Lundin Petroleum announces that drilling of exploration well 6201/11-3 in PL519 targeting the Albert offshore prospect has been temporarily suspended until August. The Bredford Dolphin drilling rig is moving to a Norwegian yard to complete its five year renewal survey before returning to complete th
Australian listed petroleum exploration company, FAR Ltd (ASX:FAR) commences data acquisition of their anticipated 3D seismic survey over some of the world’s most keenly sought petroleum exploration acreage off the coast of Kenya. The survey will cover 680km2 and is budgeted to cost $13.67M (FAR Ltd
Statoil Petroleum AS has been granted consent for drilling on the Troll field with the mobile drilling facility COSLInnovator. The consent applies to drilling, completion and plugback on the Troll field in production licence 054 and 085. The water depth at the sites varies from 333 metres to 377 met
Navingo BV, a maritime and offshore media group based in Rotterdam, has launched a new worldwide job portal specialized in the offshore wind industry. Offshore wind contractors, suppliers and job seekers are now able to find each other at OffshoreWIND.Jobs. OffshoreWIND.Jobs offers companies related
PEMEX Exploration and Production (PEP) has awarded to the joint venture between DRAGADOS OFFSHORE and SWIBER the EPC project for an offshore pipeline project. PEP has declared the joint venture between Dragados Offshore and Swiber, the successful tenderer of the 36” Ø x 77 km pipeline project, cover
Statoil and partner ExxonMobil have made a large gas discovery in the Statoil-operated Block 2 licence in Tanzania. The logging results from the Lavani well confirm a new high-impact discovery for Statoil, with a preliminary resource estimate of 3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas in place. The Lavan
Swire has ordered eight IMT-997 platform supply vessels (PSVs), with four to be built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan and a further four to be built by EISA Shipyard in Brazil. Each vessel will be equipped with 4 × 6L27/38 MAN gensets, with each unit rated at 1,980 kW at 720 rpm. All
Rialto Energy Limited provides a weekly update on drilling operations at the Gazelle-P3 ST2 Well, Offshore Côte D’Ivoire as at 06:00hrs, 12 June 2012 (GMT). The Gazelle-P3 well was spudded on 12 March 2012 using the Transocean GSF Monitor jack-up drilling rig. The well is the first of an overall thr
During the EAGE in Copenhagen the WGP Group signed a new joint venture (JV) agreement with P-Cable 3D Seismic AS (“P-Cable”) for the commercialisation of new, patented High Resolution 3D seismic technology; the joint venture will trade as WGP Survey Ltd. The benefits of P-Cable’s new technology incl
Adira Energy Ltd. has announced that the Ministry of Energy and Water of the State of Israel has granted an extension of the dates for the execution of a drilling contract and the spudding of the first well on the Gabriella and Yitzhak offshore licenses. The date for the submission of the Environmen
Niko Resources Ltd., an oil and gas exploration company, currently one of the largest independent landowners in both Indonesia and Trinidad, announces drilling operation updates. The Rowan Gorilla III offshore rig has spudded the Shadow-1 prospect on the 2(ab) block, in Trinidad. Shadow is targeting
Leading figures from three dynamic independent oil and gas companies will present their strategies and views of the challenges ahead at Oil & Gas UK’s forthcoming breakfast briefing, sponsored by Endeavour Energy, on Tuesday 19 June at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. Tom Reynolds, chi
Ashtead Technology, a market leading asset rental business, supplying specialist equipment and personnel to the offshore subsea oil and gas sector and the environmental consulting, non-destructive testing and remote visual inspection industries has restructured its senior management team as it conti
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, a governmental specialist directorate and administrative body, today released preliminary production figures for May 2012. Preliminary production figures for May 2012 indicate an average daily production of about 2 007 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This
