UK’s Petrofac and French based Schlumberger announced today that their Integrated Energy Services (IES) and Schlumberger Production Management (SPM) divisions respectively have signed a Co-operation Agreement under which these divisions will establish a working relationship to deliver integrated and
Dutch based Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) has taken delivery of a new addition to their offshore fleet. VOS Ares, an “A class” anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel, was delivered from the Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. She is the fifth in a series of six vessels being built at this yard for
Ramboll Oil & Gas has just won the Tyra East Rationalisation Project. The Tyra Field is the largest gas field in the Danish sector of the North Sea. The field is operated by Maersk Oil, and production started back in 1984. Optimising production for future demand The Tyra East Rationalisation Project
Pars Oil & Gas Company (POGC) signed a contract with Global Petro Tech Company on drilling two descriptive-production wells to examine output potentials of the South Pars gas field’s oil layer on January 2 2012) at Petroleum Ministry building in the presence of Iranian petroleum minister, Rostam Gha
Providence Resources P.l.c., today confirmed it has been offered a frontier exploration licence over six blocks in the Rathlin Basin, offshore Northern Ireland by the UK Government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC). This offer was made as part of the second tranche of awards under the U
STATS Group, a company specializing pipeline engineering, has completed an isolation project on behalf of AMEC to allow maintenance and replacement works on the North Everest platform in the central North Sea. The workscope covered three maintenance valves and one ESD valve on a 20-inch gas import l
Serica Energy plc has been offered a further two Production Licences in the final stage of the 26th Round of UK Offshore Licensing announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Block 110/8b in the East Irish Sea has been offered to Serica as operator with a 100% interest. The work commit
Grenland Group, a full-service engineering, procurement and construction company based in Norway, has been awarded a contract for two PetroFlame® burner booms for the semisubmersible drilling and intervention rig, Island Innovator. Island Innovator is owned by Marine Accurate Well ASA (Maracc), and
Apache Corporation has completed its previously announced acquisition of Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Mobil North Sea Limited assets including the Beryl field and related properties for a previously agreed amount of $ 1.75 billion. Apache has assumed operations of the Beryl, Nevis , Ness, Nevis South,
Statoil has chosen to take out an additional two-year option on the existing contract for diving services with Technip Norge AS. According to a cooperation agreement, ExxonMobil and Gassco could also be potential users of this contract. The manned underwater operations will be conducted from DSV Ska
Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) stated that an oil spill response team was mobilised for cleanup operations along the coastline between Kuala Belait and the Panaga beach, on Sunday morning, 1 January 2012. The source of the leak was identified within 15 minutes and was immediately and safely isolated.
Spectrum, a company that holds the world’s second-largest library of Multi-Client 2D marine seismic data has teamed up with CGGVeritas and GeoData Ventures, to commence a new 2D Multi-Client seismic survey covering several open acreage blocks in the Sumba Strait, Indonesia, an area that has attracte
Norway’s oil titan Statoil has completed drilling of the Skinfaks South well in the North Sea and the estimated volume is between 1.9 and 6.9 million barrels of oil equivalents. This is the fourth infrastructure-near discovery in the Gullfaks area in a 10 month period. Light oil has been confirmed i
Songangol, Maersk Oil and other partners declared the Azul-1 deepwater exploration well, located in Block 23 in the Kwanza Basin offshore Angola, a discovery well. The Azul-1 well, the first to penetrate pre-salt objectives in Angolan deepwater, was drilled in water depths of 923 meters and reached
