Israel’s Delek Group has been informed by the operator, Noble Energy Mediterranean Ltd., that on June 12, 2012, development of Pinnacles #1 was completed and gas began to flow from it. Pinnacles offshore well was recently linked by a subsea pipeline to the nearby Mari B production platform. Helix ES
Cobalt International Energy has announced that drilling at its Cameia #2 appraisal well in Block 21, offshore Angola continues. Cobalt expects to announce the results of this appraisal well as soon as drilling operations are completed and logging/test results have been evaluated, sometime in the nex
Norway’s oil giant Statoil has completed drilling operations at Glitne oil field located in the Norwegian North Sea. The latest well at Glitne, drilled by the COSL Pioneer semi submersible rig, proved to be a dry-hole. According to the owner of the rig, COSL Pioneer, on June 6, departed the Glitne l
Antrim Energy Inc. Antrim, an international oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, Canada, today announced it has been granted an extension for the submission of a Field Development Plan (“FDP”) for the Fyne Field in UK Central North Sea licence P077 Block 21/28a (t
Malaysia’s oil giant Petronas has halted production on its Tukau platform after the fire outbreak was reported on Monday morning, Reuters reports. The fire broke out at the Petronas operated Tukau B drilling platform, located approximately 30 kilometers offshore Miri, Sarawak. Five maintenance worke
Cobalt International Energy, Inc. today announced that its Ligurian #2 exploratory well on Green Canyon Block 814 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico had reached objective total depth after having drilled through all of the targeted Miocene formations. The well failed to encounter commercial hydrocarbons and
Cairn and Nautical have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer to be made by Capricorn (a subsidiary of Cairn) for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Nautical. Under the terms of the Offer, Nautical Shareholders will be entitled to receive 450 pence in cash for e
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) conducted an audit of Teekay Petroljarl’s (TKPJ) planning and establishment of emergency preparedness for Knarr FPSO on 29 May 2012. As part of the development of the Knarr field outside western Norway, BG Norge has awarded TKPJ a contract for construction
Yesterday BP announced that on June 3, 2012 it began the initial start-up of the Galapagos development in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico, one of a series of new major upstream projects that the company expects to bring into production this year. “The start-up of this project in the Gulf of Mexico
Statoil and its partner Sinochem have agreed to purchase the Peregrino FPSO from Maersk. The floating production, storage and offloading unit has been in use at the Statoil-operated Peregrino field in Brazil since production start-up in 2011. The leading global FPSO contractor BW Offshore will take
BW Offshore has signed a 5 year contract with Statoil for the operation of the FPSO Peregrino, with options for additional 15 years. The unit is operating on the Peregrino oil field offshore Brazil. BW Offshore will take over operation after a transition period of 6 months. BW Offshore is the world’
Fastnet, the newly listed E&P company focussed on near term exploration acreage in the Celtic Sea and Africa, was notified on 11 June 2012 by the Petroleum Affairs Division of the Irish Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (“PAD”) that it has been awarded licensing options (“Li
CGGVeritas announced today that it has opened a new processing & imaging center in Melbourne, Australia. The Melbourne center extends the services and accessibility of CGGVeritas in Australia where it has had an ongoing presence since 1981 and opened its main Perth office in 2000. Although Perth has
AWE Limited reports that at 0600 hours today (local time) the Atlas-1 exploration well, located offshore Indonesia, was at a measured depth of 613 metres. Gas samples collected from the well contain a high percentage of carbon dioxide, and the joint venture has decided to plug and abandon the well a
