Bryan Milton is expected to be appointed by ExxonMobil Corp.’s board as a vice-president with the company as well as president of ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants & Specialties Marketing Co. He has served as president of ExxonMobil Global Services Co. since 2011.

Statoil ASA said construction has begun at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea on the riser platform for the Johan Sverdrup development in the North Sea.

Rapprochement between Israel and Turkey lowers one of many hurdles to development of giant Leviathan natural gas field and other deepwater discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean.

Leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the US have agreed to pursue cuts in methane emissions from oil and gas operations of 40-45% by 2025.

Stone Energy Corp., Lafayette, La., has agreed with Ensco PLC to cancel the contract for the Ensco 8503 dynamically positioned deepwater drilling rig that was operating in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

The Tullow Oil PLC-operated Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) project offshore West Africa is now 96% complete and expected to begin oil production within 3-6 weeks. Nearby offshore Ghana, the firm is developing a long-term oil offtake solution at Jubilee field following an issue with the floating production, storage, and offloading vessel’s turret bearing.

Rawson Resources Ltd., Sydn, through subisidiary Dondonald Ltd. has entered into a share purchase agreement for Moira Ltd. Moira has 100% working interest in the onshore Papua New Guinea’s PPL 391 in the north New Guinea basin, which encompasses the Matapau oil seeps and several shallow wells targeting the shallow fractured basement.

The Liza-2 well, drilled 120 miles offshore Guyana, encountered more than 190 ft of oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs in Upper Cretaceous formations, reported ExxonMobil Corp. unit Esso Exploration & Production Guyana Ltd.