TGS announces a second 2D seismic survey offshore Indonesia Southwest Sumatra (SMi10) in the forearc basin along the Sundaland Margin. The survey will add 2,700 km of new 2D data to infill the existing 6,900 km of multi-client data acquired in 2009. The previous seismic in the area has revealed a th
Det norske oljeselskap ASA has as operator in PL 341, found indications of gas in the Stirby Deep prospect in the Viking Graben in the North Sea, 75 km south of Sleipner. The well data indicates gas/gas condensate under high pressure in a 70 meters thick sandstone with low porosity at 4870 meters be
Sterling Resources Ltd. announces that approval has been received from the Dutch authorities to transfer to Sterling interests in five licenses within the F-Quad and L-Quad areas offshore Netherlands. With this license transfer process completed Sterling Resources Netherlands BV will hold a 50 perce
DONG Energy has decided – together with the operator Hess and the licence partners – to develop the Danish North Sea field South Arne. DONG Energy’s share of the investment amounts to about DKK 2.5 billion (USD 445 Million). The development’s expected commercial reserves is about 15 million barrels
Statoil has awarded Bergen Group Rosenberg a contract for building and installing a compressor module on the Kvitebjørn platform in the North Sea. This will contribute to improving the recovery rate and accelerating production at the Kvitebjørn field by allowing for production with reduced wellhead
RWE Dea UK announced today that the contract for the engineering, installation and pre-commissioning of the offshore pipeline, and associated fibre optic cable, for the Breagh Development has been awarded to Allseas Construction Contractors SA (“Allseas”). Allseas will perform the required detailed
The operatorship of the Gjøa development in the Norwegian North Sea is being handed over by Statoil today, 25 November, to production operator GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS. With the ending of this big industrial project, the group is beginning a new phase together with GDF SUEZ of further important product
This week T.O.S. invited all the branch managers at its head office in Rotterdam. Like every year all branch managers gather to review the past year and make plans for the year to come. The meeting was opened with a special cake to welcome Marcelo Cintra. He is the new branch manager of our joint [&
AMC Engineering Ltd, the main arm of AMC Global Group, is on track to report record turnover for its current financial year. For the six months to the end of October Aberdeen torque equipment specialists AMC Engineering Ltd have recorded a turnover in excess of £7.5million and the company is predict
Aker Solutions has signed a subsea contract with the state-owned oil company China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to supply a subsea production system for the Yacheng 13-4 gas field. Both parties inked the contract at an official signing ceremony at Zhanjiang, China. The contract, valued
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (CoPSAS) has received a new consent for use of the mobile living quarters facility COSLRival (formerly Port Reval) on the Eldfisk field. CoPSAS has previously received consent for use of COSRival on Eldfisk until 31 July 2011. The facility was operated by OSM Offshore A
Woodside advises that the Remy-1 well in permit WA-404-P has intersected approximately 33 metres and 39 metres of gross gas over two separate zones within the Triassic target. The well has also successfully appraised the Martell gas discovery. The well has reached a total depth of 4555 metres. Curre
Rosneft and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed a memorandum on expanding cooperation in the upstream sector. The document was signed by Rosneft’s President Eduard Khudainatov and General Director of CNPC Jiang Zemin within the Russian-Chinese energy dialogue held on November 22-23 in
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (Taqa), a publicly listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, announced the successful restart of crude oil production from the Rijn field offshore the Netherlands, 12 years after being shut down. Taqa applied recent advances in technology to create t
