Adam C. Peakes has been selected as senior vice-president and chief financial officer of Noble Corp. PLC. The move is effective Jan. 23. Source: News

Concho Resources Inc., Midland, Tex., has agreed to acquire 24,000 gross (16,400 net) acres in the northern Delaware basin from an undisclosed buyer for $430 million. Source: News

Thirty-four contract areas received bids in India’s effort to develop small fields, according to the country’s Press Information Bureau. Forty-six contract areas were offered across nine sedimentary basins. Source: News

The US Department of the Interior released a proposed final program (PFP) for the 2017-22 US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing that removed all tracts offshore Alaska. National oil and gas associations, other business organizations, and members of Alaska’s government immediately criticized the Nov. 18 action. Source: News

Does law matter in the US, or does it not? That question, not the incoherent wishes of protestors trying to block completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, deserves urgent attention. Source: News

Crude oil prices on the New York and London markets began the week on the rise, reflecting renewed optimism over the possibility that an agreement limiting production will be reached in Vienna at the Nov. 30 meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Source: News

Black Sea Oil & Gas SRL (BSOG), Bucharest, a subsidiary of Carlyle Investment Management LLC’s Carlyle International Energy Partners LP, Washington, DC, has let a contract to Xodus Group Ltd., Aberdeen, to provide front-end engineering and design of offshore and onshore installations for its Midia gas development project in the Black Sea offshore Romania. Source: […]