Total E&P Norge AS has received consent to conduct exploration drilling of well 7225/3-1 in the Barents Sea with the West Phoenix mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 535, with Total E&P Norge AS (40%) as the operator. The other licensees are Det norske (20%), RockSource (
Ithaca Energy Inc.announces combined sales for the first quarter totalled 314,340 barrels of oil equivalent (“boe”) net to Ithaca. The Company’s sales volumes in Q1 2011 include contributions from the Beatrice and Jacky oil fields and from the Anglia and Topaz gas fields and are summarised as follow
Sonde Resources Corp. (“Sonde” or the “Company”) announces the appointment of Mr. W. Gordon Lancaster to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective April 5, 2011. Mr. Lancaster will stand for election at the Company’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. In addition, the Board appointed Mr. Lanc
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract with Petrobras, as Operator of BM-S-9 and BM-S-11 Consortia to Subsea 7 Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Subsea 7 S.A., of approximately $1 billion for the development of the Pre-Salt deepwater Guará and Lula NE Areas located in the Santos Basin, off
Ophir Energy plc (Ophir)announces that a subsidiary has entered into agreement with Ras Al Khaimah Gas Tanzania Ltd (RAKGas) to acquire a 70% interest and Operatorship of a Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) over an area designated as the East Pande Block in Tanzania. Completion of this agreement is
Coastal Energy Company (the “Company” or “Coastal”) announces the successful results of the Bua Ban North A-04 well. The Bua Ban North A-04 well was drilled to 6,417 feet TVD to test Miocene and Upper Oligocene targets in an upthrown block west of the discoveries in the A-01 well. The well encounter
Nearly 500 students from more than 35 classrooms “virtually” accompanied researchers from the… [mappress] Source: noaanews , April 07, 2011;
Operator of BM-S-9 and BM-S-11 Consortia to Subsea 7 Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Subsea 7 S.A., of approximately $1 billion for the development of the Pre-Salt deepwater Guará and Lula NE Areas located in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, in water depths of approximately 2,200 metres. The pr
Federal and state environmental agencies have approved a $12 million Great Lakes Legacy Act cleanup of contaminated sediment at Muskegon… By John S. Hausman (mlive) [mappress] Source: mlive, April 7, 2011
GE has selected Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co. LLC, a leading national provider of environmental, capital improvement and maintenance dredging services, to perform environmental dredging in the Upper Hudson River in 2011. GE announced in December that it would perform the second and final
GE will begin the second phase of the Upper Hudson River cleanup in May 2011. The approach to dredging and disposal will be similar to what was undertaken in 2009, when 286,000 cubic yards, or 329,000 tons, of river sediment was removed. In 2011, approximately 350,000 cubic yards, or 400,000 tons, o
Halliburton has been awarded several contracts by Statoil to provide services for two high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) fields offshore Norway. Halliburton estimates that these significant multiyear awards have the potential to exceed more than $200 million in value. Under these contracts, Hall
COSL Drilling Europe AS (COSL) received a new Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the COSL Rigmar mobile living quarters facility (formerly Port Rigmar) on 31 March 2011. Port Rigmar received an AoC for the first time in June 2008. COSLRigmar (pictured) is a mobile living quarters facility (jack
An affordable and functional solution for Mid Water Station Keeping (MWSK) has been on the wish list of most ROV operators and manufacturers for some time now; the huge benefits in terms of operational efficiency and the future potential for pre-planned automated missions has made it a case of when,
