P/F Atlantic Petroleum announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Atlantic Petroleum UK Limited, has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of the UK-based private exploration company, Volantis Exploration Limited. Volantis Exploration holds equity in a total o
P/F Atlantic Petroleum announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Atlantic Petroleum UK Limited, has today signed a share purchase agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of the UK-based private exploration company, Volantis Exploration Limited. Volantis Exploration holds equity in a t
Octanex N.L. has been advised by Eni Australia Limited, the Operator of the Galahad-1 well located in the outer Exmouth Plateau permit, WA-363-P, that at 07:00 hours WST (Western Standard Time) on Monday, 16 May 2011, the well had reached its total depth (TD) of 3448m MDRT (measured depth below rota
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the proposal for acquisition of a new Research Vessel (RV) by Geological Survey of India (GSI) for seabed survey and exploration for non-living resources etc., as a replacement of RV “Samudra Manthan” at a revised cost estimate of Rs.549.50 crore. T
The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (GHWB CSG) departed for its maiden deployment May 11. The strike group, led by the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), and its nearly 6,000 Sailors; is scheduled to conduct operations in the U.S. Navy’s 6th and 5th Fleet areas of r
Oil and gas company E.ON Ruhrgas UK E&P Ltd has signed a NOK18m (£2m) deal contract with AGR to use its innovative Riserless Mud Recovery technology (RMR®) in the North Sea. The contract, which lasts until the end of March 2013, is for multiple wells on E.ON Ruhrgas’s Huntington Field in the UK sect
Following a NOK18m (£2m) deal, AGR Drilling Services has an important new client for its Riserless Mud Recovery system (RMR®). Oil and gas company E.ON Ruhrgas UK E&P Ltd has signed a contract with AGR to use its innovative RMR® technology in the North Sea. The contract, which lasts until the end of
A number of non-conformities with the regulations have been found by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway’s (PSA) investigation into an incident on Gullfaks A where one person was injured during a lifting operation. Taking place on 28 February 2011, this incident on the Statoil-operated installatio
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that drilling of exploration well 7120/2-3 in PL438 has commenced. The well will target the Skalle prospect, which is situated to the north of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The main objective of well 7120/2-3 is to test Cretac
The Board of Leighton Holdings Limited announces that Dr Frank Stieler (52), currently Chairman of the Executive Board of HOCHTIEF AG, has been appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Company . Dr Stieler joined HOCHTIEF AG in 2009 as a Member of the Executive Board and took over responsibility fo
Nido Petroleum Philippines Pty Ltd (wholly owned subsidiary of Nido Petroleum Limited; on behalf of the SC 54B Joint Venture, announces that the ‘Atwood Falcon’ deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig was mobilized from Labuan, Malaysia at 01:00 hours on 14 May 2011 and is due to arrive at the Ginda
Keppel FELS Limited’s (Keppel FELS) returning customer, Oslo-listed S.D. Standard Drilling Plc (Standard Drilling), has ordered four repeat KFELS B Class rigs worth US$772 million. Successive deliveries of these units are scheduled between 2H2013 and 1H2014. Standard Drilling ordered its first jacku
Unique System FZE, a leading provider of specialized engineering solutions to the subsea and offshore oil and gas industries, has signed a two year contract with NPCC for the hire of air bags to support their various projects in the UAE. National Petroleum Construction Company, (NPCC), is one of the
DeepOcean Group Holding AS , a new Norwegian private limited company, announced that it has commenced operations as an independent company following the successful completion of an out-of-court restructuring of the former Trico Supply Group of Trico Marine Services, Inc. . Pursuant to the out-of-cou
