Iraq signed an initial agreement with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for the latter to drill 150 wells in the Iraqi Buzurgan oilfield.

China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) announced that Liuhua 16-2 oilfield cluster, China's first independent deep-water oil and gas project, operates at its full capacity in the South China Sea.

Petronas signed a 10-years agreement with CNOOC to provide the latter with 2.2 million tons of LNG per annum.

CNOOC Limited has started natural gas production from Liuhua 29-2 field in the eastern South China Sea, according to CNOOC’s press release.

American supermajor, ExxonMobil, has announced the discovery at the Redtail-1 well which will add to the previously estimated recoverable resource of more than 8 billion barrels of oil equivalent (bbboe) on the Stabroek Block.

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has agreed to transfer the rights of Lower Zakum, Umm Shaif, and Nasr offshore from the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s subsidiary CNOOC Limited (CNOOC).

China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) and Shell Petrochemicals Company Ltd (CSPC), a joint venture established by CNOOC and Royal Dutch Shell, signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Shell worth $5.6 billion for the phase III ethylene project.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have signed an agreement for collaboration in liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as upstream and downstream sectors.

CNOOC teams up with FAR to search for oil and gas within Senegal and Gambia over the next two years. The two parties signed an AMI that regulates their areas of collaboration.

UK's Tullow Oil plc announced that it agreed to farm-down 21.57% of its 33.33% interests in Exploration Areas 1, 1A, 2 and 3A in Uganda to Total E&P Uganda B.V. (Total) for a total consideration of $900m.