
Equatorial Guinea grants two-year extension on exploration programmes
The country's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has signed a Ministerial Order granting oil and gas companies a two-year extension on their exploration programmes.
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The country's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons has signed a Ministerial Order granting oil and gas companies a two-year extension on their exploration programmes.

The two companies, part of the Acteon Group, will support piling operations for a platform installation off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

The contract was awarded by an unnamed oil and gas producer for the inspection of a subsea pipeline at an offshore oil and gas field in Malaysia.

The Ehecatl-1 exploration well on Block 7, located in the Sureste Basin offshore Mexico, did not find reservoired hydrocarbons.

The project's crew is now demobilising to the North Sea for work in late 2Q20.

The plug and abandonment programme on the Rubie and Renee fields in the North Sea has been delayed until 25 May 2020.

A joint venture, including PTTEP, Petronas, Repsol and Wintershall Dea, made the discoveries in the Salina Basin.

IOG has received the approval for its Core gas project in the North Sea.

The company has said that site construction works will commence on the West Newton B drilling site in due course.

The company has completed completed a second series of development drilling of wells at the Panuco field for a major oilfield services company.

Kazakhstan has pledged to cut its output by 390 000 bpd in May and June.

The hybrid jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid will drill three wells and plug one in the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.