Lundin Petroleum has completed Berangan-1 well in SB303 Block, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, as a gas discovery. Berangan-1 is a vertical well drilled to a depth of 1,709 metres in approximately 70 metres water depth. The well penetrated a gross gas column of over 165 metres in the target mid-Miocene ag
Bladt, an international steel contractor specializing in large-scale and highly complex steel structures just finished the fabrication of one suction anchor for their Norwegian client Sevan Marine. The suction anchor is very similar to the 13 anchors Bladt fabricated to Sevan Marine in 2011, and the
Havila Shipping has informed that Norway’s energy giant Statoil has decided to extend contracts for Havila’s two vessels, Havila Clipper and Havila Mercury. Statoil has declared the option for the PSV vessel Havila Clipper for a period of 6 months. The deal will keep the vessel working for the compa
JGC Corporation announced today that, as leader of a consortium with Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (SHI), it has received a contract from PETRONAS, Malaysia’s state-owned oil company, for the FEED (Front-End Engineering and Design) work for a floating LNG project off the Malaysian coast. The con
Ocean Rig UDW Inc., a Cyprus based drilling contractor specializing in offshore deepwater drilling services, has received a Letter of Intent for its semi-submersible drilling rig “Eirik Raude”. The drilling contractor, however, wouldn’t reveal the name of the client, but said that the LoI came “from
Brazil’s state controlled oil and gas company Petrobras has informed that on Monday, September 10, its FPSO Cidade de Anchieta began producing oil from well 7-BAZ-02-ESS offshore Brazil. The FPSO is located in the Baleia Azul field, in the area known as Parque das Baleias in the Campos Basin off the
Apache-operated Mbawa-1 exploration well in the L8 licence area, offshore Kenya, has now been deepened and reached a total depth of 3151 metres. As previously announced, the Mbawa-1 exploration well encountered approximately 52 metres of net gas pay in the primary target. However, the deeper, second
Two weeks after Hurricane Isaac’s U.S. landfall, BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization provided an update today of the storm’s impact on Deepwater Horizon clean up operations and how the company proposes dealing with the limited amounts of residual Macondo oil Isaac uncovered. “It was not unexpec
Bridge Energy has informed that drilling of exploration well 7/11-13 has started. The well will target the Geite prospect which is located 30 km west of the Ula field in the Norwegian North Sea. The well is being drilled by the Maersk Guardian jackup rig. The well target is a Triassic reservoir. The
The oil and gas discovery Draupne, located centrally in the North Sea, has today been renamed Ivar Aasen. The name was chosen following proposals from the operator and feedback from the advisory committee on names. Sunnmøre-native Ivar Aasen was a leading democratic and national strategist in Norway
Italy’s Rimorchiatori in August secured a spot contract for its VSP tug “Spinola” in Tunisia to assist the IKDAM FPSO, moored offshore Sousse. “The operation was conducted smoothly and to the full satisfaction of the charterers rendering the said offshore job a successful one,” said Rimorchiatori in
OYO Geospace last week accepted a non-binding letter of intent with the international energy company Statoil to provide 600 kilometers of seabed seismic reservoir monitoring system for the Snorre and Grane fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. Under the letter of intent, Statoil is contractuall
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has decided to initiate an investigation of the stability incident on the mobile drilling facility Scarabeo 8 in the Barents Sea on 4 September 2012. Scarabeo 8 is a semi-submersible drilling facility owned by Saipem SpA Norwegian Branch (Saipem). The faci
Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland NV, is to hold the third in a series of Marine Access Seminars in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday 26th September. The event will take place at the new Hilton Doha from 10.00-15.00 and will allow guests to learn about the sign
