Fossil Energy
USA: Congressional delegation on Offshore Energy Tour
Mark Sanford, the U.S. Representative for South Carolina’s 1st congressional district, announced that he would join the Louisiana’s 1st congressional district Representative Steve Scalise’s (LA-1) 2014 Offshore Energy Tour in the Gulf of Mexico on May 13th and 14th. “The 2014 Offshore Energy Tour gi
Gas flows from ConocoPhillips’ South Belut gas field (Indonesia)
Japan’s oil company INPEX has announced that on 26th April 2014 natural gas production started from the South Belut gas field in the South Natuna Sea Block B (the Block) in Indonesia. INPEX is undertaking oil & gas development and production activities at the Block with ConocoPhillips Indonesia In
RPS provides updated CPR for Azonto’s Gazelle field (Ivory Coast)
Azonto has announced the completion of an updated Resources Report (Competent Persons Report or “CPR”) for Block CI-202 offshore Cote d’Ivoire prepared by RPS Energy Services Pty Ltd (“RPS”) on behalf of Vioco Petroleum Ltd, Azonto’s 35% owned affiliate, as operator of the block. The new CPR updates
Petrobras starts oil output at Roncador field
Petrobras started-up production on platform P-62 in the Campos Basin’s Roncador field on Monday, May 12, 2014. Deployed at a water depth of 1,600 meters, P-62 is an integral part of the Module 4 project for the Roncador field. Twenty-two wells, 14 oil and gas production and eight water-injection,
Huntington field back online
Norwegian oil company Noreco has announced that production from the Huntington field in the UK North Sea resumed on May 11, 2014. Production has been interrupted since 12 April, initially for replacement of couplings in the inert gas system on the floating production and storage vessel Voyageur Spir
Tangiers raising cash for drilling ops in Morocco
Tangiers Petroleum Limited has resolved to place A$5 million worth of shares, before costs, through the private placement of 31.25 million shares to specified wholesale, institutional and sophisticated investors at A$0.16 per share (“Placement”) in Australia, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. The
MOG: Guendalina production increases
The Board of Mediterranean Oil & Gas Plc has announced that, in line with the operational plan established with the Operator, ENI, production has been increased on the Guendalina Field well GUE 3ss. After a period of monitoring production post the well intervention conducted in January 2014, product
PSA aims to improve well safety on NCS
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway reports that wells which are left temporarily abandoned year after year represent a safety challenge on the NCS. The regulations have now been tightened up. Exploration wells must be permanently plugged after no more than two years, according to new regulatory requi
Bad weather puts off Byron Energy’s drilling in U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Byron Energy Limited advises that mobilisation of the contracted jack-up drilling rig, Spartan Rig 202, to the Byron Energy SM6 #1 well location (“SM6 #1”) in the South Marsh Island Block 6 (“SMI 6”) in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has been delayed due to high sea conditions which have prevented the rig
Apache to start drilling at Phoenix South-1 well (Australia)
Apache is getting ready to spud the Phoenix South-1 well, in the WA-435-P permit, offshore Western Australia. Carnarvon Petroleum Limited, a company with a stake in the permit, said today that Apache Energy, the operator of the block, has advised that the Atwood Eagle semi-submersible drilling rig i
Sertanejo Spirit shuttle tanker named in Brazil
Teekay Offshore has announced that on May 6 Sertanejo Spirit shuttle tanker was officially welcomed at the Rio harbor in Brazil. Sertanejo Spirit is one of Teekay Offshore’s new Samba Class shuttle tankers to operate for BG in Brazil under 10-year time-charters. The DP2 shuttle tanker is designed fo
AWE: Pateke drilling almost completed
AWE Limited reports that as 6.00am New Zealand Daylight Time today the Pateke-4H development well was running the production tubing and associated equipment. The well, located in the Taranaki basin, offshore New Zealand, will then be suspended for later production. The installation of a sub-sea flow
COSL confirms long term charter for Gulf Driller I rig
China Oilfield Services Limited has confirmed it entered into a charter contract with ICBC Financial Leasing Co. for a new 300-feet jack-up rig – Gulf Driller I – for a period of six years.
Kongsberg to supply ICSS and power package for Gina Krog FSO
Kongsberg Maritime Engineering (KME) has signed a contract with Gina Krog LLC, a subsidiary of Teekay Shipping AS, for supply of an Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) and Power package to the Gina Krog FSO (Floating Storage and Offloading) unit, to be delivered to the Statoil operated Gina