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Hansa Hydrocarbons, an exploration and production company focused on the Southern North Sea including the UK, Dutch and German offshore sectors, has appointed new members to the company’s management team ahead of future drilling operations. The company on Monday, March 7, 2016, announced three appointments, namely Don Ferguson as Chief Operating Officer, Bob Lyons as Well Engineering […]
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Tangiers Petroleum has provided the following update on the TAO-1 exploration well located in the Tarfaya Offshore Block, Morocco. The TAO-1 exploration well, operated by Galp, has intersected the shallowest and secondary objective, Assaka. Based on currently available information, no hydrocarbon shows have been encountered. A full petrophysical evaluation of the Assaka objective will be carried out at section TD. Drilling […]
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Exploration drilling on Statoil’s Uranus prospect in the Barents Sea has been completed without proving any hydrocarbons which are possible to produce.
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Quadrant Energy’s Roc-2 well being drilled offshore W. Australia has confirmed a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir, in good quality rock, within the Caley section, its primary target. The Roc-2 well is located within the WA-437-P exploration permit in the North West Shelf of Australia where Quadrant is the operator with 80% interest, while Carnarvon Petroleum holds the remaining […]
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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation today announced a discovery at the Teak-1 exploration well in the West Cape Three Points Block offshore Ghana, where Anadarko owns a 30.875-percent working interest. The Teak-1 well encountered a total of approximately 240 net feet of oil, condensate and natural gas pay in five separate Campanian and Turonian-age reservoirs. More […]
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Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas exploration group traded on AIM, today announced positive results of the IM-5 well drilling offshore Cameroon. The IM-5 appraisal/development well, located approximately one kilometre south of the IM-3 well location, has an estimated target depth of 3,475 metres and is drilling in water depths of around 56 metres. […]
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The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has completed the investigation of the hydrocarbon leak from the S template on Åsgard A that occurred in March 2017. During the investigation several breaches of the regulations have been identified, PSA informed. The leak occurred on the evening of March 10, 2017, in connection with a planned activity […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance
Fugro has teamed up with Amplified Geochemical Imaging (AGI) to acquire offshore hydrocarbon seep data in advance of Canada’s 2018 east coast bid round. Bathymetry, backscatter and water column anomaly data will be collected to pull together a picture of surficial geological features. These data will be used to identify and target the best locations […]
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L&T Hydrocarbon has recently secured new orders of ₹ 1000 crores (USD 160 million) from the domestic market in its offshore and onshore business sectors. The major order is an offshore contract from the BG Exploration and Production India (BGEPIL) valued around ₹ 700 crores. The contract, won against international competitive bidding, encompasses total Engineering Procurement Construction and Installation […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders
Fugro has started hydrocarbon seeps survey for TGS offshore Brazil. Two purpose-built vessels, Fugro Brasilis and Fugro Searcher, have been deployed to acquire high-resolution multibeam echosounder and sub-bottom profiler data in the Campos and Santos Basins. The survey is designed to mirror TGS’s 2016-2017 Gigante and Otos projects in the Gulf of Mexico in which Fugro provided similar […]
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TAQA, the global energy company based in Abu Dhabi, can confirm that a hydrocarbon release was detected in one of the Cormorant Alpha platform legs in the northern UK North Sea. It has now been contained with no further hydrocarbon release. The release remained within the platform leg and no hydrocarbons entered the environment. The […]
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Mubadala Petroleum has signed an agreement with Morocco’s Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) to carry out an evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of a large area offshore Morocco’s Mediterranean coast. In the presence of H.H. General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE […]
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Norwegian operator Det Norske is preparing to plug and abandon the Geite prospect in the North Sea. The company said that the 7/11-13 well, which was spudded in Mid-September, reached Triassic reservoir, but without hydrocarbons. The well, located west of Ula field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, was drilled by the Maersk […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development
Orenburg hosted the fifth meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) between Gazprom and Petrovietnam State Oil and Gas Corporation as part of the execution of the Strategic Partnership Agreement signed by the companies. The meeting was held by the JCC Co-Chairmen – Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Nguyen Vu […]
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Business & Finance, Project & Tenders
Det norske oljeselskap ASA, has as partner in PL 533 (20 percent), received indication of hydrocarbons presence in the Salina prospect, where Eni Norge AS is the operator. Drilling operations in the reservoir section are still at an initial phase and the final results are thus not yet available. The well, previously known as Pulk, […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway PSA has decided to initiate an investigation following a hydrocarbon leak on the Gudrun field in the North Sea on 18 February. The hydrocarbon leak on the Statoil-operated Gudrun field occurred at 06:40 on Wednesday February 18. Production was then shut down and the facility depressurised. Gudrun is developed with […]
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Business & Finance, Research & Development
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that drilling has reached target depth on the Centrica-operated Butch South West exploration well 8/10-6S which follows up the Butch East well and the Butch Main discovery (Faroe 15%). The […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
Ithaca Energy Inc. (“Ithaca” or the “Company”) announces that the appraisal well (7225/3-2) being drilled on the Norvarg discovery, located in PL535 in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea, has confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in the Kobbe formation based on the results of wire line logs and formation tests and cores. The partnership […]
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First Hydrocarbon Nigeria (“FHN”) has today announced the appointment of Adebayo Ayorinde and Faiz Imam(photo) to the FHN Board of Directors and Ahonsi Unuigbe as Chief Financial Officer. Afren plc (“Afren” or the “Company”) holds a 45 per cent. shareholding in FHN. FHN has today announced the appointment of Faiz Imam and Adebayo Ayorinde […]
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OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A, the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, announced that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian section of 1-OGX-30-RJS well, in the BM-S-58 block, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. OGX holds a 100% […]
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Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons (MMH) has estimated that $1.2 billion will be invested into its hydrocarbon sector in 2020.
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Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders
Faroe Petroleum has failed to find hydrocarbons at its Brasse East exploration well in the North Sea, off Norway, while the Brasse appraisal sidetrack well encountered hydrocarbons.
