Last Friday, Shell divers closed the relief valve from which oil had been seeping. No oil has been released from the flowline, or release valve, since that point. Continuous monitoring is being carried out to ensure that no releases have occurred. A reconnaissance flight on Tuesday evening reported
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) wants to drill eight wells in its gas discovery block in the prolific Krishna-Godavari Basin off the … Source: business-standard [mappress] Source: business-standard, August 25, 2011;
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA announce that it has been awarded a contract worth USD 90 million by Petrobras to perform a range of electromagnetic (EM) surveys in frontier and mature basins offshore Brazil. Data acquisition will be performed using the vessel BOA Galatea and is expected to take app
The PGS Crystal III Wide Azimuth survey illuminates and eliminates the unknown in East Breaks. This MultiClient survey is available now, in time for the highly anticipated Lease Sale 218 in the Western Gulf of Mexico on December 14, 2011. This survey, which covers 485 OCS blocks, or 11,300km², in Ea
Petrobras” Brazilian natural gas output was 56.713 million cubic meters per day in July. This shows an 8% increase compared to the same month in 2010 and remained at the same level as June 2011. As a result of maintenance programs on platforms operating in the Campos Basin, Petrobras” Brazilian oil
Sea Trucks Group, one of the largest and fastest growing oil and gas marine contractors in West Africa, announced the appointment of Robert-Jan van Acker as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Robert van Acker (39) has over 13 years experience in the international marine industry. He joins Sea Trucks f
Kvaerner and COOEC have jointly invested in engineering and fabricating of a demonstration module to document the partners’ combined capabilities for delivering new offshore oil and gas platforms. After the start of the engineering and procurement in January 2011, the fabrication of the module was c
Hallin Marine Australia, a Superior Energy Services company, has mobilised a Construction Class remotely operated vehicle system, C-ROV, onboard the support ship Go Altair. The system will be used to carry out a programme of pipeline and platform inspection on behalf of AGR Asia Pacific in Bass Stra
NOAA, Shell Exploration & Production, ConocoPhillips, and Statoil USA E&P Inc. signed an agreement to enhance collaboration on ocean, coastal and climate science for the Arctic. The agreement calls for sharing a number of scientific data sets for this largely frontier region, including weather and o
Seadrill today reported consolidated revenues for the second quarter 2011 of US$995 million compared to US$1,110 million for the first quarter 2011. The reduction is due to de-consolidation of Archer Limited from end of February. Highlights Seadrill generates second quarter 2011 EBITDA of US$579 mil
Karoon, as operator of five wholly owned blocks in the Santos Basin, Brazil, today executed final drilling agreements with Dolphin Drilling Ltd, for the “Blackford Dolphin” semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling contract covers the use of the Blackford Dolphin rig for the drilling of three well
ROC today released its Half Year Financial Report and Appendix 4D for the period ended 30 June 2011 (1H 2011). Commenting on the 1H 2011 financial results, ROC’s Chief Executive Officer, Alan Linn, stated: “ROC remains on target to meet its 2011 production guidance of between 7,000-8,000 BOEPD, with
Roc Oil (Bohai) Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, advises that production has commenced from the first appraisal well drilled in the new Zhanghai block – one of two adjoining blocks added to ROC’s existing Zhao Dong Block Contract in March 2011 with the aim of commercialising previous near
The top management at Wintershall is acquiring additional support: the Board of Executive Directors of Wintershall Holding GmbH is currently being expanded from four to five board departments and Mario Mehren, currently a division head at Wintershall, will take over the new position from 1.10.2011.
