Bulgaria’s government has approved the transfer of 30% of the exploration rights in offshore Block 1-14 Khan Kubrat to the local subsidiary of Australia’s Woodside Petroleum
20 December 2018Libya’s NOC has declared force majeure at the country’s El Sharara oilfield following its seizure by protesters
20 December 2018
Projects
The Sarawak state government’s proposed sales tax risks deterring potential developers.
20 December 2018Chuanqing Drilling Engineering’s daily shale gas output at the Weiyuan Block in southwest China reached 5.1 million cubic metres on 2 December.
19 December 2018Australian gas suppliers are delaying investment in exploration needed to stave off longer-term concerns about prices in the country’s east coast gas market, the ACCC has said.
19 December 2018Norway’s Equinor has received consent to drill exploration well 7132/2-2 in the Barents Sea
18 December 2018Poland’s PGNiG has obtained permission to buy a 42.38% share in the Tommeliten Alpha field offshore Norway from Equinor
18 December 2018CNOOC has signed strategic cooperation agreements with nine foreign companies to develop acreage off the coast of southern China.
18 December 2018North Korea is converting its abundant coal supplies into SNG to help it withstand economics sanctions imposed by the UN.
18 December 2018China and Japan plan to discuss resuming long-stalled talks on the joint development of a disputed gas field in the East China Sea.
18 December 2018BP has signed an agreement with Angola’s Sonangol that will allow it to make FIDs on several offshore blocks in the country.
18 December 2018The Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea started producing gas on Sunday, Norway’s energy company Equinor has said
17 December 2018The Philippines has received 13 applications to explore 14 areas offered under the ‘Explore, Explore, Explore’ programme
17 December 2018Indonesia has approved Eni’s investment plan for the Merakes project
17 December 2018Wentworth Resources has announced that it will relinquish its Tembo onshore exploration block in northern Mozambique on 30 April 2019.
17 December 2018Iran plans to increase production at its South Pars gas project to a record 630 million cubic metres per day by late March 2019
17 December 2018Woodside has awarded the FEED contracts for Phase 1 of the $2 billion SNE development offshore Senegal to Subsea Integration Alliance
17 December 2018The Indian government has pushed back the deadline for submissions to its second Discovered Small Fields round by one month until 18 January
14 December 2018Nigeria’s government has initiated proceedings to sue Shell and Eni for $1.1 billion over an allegedly corrupt deal for OPL 245.
14 December 2018
Licensing Rounds
Lebanon is attempting to make its second licensing round more attractive to IOCs, but the political deadlock in the country will not help.
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