Technip has been awarded a large subsea installation contract by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd for the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility moored some 200 kilometers off the north west coast of Australia, in the Browse Basin, at a water depth of approximately 240 meters. T
Cue Energy Resources Limited provides the following update on the Banambu Deep-1 exploration well in permit WA-389-P offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Progress The operator has advised that the well reached total depth of 4696 mMD at 12:45 hrs 26th June 2012 within the Mungaroo Formation.
Det norske is as partner about to complete drilling operations on exploration well 2/8-18S on the Clapton prospect in PL 440S. The well is located about five kilometers east of Eldfisk East field and ten kilometers north of the Valhall field. The reservoir contained no hydrocarbons of producible qua
Aminex PLC (‘Aminex’), an independent oil company listed on the main market of the London and Irish Stock Exchanges with exploration and development assets in the emerging hydrocarbon province of East Africa, today announces an update on the current 2D seismic transition zone survey within the Nyuni
Technip has been awarded a large subsea installation contract by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd for the Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility moored some 200 kilometers off the north west coast of Australia, in the Browse Basin, at a water depth of approximately 240 meters. T
PETRONAS, the Malaysian national oil and gas company, and Progress Energy Resources announced that PETRONAS’ Canadian subsidiary, PETRONAS Carigali Canada, and Progress have entered into an agreement for the purchase by PETRONAS Canada of all of Progress’ outstanding common shares at a cash price of
DeepOcean announces the multi-million pound pre-cut trenching contract award with Statnett & Energinet.dk on the Skagerrak 4 HVDC Submarine Interconnector Project. DeepOcean will provide the engineering and project management for the pre-cut trenching workscope in Denmark, which is expected to comme
Specialist engineering company, STATS Group, has completed an 18 month design, manufacturing and installation project to enable the tie-in of a fifth pipeline on Statoil’s Troll A Platform. Statoil’s Troll A platform, located off the west coast of Norway, utilises a system of seal tubes to tie-in ri
SeaBird Exploration Plc announces that it has signed agreements for the sale of approximately USD 4 million from its multi-client library. The Voyager Explorer shallow water 3D job in Mozambique has been extended into August 2012 under the current contract. The Aquila Explorer has just completed a s
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd advises that at 06:00 hours (WST) today, final function testing of the Blowout Preventers (“BOP”) on the sea floor is currently being undertaken, with the expectation of drilling ahead with the 8 ½” hole later today. Since the last report, the BOPs and marine riser were run
Norway’s oil and gas exploration and production company Statoil has received consent to use the Deepsea Bergen Semisubmersible rig on the Norwegian sea fields. The company recently informed Odfjell Drilling that it was exercising the option for maximum duration of the new drilling contract, which me
Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to remove the SPM-C loading buoy on the Statfjord field. The loading buoy on Statfjord C is located in the North Sea in block 33/9. Water depth at the site is 145.7 metres. The activity is scheduled to start in July
Piriou wins a historic order and breaks into a new market, that of exploration ships. PIRIOU has just signed a contract for the construction of an exploration ship 76 metres in length that it will deliver in 36 months to a European shipowner. The ship will be built in Concarneau (29) by CHANTIERS PI
Aker Solutions has been awarded a frame agreement by ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Norway AS. Contract value is undisclosed. The frame agreement covers engineering, procurement, construction and installation for ExxonMobil’s operated assets on the Norwegian continental shelf. The fixed contr
