Aker Solutions and the Kazakh company KGNT Holding has established a 50/50 joint venture, Aker Caspian. The company is targeted for servicing the offshore oil and gas industry in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea. It will offer a wide scope of services to offshore field development and mainte
OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. , the Brazilian oil and gas company conducting the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, announced today that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian and Santonian sections of well 1-OGX-18-RJS, located in the BM-C-40 block,
As operator of Block 17, Total announces the launch of development of the CLOV project and the awards of the principal contracts. This project is the fourth development pole in Angola’s deep offshore Block 17, after Girassol, Dalia and Pazflor. Drilling will start in 2012 and first oil is expected i
Hardy Oil and Gas plc (LSE: HDY), the oil and gas exploration and production company with assets predominantly in India, announces the recommencement of drilling of the exploration well KGV-D3-W1, on the Company’s KG-DWN-2003/1 (D3) exploration license. The KGV-D3-W1 exploration well recommenced dri
Aban Offshore, India’s largest offshore drilling and oil-field services provider, has won a half-a-billion-dollar contract from Brazilian… [mappress] Source: economictimes.indiatimes, August 11, 2010:
STX Norway Offshore has through its subsidiary STX Brazil Offshore entered into two new contracts for Norskan Offshore for the building of two Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) of AH 11 design. The vessels are scheduled for delivery in 2012 and 2013. These vessels are the first of the new AH 11 desi
Aberdeen-headquartered energy consultancy Xodus Group has won a large contract with operator GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd to deliver a front end engineering and design (FEED) study for the Juliet field in the Southern North Sea. Xodus will provide an integrated FEED study including flow assurance and operati
Approaching storms forced crews to suspend drilling the final stretch of a relief well aimed at shooting a permanent underground plug into… by Harry R. Weber and Jeffrey Collins (washingtonpost) [mappress] Source: washingtonpost, August 11, 2010:
CGGVeritas has launched the Oceanic Vega seismic vessel at a naming ceremony held at the Ulstein Verft shipyard in Norway. The Oceanic Vega is the first of a new generation of Ulstein SX120 high-end, environmentally friendly vessels and the first of two X-BOW® vessels commissioned by CGGVeritas, the
Prosafe has been awarded a contract by BG International (CNS) Limited for the provision of the Safe Caledonia accommodation rig for the Gaupe and other projects in the North Sea. The firm period of the contract is 9 months with on site operations planned to commence March 2011. In addition Prosafe h
Tap Oil Ltd advises that it has relinquished an exploration block, SC-41, located in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines. The next phase of the service contract would have included a work program commitment to drill an exploratory well by May 2011. It was concluded that a well was not appropria
Incat Crowther announced that the firm has been contracted to design an innovative 28m Wave Piercing Catamaran Crew Boat to support offshore oil and gas operations. Developed in conjunction with Topaz Shipbuilding for a large petroleum firm, the vessel features a new and cleverly developed layout. A
The Canadian government’s top ice experts have begun planning how to deal with a massive iceberg that broke off a Greenland glacier last… [mappress] Source: Postmedianews, August 11, 2010: [mappress] Source: agr, August 11, 2010:
AGR Field Operations has signed a 3 year agreement with Seadrill Offshore AS for the provision of inspection and surveys according to authority requirements. The agreement covers all of Seadrill’s rigs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. AGR Field Operations will under this agreement provide service
