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Woodside, PEMEX to Explore More Oil offshore Mexico
Australia's Woodside and Petroleos Mexicanos signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their partnership in Mexican waters beyond the under-construction Trion oil project.
9:50 AM EST | September 03, 2026
Africa Emerges as Center of Upstream Acreage Rush
Africa has emerged as the center of a global upstream acreage rush, Enverus Intelligence Research said.
10:46 AM EST | August 27, 2026
Equinor, Aker BP, Var Energi to Jointly Pursue Bigger NCS Opportunities
The Norwegian trio announced a collaboration to explore the largest remaining reserves in the country's waters to sustain production as existing developments become depleted.
6:30 AM EST | August 25, 2026
Iran Announces Gas Discovery
Iran said it discovered more than 7.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
9:41 AM EST | August 24, 2026
Monumental Closes In on New Exploration Block in New Zealand
Monumental and its partners have identified gas prospects in the prospective area in the Taranaki Basin.
10:23 AM EST | August 20, 2026
Oil Giants Eye Jurassic Rocks off Mexico
Latin America's two biggest oil companies are betting big on a high-risk effort.
10:07 AM EST | August 20, 2026
Latest Gulf Sale Generates $82MM in High Bids
The DOI announced that the Big Beautiful Gulf 3 lease sale, or BBG3, generated $82.6 million in high bids for 59 blocks in federal waters of the Gulf of America.
10:39 AM EST | August 19, 2026
Chevron Makes New Discovery in Block 0 offshore Angola
Chevron and its partners are considering a tieback.
6:25 AM EST | August 18, 2026
Shell Loses Long Court Fight for South African Exploration
The oil major won't be allowed to renew an exploration right off South Africa's rugged Indian Ocean Wild Coast, the Constitutional Court ruled.
7:00 AM EST | August 15, 2026
Equinor Makes New Oil Discovery Near Johan Castberg
Equinor and its partners made a new oil discovery that they are now considering developing via existing infrastructure in the Johan Castberg field on Norway's side of the Barents Sea.
9:25 AM EST | July 23, 2026
ExxonMobil, QatarEnergy Affirm Commerciality of Cyprus Discoveries
QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil signed a 'commercial discovery declaration' with the Cypriot government for two discoveries in Block 10 in the Mediterranean Sea.
5:23 AM EST | July 03, 2026
Petronas Makes New Discoveries offshore Suriname
Malaysia's national oil and gas company said it has now drilled eight successful wells with combined recoverable resources of over one billion barrels of oil equivalent in the South American country.
5:15 AM EST | July 02, 2026
Wellesley Confirms New Discovery in Norwegian North Sea
Preliminary calculations for the gas and condensate discovery indicate recoverable resources of 21-107 million barrels of oil equivalent.
9:47 AM EST | June 25, 2026
Repsol Wins New Deal to Widen Presence in Venezuela
Repsol signed a new deal with Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Ministry and state-owned PdVSA 'to assess the potential development' of a new area southeast of Lake Maracaibo and near the Spanish company's existing portfolio in the South American country.
4:29 AM EST | June 19, 2026
Chevron Expands Exploration Footprint in Greek Mediterranean
Chevron and Helleniq Energy have now expanded their partnership in Greece to five offshore concessions.
5:33 AM EST | June 16, 2026
Pemex CEO Set to Visit Brazil amid Talks of Joint Gulf Campaign
Petroleos Mexicanos' Juan Carlos Carpio is expected to visit Brazil this month as the company explores a deal with Petroleo Brasileiro to explore for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, Petrobras' boss said.
11:32 AM EST | June 15, 2026
Eni Gets Exploration Block offshore Gambia
'The block is located in a region of the Atlantic margin with proven hydrocarbon discoveries'.
2:30 AM EST | June 08, 2026
WoodMac Names Most Admired Explorer
The award is determined by the votes of exploration leaders across the industry, supported by independent quantitative analysis conducted by Wood Mackenzie, WoodMac noted.
6:41 AM EST | June 04, 2026
Equatorial Guinea Clears Europa Oil's Block Farm-Out to Chinese Firm
Europa Oil & Gas said it is moving closer to drilling the Barracuda prospect offshore Equatorial Guinea after the Central African country approved the entry of a new Chinese partner in the relevant license.
10:57 AM EST | June 01, 2026
BP Enters 3 New Indonesian Blocks
Two of the exploration blocks sit near the BP-operated Tangguh LNG in Papua Barat province, presenting 'potential for short-cycle development', BP said.
10:37 AM EST | May 21, 2026
TotalEnergies Expands Mediterranean Exploration with Egypt Deal
The MoU with state-owned EGAS covers a 'large area' off the north-western coast of Egypt.
2:30 AM EST | May 14, 2026
TotalEnergies Resumes Syrian Activities with Mediterranean Exploration Deal
The agreement marks TotalEnergies' resumption of in-the-field activities in the country since the French energy giant ceased production about 15 years ago due to international sanctions against the Assad regime.
7:41 AM EST | May 13, 2026
BP Enters 6 Exploration Blocks in Uzbekistan
The six-block North Ustyurt production sharing contract is BP's first project in the Central Asian country.
5:20 AM EST | May 13, 2026
USGS Sees 340+ Tcf of Recoverable Gas in Bossier Formation
'We have assessed there are significant undiscovered resources in the Bossier Formation', USGS Director Ned Mamula said.
7:15 AM EST | May 08, 2026
Eni Confirms Size of 'Giant' Gas Discovery offshore Indonesia
A drill stem test confirmed the preliminary assessment of about 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 300 million barrels of condensate in the Geliga-1 discovery in the Kutei Basin.
