The Trump administration’s intentions to consider opening more of the US Outer Continental Shelf to oil and gas leasing in a new management program it plans to develop drew equally strong support from Republicans and opposition from Democrats at a July 12 US House of Representatives Natural Resources subcommittee hearing. Source: News

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management conditionally approved a Beaufort Sea exploration plan it received from Eni US Operating Co., a subsidiary of Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni SPA, for the drilling of four exploration wells in federal submerged lands from its preexisting Spy Island drill site in Alaskan state waters starting […]

Operational excellence, product sustainability, and collaboration should be goals of an oil and gas industry needing to supply growing amounts of energy while cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, according to BP PLC Group Chief Executive Bob Dudley. Source: News

Statoil ASA said it has let rig contracts for offshore exploration in the BM-S-8 license area in Brazil’s Santos basin. Source: News

Official proposals for the ConocoPhillips-led consortium’s Barossa and Caldita natural gas fields’ development in the offshore Bonaparte basin 300 km north of Darwin in the eastern Timor Sea have been made public by the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA). Source: News

Nansen G. Saleri has assumed the roles of chairman and chief executive officer of QRI Group LLC, Houston. Source: News

Inpex Corp., Tokyo, said Nobuyuki Higashi has been named vice-president of the global energy marketing (GEM) division, effective Aug. 1. Source: News