Total announced a hydrocarbon discovery in French Guiana’s deep offshore Guyane Maritime license. Total has a 25% equity interest in the Tullow-operated acreage.

Total announces a major gas discovery in the Caspian Sea in the Absheron block offshore Azerbaijan.

Total takes part in the press and trade days at the Frankfurt Motor Show for the first time on 13-16 September. The theme of Total’s participation was sustainable development, articulated in the slogan “Total Group, your Partner...

BP has now completed the sale to Puma Energy of its fuels marketing businesses in Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. The sale of the final business in Tanzania completed on September 1.

The concept chosen for the Mariner heavy oil project on the UK continental shelf includes a production, drilling and quarter (PDQ) platform based on a steel jacket, with a floating storage unit (FSU).

BP has announced the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) announced a new oil discovery at the Moccasin prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico

BP to invest up to £700 million to progress a project to develop the Kinnoull reservoir in the central North Sea.

BP is aware of the claims filed against the company by Halliburton. The company is now reviewing the contents of the claims and until this is complete cannot comment in detail.

Rosneft and ExxonMobil have executed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement under which the companies plan to undertake joint exploration and development of hydrocarbon resources in Russia, the United States and other countries...

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP announced the completion of BP's acquisition of a 30 per cent stake in 21 oil and gas production sharing contracts (PSCs) that Reliance operates in India, including the producing KG D6...

Siemens Energy has received an order from China for the supply of two gas-turbine-driven axial-flow compressors trains for the first propane dehydrogenation (PDH) project in China. Purchaser is Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry...

Total, operator of Block 17, announced that the giant Pazflor field offshore Angola has come on stream ahead of the initial schedule. The Pazflor field lies 150 kilometres off Luanda in water depths ranging from 600 to 1,200...

BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) announced the start of natural gas production from the Serrette field, offshore Trinidad. Serrette is located in 280 feet (90 metres) of water off Trinidad’s south east coast. BPTT holds a 100 per...

An exploration well and a sidetrack currently being completed by Statoil near Gullfaks South have yielded the third discovery made in the Gullfaks licence so far this year.

The partners in the Åsgard licences have today submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) of subsea gas compression to maintain production from the Mikkel and Midgard reservoirs.

Communication between the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries in the North Sea has now been confirmed. In combination these discoveries may represent an oil structure of between 500 million and 1.2 billion barrels of recoverable...

Exxon Mobil Corporation and Nippon Steel Corporation announced today that ExxonMobil has granted Nippon Steel the world’s first license for patented field welding technology used to construct high-pressure pipelines made with...

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) said today that the development of the Indonesian Banyu Urip field in the Cepu block in East Java has achieved a major milestone with the award of the first of five engineering, procurement and...

Statoil ASA (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) and partners Petoro AS, Det norske oljeselskap ASA and Lundin Norway AS have made a high-impact oil discovery on the Aldous Major South prospect (PL 265) in the North Sea.

The steel support structure for the Gudrun platform is now in place on the North Sea field, completing the first phase of the extensive installation work being carried out there.

Siemens will be teaming up with the Russian company Power Machines OJSC within the next few months to set up a gas turbine joint venture, in which Siemens will hold a 65-percent stake and Power Machines the remaining shares. The...

On June 3, 2011, SGS Industrial Services was awarded a contract to provide complex Guided Wave Inspection, also known as Long-Range Ultrasonic Testing, for the Shell Refinery in Batangas, Philippines. For the entire duration of...

Chevron Corporation and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced the formation of an alliance to develop a range of technologies to improve the production and recovery of oil and natural gas resources.

BP announced that it has been awarded two deepwater exploration and production blocks by the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.