Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) announced today that Petrobras America Inc. (PAI) is the first non-member to have cited MWCC’s system to receive an approved drilling permit. PAI contracts with MWCC for the right to cite the MWCC system in its permit application to the Bureau of Ocean Energy,
Apache Corporation said a subsidiary has received Australian government environmental approval for development of the Julimar and Brunello offshore natural gas fields that will supply natural gas to the Chevron-operated Wheatstone LNG project. Development of the Julimar and Brunello natural gas fiel
Recently Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visited the Havila-ship Seven Havila from Herøy while the ship was in Randaberg. Afterwards he told Stavanger Aftenblad that he has learned a lot from the visit and that he never earlier have been aboard a offshore-vessel as big as this. Seven Havila is the w
Alan Brunnen and Tove Røskaft will both take a seat at the executive management team of Aker Solutions following a restructuring of the company’s business area Subsea. Mads Andersen who has headed Subsea leaves the company after eight years in the same executive team. Alan Brunnen has headed up Aker
BP announced today the drilling of a successful appraisal well in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the US Gulf of Mexico. The well results confirm a significant resource extension for the Mad Dog Field complex, which includes the existing field, in production since 2005
Recently Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg visited the Havila-ship Seven Havila from Herøy while the ship was in Randaberg. Afterwards he told Stavanger Aftenblad that he has learned a lot from the visit and that he never earlier have been aboard a offshore-vessel as big as this. Seven Havila is the w
McMoRan Exploration Co. today announced results from interim logging operations at the Lafitte ultra-deep exploration well located on Eugene Island Block 223 in 140 feet of water. The Lafitte well commenced drilling on October 3, 2010 and has been drilled to 27,038 feet. Wireline logs indicate sever
Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine (Hong Kong) Ltd., announced recently the re-naming of its wholly-owned Houston, Texas, subsidiary Wison Floating Systems, Inc. to Wison Offshore & Marine (USA), Inc. as part of a global re-branding of Wison’s upstream oil and gas division. “Changing our name to
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Premier Oil Norge AS a drilling permit for well 9/1-1 S. Well 9/1-1 S will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility in position 57°35’37.02’’N and 4°00’56.05”E. The drilling program for well 9/1-1 S concerns the drilling of a wildcat well
Norwegian Cruise Line has been named “Europe’s Leading Cruise Line” by the World Travel Awards for the fourth consecutive year and also rece… (TravelDailyNews) [mappress] Source: TravelDailyNews, September 7, 2011
Schlumberger today announced at the Offshore Europe 2011 Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition the combining of its fishing and intervention services, which will be delivered through SERVCO services. The new service organization will offer fishing and pipe recovery, wellbore departure, wellbore aban
SOCO announces that the Te Giac Trang Field in Vietnam, which commenced production on 22 August 2011, is ramping up production on schedule, reporting 28,563 barrels of oil per day (“BOPD”) in the most recent 24 hour reporting period. The plan calls for an interim plateau production of approximately
UK based Coastline Surveys Limited, were contracted by Calegeo, a trading division of Calecore Ltd, for a Alcatel Lucent cable burial assessment survey recently broke their own water depth record with their C-Pen40 seabed CPT system. Under the survey a total of 44 CPT’s were completed along the prop
Shanghai-based Wison Offshore & Marine (Hong Kong) Ltd., announced recently the re-naming of its wholly-owned Houston, Texas, subsidiary Wison Floating Systems, Inc. to Wison Offshore & Marine (USA), Inc. as part of a global re-branding of Wison’s upstream oil and gas division. “Changing our name to
