North Africa focused oil and gas company, SDX Energy Inc, announced Friday that the KSR-15 well on the Sebou permit in Morocco has been placed on production.

North American companies in the oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing and other capital-intensive industries will be hard-pressed to find enough skilled and competent contract workers over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a recent survey conducted by the contractor and supplier information management firm ISN.

SAO PAULO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oil BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast Petróleo Brasileiro SA will announce a revision to its investment plan by Wednesday or Thursday of next week, Chief Executive Officer Pedro Parente said on Friday.

NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Oil prices were mixed on Friday, lingering below two-year highs as the continuing outage of a North Sea pipeline gave support, while climbing U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- Sudan lost three-quarters of its oil reserves when the south seceded in 2011. A four-year civil war in Africa’s youngest nation may be letting it reassert control.

The Oil & Gas Technology Centre has launched a $2.6 million (GBP 2 million) fund to find new digital and decommissioning technologies.

VIENNA, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Tuesday's blast at Austria's Baumgarten gas hub, which killed one person and disrupted European gas flows, was most likely caused by a loose seal on a filter cap, operator Gas Connect Austria (GCA) said.

HAVANA/HOUSTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Venezuela has pulled out of a partnership with Cuba in its Cienfuegos oil refinery and the Caribbean island has taken full ownership of the plant, Cuban state media said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - India's refiners imported nearly half as much crude oil from Iran in November as the month before, ship tracking data showed, cutting purchases to a 21-month low in protest at Tehran's decision to award a giant gas field to a Russian company.