% in the first quarter due to a weaker oil price environment at the start of 2019, echoing anemic quarterly results recently reported by other Big Oil companies. U.K.-based BP...

New wells drilled to the moon and back by 2023

Rystad Energy forecasts that more than 1 million kilometers of new oil and gas wells will be drilled over the next five years. The Norway-based energy research and business intelligence company said the collective depth of these wells is the...

Future oil discoveries at Stabroek could run into billions of barrels

Hess Corporation, a 30 percent stakeholder in the prolific Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, believes more mega oil deposits are still to be found in the 6.6 million-acre block. “Gross discovered recoverable resources on the block are estimated to be more...

CNOOC releases operations report; Guyana tops company’s discoveries

CNOOC Limited (the “Company”, SEHK: 00883, NYSE: CEO, TSX: CNU) today announced its key operational statistics for the first quarter of 2019. The Company achieved a total net production of 120.1 million barrels of oil equivalent (“BOE”) for the first...

Hess reports net income of $32M as Guyana oil reserves soar

Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) today reported net income of $32 million, or $0.09 per common share, in the first quarter of 2019, compared to a net loss of $106 million, or $0.38 per common share, in the first quarter...

Occidental makes ‘superior proposal’ for Anadarko’s acquisition

Occidental Petroleum Corporation has made an offer to acquire American oil company Anadarko for $38 billion, bettering Chevron which offered $33 billion. Occidental said in a press release on April 24, 2019 that it delivered a letter to the Board...

Ramps Logistics secures full integrated contract with Tullow for Guyana drill campaign

Ramps Logistics has secured a fully integrated cross-border logistics contract inclusive of shore base provision and management, marine agency, personnel logistics, freight forwarding and customs brokerage, with UK-based Tullow Oil for its upcoming Guyana drill campaign. Further to this, a...

Keppel nets S$203m in profit for 1Q 2019

Keppel Corporation Limited (Keppel) reported a net profit of S$203 million for the first three months of 2019, 40% below that of S$337 million for 1Q 2018. In 1Q 2018, the Group benefitted from a S$289 million gain arising...

BP, partners sanction $6 billion Azeri project

BP and partners have sanctioned the Azeri Central East (ACE) project, the next stage of development of the giant Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) oilfield complex in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. BP said on Friday the $6 billion development...

New milestone at Stabroek as first subsea tree installed

The Liza Phase 1 Development has reached another incredible milestone—installation of the first subsea tree. A subsea tree monitors and controls the production of a subsea well. Affixed to the wellhead of a completed well, it can also manage fluids...

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Int’l salvage offers received as families weigh future of MV Barima site

The Government of Guyana has received several international proposals to salvage the MV Barima, which remains on the seabed...