Greenpeace activists who prevented a Chevron oil drilling ship from moving to a drill site this week agreed Friday to end their protest … By Brian Walker (CNN) [mappress] Source: CNN, September 27, 2010:
Engineers in Southwest Research Institute’s (SwRI) Mechanical Engineering Division have successfully tested a two-stage centrifugal compressor for offshore production. A test loop designed and built at SwRI was used to evaluate the compressor’s performance under wet gas conditions. The testing was c
Halliburton announced that it has acquired The Permedia Research Group: industry leading suppliers of petroleum systems modeling software and services. Permedia’s tools and expertise enable oil and gas companies to better assess exploration risk and manage the cost of developing deepwater, sub-salt
Countries bordering the north-east Atlantic rejected a ban proposal on deep-sea offshore drilling destined to avoid an environmental disaster comparable to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Norway said Friday. The ban was proposed by Germany at a meeting in the western Norwegian city of Bergen of the OS
Rockhopper Exploration plc , the North Falkland Basin oil and gas exploration company, reports the following update from the recent flow test on well 14/10-2: “Sea Lion 1”. The test was carried out over four perforated intervals totalling 77m between 2,403m and 2,566m (below drill-floor). Upon retri
Lundin Petroleum AB (“Lundin Petroleum”) announces that drilling of exploration well 16/1-14 in PL338, has commenced. The well will target the Apollo structure, which is situated immediately to the south of the Draupne field in PL001B, and some 5 kms northwest of and down-dip from the Luno field loc
Professor Curtis Hays Whitson has been awarded Statoil’s research prize 2010 for his major input to boosting knowledge about recovery of gas and gas condensate fields and improved recovery of oil fields by the use of gas injection. Consisting of NOK 200,000 and a work of art by Håkon Gullvåg the pri
EOC Limited (EOC or the Group), one of Asia’s leading operators of offshore construction & floating production vessels, has recommenced the operations of its Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading unit (FPSO), Lewek Arunothai, after completing ten days of maintenance activities. The scheduled
Cirrus Energy Corporation has been advised by its wholly owned subsidiary, Cirrus Energy Nederland B.V. (“Cirrus”) that production from the M07-A field in The Netherlands has been shut-in since September 9, 2010 due to unplanned repairs at the third party L09-FF processing platform. The operator of
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish oil and gas exploration and production company, whose shares are listed in London and Dublin , provides a technical update on Licensing Option 10/01 in the North Celtic Sea Basin, offshore Ireland which contains the Baltimore heavy oil discovery. Providence (60
Dolphin AS, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy ASA, has entered into a Letter of Award with Lundin Norway AS for a 2 wells drilling contract for the semi submersible drilling rig Bredford Dolphin for operation on the Norwegian continental shelf with estimated commencement in January/February 2011. T
Foster Findlay Associates Ltd (“ffA”) and Statoil ASA (“Statoil”) have agreed a continuation of their ongoing Research and Development Collaboration. This is the sixth phase of the collaboration, which has allowed the companies to work together in producing state-of-the-art 3D seismic analysis capab
Apache Corporation said today that it will proceed with development of the Macedon gas field in the Exmouth Basin in Western Australia. The project will commercialize natural gas from offshore production license WA-42-L, located 60 miles (100 km) west of Onslow. First production is expected during 2
Endeavour International Corporation announced that John G. Williams, executive vice president – exploration, will retire effective September 30, 2010. Since joining Endeavour in 2007, he has been a member of the company’s executive committee assigned to the company’s London office as head of explora
