Chariot Oil has announced that Woodside, its partner in the Rabat Deep permit, offshore Morocco, has not elected to take operatorship and fund the drilling of an exploration well in return for an additional 25% equity stake.

MEO Australia Limited has been given permission by the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator to vary its work program on WA-454-P permit located offshore Australia.

Angela Durkin from Baker Hughes will join Maersk Drilling as new Chief Operating Officer (COO).

Brent crude oil steadied around $63 a barrel on Tuesday, not far below the 2015 high, supported by worries that a civil war in Yemen could destabilize the Middle East, affecting oil supplies.

ConocoPhillips Chairman and CEO, Ryan Lance, has discussed the current situation in the oil and gas industry and the future of energy laws at yesterday’s opening session of IHS CERAWeek 2015 in Houston.

Statoil, Eni Norge, Lundin Norway, OMV and GDF SUEZ will collaborate on solving operational tasks tied to exploration in the Barents Sea.

Tampet awarded UK-based Global Marine Systems Ltd.

Halliburton, an oilfield services company, has informed that its income from continuing operations for the first quarter of 2015 was $418 million, or $0.

Today, Deepsea Aberdeen started drilling operations under its 7-year contract with BP on the Quad 204 field development project West of Shetland, UK.

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