Karoon Gas Australia has announced the spudding of the third well in the current Santos Basin drilling campaign, the Echidna-1 exploration well, at 1500 hrs BRT on March 31, 2015. The top of the reservoir section is expected to be penetrated within approximately 3 weeks with the well reaching a plan
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), has been selected by Hess Corporation to supply an Integrated Marine Monitoring System (IMMS) for the Stampede Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The system includes instrumentation to measure the environmental conditions impacting the TLP an
Hibiscus Petroleum’s jointly-controlled entity, Lime Norway, has executed an agreement with Skagen44 to acquire an additional 10% interest in PL616, located in the North Sea. The transfer of this additional stake is subject to regulatory approval, and upon completion, will increase Lime Norway’s int
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section has appointed Shankar Bhukya as its new chairman, taking over from Ross Lowdon who has stepped down due to re-location to Houston. Beginning his career as regional applications engineer at Smith Services in Aberdeen, Bhukya has more than eigh
CAMAC Energy Inc. has finished completion operations on the Oyo-8 well, located offshore Nigeria, and is now ready to start oil production. Oyo-8 is hooked up to the Bumi Armada-owned FPSO Armada Perdana. However, CAMAC has been informed by Bumi that the FPSO is not ready to receive oil production f
UK-based offshore drilling contractor Ensco has, from oil company BP, received a notice of early termination for ENSCO DS-4, a drilling rig operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The estimated effective date of the contract termination is July 2015 based on the projected completion of the customer’s
Keppel FELS, a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, has delivered a KFELS B Class jack-up rig to Mexican national oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). The rig was named Kukulkan by Lady Sponsor Valerie Pahl-Hernandez, wife of Gustavo Hernandez Garcia, Director General of PEMEX Exploratio
Maersk Oil has informed that production has started from the new unmanned platform Tyra Southeast-B, located in the Danish North Sea. According to Maersk, the platform is expected to add reserves of 50 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) over the next 30 years to Danish production. “The Tyra Sou
VAALCO Energy, Inc. has announced that the post-salt Kindele-1 well, its first exploration well on Block 5 offshore Angola, was drilled to a total vertical depth of approximately 1,829 meters. VAALCO started drilling Kindele-1 well on March 2, 2015 with Celtic Sea semi-submersible drilling rig. Acco
Northern Offshore, Ltd. has negotiated a nine month delay in the deliveries of its high specification jack-ups, Energy Engager and Energy Encounter from a shipyard in China. The new delivery dates for these units are December 2016 and June 2017 respectively. President and CEO Gary Casswell commented
Neptune has been awarded an 18 month rig positioning and mooring services contract for Apache Energy Limited in Australia. The contract which has two possible 12 month extensions, will see Neptune mobilising survey equipment and personnel on-board the semi-submersible rigs, Ocean America and Ocean M
Norway is today Europe’s largest oil producer and exporter. However, it has not always been like that. According to the Norsk Olje & Gass, in a letter of February 1958 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Geological Survey wrote the following:”The chances of finding coal, oil or sulphur
British oil giant BP has terminated a contract for the West Sirius semi-submersible drilling rig, owned by Seadrill Partners. In a statement issued today, Seadrill said the termination would become effective by early May 2015, following the rig completing the current well and demobilization. The rig
A person connected to drilling rigs construction contracts between Brazilian drilling contractor Sete Brasil and Singapore’s rig builder Sembcorp Marine, has been arrested. According to Sembcorp Marine, based on allegations by Petrobras’ former engineering manager Pedro Jose Barusco, Brazilian autho
