French based seismic specialist, CGGVeritas, announced that it has been ranked in the top 2 pct of the UK Government’s Carbon Reduction Committee (CRC) league table published in November 2011. The league table ranks organizations participating in the CRC on how well they manage their energy efficien
Mellitah Oil & Gas B. V. Libyan Branch announced the start up of production operations from the offshore Bouri Field on Tuesday, November 22, with 10.000 BBLS/ day from DP4 platform and will reach 25.000 BBLS/ day by the end of this month. Mellitah said on its website that a plan was put to start [&
Subsea 7 S.A. has been awarded a SURF contract worth $75 million from Total E&P Norge AS on the Atla (formerly David) Field, situated in the central part of the North Sea, 20km northeast of the Heimdal Field. The contract scope includes the management, engineering, procurement and installation of a
Technip was awarded an engineering services contract by Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd at Statoil’s Valemon gas and condensate field located in the Norwegian North Sea, about 160 kilometers west of Bergen. The contract covers detailed design, procurement engineering and follow-on engineering suppor
Reservoir Exploration Technology ASA (RXT), a marine geophysical company specialising in multi-component seafloor seismic acquisition has entered into a LOI with an international oil company regarding acquisition of 4D/4C seismic data in West Africa. The final contract is expected to be signed durin
Drydocks World delivered Self Elevating Platform, L210 to Curacao based Self Elevating Platforms N.V., a supplier of Self Elevating Platforms for both the energy markets including gas, oil, and windmills as well as the heavy civil construction market. The platform was built at the Drydocks World spe
Olympic Shipping announced that the naming ceremony of their new vessel Olympic Electra was held in Myklebust Yard on Friday (November 18th, 2011). The company said that the ceremony, in spite of the rainy weather, was a successful event performed in an excellent manner by the vessel’s Godmother Mer
Norway’s Statoil stated that cuts or shutdowns in offshore production are possible over the upcoming weekend due to a big storm that is approaching the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Statoil’s spokesperson Ola Anders Skauby, said to Reuters that the company is evaluating its options and is considering
Noreco, an independent international petroleum company based in Norway, plans to begin drilling operations at the Luna prospect , located on the 01/11 license offshore Denmark using the Maersk Resolve jack-up rig. The Luna well will be drilled to a depth of 2,250 metres with a reservoir sandstone th
Xtract Energy PLC today provided an operational update ahead the commencement of Chevron’s drilling operations offshore The Netherlands. As previously announced Chevron intends to drill the P2-10 well on the P2 block using the ‘Noble Byron Welliver’ jack up drilling rig. The P2-10 appraisal well tar
Bowleven, the West Africa focused oil and gas exploration group , announces that the Sapele-3 exploration well drilling in the Douala Basin, offshore Cameroon, has been drilled to a total depth (TD) of 4,480 metres. Having successfully extended the previously defined play fairways at the Paleocene a
Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore has announced a multi-million pound investment in marine assets for its core North Sea market. From January 2012, the DP3 Diving Support Vessel, Toisa Polaris, is expected to come under the control of Bibby Offshore. The vessel will be tak
Right after Statoil and its partners made an investment decision on fast track development of Vilje South, Aker Solutions unveiled that it has been awarded a contract by Statoil for the engineering, procurement and construction of a subsea production system for the project. The contract value is app
Petrobras today announced that it has identified the presence of good quality oil in well 4-SPS-91 (4-BRSA-1002-SPS), in shallow waters of south Santos Basin, in an area known as Tiro and Sidon, offshore Brazil. The new well, informally known as Patola, is located at a water depth of 299 meters, som
