Russian oil company Rosneft has decided not to go forward with a rig contract previously agreed upon with Northern Offshore. Offshore driller Northern Offshore, Ltd. today announced that North Atlantic Drilling Company Ltd (NADL) has received a cancellation notice for use of the Northern Offshore’s
KrisEnergy, an independent upstream oil and gas company, has encountered oil and gas at Rossukon-2 exploration well in G6/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, where the Rossukon oil accumulation was discovered in 2009. KrisEnergy started drilling the Rossukon-2 well on March 17, 2015 with a Key Gibraltar jac
Main deck load out of Edvard Grieg platform at Kvaerner Stord. from Magne Langåker on Vimeo. Norwegian fabrication company Kvaerner has released a time-lapse video showing the transport of Edvard Grieg’s main deck to barge. Namely, on March 20, 2015, the main deck frame of the Edvard Grieg platform
Italy’s RINA Services has completely updated its Rules for the Classification of Fixed Offshore Platforms. RINA group is a company active in classification, certification, inspection and testing services. According to RINA, the new rules and guidelines will be published in May 2015 and will cover cl
Horizon Oil has announced that production from the Maari MR6A development well, offshore New Zealand, has been brought on stream, with an initial production rate of approximately 7,800 barrels of oil per day (bopd). Participants in the PMP 38160 Joint Venture are: Horizon Oil International Ltd (10%)
Songa Offshore, an offshore drilling contractor, has said its Songa Equinox newbuild semi-submersible rig delivery will be delayed. Songa Equinox, to be hired by Statoil, went on sea trial as planned on March 19, the company has said, however, prior to sea trial departure, the inclination test indic
Karoon Gas Australia has announced that a semi-submersible drilling rig has been contracted to drill the first well for Apache and Karoon in the northern Carnarvon Basin exploration permit WA 482-P, off Australia. According to Karoon, the Levitt-1 exploration well is expected to spud during May 2015
Statoil has awarded a contract to Reinertsen to prepare Kristin platform, located in the Norwegian Sea, for tie-in with Wintershall’s Maria field. According to Offshore.no, the contract is worth NOK 600 million ($75.37 million). The partnership aims to develop the Maria field as a subsea facility wi
Atlantic Petroleum has announced that drilling of the Roald Rygg well 6706/12-3, in PL602, in the Norwegian Sea started on March 22, 2015 with the Transocean Spitsbergen rig. The well 6706/12-3 is planned to drill to a total depth of around 3420 m TVD and operations are anticipated to take 35 days.
Karoon Gas Australia has reported that the Kangaroo West-1 exploration well, located in exploration block S-M-1165, off Brazil, had reached its planned total depth of 3,170 mRT. Based on mudlog and LWD petrophysical data, no hydrocarbons were intersected. The well intersected a good thick sealing un
Woodside Petroleum has restarted production at its Pluto LNG Plant in Western Australia. The semi-submersible drilling rig Atwood Osprey, which had drifted last week close to the flowlines, was relocated away from Pluto infrastructure. The Atwood Osprey is owned by Atwood Oceanics and contracted to
An offshore worker has been airlifted from an oil platform in the UK North Sea. According to Evening Express, a daily newspaper in Aberdeen, the crewman was working on Canadian Natural Resource’s (CNR) Tiffany platform located 155 miles north-east of Aberdeen. The evacuation followed after the medic
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has said it was notified of a small fire incident on the Deep Panuke platform operated by Encana Corporation, on Monday, March 16, 2015. According to the CNSOPB, at approximately 8 A.M., a worker noticed a 6” flame on a cooling pump bearing on the util
Transocean Ltd. has issued its monthly Fleet Update Summary according to which the company intends to scrap four of its rigs. In December last year, Transocean also announced it is scrapping seven lower-specification deepwater and midwater floaters. Transocean intends to scrap the Deepwater Expediti
