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Operators are looking for ways to better handle water coming from subsea wells, which is typically treated at topside facilities. Subsea separation systems are not equipped to discharge water back into the reservoir, so how do companies close the gaps?

The three largest service companies are optimistic about the rest of 2019.

There is a new, big independent in the UK North Sea, Delek Group. Its UK North Sea arm, Ithaca, bought most of Chevron’s holdings in the sector in a $2 billion deal.

Eni appointed Alessandro Puliti chief upstream officer, effective 1 September. He will replace Antonio Vella, who will leave the company at the end of the year, after a career spanning over more than 30 years. Puliti joined Eni’s reservoir department in 1990. Since then, he has held positions of increasing responsibilities within the Upstream business, both in regiona…

Chevron Australia has awarded Wood with a new contract to provide subsea integration and flow assurance front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the Jansz-Io compression project offshore Western Australia. The one-year contract will be delivered by Wood’s Perth-based team.

The US Department of Energy authorized the export from the terminal’s fourth liquefaction train to countries that have no free trade agreement with the US.

Devon Energy and its debt gets smaller, as Canadian Natural Resources adds to its huge, long-term bet on Canadian heavy and ultra-heavy crude.

The 21st century oil and gas industry thrives on hardcore computing power, crunching data derived from seismic testing to find oil deep in the ground and below the sea. Now, an Australian company will fire up a digital behemoth in a data center near the Houston suburb.

The small rainforest country nestled between Venezuela and Suriname has recently struck oil—a lot of it. With this newfound vast potential comes concern about developing the resources sustainably and with proper consideration for the country’s people and environment.

Qatar Petroleum has awarded McDermott with the FEED contract for the offshore pipelines and topsides facilities of its North Field Expansion Project. The scope of the deal includes engineering design for eight unmanned wellhead platform topsides, four 38-in. trunk lines, and four 28-in. intrafield lines. It is expected to take 12 months to complete. McDermott had prev…

By refusing development consent of a coal mine on the basis of likely contribution to climate change and adverse social impacts, the New South Wales Land and Environment Court has drawn attention to the increasing importance of human rights considerations in assessing the impact of major projects.

According to a report published by the Government Accountability Office, the Transportation Security Administration employs only six full-time staffers for its pipeline security branch.