Lundin Petroleum’s subsidiary, Lundin Norway, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 26/10-1, off Norway.

Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has been allowed to increase production from the Huntington field, located in the UK North Sea.

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper have announced that Interior will offer 41.

Saipem, through its subsidiary ERSAI Caspian Contractor LLC, has been awarded a major new Engineering & Construction contract for the Kashagan field project, located in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea, valued at approximately $1.

Egypt has three major oil and gas deals worth a total of $9.

Solo Oil has announced the operator of the Kiliwani North (“KN”) gas field offshore Tanzania, Aminex, has advised that the newly constructed gas export pipeline from the Songo Songo processing plant to the KN-1 gas well has been completed to within approximately 20 metres from the KN-1 production well-head.

Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted an international rig count report for January 2015 on its Investor Relations website according to which the international offshore rigs are down from last month.

Jim Prentice, the premier of Alberta, Canada, says the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has been a long and tortured process.

Maersk Drilling has initiated a larger cost reduction and efficiency enhancement programme in response to “a weakened market for offshore rigs with lower utilisation and day rates”.

Drilling contractor Noble Corporation has informed that the company will retire three of its semi-submersible drilling rigs, Noble Paul Wolff, Noble Driller and Noble Jim Thompson.