Libya grants foreign oil companies exploration licences http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TQw4LR #Libya #OilExploration #ForeignInvestment #EnergySector #PoliticalStability

Arthur Eze’s oil company cites $45m investment in Senegal

#nigeria #nigerianoil #investment #energy #africa #senegal #oilexploration #billionaires
https://www.billionaires.africa/2026/01/24/arthur-ezes-atlas-oranto-cites-45-million-investment-before-senegal-license-loss/

Brazil Approves Oil Exploration in the Amazon Despite Environmental Concerns

Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, has been granted a licence to begin exploratory oil drilling off the coast of the Amazon rainforest. This approval will allow the company to drill in a block off the coast of Amapá, located 500 km from the mouth of the Amazon River, on the Brazilian Equat... [More info]

Intensified Legal, Political, and Grassroots Battles Over Amazon Oil | Inter Press Service…

A report has warned that Colombia’s push to expand oil and gas exploration in the #Amazon risks undermining environmental goals, Indigenous rights, and long-term economic stability, unless the government pivots toward sustainable development pathways... #columbia #oilexploration #economics #indigenousrights #politics #sustainabledevelopment #environment #climatechange…

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/intensified-legal-political-and-grassroots-battles-over-amazon-oil-inter-press-service/

South African court blocks TotalEnergies' offshore oil exploration permit http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TMWBPc #TotalEnergies #OffshoreOil #EnvironmentalProtection #SouthAfrica #OilExploration

Offshore-Energy.biz: Trinidadian field goes live as BP’s second ‘major’ gas project this year…

bpTT’s third subsea development, Cypre, came online on April 3, 2025, the UK major said in a statement. The project will comprise seven wells tied back into the existing Juniper platform... #BP #oilandgas #oilexploration #trinidadandtobago #bpTT

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/offshore-energy-biz-trinidadian-field-goes-live-as-bps-second-major-gas-project-this-year/

_The Evening Post_, 10 December 1924:
            TARANAKI OILFIELDS
      DRILLING TO COMMENCE
                 IMMEDIATELY
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
                    NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
  Dr. Clapp, consulting geologist to the #Taranaki Oilfields, Ltd., interviewed, stated that drilling will commence at #Tarata immediately, and preparations have been made to drill on the foreshore close to highwater mark at Moturoa within the shelter of the breakwater. Geologists will make an extensive survey preparatory to locating the site of the third bore. Mr. W. Osborne, geologist, of Sydney University, has joined the staff, and another is to be appointed. Two complete drilling plants are already on the ground.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19241210.2.63

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #OilDrilling #OilExploration #NewZealand

Guyana banks on future as a ‘Latin Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production | Guyana | The Guardian…

With newfound oil wealth reshaping the economy, can the country balance growth with sustainable development?... #oil #guyana #development #caribbean #oilproduction #sustainabledevelopment #economy #fossilfuels #oilexploration #latinamerica

https://formuchdeliberation.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/guyana-banks-on-future-as-a-latin-qatar-in-high-stakes-gamble-over-oil-production-guyana-the-guardian/

Kudos to the #Brentwood City Council for moving to ban oil and gas drilling!

Here's hoping the rest of Contra Costa County follows suit!
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/14/brentwood-moves-to-ban-any-future-drilling-or-production-of-oil-and-gas/

#fossilfuels #contracostacounty #oilexploration #oilandgas #climatechange #climatecrisis

#NorthSea #OilExploration
'Shell has applied for an exemption from international rules that require all infrastructure to be removed from the field and the UK government is deciding whether it will allow the oil company to leave the 170-metre-high oil platform legs in place for the three platforms known as Bravo, Charlie and Delta.
64 concrete storage cells are contained in the leg structures, 42 of which have previously been used for oil storage and separation'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/26/uk-regulator-trying-block-release-shell-north-sea-documents

"#SeismicExploration is a telling manifestation of the technoscientific reorganisation of global capital. [..] At the cutting-edge of science and using some of the world’s most powerful calculation engines, the technique is as rationalised as it gets. Yet the blasting of an atomic bomb of sound every ten seconds is belligerent in the extreme toward the #OceanicEcosystems.."

Blasted Sea

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/blasted-sea

#OffshoreDrilling #OilExploration #MarineEcosystems #SonicPollution #FossilFuels

These Rare and Beautiful BC Reefs Fight Climate Change
So why hasn’t the government cancelled oil and gas exploration permits that could damage them? https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/08/Rare-BC-Reefs-Fight-Climate-Change/ #Oceans #Reefs #ClimateChange #OilExploration

U.S. proposal would expand where oil companies must look for shipwrecks before they drill -
A proposal released this week would require that oil and gas companies survey any area where they plan to disturb the sea floor, not just places where data or models suggest there is a shipwreck or other cultural site.
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-proposal-would-make-oil-companies-look-shipwrecks-they-drill
#shipwrecks #archaeology #OilExploration #survey #SeaFloor

Public nuisance
I spent the day in Westminster Magistrates Court to attend my cousin’s hearing. After sitting through the trials of a Romanian pickpocket, a reckless HGV driver and a deaf bagpiper who’d hit a doorman when he wasn’t allowed his bagpipes in a casino, my cousin, Jan Goodey arrived from Belmarsh where he’d been on remand for 3 weeks for
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/12/07/public-nuisance/
#climatecrisis #EarthFirst #JustStopOil #oilexploration #PCSCACT2022 #publicnuisance

https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2019/04/10/norway-refuses-to-drill-for-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-in-arctic-leaving-industry-surprised-and-disappointed/

https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2019/04/10/norway-refuses-to-drill-for-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-in-arctic-leaving-industry-surprised-and-disappointed/

#ecology #renewables #green #norway #oilexploration #fossilfuels #climatechange #earthfirst