The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given approval to Total E&P Norge AS for exploration drilling in the Norwegian part of the North Sea with the Borgland Dolphin offshore drilling rig. The consent applies to drilling of well 34/6-2, which is part of production licence 554, located east of the
Afren plc announces that testing has been completed at the Okoro East oil discovery, offshore south east Nigeria, and that results confirm a high quality 38° to 40 API oil, in excellent reservoir sands. Based on the test data the Company expects future horizontal production wells at Okoro East will
FMC Technologies, Inc. has been named the recipient of two Spotlight on New Technology awards by the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). The awards, which honor innovative technologies that significantly impact offshore exploration and production, recognize FMC’s subsea processing systems designed
Reuters reports that BP has restarted oil production from Foinaven field, located west of the Shetland Islands, after it had been shut due to a small leak in January. “Production re-started from the Foinaven field over the weekend, following a one-month shutdown for precautionary inspections and tes
Aberdeen-based oilfield services firm Coretrax Technology Limited has secured over £1.2million of contracts since the start of the year and expanded its team to 12 people. Coretrax specialises in innovative oilfield services to the completion, cementing, abandonment and wellbore clean up sectors bot
Germany’s largest internationally active oil and gas producer, Wintershall, is continuing to step up its activities in the southern North Sea and is now launching natural gas production from the K18-Golf field in the Dutch North Sea. By carefully designing the well and deploying a new down hole comp
BP announced today that the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency (ANP) has approved its farm-in to four deepwater exploration and production concessions operated by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) in the Brazilian equatorial margin. BP Energy do Brasil Ltda. is taking a 40 per cent interest in e
Flexlife, an oil and gas industry specialist in subsea project and integrity management, will outline its novel inspection and monitoring methodologies at a major event for the offshore pipeline sector. Chief Operating Officer John Marsden is delivering a paper at the Offshore Pipeline Technology Co
The operators and licence holders for the Johan Sverdrup, Dagny, Draupne and Luno fields in the North Sea will study setting up a hub for the supply of electrical power from land. The study will form the basis for a decision on electrification. The study, which has been initiated by the Ministry of
Maersk Supply Service has won three new major contracts with the Brazilian state owned oil company Petrobras. The total contract value is approximately DKK 1.6 billion (USD 283.7 million) . All three contracts will have a duration of four years commencing December 2012 and include anchor handling tu
ConocoPhillips UK has decided to extend its relationship with COSL Drilling Europe, awarding the company with a new four month contract plus two x 1 month option extensions for the COSLRival accommodation rig. The unit has been working for ConocoPhillips at Jasmine oil field, located in the North Se
China’s COSCO (Nantong) Shipyard has delivered its new build Sevan Brasil rig to Norway’s Sevan Drilling ASA. The delivery documents were recently signed by and COSCO Nantong and the buyer. Sevan Drilling, a drilling contractor specializing in the ultra-deepwater sector, reports that the rig has bee
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that Technip — the global specialist manufacturer of flexible pipes for the oil and gas industry—has implemented IFS Applications at the Flexi France site in order to consolidate its production management in project mode and to support its g
Entek Energy says that in line with the Company’s strategy, the Gulf of Mexico portfolio continues to be rationalized in order to maintain exposure to the offshore conventional resource potential whilst preserving the Company’s capital base. This will allow the required funds to be deployed in its o
