Oil and gas estimated at between three and 19 million barrels of oil equivalent have been found by Statoil roughly three kilometres east of the Gudrun field in the North Sea. The find was made in the Brynhild prospect where one exploration well was drilled with one technical sidetrack. “The Brynhild
Statoil ASA will change its organisational structure as a response to future business opportunities and challenges, and to support … (marketwatch) [mappress] Source: marketwatch, August 19, 2010;
Wellstream International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Wellstream Holdings Plc , announced the award of a major offshore installation… (rttnews) [mappress] Source: rttnews, August 19, 2010;
Shell has received consent to carry out exploration drilling on Ormen Lange using the mobile facility West Navigator. The consent relates to conducting drilling and well activities in connection with the drilling of appraisal well 6305/4-2S. The well has the following geographical coordinates: N 63°
BP has picked Wednesday as the deadline for accepting claims from people and businesses affected by the Gulf oil disaster. (cnn) [mappress] Source: cnn, August 18, 2010;
Highlights • Turnover for the half-year at US$ 1.4 billion (H1 2009: US$ 1.4 billion); • EBIT increased by 14% compared to H1 2009; • Net profit for the half-year at US$ 92.5 million (H1 2009: US$ 95.5 million) includes a non-cash US$ 21 million mark to market hedging loss; • Total order backlog at
BP today announced the completion of its purchase from Devon Energy of an additional interest in the BP-operated Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli… (abc) [mappress] Source: abc, August 17, 2010;
ARKeX, the provider of geophysical imaging services, has commenced a 6712 line km BlueQube Marine gravity gradiometry survey for a Svenska Petroleum Exploration led consortium, offshore Guinea Bissau. The West African republic has seen increasing exploration activity over the past few years with sev
Oil industry body UK Oil and Gas is proposing to more than double the maximum liability cover rigs need under the Offshore Pollution… (insurancetimes) [mappress] Source: insurancetimes, August 16, 2010;
This statement is made by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Prosafe Production Public Limited (“Prosafe Production” or the “Company”) pursuant to sections 6-16 and 6-19 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act in connection with the voluntary offer by BW Offshore Limited (“BW Offshore”, “BWO” o
About the same time as oil company BP managed to seal its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, Russian authorities approved the introduction… [mappress] Source:oilandgaseurasia , August 16, 2010;
Nautical Petroleum announces that the 9/02b-D appraisal well on North Sea Block 9/2b spudded on 12 August 2010. The drilling activity is being performed by the Ocean Nomad semi submersible rig and the full programme is expected to take approximately 45 days. A further announcement will be made once
Transocean Ltd. today issued a monthly Fleet Update Summary covering only newly signed contracts, significant changes to existing contracts and changes to estimated out of service time of 30 days or more for High Specification Floaters or 60 days or more for all other rigs since their last quarterly
Fairfield Energy, the independent oil and gas exploration, development and production group today announces that it has awarded the contract for the provision of Subsea Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) Services for the Dunlin Fuel Gas pipeline project to Technip UK Limi
