LLOG Exploration Company, L.L.C. (LLOG) initiated production from the Delta House floating production system (FPS) at Mississippi Canyon 254, in the Gulf of Mexico, in 4500 feet of water. LLOG’s Gulf of Mexico joint venture partner is Blackstone Energy Partners, and its co-owners, the entities manag
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has released preliminary production figures for March 2015 which show an average daily production of about 1 935 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 3 000 barrels per day (about 0.2 percent) more than in February 2015. Total gas sales were about 10.9 b
BG Norge AS, operator of production licence 373 S, is completing drilling of exploration well 34/3-5, located approximately five km southeast of the Knarr Field in the Northern North Sea, around 120 km West of Florø. The well is dry. The objective of well 34/3-5 was to prove petroleum in Early Juras
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted OMV Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7324/8-2, in the Barents Sea. Well 7324/8-2 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 7324/8-2 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in produ
Statoil has reported that petroleum and energy minister Tord Lien is opening the Valemon gas and condensate field in the North Sea today. The field was brought on stream on January 3, 2015. Expected recoverable reserves from the field are 192 million barrels of oil equivalent. “Valemon is one of sev
French oilfield services provider Technip and its consortium partner China Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) have been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation Limited (CNOOC Ltd.) for two tension leg platforms (TLPs) for the Liuhua 11-
GMC LTD has just completed the Basic Design of a self-installing Buoyant Tower for the Prinos Field Development for Energean Oil and Gas (Athens, Greece). The design brief was twofold to find a way to extend the life and utility of the existing Prinos infrastructure, and to find a cost effective and
Qatargas has completed thirteen years of operations on its offshore facilities without a Lost Time Incident (LTI). According to the company, this milestone achievement across the entire offshore facilities and operations is the result of the company’s continuous commitment to safety, by the leadersh
The investigation by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) into the incident on the jack-up rig Mærsk Giant, when a lifeboat was unintentionally launched to the sea, has now been completed. Several breaches of the regulations were identified. The rig was positioned on the Yme field in the sout
KrisEnergy Ltd. has announced that the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig has started drilling of the Rossukon-3ST sidetrack exploration well in G6/48 in the Gulf of Thailand. KrisEnergy yesterday informed that its third exploration well at the Rossukon prospect in the G6/48 block, in the Gulf of Thailand ha
From 27 January to 5 February 2015, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of Rowan Norway Ltd’s management of major accident risk and systems for barrier management on Rowan Gorilla VI (RGVI). The Rowan Gorilla VI is a Super Gorilla class jack-up drilling rig owned by Rowa
VAALCO Energy, Inc. has today announced first production from Etame 12-H, a development well drilled from the Etame platform offshore Gabon. Etame 12-H was drilled to a measured depth of approximately 3,450 meters targeting the recently discovered, untapped lower lobe of the Gamba reservoir. Followi
KrisEnergy Ltd., an independent oil and gas company focused on Southeast Asia, has said that its third exploration well at the Rossukon prospect in the G6/48 block, in the Gulf of Thailand has intersected oil and gas. The company has said that the Rossukon-3 well, drilled by the Key Gibraltar offsho
Rosneft, as part of Sakhalin-1 Consortium, has completed drilling of the “world’s longest well” at the Chayvo field, off the coast of Sakhalin Island. O-14 production well was drilled with Orlan drilling platform in direction of the field’s south-eastern point. According to Rosneft, the well has the
