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
Six Greenpeace activists disembarked from Shell’s Arctic-bound oil rig in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, April 11, 2015, after spending six days camping on the structure to protest against Arctic drilling. The multi-national team of six people, Greenpeace activists, climbed aboard the Polar Pioneer
Bergen Group has decided to divest the company’s rig-service activity at Hanøytangen. The total transaction price is set to NOK 245 million ($30.2 million). Sale agreements have been concluded with Semco Maritime AS for the operational activity and with Hellik Teigen AS for the real estate. The well
Argos Resources’ subsidiary, Argos Exploration Limited (AEL), has entered into a farm-out agreement with Noble Energy Falklands Limited and Edison International related to the company’s 100 percent interest in production licence PL001, off the Falkland Islands. The licence covers an area of approxim
