GSP Offshore, a company known in the Black Sea region for its technological expertise in offshore drilling and construction, well intervention services and naval supply, confirmed that it will participate at Offshore Energy 2011 Exhibition and Conference. The event takes place in Amsterdam, the Neth
The Gudrun project is reaching new milestones, with the West Epsilon rig busy drilling wells that need to be ready for production start in 2014. “The Gudrun field is characterised by high pressure and high temperature,” says Petter Kostøl, who is in charge of drilling and well operations in Stavange
Anadarko Petroleum Corp is considering the sale of some assets in Brazil and has retained bankers to look for buyers, according to a source… By Reporting by Michael Erman and Anna Driver (Reuters) [mappress] Source: Reuters, September 28, 2011;
Sightings of oil sheen near the capped BP Plc Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest the source may be sunken debris from the 2010 … Reporting by Bruce Nichols and Anna Driver (Reuters) [mappress] Source: Reuters, September 28, 2011;
The following operational update relates to Cairn’s exploration drilling campaign offshore Greenland. Delta-1 Well: Napariaq Block, West Disko Area The Delta-1 exploration well, drilled by the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig, located in a water depth of 293metres (m) and approximately 3
Eni and GDF SUEZ have signed an agreement for Eni to purchase the 22.5% shareholding of GDF SUEZ in EFOG, a joint-venture between GDF SUEZ and Total E&P UK Ltd, which holds a 46.2% stake in the Elgin – Franklin fields located in the United Kingdom’s North Sea. Through this shareholding Eni will obta
E.ON Ruhrgas Norge AS (ERN) has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 6507/6-4 (S&A) in the Norwegian Sea with the Borgland Dolphin mobile facility. The well will be drilled in production licence 350, with ERN as the operator (40%). The other licensees are Statoil ASA (30%) and
Bourbon Front, a BOURBON last-generation Platform Supply Vessel (PSV), has left Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group’s Zhejiang shipyard, in China. “ The Bourbon Front is the first vessel of a new BOURBON series of 4, with the Bourbon Clear, the Bourbon Calm and the Bourbon Rainbow” declares Christian Lef
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. has been awarded a new transportation contract by Hercules Offshore to transport the Hercules 185 jack-up rig from Port Gentil, Gabon to either Pascagoula, Mississippi or Bahrain using the Fairstar semi-submersible vessel FJELL. The contract revenue is just under USD 3
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Enyenra-3A appraisal well, in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana, has successfully encountered oil in high quality sandstone reservoirs. Pressure data indicates that the Enyenra-3A well has confirmed an up-dip extension of the Enyenra oil field. Loca
Subsea 7 S.A. announced today the award of a contract valued at approximately $465 million for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of sealines for a major shallow water development offshore West Africa. Detailed engineering will commence immediately, with offshore installatio
Noble Energy, Inc. announced today it has revised drilling plans for the three deepwater rigs it has under contract in the offshore Eastern Mediterranean. The Ensco 5006 rig (formerly the Pride North America), which has experienced multiple subsea equipment issues, will move off the Leviathan #3 wel
Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG) announced that its’ Bay Shipbuilding Company started steel cutting on two (2) 92.4 meter (303’) Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) of the MMC 887 LH PSV Design from MMC Ship Design of Poland for New Orleans, La.-based Tidewater Marine, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tid
State-run Korea National Oil Corp (KNOC) said on Monday that it will import a combined 11.3 million barrels of crude from Azerbaijan and the… By Cho Mee-young (Reuters) [mappress] Source: Reuters, September 27, 2011;
