Shell Reportedly In Talks To Sell GoM Field For $1.3 Billion

The deal with Focus Oil could value Shell's stake in the Caesar Tonga Field in the Gulf of Mexico at about $1.3 billion, the report said.

September 21, 2018

Russia’s Gazprom Says Sea Portion Of TurkStream First Line Completed

Gazprom, which plans to complete the pipeline in 2019, said in a statement that 1,161 km of pipe had been laid since it began construction last year.

April 30, 2018

Black Sea Oil & Gas To Start Gas Production Offshore Romania In 2019

The Romanian company, controlled by private equity firm Carlyle Group LP, discovered two wells holding an estimated 10 billion cubic meters of gas in 2008 some 120 km offshore, where it has rights over the XIII Pelican and XV Midia Shallow blocks.

May 24, 2017

Black Sea Offers Untapped Potential

Turkey has estimated that the Black Sea holds recoverable reserves of 10 Bbbl of crude oil and 2 Tcm (70.6 Tcf) of natural gas and operators are making progress, slow some might say, toward exploiting this potential that a few years ago was touted by some analysts as the “new North Sea.”

April 20, 2017

Oil Loading From Russia's Novorossiisk Black Sea Port Resumes

Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said it had resumed oil loadings from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk on on the morning of Dec. 30, after a storm.

December 30, 2016

Park Place Reports Production From Turkish Oil, Gas Fields

Park Place previously entered an agreement to purchase the Tiway Cos., which are three E&P companies operating in Turkey. They own interests in one offshore producing field and two onshore producing fields.

June 17, 2016

Bulgaria Signs Deal With Shell For Deepwater Exploration

Shell won a tender for a five-year permit for deepwater exploration at the 1-14 Silistar block that covers 7,000 sq km (2,703 sq miles) in September.

February 23, 2016

Shell To Explore For Oil, Gas In Block Offshore Bulgaria

The Balkan country, eager to reduce its near total dependence on Russian gas, had in April opened tenders for two offshore blocks, Silistar and Teres.

September 29, 2015

TransAtlantic To Buy Two Turkish Companies For $161MM

The companies’ assets include approximately 600,000 net onshore acres and 360,000 net offshore acres in the Thrace Basin of Turkey.

November 12, 2010

TransAtlantic To Buy Two Turkish Companies For $161MM

The companies’ assets include approximately 600,000 net onshore acres and 360,000 net offshore acres in the Thrace Basin of Turkey.

November 12, 2010