bp has renewed a long-term offshore operations and maintenance contract in Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea covering eight production platforms across its operated Azeri Chirag Gunashli (ACG) oil field and Shah Deniz gas development. The renewed agreement with Turan Drilling & Engineering Company LLC—a joint venture between SOCAR AQS and Helmerich & Payne—has an initial term of five years, with three […]
Azule Energy Holdings Ltd, an Angolan joint venture equally owned by Italy’s Eni SpA and Britain’s BP PLC, has declared a new oil discovery in Block 15/06 in the offshore Lower Congo Basin, with an initial estimate of about 500 million barrels.
bp has suspended its share buyback program and is prioritizing balance-sheet repair as the company works through a broader strategic reset and leadership transition.
BP has received bids from at least five international contractors for the FEED contract for its gas compression and electrification project in Block 61 in Oman, Upstream reported on Friday.
Azule Energy, a 50-50 venture between BP PLC and Eni SpA, and its New Gas Consortium (NGC) partners have put into service a natural gas treatment facility with a capacity of about 400 million standard cubic feet of gas a day and 20,000 barrels of condensate per day in Soyo, northern Angola. The plant processes […]
bp’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 LNG project offshore Mauritania and Senegal has secured two major honors at the 2025 Association for Project Management (APM) Awards, including Overall Project of the Year and the Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure Project of the Year. The long-running deepwater development—one of West Africa’s most complex LNG projects—features subsea infrastructure in […]
bp plc reported operating cash flow of $7.8 billion and underlying replacement cost profit of $2.2 billion for the third quarter of 2025, reflecting stronger upstream performance and improved refining margins across its global portfolio. Chief Executive Officer Murray Auchincloss said bp delivered “another quarter of good performance across the business,” highlighting continued operational strength, cost […]
The UK-based energy giant, which is a co-venturer in the exploration license via its 50/50 company with Italy’s Eni, Azule Energy, can confirm the preliminary results of the Volans-1X exploration well, as reported by operator Rhino Resources earlier this month.
“The well found 26m of net pay in rich gas condensate-bearing reservoirs, with the reservoir showing excellent quality petrophysical properties and no observed water contact”, Rhino said in a press release. “Hot shot laboratory analysis on two samples (at the top and base of the reservoir interval) showed a high condensate to gas ratio (CGR) of >140 and a liquid density of around 40° API gravity.
A consortium between the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and Saipem SpA has won contracts for a $2.9-billion compression project in the BP PLC-operated Shah Deniz field on Azerbaijan’s side of the Caspian Sea, BP and Saipem said. The compression project will access low-pressure gas and enable the production of an additional […]