British-based Centrica has agreed to buy more gas assets onshore Canada.

Oil industry commentator Matt Simmons has died suddenly at his home in the US, reports have said.

A subsidiary of British-based Wood Group in Houston has launched a new tool designed to defeat the formation of gas hydrates in pipelines.

BP has begun the widely-anticipated asset sales to pay for its liabilities for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by signing deals with Apache.

BP has begun an asset sale to pay for its liabilities for the Macondo oil spill in the US Gulf of Mexico.

London-listed Nighthawk Energy, the US onshore specialist, has extended its presence there with the acquisition of another property.

Energy industry banker Matt Simmons has announced his decision to retire from the investment bank he founded – to concentrate working on a US think tank focussed on renewable energy.

Anadarko Petroleum has agreed to lease more territory close to the onshore US Jolly Ranch project operated by Running Foxes Petroleum partnered by London-listed Nighthawk Energy.

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Offshore satellite network provider CapRock Communications headquartered in Houston has agreed to a buyout from a rival US player.

"The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico makes it more difficult to ask for opening of new sensitive areas".

America has entered the offshore wind energy market with the approval by for the country first wind farm at Cape Cod.

America has entered the offshore wind energy market with the approval by for the country first wind farm at Cape Cod.

The company signs a subsea deal with Noble Energy.

Spectrum has started phase four of the Big Wave multi-client programme.

North Sea major Talisman Energy will have more cash to spend after securing the sale of non-core assets onshore Canada for Cdn. $1.9 Bn (US $1.89 Bn).

Statoil has carried out heavy offshore lifting of two wellhead platforms on the Peregrino oil field offshore Brazil.

The Shell operated Vito appraisal in the Gulf of Mexico, has encountered oil, Anadarko Petroleum confirms.

Statoil was the highest bidder on 21 leases in the central lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday.

Just a day after announcing that the company's information vice president of media relations, Ola Morten Aanestad is transferring to Houston, Statoil announces that it has secured a transportation agreement in the US gas market.

Nighhawk Energy, the Bristol-based energy company focused  on the US has indicated it expects production to ramp up to 1,000 b/d from its Jolly Ranch shale oil project this year.

Questerre Energy Corporation reports that production testing has started on the St. Edouard 1A well in Quebec.

Scorpion Offshore has received an agreement with an American company for a drilling program offshore Brazil for Offshore Mischief.

The seismic company Reservoir Exploration Technology will get a Brazilian environmental license that allows the company to acquire data.

ConocoPhillips has agreed to let Statoil take a stake in an exploration areas in the Chukchi Sea offshore Alaska where initial drilling is planned in two years time.

US-based Noble Energy has clinched a deal with Canada's Suncor/PetroCanada to acquire most of that companies assets in the Rockies mountain region for US $494 m.

Total has signed up to take a stake in a tight gas project onshore Texas by partnering with a US-based energy firm, signalling a strategic entry into the US tight gas market.

Norse Energy reports that the company has reached its goal of a daily production threshold rate of 2,137 BOE by the end of 2009.