The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given approval to Total E&P Norge AS for exploration drilling in the Norwegian part of the North Sea with the Borgland Dolphin offshore drilling rig. The consent applies to drilling of well 34/6-2, which is part of production licence 554, located east of the
Reuters reports that BP has restarted oil production from Foinaven field, located west of the Shetland Islands, after it had been shut due to a small leak in January. “Production re-started from the Foinaven field over the weekend, following a one-month shutdown for precautionary inspections and tes
Aberdeen-based oilfield services firm Coretrax Technology Limited has secured over £1.2million of contracts since the start of the year and expanded its team to 12 people. Coretrax specialises in innovative oilfield services to the completion, cementing, abandonment and wellbore clean up sectors bot
Germany’s largest internationally active oil and gas producer, Wintershall, is continuing to step up its activities in the southern North Sea and is now launching natural gas production from the K18-Golf field in the Dutch North Sea. By carefully designing the well and deploying a new down hole comp
Flexlife, an oil and gas industry specialist in subsea project and integrity management, will outline its novel inspection and monitoring methodologies at a major event for the offshore pipeline sector. Chief Operating Officer John Marsden is delivering a paper at the Offshore Pipeline Technology Co
Maersk Supply Service has won three new major contracts with the Brazilian state owned oil company Petrobras. The total contract value is approximately DKK 1.6 billion (USD 283.7 million) . All three contracts will have a duration of four years commencing December 2012 and include anchor handling tu
ConocoPhillips UK has decided to extend its relationship with COSL Drilling Europe, awarding the company with a new four month contract plus two x 1 month option extensions for the COSLRival accommodation rig. The unit has been working for ConocoPhillips at Jasmine oil field, located in the North Se
China’s COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard has delivered its new build Sevan Brasil rig to Norway’s Sevan Drilling ASA. The delivery documents were recently signed by and COSCO Nantong and the buyer. Sevan Drilling, a drilling contractor specializing in the ultra-deepwater sector, reports that the rig has bee
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that Technip — the global specialist manufacturer of flexible pipes for the oil and gas industry—has implemented IFS Applications at the Flexi France site in order to consolidate its production management in project mode and to support its g
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 532, is in the process of concluding the drilling of appraisal well 7220/5-1 on the 7220/8-1 (”Skrugard”) gas/oil discovery. The discovery was proven in 2011 in Middle and Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks. The appraisal well was drilled about 3 kilo
Fugro Geoteam has recently signed letters of award with four major international oil companies for 3D and 4D seismic surveys in East Africa and the North Sea for a total amount of close to USD 120 million. The surveys will be undertaken during the summer months using Fugro Geoteam’s industry leading
Shell is continuing its successful relationship with AGR’S Riserless Mud Recovery system (RMR™) with a new USD4.7m deal (NOK27m). The contract is for multiple development wells on Shell’s Prelude Floating LNG development off Australia’s north-west coast. Bernt Eikemo, General Manager Asia Pacific at
Sevan Drilling ASA, an international drilling contractor specializing in the ultra deepwater (UDW) segment provides fleet update for February 2012. Sevan Driller: Sevan Driller had a technical uptime of 82.3 % in February 2012. The downtime in February is primarily related to an incident with the wa
Sterling Resources Ltd. on behalf of its wholly-owned subsidiary Sterling Resources Netherlands BV, announces the joint award of exploration licenses E3 and F1 in the Dutch North Sea. These licenses, covering 792 square kilometres (396 square kilometres per block), are located in the northern sector
