Tightening monitoring offshore by Canadian environmental regulators has prompted Castrol Offshore and its Canadian distributor K&D Pratt , to highlight the implications of existing guidelines that encourage the select ion of chemicals with superior environmental performance to minimise the potential
Scheldepoort Repair & Conversion Yard in Vlissingen has signed a contract for the conversion of jack up drill rig “GFS Labrador” into an accommodation rig. The project will commence when the rig arrives in Vlissingen at the end of June and will take approximately 4 months. Among other things the mai
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver ENSCO 8504, the fifth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series® ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rigs being built exclusively for Ensco plc . Keppel FELS expects to deliver the rig on time, within budget and with no lost time incidents. ENSCO 8504 h
Woodside announced that it has revised the expected cost and schedule of the Pluto LNG Project following its regular review of the progress of the project. The first LNG cargo is now estimated for March 2012. The revised estimate is attributable to slower than expected progress on the commissioning
The executive director of Greenpeace International faces prison in Greenland for breaking an injunction and boarding a giant rig exploring… John Vidal, Guardian.co.uk [mappress] Source:Guardian , June 17, 2011;
The final ruling has been delivered in the proceedings between subsidiaries of Aker Solutions and Chevron concerning delivery of the Blind Faith platform. The platform was installed in the Gulf of Mexico and started production in 2008. The ruling will result in a recordable loss of approx NOK 220 mi
Petrobras’ domestic oil and gas output in May was 2,361,080 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), 0.6% more than the 2,345,989 figure for April, and up 0.4 % compared to May last year. Natural gas output reached 56.899 million cubic meters, 7.8% up on May 2010 and 4.5% up on the April 2011 figu
Statoil wants to compress gas on the seabed to boost recovery. Subsea compression was recently selected as the preferred concept for Gullfaks. “Gas compression on the seabed represents an important advance in technology, and once again, Statoil is leading the way for development of new technology. T
Fugro has finalised the acquisition of Sial Geosciences Consulting and Engineering Şti. in Turkey and the seismic processing business of Kelman Technologies in Canada. Sial is a leading Turkish geotechnical consultant providing expertise to large infrastructure construction companies and government.
SeaBird Exploration PLC (“SeaBird” or “SBX”) is pleased to inform the following new 2D contracts awarded. The Aquila Explorer has been awarded two LOI’s for surveys of combined 4,600 line km in Indonesia for approximately two months work prior to her previously announced contract on 6th May. The ves
RBG, the leading provider of inspect, assess and repair (IAR) services to the global energy industry that was recently acquired by Stork Technical Services, has achieved more than 1,000,000 manhours without a lost time incident (LTI) across its base facility operations. RBG’s base facility team, whi
ULSTEIN’s new company museum, ULSTEIN EXPO, opens today Friday 17 June. The museum will be open for the general public from 5 – 9 pm. ULSTEIN EXPO will also be open on Saturday 18 June from 11 am until 2 pm. Guides will be present wearing red t-shirts on both Friday and Saturday. ULSTEIN EXPO [&hell
Dragon Oil plc , an international oil and gas exploration and production company, announces the completion and initial testing of the Dzheitune (Lam) 28/156 development well. The Dzheitune (Lam) 28/156 well reached a depth of 2,000 metres and was completed as a single producer by the NIS rig. The in
Bounty Oil & Gas NL announces that the Nyuni 2 well in the Nyuni Block, Tanzania was expected to spud around mid day today East Australia Time. Nyuni 2 Apraisal Well Nyuni 2 is being drilled with the Caroil 6 drilling rig from the same lease location on Nyuni Island as the Nyuni 1 well […]
