The articles you have read the most this past week include the one on Halliburton’s take-over of Baker Hughes; the production kick off at Tubular Bells; two Greenpeace activists injured in protest against offshore drilling; Repsol starts drilling offshore Canary Islands; Gulf of Mexico platform blas
Ophir Energy plc has informed that its Tende-1 well in in East Pande licence offshore Tanzania, failed to find natural gas. The well, drilled by the Deepsea Metro I drillship, was targeting gas in a lower Cretaceous sandstone reservoir with a mean prospective resource estimate of 2.38TCF at a 15% ch
Maersk Drilling has informed that its drillship Maersk Venturer has started operations for Total in Malaysia. Offshore Energy Today has recently reported that Maersk Venturer has secured a short term contract with oil major Total, and now the company has released an update on its Twitter account say
In an e-mail sent to Offshore Energy Today Spanish oil company Repsol has confirmed that the company has started drilling offshore the Canary Islands, Spain. According to Repsol’s spokesperson, the drilling began yesterday and it is expected to last for six weeks. The company hired Rowan Renaissance
Jasper Investments Limited has informed that the sale of semi-submersible flotel Jasper Cosmopolitan to Alyan Offshore has fallen through after the buyer failed to meet the conditions of the previously announced agreement. Jasper Cosmopolitan is a converted accommodation semi-submersible flotel init
A merger agreement announced in September between South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering has fallen through. According to The Korea Times, one of South Korea’s largest newspapers, Samsung Heavy Industries has cancelled the deal as shareholders opposing the merger requested th
Chinese offshore rig builder CIMC Raffles has today received an order to construct an offshore accommodation rig for C. Helios Limited The semi-submersible flotel of CIMC Raffles’ CR600 design will be able to accommodate 600 crewmembers. Since 2010, CIMC Raffles has delivered a total of nine deepwat
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue its provision of engineering, procurement and construction services to the Hibernia platform, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, under a new multi-million dollar, five-year contract extension from Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC). Since fi
Drydocks World, the international service provider to the shipping, maritime, offshore, oil, gas, and energy sectors, has announced that 8 rigs are currently berthed at Drydocks World facilities for drydocking, repairs and refurbishment. The company said that this is the first time that such a momen
On 19th November, COSLPROSPECTOR, the fourth deep-water semi-submersible drilling rig built by CIMC Raffles for COSL, has been delivered in Yantai, Shandon, China. The COSLPROSPECTOR is a DP3 drilling rig with length of 104.5 meters, width of 70.5 meters, height of 37.55 meters. The rig has an opera
U.S. Senator David Vitter, Louisiana, yesterday highlighted importance of domestic energy production, following the first oil at Tubular Bells, a deepwater oil and gas field off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Tubular Bells utilizes the first classic spar built in the United States. Th
Seadrill, one of the world’s leading offshore deep-water drilling companies has chosen Liverpool for its new global service centre. The decision by New York Stock Exchange listed Seadrill was today described as a ‘major coup’ for the city and a significant boost to its offshore and maritime sector c
Tap Oil Limited has provided an update on Manora Oil Development in the Northern Gulf of Thailand. The company says that as of yesterday (November 17) the production of 8,754 barrels per day (gross) is now flowing to the FSO and it is expected to peak in the first quarter of 2015. Manora production
Lundin Petroleum has completed the Kitabu-1 well located in Blocks SB307/SB308, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. Objectives of the Kitabu-1 well were Miocene aged turbidite sands of similar age to the Shell operated South Furious 30 oil field, approximately four kilometres to the north. However the primary
