TotalEnergies and PETRONAS embark on ‘major’ oil & gas search in Oceania


Dateline 2026-06-26, Offshore Energy:

TotalEnergies and Petronas previously disclosed a plan to drill the Mailu-1 exploration well, as Papua New Guinea’s first deepwater well, within Block PL 576 in 2025. However, the well was later expected to be spudded in 2026 using Noble Corporation’s Noble Viking seventh-generation drillship.

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