Reallocate sourcing as offshore programs shift supplier demand

Home Fossil Energy Fresh oil discovery strengthens Angola’s hydrocarbon arsenal August 11, 2026, by Angola’s state-owned oil company Sonangol has found more offshore black gold, augmenting the African country’s oil reserves. Courtesy of Sonangol The National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG), alongside Sonangol Exploration and Production, as operator, and the partners of the contractor group of Block 3/05, have revealed the completion of drilling operations at the PAC 416 well in the southwest compar

Courtesy of Sonangol The National Agency of Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG), alongside Sonangol Exploration and Production, as operator, and the partners of the contractor group of Block 3/05, have revealed the completion of drilling operations at the PAC 416 well in the southwest compartment of the Pacassa field in Block 3/05 within the Lower Congo Basin

Completion operations are now underway, after which the rig will be mobilized to the next well location. Following the connection of the well to the production system, the first oil from the well is anticipated to be delivered in Q3 2026

The North Sea Transition Authority claims that the success of this campaign has been supported by a significant improvement in intervention efficiency, with the cost per barrel of oil equivalent added decreasing from £9

Illustration; Source: North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) The NSTA’s ‘2026 Wells Insight Report’ has outlined that the total well stock on the UK Continental Shelf stood at 2,298 wells, 7% down on the previous year, with 1,439 operating, 558 shut-in and 301 plugged, while North Sea operators produced an extra 16 million barrels of oil from 56 reinstated wells in 2025, as they focused on well interventions, which boosted production and efficiency. The North Sea Transition Authority claims that the success of

With a focus on energy production, the NSTA has been working closely with licensees, first to identify which shut-in wells could potentially be reinstated, and then to support them in undertaking the necessary work

headquartered firm will provide its 7-3/8” large bore subsea test tree assembly (SSTTA) safety system to support the client’s P&A campaign across a portfolio of mature subsea wells, including six firm wells, with six more optional wells. Carole Paley, Expro’s UK Managing Director, commented: “Expro has in depth knowledge of North Sea wells and has performed numerous operations on many of these wells over their lifecycle

Illustration; Source: Expro Expro has secured what it describes as a major multi-million-pound contract with an unknown UK operator, said to reinforce its position as a leading supplier of subsea safety systems in the UK North Sea plug and abandonment (P&A) market

S. -headquartered firm will provide its 7-3/8” large bore subsea test tree assembly (SSTTA) safety system to support the client’s P&A campaign across a portfolio of mature subsea wells, including six firm wells, with six more optional wells

Brooks McCall; Source: TDI-Brooks Delfin LNG has awarded the offshore geophysical and geotechnical survey services for the Delfin deepwater port project offshore Louisiana to TDI-Brooks, enabling the firm to serve as the prime contractor, executing the full scope of work, including geophysical survey activities, and managing the geotechnical investigation in partnership with its subcontractor, Tolunay-Wong Engineers (TWE). The geophysical data acquisition is scheduled to begin at the end of August 2026, using

headquartered geotechnical and offshore survey research and service company TDI-Brooks has been hired to undertake a geophysical and geotechnical survey assignment for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the coast of Louisiana, United States. Brooks McCall; Source: TDI-Brooks Delfin LNG has awarded the offshore geophysical and geotechnical survey services for the Delfin deepwater port project offshore Louisiana to TDI-Brooks, enabling the firm to serve as the prime contractor, executing the full scope of

S. -headquartered geotechnical and offshore survey research and service company TDI-Brooks has been hired to undertake a geophysical and geotechnical survey assignment for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the coast of Louisiana, United States

Home Fossil Energy Aker BP and Equinor’s latest North Sea wildcat drilling yields no hydrocarbon find August 11, 2026, by Norway’s oil and gas company Aker BP and its compatriot state-owned partner, Equinor, have come up dry in their latest North Sea exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). Scarabeo 8; Source: Saipem Aker BP and Equinor have drilled a dry exploration well, 15/6-17, in the Svarteknippa prospect located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, 15 kilometers west of the Solveig

The well was drilled by Saipem’s Scarabeo 8 semi-submersible rig. While the objective of the well was to prove hydrocarbons from the Middle Jurassic in the Hugin and Sleipner formations, the secondary exploration target was to prove a reservoir and hydrocarbons in the Draupne and Heather formations

Data acquisition was carried out, which included securing a 54-meter-long core in the Vestland Group