STX OSV Holdings Limited , one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announced today that it has entered into a joint venture with Industrial Control Design AS (“ICD”) of Norway to establish a new company for the development of offshore handling systems.
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Cairn announces a number of changes to the composition of its board of Directors all of which will be effective from 1 July 2011. The Non-Executive Chairman, Norman Murray, will stand down from the board, as will Malcolm Thoms, Chief Operating Officer and Philip Tracy, Group Engineering and Operatio
Emissions of CO2 and NOx from petroleum activities are relatively stable. Discharges to the sea of produced water and oil have not changed much in the last few years either. The authorities and the oil industry agree that there are too many accidental discharges on the Norwegian shelf. The operators
Det norske oljeselskap ASA has as license partner made a gas discovery in the Norvarg prospect in the Barents Sea license 535, operated by Total E&P Norge AS. Exploration well 7225/3-1 has not been completed. Preliminary well data indicate gas at three different levels, a significant part of it in t
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd provides the following information to clarify media reports over the previous day in relation to the status of relevant federal government approvals for its proposed Browse Basin drilling program. During May 2011 a new application for a drilling approval was submitted to the
Petroleum Limited , on behalf of the SC 54B Joint Venture, announced the following update on the Gindara-1 well. On 16 June 2011, the current operation was drilling ahead in the Nido Limestone. Since the last drilling update on 14 June 2011, the Logging Whilst Drilling (LWD) logging tool and the dri
A/S Norske Shell (Shell) has been granted consent for use of the mobile well intervention facility Island Constructor for maintenance of subsea facilities on the Draugen field. In September 2010, Shell was granted consent to perform maintenance on wells A55H and B2H . However, the work was postponed
Total E&P Norge AS (Total) has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 6607/12-2S in the Norwegian Sea with the Songa Delta mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 127, with Total as the operator (50%) and Statoil as partner (50%). The well is located in th
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced that it has won a £15 million order to design and equip two offshore service vessels for ship owner Brasil Supply. The vessels, of the Rolls-Royce UT775 E design, will be chartered by Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras and are designed
BG Norge AS (BG) has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 34/3-3S in the northern part of the North Sea with the West Alpha mobile facility. The well is part of production licence 373S with BG (45%) as the operator. The other licensees are Idemitsu Petroleum (25%), Wintershall
GE Oil & Gas is announces that its Wellstream business, acquired in March, has been awarded a long-term, flexible pipe and subsea equipment logistics services contract by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), one of the largest companies in Latin America which also controls significant energy assets
Preliminary production figures for May 2011 indicate an average daily production of about 1 829 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is a decrease of 266 000 barrels compared to April. Gas production was about 6.3 billion Sm3, which is a decrease of 1.1 billion Sm3 compared to the previous m
Recently, Hull No. 3602, which is a drillship ordered by TMT was named ‘Dragonquest’ at quay D1 by Mrs. Rika Su, Spouse of Mr. Nobu Su, CEO of TMT. Around 120 honored guests attended the naming ceremony including Mr. Nobu Su, CEO of TMT and Mr. Doug Halkett, COO of Vantage Drilling and Mr.Tian Khiam
