A fire outbreak occured Tuesday around 14:30 in one of the oil columns of the Alaskan Star rig, operated by the Brazil’s state controlled oil and gas company, Petrobras. The owner of the rig, Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás (“QGOG”), said that the fire brigade was immediately activated, and successfully e
The NPD encourages licensees in Statoil-operated production licences to support Statoil’s plans for using a new type of rig that is specially adapted for maintenance of subsea wells. A letter sent to the relevant companies points out that recovery from producing fields is an important commitment are
A specialist North-East oil and gas industry support and training facility has been awarded a major contract with one of the North Sea’s largest oil & gas operators. The National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC) has secured a 12-month contract with Maersk Oil North Sea UK, to provide diving and subsea engine
Offshore drilling contractor, Vantage Drilling Company, reports a net loss of $9.3 million for the 4th quarter, 2011 as compared to a net loss of $13.0 million for the 4th quarter, 2010. Net loss for the full year, 2011 was $54.8 million, excluding approximately $25.2 million of charges for the earl
During the period 8 – 10 November 2011, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of preparedness on Snorre A platform in the North Sea. The objective of the activity was to review and assess the management’s control of and leadership as regards barriers related to preparednes
IHC Merwede will exhibit a broad range of its innovative vessels, advanced equipment and life-cycle support activities on stand number 2625 at the forthcoming Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2012, which runs from 30 April to 3 May in Houston, USA. As a reliable supplier of custom-built vessels
Serica Energy plc announces that, it has signed a contract with Polarcus Seismic Limited utilising the 10-streamer vessel Polarcus Nadia for an extensive 3D seismic acquisition survey in Serica’s Luderitz Basin Blocks 2512A, 2513A, 2513B and 2612A (part), located offshore Namibia. The survey, planne
The deep water geological basins offshore Namibia, including the Luderitz Basin, are at the early frontier stage of exploration. Although the presence of very large structures have been shown to exist from seismic surveys, very few wells have been drilled in the deeper water Namibian basins to date
Under the 15-year agreement, IEC is expected to purchase approximately 2.7 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas as fuel to provide electricity to the state of Israel and retains, under certain conditions, an option to expand the agreement quantity to approximately 3.5 Tcf.
RigNet, Inc., a leading global provider of managed remote communications solutions to the oil and gas industry, today announced the opening of a full-service office in Macaé, Brazil under the leadership of Mauricio Rubinsztajn, RigNet’s general manager for Brazil. RigNet’s Macaé office, a sales and
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has today received an order from Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co, Ltd. to design and equip four deepwater platform supply vessels. The contract is worth more than £45 million to Rolls-Royce and includes options for a further two vessels of t
As expected, laboratory reservoir fluid analysis confirms that the oil is light with a gravity of 42 o API and a wax content of 20%. The oil is highly mobile with an in-situ reservoir viscosity of 0.68 centipoises and a gas-oil ratio of c. 800 SCF/STB.
Wood Group Kenny has been awarded an Enterprise Frame Agreement (“EFA”) by Shell Global Solutions International BV (“Shell”) to provide subsea, umbilical, riser and flowline (SURF) engineering and construction management services to Shell worldwide, with primary focus on the Asia Pacific region, alo
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, a governmental specialist directorate and administrative body today released preliminary production figures for February 2012. The figures for February 2012 indicate an average daily production of about 2 082 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is a decr
