The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/3-4, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/3-4 is to be drilled from the drilling facility Bredford Dolphin(image) located at position 58° 48’ 14.5” north 02° 43’ 08.5” east after t
Papua New Guinea’s government is being criticised for approving the world’s first deep-sea mine. Nautilus Minerals, of Canada, was awarded a licence in January to extract gold and copper from the floor of the Bismarck Sea, about 50 kilometres north of Rabaul. The project’s environmental impact state
Today at 08:18, a helicopter flying between the Maersk Oil operated Gorm and Rolf Field observed oil on the water. Oil production from the Rolf platform was immediately stopped. Maersk Oil has activated its oil spill contingency plan, including 2 x 1,200 metre floating boom barriers which are being
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Klaus Rud Sejling, Vice President of A. P. Moller-Maersk Group. The parties addressed the opportunities for cooperation deepening to ensure year-round well d
Cal Dive International, Inc. reported a net loss for fiscal 2010 of $315.8 million and $3.47 per diluted share. This compares to net income of $76.6 million and $.81 per diluted share for fiscal 2009. The 2010 net loss includes $302.5 million ($3.32 per diluted share) in non-cash impairment charges
Statoil has declared the second of three one year options for each of the AHTS vessels Havila Mars and Havila Mercury and the first of two one year options for the RRV vessel Havila Runde. The agreed rates for the optional periods are according to current market level. The firm period for Havila Mar
Halliburton announced today that it has integrated the drilling capabilities of several product service lines (PSLs) to deliver significant drilling performance gains and save operators millions of dollars in well costs. Halliburton’s Optimized Drilling Performance™ approach includes the delivery of
The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has approved the first permit to restart deepwater drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico since the Macondo spill incident, referencing availability of containment solutions like the Helix Fast Response System as a deciding fact
Petrobras announces that it has completed the drilling of extension exploratory well 3-BRSA-891A-RJS (3-RJS-682A) located in the Iara Evaluation Plan, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. At a water depth of 2,279m, the well is approximately 230 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and 8 km from the explorat
OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (“OGX”) , the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, announced today that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian and Aptian sections of well 1-OGX-31-RJS, which is located in
The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement has approved the first permit to restart deepwater drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico since the Macondo spill incident, referencing availability of containment solutions like the Helix Fast Response System as a deciding fact
Tap Oil Limited provides the following update on the Zola-1 exploration well, offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Location / Proposed Depth The Zola-1 well is located in permit WA-290-P, immediately south of the giant Gorgon gas field in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. The well is b
Aker Solutions has reached a key milestone in being selected as one of two remaining players for the delivery competition of the Browse LNG development. The FEED will commence immediately and the EPCI tender will be submitted mid-2011 with expected contract award end 2011. Per Harald Kongelf, execut
During 30 years as a commercial diver Bob Durrant was often intrigued by the impact discarded car tyres had on the seabed. So instead of retiring, he launched a company to investigate whether linked tyres could prevent sand scouring which causes problems for turbines, cables and other subsea structu
