Pancontinental Oil & Gas NL said on its website that the 3D and 2D seismic survey acquisition has been completed in offshore Kenya licence areas L10A and L10B. The 3D seismic survey was carried out in the eastern portion of the areas commencing mid-November 2011 and this was followed by a 2D survey
Nexus Energy Limited has signed a non- binding Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd ( Shell) and Osaka Gas Crux Pty Ltd ( Osaka Gas) to exclusively pursue a Shell-led integrated gas and liquids development to commercialise the Crux asset. As previously announced, Nexus
TNK-BP announced today that the Group has commenced its first offshore drilling operations on the Lan Do field development project offshore Vietnam. The Lan Do 2P well was spud on Saturday 14th January 2012. Lan Do field contains 2 vertical sub-sea wells at a water depth of about 185 meters and is l
The Aldous/Avaldsnes discovery has been renamed Johan Sverdrup. The Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Ola Borten Moe, announced the new name during an industry conference in Sandefjord. The name is intended to reflect the importance of this project in specific, and the oil and gas industry in genera
Polarcus Limited, a pure play marine geophysical company with a pioneering environmental agenda, specializing in high-end towed streamer data acquisition from Pole to Pole announces, has signed a Letter of Intent with an undisclosed client for a 3D seismic acquisition project offshore West Africa. T
North Energy has been awarded a partnership in two new licences on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. With this new award, the company has 25 licences and two operatorships. – We are very pleased to have succeeded so well with our APA application for 2011. We won two of the three licences we wanted. T
Nido Petroleum Limited, as Operator of Service Contract 58 (‘SC 58’), on behalf of its JV partner Philippine National Oil Company Exploration Corporation (‘PNOC EC’), announces that PNOC – EC have now agreed to extend the date by which Nido is required to elect to drill the commitment well, under th
Aibel, a leading supplier of services related to oil, gas and renewable energy. has won the contract to further develop the concept for the topsides on the Dagny platform. The contract with Statoil is worth approximately NOK 80 million (USD 13.4 million). “Dagny is one of the largest construction pr
A Swedish independent oil and gas exploration and production company, Lundin Petroleum announced the successful results of Bertam-2 appraisal well in the PM307 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) area, offshore Peninsular Malaysia. Bertam-2 was drilled to a total depth of 1,884 metres by the jack-up r
Ntomme-2A appraisal well, located in the Deepwater Tano Block offshore the Republic of Ghana, encountered approximately 128 net feet (39 meters) of light oil pay in excellent-quality sandstone reservoirs, reports Anadarko. Fluid samples recovered from the Ntomme-2A well indicate oil of approximately
Eni, an Italian multinational oil and gas company, has been awarded a new exploration license (PL657) in the Barents Sea, located just east of the Goliat Field, also operated by Eni. The license has been awarded by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy as part of the 2011 APA to the Joint V
Chevron has suspended the search and rescue activities for two workers who were missing after Monday’s fire aboard the K.S. Endeavor, a drilling rig offshore Nigeria operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited. “After three days of intensive search and rescue activities for our missing colleagues, I a
Boa Group has recently been awarded a 3 year firm contract + option for the Offshore Construction Vessel “Boa Sub C” from Singapore based EMAS/AMC. The contract is for subsea construction installations and is due to commence in July 2012, in direct continuation from current contract agreement. “Boa
Tullow and Shell have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to partner for new frontier exploration in select basins and geological plays around the Atlantic Basin. Both companies will pursue and evaluate transformational geological plays in underexplored frontier basins together. This pa
