The oil and gas group PA Resources continues its drilling campaign in Licence 12/06 in the Danish North Sea with the commencement of drilling of an exploration well at the Lille John prospect. In July an exploration well was drilled on the Broder Tuck prospect on the Danish License 12/06 and gas and
African Petroleum has completed drilling the first well (Apalis-1) in deep water offshore Liberia in Block LB-09. The results of Apalis-1 confirm Blocks LB-08 and LB-09 (100% owned by African Petroleum) are located in a prospective oil basin, which is a major step forward. The geological and geophys
A contract for mooring equipment for a pipelaying barge marks Cargotec’s successful entry to the Vietnamese offshore market In July this year, Cargotec won a contract from the joint stock company Vinh Nam (VAM JSC)/TECMACH to supply mooring equipment outfits for Vietsovpetro’s 110m-long by 30.5m-bre
Total announces a major gas discovery in the Caspian Sea in the Absheron block offshore Azerbaijan. The Absheron X-2 well has encountered more than 500 feet of cumulated net gas pays within high quality sands on the northern flank of a major 270 square kilometres structure. Reservoirs are expected t
STX Finland Oy and Eide Marine Semi AS, a subsidiary of Eide Marine Services A/S, have signed a contract for the outfitting, completion and delivery of two highly sophisticated well intervention vessels with an aggregate contract value exceeding EUR 300 million. The technically advanced well interve
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced today that the international rig count for August 2011 was 1,183, up 33 from the 1,150 counted in July 2011, and up 81 from the 1,102 counted in August 2010. The international offshore rig count for August 2011 was 318, up 11 from the 307 counted in July 2011 and
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Zaedyus exploration well (GM-ES-1), offshore French Guiana, has made an oil discovery having encountered 72 metres of net oil pay in two turbidite fans. Results of drilling, wireline logs and samples of reservoir fluids show that the well has encountered go
Russia’s competition body has approved a request from the country’s top crude producer Rosneft to acquire more offshore assets,… By Vladimir Soldatkin (Reuters) [mappress] Source: Reuters, September 8, 2011;
DeepOcean AS has been awarded a 1 year option by Statoil for the vessel Edda Flora under the existing frame agreement for Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) the company holds with Statoil. Edda Flora is now committed until 1st December, 2012. The award represents a significant addition to Deep
RBG has secured a major £30million two year contract extension to provide Apache North Sea Limited (“Apache”) with fabric maintenance and deck crew services. The contract, which RBG has held since 2008, will see the continued delivery of a wide range of integrated services, including coatings specif
Bulgaria’s Government said on September 7 it has allowed British oil and gas explorer Melrose Resources to use a seismic vessel by the end… Source: Sofiaecho [mappress] Source:Sofiaecho, September 8, 2011;
The concept chosen for the Mariner heavy oil project on the UK continental shelf includes a production, drilling and quarter (PDQ) platform based on a steel jacket, with a floating storage unit (FSU). Statoil expects a final investment decision in late 2012 and first oil in late 2016. The Bressay he
Top representatives of GDF Suez E&P Nederland, Chevron E&P Netherlands and NAM, the joint venture of Shell and ExxonMobil, share their vision on the future of North Sea gas production during the Offshore Energy conference. The conference will take place on 11 and 12 October in Amsterdam and will run
Preliminary production figures for August 2011 indicate an average daily production of about 1 957 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is a decrease of 80 000 barrels compared to July. Gas production was about 7.9 billion Sm3, which is 0.6 billion Sm3 more than the previous month. The avera
