French supermajor Total, operator of Block OML138, announces the start-up of production of the offshore Usan field in Nigeria, in line with the planned schedule. Usan is the second deep offshore development operated by Total in Nigeria, coming on stream less than three years after Akpo. Discovered i
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) has selected OceanWorks Internatonal for the provision of a termination node for the Jubarte SMSI Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) system for Petrobras in Brazil. The seafloor termination node will provide termination of the Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) syste
Handal Offshore Services Sdn Bhd, a Malysian offshore crane manufacturing and servicing company that specialises in offshore pedestal mounted cranes, has received the award from Kencana HL Sdn Bhd for the supply of two pedestal cranes known as B-7301 and B-7302. The contract is expected to contribut
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), one of South Korea’s “Big Three” shipbuilding companies says it has received an order for the construction of two drillships. The order’s estimated value is approximately USD 1.1 billion and it comes from a “large-scale” international corporation. According to the con
Kongsberg Evotec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has established a new department dedicated to developing its crane and lifting products for the offshore supply and subsea segment. The department, which opened officially in January 2012 is based in Molde, Norway, with production ta
Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd. has completed the tie-back of an umbilical connector from the Blackbird field to the nearby Ettrick field’s FPSO Aoka Mizu located in the UK central North Sea First Subsea conducted a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study to assess the ease of retrofitting an Oceaneer
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Brazil Oil and Gas Report Q1 2012” report to their offering. Business Monitor International’s Brazil Oil and Gas Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, oil and gas associations, government departments and re
Statoil announced on February 17 that the partnership had encountered indications of natural gas in the Zafarani exploration well in the Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. The logging results now show that the discovery is a high impact discovery, so far proving up to 5 Tcf of gas in-place. The well
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted consent to Statoil for the use of the mobile drilling facility COSLPioneer. The consent applies to permanent plugback, drilling and completion of well 15/5 A-7, which is part of production licence 048 B. The planned position of the rig in connection
GeoRXT B.V., the joint venture between Georadar Levantamentos Geofísicos S/A and RXT, has been awarded its first contract in Brazil by Petrobras to conduct an Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC) survey over the Marlim and Marlim Leste fields in the Campos Basin. The contract value is estimated to USD 103 milli
Brazil’s state controlled oil company, Petrobras, on February 17 , submitted the Declaration of Commerciality for the oil and natural gas accumulations at Tiro and Sidon, located in southern Santos Basin to the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP). In the proposal sent to the AN
Seven Greenpeace activists yesterday boarded a Shell operated drillship, the Noble Discoverer, thus preventing it from leaving New Zealand’s Port Taranaki for Alaska’s Chukchi sea, where the oil giant plans to drill three exploration wells. Lucy Lawless, an actress famous for her leading role in “Xe
African Petroleum’s second well in Liberia, Narina-1, offshore Block LB-09 (100% WI), has made a significant oil discovery, encountering a total of 32 m of net oil pay in two zones (Turonian – 21 m and Albian -11m). Good quality oil was found in each zone and hydrocarbon shows were encountered over
GE Oil & Gas has received a contract of more than USD$150 million from Apache in Australia to supply subsea equipment for the Julimar Development Project, located offshore near Dampier in Western Australia. The contract will further strengthen GE’s presence in Australia’s LNG sector. The Apache-oper
