Offshore Energy Today recently had an opportunity to interview Rockhopper Exploration Chief Operating Officer, Fiona MacAulay. Rockhopper is an oil and gas exploration company based in UK, with interests in the Falkland Islands. The company was recently awarded 40% interest in licence offshore Croat
Australia’s Origin Energy Limited, operator of the BassGas Joint Venture, has confirmed that the Yolla-5 production well, in the Bass Strait, offshore Australia, spudded at 21:30 hours local time on Saturday, March 14, 2015. The well is being drilled using the West Telesto jack up rig. The Yolla-5 a
Woodside Petroleum has temporarily shut-in production at its Pluto LNG Plant in Western Australia. “This precautionary action was taken after a submersible drilling rig under contract to another party drifted near Pluto flowlines,” Woodside said in the statement. According to the Sydney Morning Hera
The global offshore accommodation market has seen significant growth over the past five years, with PoB requirements increasing by 27% between 2009 and 2014, Douglas Westwood, an energy industry intelligence group, writes in its “DW Monday” report. Although the recent oil price decline has negativel
Faroe Petroleum has informed that Total E&P Norge has started drilling at the Shango exploration well 25/6-5S (Faroe 20%), in the Norwegian North Sea. The Shango prospect in Licence PL 627 (named Skirne East by the operator Total E&P Norge AS) is located on the northern part of the Utsira High appro
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. (NADL) has received a notice of termination from Rosneft of the service order for the West Navigator drillship in connection with the framework agreement. The drillship was indicatively scheduled to start operations under its five-year contract with Rosneft during the su
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website according to which the U.S. offshore rig count is down from last week. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -67 to 1125 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 67 rigs from last week to 1125, with oil rigs down 56 to 866, gas [&helli
GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd and its co-venturers announced a new discovery in the UK Central North Sea. The 22/16-6 well on the Dalziel structure flowed at rates in excess of 8,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. According to GDF SUEZ, the well is now being side-tracked to appraise the extent of this dis
Anadarko, a U.S.-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company has terminated a contract for one of Dolphin Drilling’s offshore drilling rigs. Fred. Olsen Energy ASA, a parent company of Dolphin Drilling, has said that its subsidiary has received a termination for convenience noti
Two new jack-up barges ordered by the National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), based in the United Arab Emirates, will feature fully integrated Wärtsilä power generation and electrical and automation (E&A) solutions. The SEP 650 and SEP 750 vessels are being built at the Shanghai Zhenhua Heav
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6706/12-3, in the Norwegian Sea. Well 6706/12-3 will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig after completing the drilling of wildcat well 6706/12- 2 for Statoil Petroleum AS in prod
Statoil has informed that the licence partners have decided to temporarily halt drilling on Veslefrikk field, located in the North Sea. According to Statoil, the stoppage is due to the time that will be needed to interpret new seismic data, which can help in bringing profitable new drilling targets
OMV Norge AS (OMV) has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to drill an exploration well 7324/8-2, located in the Barents Sea, with Leiv Eiriksson rig. OMV is the operator for production licence 537 in block 7324/8 in the Barents Sea. According to the PSA, the company is
Canada’s Suncor Energy, through its Norwegian subsidiary Suncor Norge, has started drilling operations at its Beta Statfjord Nord prospect, in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The appraisal well 34/4-14 S is located in the PL 375 and is being drilled by the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling
