Noble Energy and its joint venture partners, Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL) and Edison International (Edison), have elected to defer a potential second well in the South and East Falkland basin, offshore the Falkland Islands.

Advances in technology, standards and practices in the last five years have made America’s offshore oil and natural gas industry safer than ever, American Petroleum Institute’s (API) President and CEO Jack Gerard.

Operator Statoil has together with PL602 partners made a gas discovery in the Roald Rygg prospect in the Norwegian Sea.

Despite major cost reduction measures, Q1 2015 earnings for supermajors are expected to be the weakest in recent memory, Douglas Westwood, an energy intelligence group writes in its “DW Monday” report.

TGS-Nopec, a Norwegian seismic surveyor, today will lay off over 10 percent of its global workforce, citing deteriorating demand for its services.

Bergen Group has decided to divest the company’s rig-service activity at Hanøytangen.

Ithaca Energy Inc.

Six Greenpeace activists disembarked from Shell’s Arctic-bound oil rig in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, April 11, 2015, after spending six days camping on the structure to protest against Arctic drilling.

Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website.

KrisEnergy Ltd.