Equinor and Petrobras have completed their transaction announced in December 2017, whereby Equinor has acquired a 25% non-operated interest in the Roncador oil field in Brazil’s Campos Basin. This follows all transaction conditions being met, including government and regulator approval.

CGG has completed the Pre-Stack Time Migration (PSTM) of its 2,500-sq-km Dunquin multi-client survey acquired in Block 44 of the Porcupine Basin, west of Ireland, in 2017.

CGG has completed acquisition of 15,400 km2 of 3D marine seismic data in the outer Zambezi Delta Basin, west of the Beira High. The survey area covers blocks Z5-C and Z5-D and surrounding non-held acreage.

API has launched “Explore Offshore”, a new coalition of more than 100 diverse community organizations, associations, businesses and local leaders in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida who support increased access to offshore U.S. natural gas and oil for responsible development using advanced technologies.

Subsea 7 S.A. has announced the award of a sizeable (1) contract by Shell as part of the deepwater Vito development, approximately 150 miles south of New Orleans, in the US Gulf of Mexico.

ECA Group, France, a leading providers of advanced unmanned and autonomous systems has chosen a CTG Pipeline Leak Detection System (PLD), to be employed in the role of subsea pipeline inspection and oil leakage detection.

Work has commenced to expand Tangguh LNG plant in Indonesia, which has been operated by BP Berau Ltd since 2009. The addition of a third train will increase liquefaction capacity of LNG by 3.8 million tonnes per year, which also leads to an expansion of the marine export facility and construction of a second LNG jetty.

Equinor has expanded its portfolio in Brazil’s prolific Campos and Santos basins after winning the Uirapuru and Dois Irmãos blocks in the 4th Production Sharing Bidding Round in Brazil.

Byron Energy Limited announces that Byron Energy Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has been advised by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) that its bids for Eugene Island blocks 62, 63, 76 and 77, at Gulf of Mexico OCS Lease Sale 250 held on Wednesday 21 March 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana, have been deemed acceptable by BOEM and the leases have now been awarded to Byron.

The plan for development and operation of the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea was approved by the Norwegian Parliament on Monday 11 June. The plan will now be submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for formal approval.

The Liza Phase 1 development continues to rapidly progress, with the commencement of development drilling offshore Guyana, ExxonMobil said on Tuesday, June 12, 2018.

ExxonMobil says it has completed the purchase of half of Equinor’s interest in the BM-S-8 block offshore Brazil, which contains part of the 2-billion-barrel, pre-salt Carcara oil field.

Africa Oil Week and the Ministry of Hydrocarbons of the Republic of Congo announces the promotion of the Congo-Brazzaville License Round Phase 2 2018/19 at Africa Oil Week, 5th – 9th November 2018.

Subsea 7 announces the award of a sizeable(1) engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract by Burullus Gas Company for the West Delta Deep Marine Phase 9b development project, offshore Egypt.

Equinor and partners Lundin and Spirit Energy have struck oil in the PL 167 license at the Utsira High in the North Sea. The discovery is currently estimated to contain 15-35 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.

The 22,000-tonne topside for the drilling platform was lifted into position in one single lift on the Johan Sverdrup field last weekend. Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partners are the first users in the world of this ground-breaking technology.