Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration group has announced the completion of the farm-out transaction of the Etinde permit, offshore Cameroon.

The biggest phase of the South Pars field, Phase 12, officially launched operation before the end of the current Iranian year (March 20) in a ceremony in the presence of President Hassan Rouhani and his delegation.

With some of the largest offshore gas fields in the world, no local supply chain and an immediate and significant demand for skilled workers, East Africa creates significant opportunities for Scotland’s oil and gas sector.

Members of one of the UK's largest offshore unions are set to vote on industrial action in the North Sea.

ConocoPhillips today announced its 2015 to 2017 capital budget and growth outlook, in which its says the oil prices will remain unstable.

Britain's finance minister must announce bold oil tax changes in his 2015-16 budget this week to inject new life into the battered North Sea where investment in new projects has fallen and billions of dollars of assets are up for sale.

Archer, a global supplier of drilling and well services, has started operations to permanently plug and abandon (PP&A) 12 gas wells on Statoil’s Heimdal platform in the Norwegian North Sea.

Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), through its subsidiary Lundin Norway, operator of PL338C, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 16/1-24, in a prospect named Gemini, in the North Sea.

An oil and gas exploration firm is set to cut 60 jobs across the UK with dozens of redundancies expected in Aberdeen.

Offshore union RMT’s executive has endorsed the call from members to ballot for industrial action, targeting groups of workers in what the union sees as a rolling programme of action over a range of issues including:Ripping up current 2:3 and 2:2 shift patterns and replacing them with a 3:3 patternAttacks on sick pay, pensions, travel allowances, stand-by payments and actual pay levels themselvesAlterations to leave entitlements which will see staff losing outReductions of up to 20% in actual staffing numbers.