International offshore drilling contractor, Noble Corporation, on Thursday, November 1, announced that the company has secured contracts for two of its rigs in the Middle East. In its fleet status report, Noble Corp. announced that the company’s jack-up rigs Noble Alan Hay and Noble David Tinsley ha
Cathelco are supplying corrosion protection systems for a series of offshore platform foundations which are being constructed for Lukoil to extract oil and gas in the Caspian Sea. The impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) systems have been designed to operate in the rigorous conditions of the
Norwegian oil and gas company DNO International ASA informed today that the just completed West Bukha-4 well located in Block 8 offshore Oman, flowed on a 54/64 inch choke 7,000 barrels of 39º API oil and 15 million cubic feet of gas per day through a test separator. West Bukha-4 will be connected t
GL Noble Denton has called upon hundreds of oil and gas sector professionals to contribute to a comprehensive new research programme investigating the issues the industry is expected to encounter in 2013. Working in association with independent partner Longitude Research, GL Noble Denton has invited
Adira Energy Ltd. has entered into a series of agreements to farm out 5% of its working interest in its Gabriella license, 10% of its Yitzhak license, and 10% of its Samuel license to reduce the Company’s future financial commitments on the licenses. 2.5% of Adira’s working interest in Gabriella wil
Gulf Marine Services has been awarded a three year well maintenance contract for the self elevating self-propelled jack up barge Kikuyu commencing in December 2012 with Occidental Petroleum in Qatar. The barge Kikuyu has been servicing wells continuously for Oxy since the barge was built in 2005 wit
Hydrasun, a leading specialist provider of integrated fluid transfer, power and control solutions to the global energy market, has secured contracts in Angola, the Gulf of Mexico and in Azerbaijan, with major oil and gas operator BP. The combined value of the three contracts is anticipated to run to
The South Pars Gas Field in southern Iran has 19 billion barrels of gas condensate reserves and 14.2 trillion cubic meters of in-place gas reserves, a senior Iranian oil official said, stressing that South Pars project is very important for Iran’s oil and gas industries. “The economic potentials of
As a follow up to last week’s London meetings, a group of BP senior executives representing BP’s upstream production, development, and strategy and integration divisions held a 3-day working visit to Baku to continue the discussions about production from the ACG fields, as well as to review BP’s fut
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered Paradise 400, a high-specification KFELS B Class jackup rig to Safin Gulf FZCO (Safin) ahead of schedule and with a strong safety record. The rig is a refurbishment and upgrade of a KFELS B Class jackup rig that Keppel FELS purchased in 2011. Developed
Renaissance subsidiary, Topaz Energy and Marine, a UAE-based oil field services company, was awarded the ‘Ship Operator Award’ at Lloyd’s List Awards, Middle East and Indian Subcontinent 2012, held in Dubai recently. Commenting on the occasion, Roy Donaldson, Chief Operating Officer, Topaz Energy an
Adira Energy Ltd. announced that it has received an independent resource report including a best estimate in aggregate of 65.8 million barrels (“MMbbl”) of oil and 65.8 billion cubic feet (“BCF”) of gas in four structures on the Company’s Samuel License located offshore Israel. The Report was prepar
Saipem has been awarded new E&C Offshore contracts worth $1.1 billion in Brazil, Angola and the Caspian Sea. In Brazil, Saipem has signed an EPIC contract with Petrobras for the projects Sapinhoá Norte and Cernambi Sul, within the development of the Pre-Salt Risers in the Santos Basin, approximately
Miclyn Express Offshore Limited has been awarded contracts by Saudi Aramco for three Crew/Utility Vessels. The contracts are 5 years in duration with 2 optional years to extend. The aggregate value for the firm period of the three new contracts is US$26m. The contracts will commence between December
