Murphy Oil Corporation has announced an offshore oil discovery in Vietnam and successful appraisal drilling in Côte d’Ivoire, alongside new production milestones at its Lac Da Vang development offshore Vietnam and Chinook field in the U.S. Gulf. Offshore Côte d’Ivoire, Murphy’s Bubale West-1X appraisal well in Block CI-103 encountered approximately 88 ft (27 m) […]
Seadrill Limited has secured new offshore drilling contracts and extensions in Indonesia, Malaysia, Angola and the U.S. Gulf, including a $420 million award for the West Carina drillship, strengthening its contracted rig activity through 2030. In Indonesia, the West Carina was awarded a contract with an undisclosed operator valued at approximately $420 million for a […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to propose further revisions to 2024 oil and natural gas emissions regulations, including changes affecting marginal wells, associated gas and the agency’s Super Emitter Program.
U.S. oil and gas activity continued to expand in the third quarter of 2026, with exploration and production companies reporting higher oil and natural gas output despite elevated costs and longer supplier delivery times, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Energy Survey.
The U.S. ordered another release of oil from emergency reserves—and urged European nations to do likewise—as the Trump administration grapples with fuel prices that are surging less than two months before the midterm elections. The U.S. will offer up to 40 MMbbl from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, according to a statement from the Department […]
INEOS is marking 10 years since the first shipment of U.S. shale ethane arrived at its Grangemouth complex in Scotland, establishing a supply route that has since delivered more than 400 cargoes of feedstock to the petrochemical site. The first purpose-built Dragon-class vessel, the JS INEOS Insight, arrived at Grangemouth on Sept. 28, 2016, […]
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bipartisan legislation designed to improve access to Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) cards, a move the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) says could help address workforce needs in the maritime and offshore energy industries. H.R. 5109, known as the TWIC Efficiency (TWICE) Act, passed the House by […]
U.S. Steel has received the final air permit needed to advance construction of a $475 million quench-and-tempering facility in Alabama designed to expand tubular capacity for major U.S. oil and gas basins. The new facility at U.S. Steel’s Fairfield Tubular Operations will add in-house capacity for heat-treated tubular products used in oil and gas […]
Venezuela is deploying officials to a Group of 20 summit of energy chiefs in Texas this week, underscoring the rapid rapprochement between Washington and Caracas. The Venezuelan authorities are attending the G20 energy ministerial that started Monday in Houston at the invitation of the Trump administration, according to a White House official who asked […]
Shell Energy North America (SENA) has agreed to acquire 169 MW of natural gas-fired generation capacity in Pennsylvania while selling its interests in RISEC Holdings LLC to Constellation Energy Generation for $715 million. SENA will acquire 100% of Hunlock Creek Generating LLC, which owns two gas-fired power facilities in Pennsylvania: a 125-MW, two-unit combined-cycle plant and a 44-MW simple-cycle peaking plant. The acquisition […]