Salamander Energy plc announces that the Atwood Mako jack up rig (the “Mako”) has arrived on location and commenced development drilling from the Bualuang Alpha platform on the Group’s B8/38 licence in the Gulf of Thailand. The Mako is on long term contract, and will initially complete a short devel
At 06:00 hrs WST, Karoon advises that wireline logs were being acquired in the Boreas-1 well. Since the last report, 108 metres of core was cut and recovered to surface, and the well was drilled to its total depth. Wireline logging will include pressure testing and sampling programs in order to conf
Pacific Drilling S.A. announced today that one of its subsidiaries has reached an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries to extend, until December 15, 2012, its existing option to construct an eighth ultra-deepwater drillship, on substantially the same commercial terms, with delivery scheduled for
MEO Australia Limited advises that its subsidiary company Seruway Offshore Exploration Limited (SOEL) received handover of the Hercules #208 jack-up drilling rig on 18th September. The rig is under tow to the Gurame SE-1X location and the well is expected to spud on or around the 22nd September. Gur
Providence Resources P.l.c., (“Providence”) the Irish oil and gas exploration and production company, whose shares are quoted in London (AIM) and Dublin (ESM), provides the first technical update on its Rathlin Basin acreage, which is located both onshore and offshore Northern Ireland. Providence ho
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a contract worth a total of €67 million by the Turkish electricity transmission utility TEIAS for the design, supply, installation and commissioning of a high voltage submarine power cable link to connect
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc, the AIM listed oil and gas exploration, development and production company focussed on Europe, provides a technical update on its 100% owned Licensing Options (‘LO’), LO 11/07 and LO 11/08, located in the highly prospective South Porcupine Basin, in the Irish Atlanti
Apply Sørco has been awarded the operations and maintenance support contract for the Goliat field in the Barents Sea by Eni Norge. The contract includes pre-operations support services as well as technical services and support during the field operations phase. The first phase of the work includes p
Eurasia Drilling Company Limited, the leading onshore and offshore drilling service provider in the CIS, announces that it has been awarded a multi-year contract extension with PETRONAS Carigali (Turkmenistan) Sdn Bhd for drilling offshore Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea. Effective from January 9, 2
Wärtsilä Hamworthy has won a contract with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard to supply cargo handling equipment and engineering to four medium size carriers for Antwerp–headquartered Exmar Shipping SA. Each of the 38,000 m³ capacity vessels will be delivered from the first quarter of 2014 onwards. All will feat
DeepOcean AS has been awarded a 1 year option by Statoil for the vessel Edda Flora under the existing frame agreement for Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) the company holds with Statoil. Edda Flora is now committed until 1st December, 2013. The award represents a significant addition to Deep
Partrac Ltd were awarded the framework contract by SSE Renewables to provide metocean survey services in support of wave and tidal energy developments in the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters, following the award of Agreement for Leases by The Crown Estate in 2010. Now approaching the second year of
GE Oil & Gas and Brazilian energy company Petrobras have signed the world’s largest subsea wellhead production contract, worth nearly US$1.1 billion (R$2.2 billion). This includes the delivery of approximately 380 subsea wellhead systems and installation tools needed in oil well exploration, and mor
OceanWorks International has been awarded a contract by the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) to instrument a cable termination for a ground breaking tidal energy project in the Bay of Fundy. The project includes the design, manufacture and integration of the subsea instrumentation, sho
