Karoon Gas Australia has announced that a semi-submersible drilling rig has been contracted to drill the first well for Apache and Karoon in the northern Carnarvon Basin exploration permit WA 482-P, off Australia. According to Karoon, the Levitt-1 exploration well is expected to spud during May 2015
Statoil has awarded a contract to Reinertsen to prepare Kristin platform, located in the Norwegian Sea, for tie-in with Wintershall’s Maria field. According to Offshore.no, the contract is worth NOK 600 million ($75.37 million). The partnership aims to develop the Maria field as a subsea facility wi
Atlantic Petroleum has announced that drilling of the Roald Rygg well 6706/12-3, in PL602, in the Norwegian Sea started on March 22, 2015 with the Transocean Spitsbergen rig. The well 6706/12-3 is planned to drill to a total depth of around 3420 m TVD and operations are anticipated to take 35 days.
Karoon Gas Australia has reported that the Kangaroo West-1 exploration well, located in exploration block S-M-1165, off Brazil, had reached its planned total depth of 3,170 mRT. Based on mudlog and LWD petrophysical data, no hydrocarbons were intersected. The well intersected a good thick sealing un
Woodside Petroleum has restarted production at its Pluto LNG Plant in Western Australia. The semi-submersible drilling rig Atwood Osprey, which had drifted last week close to the flowlines, was relocated away from Pluto infrastructure. The Atwood Osprey is owned by Atwood Oceanics and contracted to
An offshore worker has been airlifted from an oil platform in the UK North Sea. According to Evening Express, a daily newspaper in Aberdeen, the crewman was working on Canadian Natural Resource’s (CNR) Tiffany platform located 155 miles north-east of Aberdeen. The evacuation followed after the medic
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has said it was notified of a small fire incident on the Deep Panuke platform operated by Encana Corporation, on Monday, March 16, 2015. According to the CNSOPB, at approximately 8 A.M., a worker noticed a 6” flame on a cooling pump bearing on the util
Transocean Ltd. has issued its monthly Fleet Update Summary according to which the company intends to scrap four of its rigs. In December last year, Transocean also announced it is scrapping seven lower-specification deepwater and midwater floaters. Transocean intends to scrap the Deepwater Expediti
Operator Statoil has together with PL218 partners made a gas discovery in the Snefrid Nord prospect in the Norwegian Sea. According to Statoil, the discovery is an important contribution to the Aasta Hansteen field development project and Polarled pipeline utilisation. “The Snefrid Nord discovery in
KrisEnergy has announced that the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig has started drilling of the Rossukon-2 exploration well in G6/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, where the Rossukon oil accumulation was discovered in 2009. Rossukon-2 lies 1 km northeast of the Rossukon-1 discovery well. The well is planned to re
An offshore supply vessel caused a stir in the North Sea yesterday after it crashed into an oil platform.
Archer, a global supplier of drilling and well services, has started operations to permanently plug and abandon (PP&A) 12 gas wells on Statoil’s Heimdal platform in the Norwegian North Sea. John Lechner, President North Sea and Executive Vice President, Archer, said: “I am very pleased with the exce
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), through its subsidiary Lundin Norway, operator of PL338C, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 16/1-24, in a prospect named Gemini, in the North Sea. The well is dry. The well was drilled about 10 km southwest of the Edvard Grieg field in the central par
Petrobras has announced the start-up of platform P-61 in Papa Terra field, in the southern tip of Campos Basin, 110 km off the coast of Brazil and at a water depth (distance between water surface and sea floor) ranging from 400 to 1,400 meters. Set up at a water depth of 1,200 meters, platform P-61
