As of the 1st of January 2011 T.O.S (Transport & Offshore Services) will be the supplier of nautical temporary personnel (sailing) in the North Sea area for Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management) for a period of three years. At the end of Decembe
The Company announces that the 9/3b-6z well has been successfully suspended for potential future use as a production well and the Ocean Nomad drilling rig is off hire from the Bentley field location. In addition to the successful well flow test announced on 21 December 2010, high quality downhole pr
Nido Petroleum Limited (Nido), as Operator of Service Contract 54A (SC 54A), provides this update on the operations at Tindalo. Since the last operations update on 29 December 2010, Nido, along with its Joint Venture Partners has reached a decision to call off the jack up-rig Aquamarine Driller foll
Qatar Petroleum, or QP and Exxon Mobil Corp. Thursday said they signed a joint-venture agreement on the $8.6 billion Barzan natural gas proj… (zawya) [mappress] Source: zawya, January 6, 2011;
Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Enbridge Offshore Facilities L.L.C. for the development of the Walker Ridge gas gathering system in the Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of 7,000 feet (2,130 meters). This award reinforces Technip’s leading position in the Gulf of Mexico ultra deep water ma
Hardy Oil and Gas plc , the oil and gas exploration and production company focused in India, today provides an update on the drilling of the KG-D9-B3 well, the second exploratory well on the Company’s D9 (KG-DWN-2001/1) exploration licence. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3,829 m MDRT by th
Eni Norge AS, operator of production licence 489, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 7120/12-5 in the Barents Sea. The well has been drilled about 115 kilometres northwest of Hammerfest and about 50 kilometres west of the Goliat field. The purpose of the well was to prove p
Desire Petroleum plc the company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, advises that the 25/5-1 well on the Dawn/Jacinta prospect has reached a total depth of 1,697 metres in pre-rift sediments. Based on preliminary drilling and wireline logging data there are no significant hydrocarbons in th
Noble Corporation today reported that Marathon Oil Company has provided notice that it is terminating the drilling contract for the ultradeepwater semisubmersible drilling rig Noble Jim Day. Marathon’s stated reason for the termination was that the rig had not been accepted by Marathon by December 3
Airgas, Inc. announced it has completed the acquisition of Conley Gas, Ltd., a supplier of pure gases to the specialty gas industry. The La Porte, TX-based business purifies, repackages, and distributes high-purity hydrocarbons such as methane and ethylene. Conley has additional operations in Stryke
KBR announced that it has completed the acquisition of the 44.94 percent share interest in M.W. Kellogg Limited (MWKL) previously held by JGC Corporation. With the completion of the transaction, MWKL, which was previously an affiliate of both companies since 1992, is again a wholly-owned KBR subsidi
Barents NaturGass AS has won a contract to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Torghatten Nord AS for seven new LNG ferries in one of Norw… (ngvglobal) [mappress] Source: ngvglobal, December 31, 2010;
Queensland based oil and gas company, Icon Energy Limited, today announced that its proposed LNG sales project with Shenzhen SinoGas has taken an important step forward with the introduction of a new Chinese state-owned joint venture company to the scheme. The Company’s Managing Director Ray James s
Orca Exploration Group Inc. (“Orca” or “the Company”) has announced that it will perform workovers in 2011 on two Songo Songo offshore natural gas wells (SS-5 and SS-9). Recent routine testing of all five Songo Songo producing gas wells has determined that there is the need for some remedial work on
