Transocean, the largest drilling contractor in the world, has been awarded a five-year drilling contract by Chevron which requires the construction and operation of a Keppel FELS Super B Class Jackup. The rig will be named Transocean Siam Driller, announced Transocean in its Fleet Status Report. Dur
INPEX has been granted the approval by PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia, to acquire a 75% participating interest in the deepwater Block S, and a 37.5% participating interest in the deepwater Block R. Both blocks are located offshore Sabah, Malaysia. Block S In Block S, INPEX Offshore N
San Leon Energy today reported a significant progress on its Durresi License offshore Albania. The Company has received the first final processed volumes from its 840 km2 3D seismic survey in late 2011. The survey was processed by Western Geophysical in London with a focus on detailed structural ima
Afren plc announces that the Okoro East exploration well, offshore south east Nigeria, has made a new oil discovery having encountered 549 ft true vertical thickness (TVT) of net oil pay and 41 ft of net gas pay in excellent quality reservoir sands. The well result represents a successful start to A
Sonde Resources Corp. has received a one year extension to December 23, 2013, on the first phase of the Exploration period to conduct operations on the Joint Oil Block in North Africa. This extension is conditioned on commencement of the three well drilling program in September 2012, which is Sonde’
OGX, a largest privately owned oil & gas company in Brazil, today announced that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian and Aptian sections of well 1-OGX-63-SPS in the BM-S-57 block, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. OGX holds a 100% working interest in this block. “Th
Anadarko today announced its seventh well in the discovery area offshore Mozambique successfully appraised previous discoveries at Lagosta and Camarao. The Lagosta-2 appraisal well, located about 4.4 miles (7 kilometers) north of the Lagosta discovery and 5.3 miles (8.5 kilometers) south of the Cam
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a SURF contract valued at approximately $60 million from Santos Limited on the Fletcher-Finucane Development offshore Western Australia. The contract scope includes the project management , engineering and installation of: approximately 55km of flexible flo
Chevron Nigeria Limited, said it was working to contain a fire that ignited yesterday aboard the K.S. Endeavor, a drilling rig offshore Nigeria operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited. The rig was drilling a natural gas exploration well, located in the Funiwa Field approximately six miles (10 kilo
Antrim Energy Inc. today announced that it has been notified by operator Premier Oil UK Limited (“Premier”) that drilling operations have commenced on the East Fyne appraisal well in the UK Central North Sea block 21/28a (Antrim working interest 35.1%). Well 21/28a-11 (the “East Fyne well”) is locat
Island Offshore, a Norwegian shipping company that owns a modern fleet of advanced and high quality service vessels for the offshore oil industry, has signed an agreement with Statoil for a three month charter with the MV Island Vanguard AHTS. The main duty for the vessel is anchor handling and asso
Spectrum, in partnership with CGGVeritas and the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR) , has commenced a new 2D Multi- Client seismic survey covering the deepwater Orange Basin, offshore Namibia. The program includes the acquisition of around 7,000 km of long offset data covering both h
DeepFlex announced today it has entered into a contract with Petrobras to conduct a qualification testing program on DeepFlex’s patented composite flexible fiber reinforced pipe components. This multi-phase, multi-year contract will include over 5,000 individual tests. This contract award demonstrat
Tersan Shipyard launched Multipurpose Offshore Construction Vessel, Grand Canyon with the honorable presences of Norway Prime Minister Mr. Jens Stoltenberg and Turkey Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication Mr. Binali Yıldırım. Grand Canyon is a cooperation of Tersan Shipyard
