Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, will no longer exclude Cairn Energy Plc and Kosmos Energy Ltd from its portfolio of investments, the Norwegian central bank said on Tuesday.The companies were excluded in 2016 based on advice from the fund's ethics watchdog…
Enpro Subsea & Kosmos Energy commit to subsea ‘smart standardization’ in Gulf of MexicoEnpro Subsea reached a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Kosmos Energy (formerly Deep Gulf Energy) aimed at providing enhanced subsea architecture and…
Oil and gas exploration and production company Kosmos Energy said that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Shell Exploration Company B.V. to jointly explore in Southern West Africa.Initially, the alliance will focus on Namibia, where…
U.S. headquartered oil and gas company Kosmos Energy said on Wednesday it will abandon an offshore well in Suriname because it failed to find oil, the second well it plugged in the region in recent months for the same reason.Kosmos said the…
Kosmos Energy's Lamantin-1 exploration well on Block C-12 offshore Mauritania has disappointed. The well, drilled in 2200m water depth and to a total depth of 5150m, hit a water bearing reservoir with residual hydrocarbons. It is thought…
Kosmos Energy's Hippocampe-1 deepwater exploration well in Block C-8 offshore Mauritania was dry. The well, drilled in 2600m water depth, in partnership with BP, was designed to test Lower Cenomanian and Albian reservoirs charged from the deeper Valanginian – Neocomian source…
Kosmos Energy entered Equatorial Guinea with a splash by acquiring Hess' 85% stake in two long-producting oil fields for US$650 million, as well as signing production sharing contracts (PSCs) for three other blocks in the Rio Muni basin…
Partners Kosmos Energy and BP have confirmed the Tortue field offshore Mauritania to be a “world-class” resource, following a successful drill stem test (DST) of the Tortue-1 well with the Atwood Achiever drillship, which has now been mobilized to the Hippocampe prospect…
KBR has confirmed that the company has been awarded the pre-front end engineering design (FEED) and project support services contracts for the development of the Tortue / Ahmeyim field, offshore Mauritania and Senegal. OE reported in…
Houston-headquartered Atwood Oceanics has inked a one-well contract offshore northwest Africa with Kosmos Energy using the ultra-deepwater rig Atwood Achiever. The contract, which includes six, one-well options, will start immediately…
Total has signed up to explore another deepwater block offshore Mauritania that the French giant says is in a high-potential zone. Image from Total. Total inked an exploration…
Dallas-based Kosmos Energy and BP have made a new, major gas discovery offshore Senegal, which could support a second LNG hub in the basin, according to the independent. Kosmos estimates that the Yakaar-1 discovery, drilled using the Atwood Achiever drillship…
Kosmos Energy started the second phase of its multi-well exploration drilling program offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The Atwood Achiever drillship is now on location offshore Senegal in the Cayar Offshore Profond block and has started…
Drilling has started on Cairn Energy's latest exploration campaign offshore Senegal, according to partner FAR. Cairn Energy is using the Stena DrillMAX drillship to drill the SNE-5 well, which was spudded on Saturday, which will be followed by the SNE-6 well…
Oil major BP is to enter the 'emerging world-class hydrocarbon basin' offshore Senegal and Mauritania, with three exploration wells planned starting in 2017, leading to a new LNG hub, after agreeing a deal with independent Kosmos Energy. BP…
