Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that drilling of exploration well 16/7-9 on the Norall prospect has commenced. The well is located in licence PL409 in the Norwegian North Sea. PL409 is located east of the Sleipner East Field in Block 16/7 in the North Sea. The well will target the J
Subsea 7 Inc., one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies, today announces that the Seven Pacific – a dynamically positioned (DP), pipelay and construction ice-class vessel, designed for deepwater pipelay and offshore construction activities worldwide – has mobilised fo
Hyperdynamics Corporation announced today that Arthur F. Meadows has joined the company as Operations Manager based in Conakry, Republic of Guinea. “With the addition of Art Meadows to our in-country Guinea staff, as well as recently contracting with AGR Peak Well Management Limited as drilling proj
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has recently been awarded a contract worth USD 4 million to perform several 3D EM surveys in Asia. Data acquisition will start in early January from the vessel BOA Galatea (photo), following completion of a work programme for Woodside in Australia. The contract
On Wednesday 1st December 2010 a Havyard 832 L SE platform supply vessel was delivered in Bergen to Global Offshore Services B.V., a 100 % subsidiary of Garware Offshore Services Ltd. Newbuild no.105 by Havyard Leirvik AS shipyard is named Beaucephalus. Godmother at the naming ceremony was Shefali B
Faroe Petroleum plc, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announced the farm-out to Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited (“COPL”), of West of Shetland licence P.1161 and the as
New Jersey is far out in front of other East Coast states with its plans for offshore wind power — and could become a front line in the gathering political battle between old and new energy industries. Four proposed projects would build up to 1,750 megawatts of wind-driven power off New Jersey. One
Petrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service provider, announces that it has acquired a 20% interest in Gateway Storage Company Limited (Gateway), to progress and develop the Gateway Gas Storage project in the East Irish Sea. The cash consideration could be up to £33 million over time, f
Buccaneer Energy Limited advises that due diligence investigations by the Alaskan Industrial and Development Export Authority (“AIDEA”) in respect to AIDEA making a direct equity investment into the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary Kenai Offshore Ventures, LLC (“Kenai Offshore”) is preceding satisf
Desire Petroleum plc the oil and gas company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, today provides the following update on the latest logging results from the 14/15-2 Rachel North well which, following additional wireline data, will be plugged and abandoned with oil shows . The results from th
Valiant Petroleum plc (“Valiant”) announces that its Don Southwest ‘H’ Panel exploration well (211/18a-28) has reached total depth of around 11,150 feet (3,400 metres). The well encountered a Brent sand formation with low oil saturations, indicative of a residual oil column which has been breached.
Nido Petroleum Limited(Nido), as Operator of Service Contract 54A (SC 54A), wishes to provide this update on the well testing of the Tindalo-1ST1 following the completion of recent workover operations. To allow the greatest chance of test results being a true indication of the flow characteristics o
Further to announcements made on November 5, 8 and 19, 2010, all ten ST locks on the BOP have been replaced. The BOP has been lowered to the seabed and testing has been completed. In cooperation with Petrobras, preparations are ongoing to recommence drilling operations, following which the rig will
MEO Australia Limited advises that since the last progress report, the BOP’s have been run and tested. The 12-¼” hole commenced drilling at 21:30 hrs (Perth time) on Friday 3rd December and has been drilled to a depth of 2,936m. The well was shut in at 18:00 hrs on Sunday 5th December after encounte
