As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau announced that BOEM will offer 38 million acres in the Central Gulf
TDW Offshore Services (TDW) announced that it has signed an extended framework agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS to provide pipeline pressure isolation services and equipment for Statoil installations located in the Norwegian North Sea. The agreement specifies that TDW will continue to supply pipe
MEO Australia Limited advises that at 06:00 Darwin time on Monday 24th September, Eni Australia Ltd (Eni) as operator of the NT/P68 exploration permit had drilled the 311mm (12 ¼”) hole to 3,740mMDRT (metres Measured Depth below Rotary Table). High background gas necessitated mud weight increase at
Gas production will start in South Pars gas field phases 17 and 18 this winter, an official said, adding that the gas will then be injected to the national gas grid after treatment at gas processing plants of phases 15 and 16 in Assalouyeh, the onshore installations of the South Pars gas field. Mana
Centrica Energy has extended an existing contract for one year firm with a further one year option. Operating vessel is the Freyja Viking, a platform supply vessel of the VS470 MkII Design, operated by Viking Supply Ships. The extension is done on market conditions. Freyja Viking a VS470 Mk II desig
Eni Norge AS has received consent to carry out drilling with the Scarabeo 8 mobile drilling facility. The consent relates to the drilling of appraisal well 7122/7 – Goliat, which is part of production licence 229 in Norwegian Barents sea. Water depth at the site is 382 metres. The operation has an e
Apache Energy Ltd has signed up to use AGR’s Riserless Mud Recovery (RMR®) system. Apache will use the RMR® solution for the first time during batch drilling of six top holes on its Coniston Development, offshore Western Australia, pending receipt of all necessary Government and other approvals for
Coastal Energy Company announces the initial flow rate from the Songkhla A-10 well. The Songkhla A-10 well was completed using an electric submersible pump and is initially flowing approximately 4,000 bopd while still cleaning up. The next well, the A-13, has been spudded and will test the northeast
GE Oil & Gas announced that it will supply its gas turbine-driven compressor train technology to Malaysia’s national oil and gas company Petronas for a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility that is being developed off the coast of Malaysia. The start-up of the FLNG facility is scheduled for
Yesterday the first CNPC made jack-up drilling rig CP-300 was brought into use at the Bohai Bay’s new Panjin Port, Liaoning Province. CNPC Vice President Li Xinhua attended the delivery ceremony and cut the cable. CP-300 jack-up rig, independently designed and manufactured by CNPC Bohai Equipment Ma
The Board of Directors of Ezion Holdings Limited announces that it has secured a charter contract and a letter of intent to provide two Service Rigs to be used by a Southeast Asian based national oil company to support its oil & gas activities. The charter contract with a value of approximately USD
Premier Oil plc (Premier) has awarded Ocean Installer a contract to perform offshore survey operations in support of the development of the Solan oil field. “We are very pleased to have been awarded our first offshore contract with Premier. Adding to our growing client base, this contract illustrate
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, announces that the Scotia exploration well FI 31/12-01 was spudded on 25 September 2012. The well is located 315 km east – northeast of Stanley, Falkland Islands and 114 km
Maersk Oil Angola A/S (Maersk Oil), together with concessionaire Sonangol E.P., and partners Sonangol P&P and Odebrecht Oil and Gas Angola Ltd, has successfully completed drilling the Caporolo-1 exploration well in the Lower Congo Basin with positive results. Caporolo-1 is a step-out exploration wel
