BHP Billiton Petroleum Acquires Exploration Rights Onshore Colombia

Monday, September 29th, 2008

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BHP Billiton Petroleum (NYSE:BHP) (NYSE:BBL) announced today that it has acquired exploration rights to an onshore block of approximately 7,750,000 acres in the Llanos Basin, Colombia. The Company signed ...


AMEC acquires Slovak specialist nuclear services company

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

London United Kingdom, (22 July 2008) - AMEC plc, the international engineering and project management company, announces the acquisition of the Slovak specialist nuclear services company AllDeco, s.r.o. (AllDeco) from ...


Schlumberger Acquires Extreme Engineering

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Couples Unmanned Measurement-While-Drilling Technology to Rotary-Steerable Systems for Cost-Efficient Operations and Improved Well Performance HOUSTON, June 24, 2008 - Schlumberger announced today that it has acquired the business of Extreme Engineering ...


Total Acquires Interests in Two Offshore Blocks in Malaysia

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Total announces today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Total E&P Malaysia has signed a production sharing contract with national oil company Petronas. The contract covers Blocks PM303 and PM324, located around 100 ...


LUKOIL ACQUIRES RETAIL GAS STATIONS IN CROATIA

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

LUKOIL Europe Holdings B.V., 100% subsidiary of ОАО LUKOIL closed a deal on purchase of EUROPA-MIL (Croatia). LUKOIL acquired 9 retail outlets in Zagreb and Split, 5 land plots for construction ...


Imperial Oil acquires acreage in Horn River area

Monday, April 28th, 2008

In recent land sales, subsidiaries of Imperial Oil Limited (operator) and ExxonMobil Canada Limited have acquired exploration rights in the Horn River area of northeastern British Columbia.   Since September 2007, the ...


Toyota Tsusho Acquires Rights to Australian Concession

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Moving Into the Gas Exploration Sector - Toyota Tsusho Acquires Rights to Australian Concession 2008-03-06 Toyota Tsusho Corporation (?the company,? head office: Nagoya, Japan; President: Junzo Shimizu) today announced its ...


Total Acquires Marketing Assets in the Caribbean

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

 Total today announces the signature of an agreement to acquire ExxonMobil’s marketing assets in Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The acquisition represents a marketing capacity of around ...


LUKOIL ACQUIRES NEW HYDROCARBON ASSETS IN UZBEKISTAN

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

LUKOIL Overseas (OAO LUKOIL’s 100% subsidiary) has completed a transaction with ZAO MGNK-SoyuzNefteGaz to acquire 100% of SNG Holdings Ltd. group, one of which is SoyuzNefteGaz Vostok Limited, a signatory ...


Oando acquires two Nigerian oil mining leases from Shell for USD$625 million

Monday, February 25th, 2008

 25th February 2008  Oando PLC has acquired Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production’s 49.8% stake in two oil Blocks, namely OML 125 and OML 134. The two deepwater blocks offshore Nigeria were ...


Aker Kvaerner acquires 3D drilling simulation and visualisation company

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

14 February 2008 - Aker Kvaerner has acquired a majority shareholding in the Norwegian company First Interactive AS. The agreement includes an option to buy the remaining shares. "Aker Kvaerner ...


Aker Kvaerner acquires engineering company and sells off shares in Russian yard

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

13 February 2008 - Aker Kvaerner has entered into an agreement which gives full ownership of Finnish RR Offshore and ends the co-operation between Aker Kvaerner and it's former Russian ...