Despite being a net exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Southeast Asia is set to increasingly rely on imported LNG through 2030 to meet the growing demand and support the waning domestic supplies, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.  

Global integrated logistics and materials management company, ASCO, will play a major role in the development of Senegal’s offshore energy industry following a contract award by Senegal Supply Base (SSB)

Global energy consultancy Xodus is assessing the infrastructure and modifications required to enable electrification of Harbour Energy’s Central North Sea assets following the successful delivery of a power optimization study examining the opportunities available to rationalize the generation systems on the Everest and Lomond assets. 

Wellesley Petroleum AS and Equinor Energy AS have signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement covering several development assets on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The transaction is as follows:

Prysmian Group has been awarded a new contract by Petrobras for a total supply of 200 km of high-end deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals using both Steel Tube and Thermoplastic technology, alongside specialized offshore and logistic services, for upgrades in brown and green fields projects in Brazil.

On August 2, CNOOC Limited has announced that Liuhua 21-2 oilfield has commenced production ahead of schedule.

ExxonMobil has made a discovery at Whiptail in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana. The Whiptail-1 well encountered 246 feet (75 meters) of net pay in high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs. Drilling is also ongoing at the Whiptail-2 well, which has encountered 167 feet (51 meters) of net pay in high-quality oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs.

Malaysia is expected to contribute about 12% or 3.1 billion cubic feet (bcf) of global natural gas production in 2025 from key offshore planned and announced projects (new-build projects) that are expected to start operations between 2021 and 2025, according to GlobalData.

TSC Subsea, global specialist in developing advanced subsea inspection solutions for challenging situations, has designed a new ROV-deployed automated scanning tool which addresses the issue of carrying out tight access field joint inspection through difficult to penetrate pipeline coating.

Arnaud Breuillac, President – Exploration & Production, TotalEnergies, has confirmed his attendance and participation at African Energy Week (AEW) 2021 taking place in Cape Town on the 9th-12th of November.

The Norwegian authorities have granted consent for start-up of the Duva field in the North Sea, where the operator Neptune Energy estimates the reserves at about 11 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent (71 million barrels of o.e.)

Shell Offshore Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, announces the final investment decision (FID) for Whale, a deep-water development in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico that features a 99% replicated hull and an 80% replication of the topsides from our Vito project.

The topside of the normally unmanned wellhead platform for the Hod field has been transported from Aker Solutions in Verdal to the Aker BP operated field. This is the second project for the Fixed Facilities Alliance, which was established in the spring of 2017.

October 5^th to 7^th, 2021 will witness the inaugural edition of SIPEX 2021, which is already being touted as the most anticipated and premier Oil & Gas Summit and Exhibition in Suriname.

Neptune Energy has welcomed an announcement by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) to award a subsidy to the PosHYdon project, the world's first offshore green hydrogen pilot on a working platform.

Shell Trinidad and Tobago (through BG International, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc) has announced that production has started on Block 5C in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) in Trinidad and Tobago. This marks a significant milestone in the delivery of gas both domestically and internationally through Atlantic LNG.