France’s Total is to drill one of its most important offshore exploration wells in the Americas this year as it hunts for a giant oil field in Uruguayan waters, Bloomberg reported. The company plans to start drilling ...
European oil major Total has signed a ten-year agreement to supply 500,000 tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China’s privately-run ENN Group annually, Rigzone reported. The supplies of the super-chilled nat...
Iran will start shipping 300,000 b/d of crude to Europe, 54% of the total it had sent before the European Union’s import embargo in 2012, according to Bloomberg. European refiners, Spanish Compania Espanola de P...
Saudi Aramco has held talks with banks about creating a program that would include selling Islamic bonds (sukuk) over the next years, wrote Bloomberg quoting sources familiar with the matter. Issuing Islamic bonds wil...
Fitch Ratings Agency stated that weak oil prices in 2016 will leave five out of seven large oil companies with financial leverage above the required level, the Offshore Support Journal reported citing Fitch’s re...
The chairman of Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation met with major oil companies to discuss plans to expand the country’s declining petroleum production, Business Day Live reports. Company chairman, Mustafa San...
France’s Total announced its plan to cut its spending in Indonesia’s giant Mahakam gas block by 42% to $1.1b in 2016, down from $1.9b in 2015, Platts reported. The move comes as a result of lower oil and g...
France’s Total has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Angola’s Sonangol to open fuel stations in the southern African nation, Total told Reuters. The company said that an agreement could represent a...
French oil giant Total will halt preliminary offshore oil survey work in disputed Western Sahara, a region controlled by Morocco, due to disappointing results of the first seismic data analysis, iAfrica.com informed. ...
Cyprus has renewed an agreement with French energy company, Total for oil and gas offshore explorations for additional 2 years, PennEnergy reported, despite disappointing first round of exploratory drilling in 2014. T...