Baker Hughes announced today it has been awarded a multimillion dollar integrated project for the Borgland Dolphin Consortium (BDC) in Norway. The contract covers an initial three-year period for a full exploration program on the Norwegian continental shelf encompassing 15 wells. Under the terms of
Maersk Oil has restarted gas production and export from Tyra East over the weekend after a temporary shutdown. Tyra East was shut down on Friday as a precautionary measure after it was discovered that clamps holding a boat fender to the platform jacket had developed cracks. The concern was the chanc
EnCore Oil plc notes the announcement today by Sterling Resources Ltd (“Sterling”), operator of the Cladhan discovery on UK Northern North Sea Block 210/29a. Sterling has received an independent resource evaluation from RPS Energy on the gross contingent and prospective oil in place estimated to exi
Songa Offshore SE announces that a Letter Of Intent (LOI) has been received from Statoil Petroleum AS for the use of Songa Dee for a 3 years firm plus 1 year option Drilling Contract on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The LOI is conditional to Partner approval and mutual agreement of contract terms
Ithaca Energy Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Ithaca Energy (UK) Limited (“Ithaca” or “the Company”), an independent oil & gas company with exploration, development and production assets in the UK sector of the North Sea, announced stable production from the first workover well on Beatrice Alph
Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) have taken delivery of a new addition to their offshore fleet. The VOS Prevail, a platform-supply vessel, is the last in a series of four vessels built at Cochin Shipyard in India. She is a standard Rolls Royce UT-755 LN design platform-supply vessel The vessel was deli
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 102 C, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 25/5-7. The well is located about 20 kilometres northeast of the Heimdal field in the North Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in the Middle Jur
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 3/8-1. Well 3/8-1 will be drilled from the Mærsk Guardian drilling facility at position 56°27’16.93’’north and 4°25’7.30”east. The drilling programme for well 3/8-1 applies to drilling of an exploration
Gazprom’s headquarters hosted a working meeting moderated by Alexey Miller and devoted to development of the Shtokman gas and condensate field. Participating in the meeting were heads and experts of Gazprom’s structural subdivisions, subsidiaries and Shtokman Development AG. The meeting participants
Since 2001, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has published an extensive database from more than 1000 exploration wells on the Norwegian shelf. The WDSS (well data summary sheets) for these exploration wells on the Fact Pages contain a lot of well-related information and data that are no longer co
The semi submersible drilling rig “Lone Star” has been delivered and handed over to their client Queiroz Galvão Perfuraçoes S.A. offshore Abu Dhabi on 13 October 2010. The rig is the first out of a series of three semi submersible drilling rigs which the Company will supply to Brazilian clients. Del
When Portlethen Academy pupil Darren Bragg popped along the road for a job interview at a local engineering firm, little did he realise that he would be heading up the company’s new US base just seven years later. Darren left school a fortnight before his 16th birthday and secured employment at near
Technip announces today that it has finalized its agreements with MISC Berhad and Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (MHB), two companies within Malaysia’s national oil corporation, Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), to establish their long-term collaboration. As previously ann
The European Commission said Wednesday Europe requires legislation to make offshore oil drilling safer, but steered away from imposing … by UPI [mappress] Source: UPI, October 14, 2010;
