FAR Ltd., Perth, has let a contract to Stena Drilling for the drilling of the large Samo prospect offshore Gambia with operations to begin late this year.

Chevron Corp. reported earnings of $3.6 billion for this year’s first quarter compared with $2.7 billion in the same quarter in 2017. The company attributes cash flow and earnings increases to “a powerful combination” of expanding upstream margins and volumes.

W&T Offshore Inc. and Baker Hughes have entered a partnership whereby BHGE will provide integrated oil field services and oil field equipment for a joint exploration and development program W&T entered with a group of investors to drill as many as 14 specified projects in the Gulf of Mexico over the next 3 years.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) has signed an agreement appointing JODCO Lower Zakum Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s Inpex Corp., as the asset leader for Abu Dhabi’s Lower Zakum concession area.

A human factors study using Bayes' theorem and content analysis reveals underlying teamwork, organizational, and technological influences on severe US Naval aviation mishaps.

Only US President Donald Trump knows why he wants to pick a fight his country already is winning.

State-owned Empresa Nacional del Petroleo has let a contract to KBR Inc. to provide licensing and engineering services for an upgrading project at subsidiary Enap Refinerias SA’s 116,000-b/d Bio Bio refinery at Hualpen, in Chile’s Bio Bio region.

Drilling in the second phase of development of Yuri Korchagin oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea offshore Russia is expected to start this month, reports Lukoil. 

Eni SPA and partners have doubled output capacity of deepwater Zohr natural gas field in the Mediterranean offshore Egypt to 800 MMscfd with installation of a second production unit designated T-1. 

Interpose Holdings Ltd. (formerly Sunbird Energy Ltd.), Perth, has agreed to acquire 80% interest and operatorship of the onshore Cabora Bassa basin project in Zimbabwe via the acquisition of 100% of fellow Perth firm Invictus Energy Resources Pty. Ltd.