A selection of upstream oil and gas news stories from this week.
Bayat Energy and Schlumberger have signed an MoU for sale and lease of oilfield equipment in Afghanistan.
Helge Lund, CEO of Statoil, and Rainer Seele, Chairman of Wintershall, comment on the importance of the North Sea for Europe's energy supply.
Plans cost-efficient optimisation of drilling schedule for G10/48 and G6/48 in 2015.
ATP 656P, 657P, 658P and 660P have been officially granted to the company鈥檚 wholly owned subsidiary, Blue Energy (Qld).
Mubadala Petroleum has announced that drilling and testing has confirmed the Pegaga discovery offshore Malaysia as a substantial gas find.
Repsol has made two new discoveries in the Russia鈥檚 Karabashsky blocks, in the West-Siberian Ouriyinskoye field.