4:57 AM EST | May 07, 2026
Eni Declares 'Giant' Gas Discovery offshore Indonesia
'Preliminary estimates indicate in-place resources of approximately 5 trillion cubic feet of gas and 300 million barrels of condensate in the encountered interval'.
4:56 AM EST | April 20, 2026
TotalEnergies Discovers More Oil offshore Congo Brazzaville
'The Moho G discovery, together with the discovery previously made on the nearby Moho F structure, represents recoverable resources estimated at close to 100 million barrels'.
6:53 AM EST | April 16, 2026
Petrobras, BP Make New Discovery in Campos Basin
'Petrobras' operations in block C-M-477, in the Campos Basin, are aligned with the company's strategy to replenish oil and gas reserves through activities in frontier exploratory areas, in partnership with other companies'.
9:27 AM EST | April 15, 2026
Eni Announces 2 Tcf Gas Find Offshore Egypt
Eni announced a 'significant' gas and condensate discovery offshore Egypt.
10:36 AM EST | April 14, 2026
Oman Offers 5 Oil and Gas Leases
The Gulf country's Energy and Minerals Ministry opened bidding applications for five new oil and gas concession areas.
3:58 AM EST | April 13, 2026
Occidental Discovers Oil Near Existing Infrastructure off Louisiana
'The discovery has the potential for subsea tie-backs to an adjacent Occidental-operated facility and others in the nearby area'.
8:54 AM EST | April 10, 2026
Santos Announces Positive Results for Quokka Appraisal Campaign
'Located strategically to the east of our Pikka phase 1 development, Quokka represents another high-return opportunity that strengthens our position on the North Slope and extends our development runway in Alaska for years to come'.
7:42 AM EST | April 09, 2026
Norway Pushes for Reentry into Gro Gas Discovery
'There is a considerable value creation potential here but time is running out', Norway's upstream regulator said about the discovery drilled by Shell and later relinquished by Equinor.
4:53 AM EST | April 09, 2026
Chevron, Libya Agree to Conduct Study in New Offshore Block
'This partnership is not merely a technical agreement but rather a message of confidence in the Libyan investment environment and evidence of the return of major companies to work and explore promising opportunities in our country'.
7:57 AM EST | March 27, 2026
New Zealand Receives Application for Canterbury Hydrocarbon Prospecting
The application follows the removal of the petroleum exploration ban late 2025, after which two exploration permit applications have progressed to government assessment.
11:50 AM EST | March 26, 2026
Petrobras Discovers More Gas offshore Colombia
The new discovery in Block GUA-OFF-0 'consolidates the gas province and the gas potential in the Colombian offshore', Petrobras said.
7:00 AM EST | March 22, 2026
New Gas Finds in Libya Total More Than 1 TCF
Eni announced new gas discoveries in Libya totaling more than one trillion cubic feet.
11:59 AM EST | March 18, 2026
Equinor Plans New Tieback to Johan Castberg
'The volume basis in Johan Castberg was originally estimated at 500-700 million barrels, and Equinor has an ambition to increase this by an additional 200-500 million barrels'.
10:37 AM EST | March 18, 2026
DOI Announces Results of BBG2 Lease Sale
13 companies submitted 38 bids totaling $69,838,782, a DOI statement highlighted.
8:23 AM EST | March 13, 2026
Petronas Makes Discovery offshore East Java
'The Barokah-1 discovery reinforces the compelling exploration potential we continue to see in the Northern Madura region, East Java'.
7:06 AM EST | March 13, 2026
Equinor Proves More Oil and Gas around Sleipner, Troll
Equinor discovered more oil, gas and condensate on Norway's side of the North Sea, with plans to extract the resources via existing infrastructure in the Sleipner and Troll areas.
3:23 AM EST | March 12, 2026
Equinor, Wellesley Tie Up for Norwegian Exploration
'Both companies recognize the challenge of declining production on the NCS in the coming decade'.
8:23 AM EST | March 06, 2026
Trump's Alaska Lease Sale Draws Zero Bids From Drillers
The Trump administration's first oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Cook Inlet received no bids, according to the U.S. Interior Department.
3:00 PM EST | March 05, 2026
Talos Plans Appraisal Well for 'Game Changer' Find in Q2
In a statement sent to Rigzone back in August last year, Wood Mackenzie said the Daenerys discovery is a 'game changer' for Talos in the Gulf of America.
10:36 AM EST | March 02, 2026
Equinor Discovers More Oil around Snorre offshore Norway
Equinor made an oil discovery near the Snorre field, on Norway's side of the North Sea, that could be rapidly developed as a tieback to existing infrastructure in the area.
8:50 AM EST | March 02, 2026
BOEM Eyes California Offshore Drilling
BOEM has announced its intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for proposed oil and gas lease sales in the Northern, Central and Southern California Planning Areas of the OCS.
7:42 AM EST | February 27, 2026
Murphy Oil Hits Another Dry Well in Ivorian Campaign
Murphy Oil's first two wells in a three-well exploration campaign offshore Cote d'Ivoire have turned up dry.
5:10 AM EST | February 24, 2026
Equinor Makes Discovery Near Gullfaks
Preliminary estimates placed the size of the discovery at 1.3-3.8 million oil-equivalent barrels, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate said.
8:04 AM EST | February 17, 2026
Eni Scores New 'Significant' Discovery offshore Ivory Coast
The Italian energy major declared a 'significant' gas and condensate discovery in the waters of Cote d'Ivoire through the first exploration well in Block CI-501.
6:40 AM EST | February 17, 2026
Chevron Wins Four Exploration Blocks in Greek Mediterranean
Two of the blocks are in the south of the island of Crete and two are in the Peloponnese peninsula.
2:06 AM EST | February 17, 2026
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