Wood Group has been awarded a three-year framework contract by Statoil to deliver multi-discipline engineering studies for their onshore and offshore facilities worldwide. The contract also includes two, two-year extension options. Studies under the agreement include concept feasibility, concept sel
Det norske has sold a 20 percent interest in production licenses 554 and 554B to Svenska Petroleum Exploration, reducing its interest from 40 to 20 percent. As consideration, Svenska Petroleum Exploration will carry part of the expenses related to the first exploration well to be drilled in either P
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge ASA a drilling permit for well 35/12-4 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 35/12-4 S will be drilled from the Songa Delta drilling facility at position 61°11’6.79” north and 03°41’29.48” east following
Maersk Oil has entered a collaborative 4-year research project that aims to increase oil recovery and prolong operations in the Danish North Sea by using biotechnology to create efficient, viable and environmentally safe solutions to the challenges of maturing oil and gas fields. The ‘Biotechnology
Marathon Petroleum Norge AS (Marathon) has received consent to carry out manned underwater operations (MUO) at the Volund and Alvheim fields in 2011. Alvheim Alvheim is an oil and gas field in the northern part of the North Sea, near the UK shelf border. The field has been developed with a productio
Total E&P Norge AS has received consent to conduct exploration drilling of well 7225/3-1 in the Barents Sea with the West Phoenix mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 535, with Total E&P Norge AS (40%) as the operator. The other licensees are Det norske (20%), RockSource (
Ithaca Energy Inc.announces combined sales for the first quarter totalled 314,340 barrels of oil equivalent (“boe”) net to Ithaca. The Company’s sales volumes in Q1 2011 include contributions from the Beatrice and Jacky oil fields and from the Anglia and Topaz gas fields and are summarised as follow
Halliburton has been awarded several contracts by Statoil to provide services for two high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) fields offshore Norway. Halliburton estimates that these significant multiyear awards have the potential to exceed more than $200 million in value. Under these contracts, Hall
COSL Drilling Europe AS (COSL) received a new Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the COSL Rigmar mobile living quarters facility (formerly Port Rigmar) on 31 March 2011. Port Rigmar received an AoC for the first time in June 2008. COSLRigmar (pictured) is a mobile living quarters facility (jack
Philippe Léopold Louis Marie, Crown Prince of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, visited the LUKOIL Headquarters in Moscow yesterday. His Royal Highness arrived in Russia as Head of the Belgian Economic Mission represented by ministers, state officials and businessmen. The delegation met with Vagit Alekperov
The next generation of Kongsberg Maritime’s Emergency Acoustic BOP (BlowOut Preventer) Control System, the ACS500 uses the new proprietary Kongsberg Maritime ‘Cymbal’ signal processing protocol for optimal data communication at long distances and has a depth rating of 4000m. It is a robust, reliable
RWE Dea AG, Hamburg, is on a positive course: in fiscal 2010, the company boosted its earnings by 50 per cent. The operating result amounted to 305 million euros in the year 2010 (2009: 203 million euros). “This surge in earnings is attributable to a significant recovery of the market environment,”
SeaBird Exploration PLC (‘SeaBird’ or ‘SBX’) announces the following new contracts awarded in the 2D and 3D shallow water as set out below; Hawk Explorer (photo) has been awarded a short survey in direct continuation from the current employment in West Africa where the vessel will be employed until
International oil service company Aker Solutions is establishing a specialised EPC company in order to further leverage the experience and expertise built up through field development projects over more than 40 years. Today, Aker Solutions announces that the new company, previously launched under th
