Lundin Norway AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum), operator of production licence 438, has completed well 7120/2-3S on the Skalle prospect as a gas discovery. A comprehensive logging and coring program has been acquired. The well is situated approximately 25 kilom
Songa Offshore SE announces that the Company has received a Letter Of Award (LOA) from Petronas Carigali SDN. BHD for the use of Songa Venus for a 1 year firm plus 1 year option Drilling Contract. The LOA is conditional to mutual agreement of contract terms between the parties. The firm part of the
Chevron Australia today announced that it had successfully bid for the exploration rights to two blocks in the Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia. Chevron Australia will be the operator and will hold a 100 percent interest in the blocks. The permit areas, WA-455-P and WA-456-P, are located i
A/S Norske Shell has received consent to use the West Navigator mobile facility for drilling and well operations on Ormen Lange. The consent relates to work on subsea template C, drilling of three production wells and drilling of a pilot well. The operation is scheduled to start in July 2011. West N
MEO Australia Limited announces that it has been awarded a new exploration permit, AC/P53 in the Ashmore Cartier region of the Timor Sea. MEO will hold 100% interest in the permit. The permit covers 504 km and is contiguous with MEO’s 100% equity AC/P50 and AC/P51 permits. AC/P53 is the second permi
In connection with the planned shutdown on Visund on 9 April 2011, a hydrocarbon leak from a riser to a well occurred. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has investigated this incident. The Visund field is operated by Statoil. The field is located in the northern North Sea and has been deve
Deep Down, Inc. ,an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services, today announced it has just completed the assembly and test running of its own 3,200 MT carousel located at Core Industries near Mobile, Alabama, a
Estonian company Elme TKS, which is a subsidiary of the concern BLRT Grupp, was granted a certificate for non-destructive inspection of metal structures of offshore projects and equipment that are supervised by a classification society Det Norske Veritas. According to the member of the board of Elme
Statoil has received consent to use the West Phoenix mobile facility for drilling and well operations on Troll. The consent relates to permanent plugback and abandoning (P&A) of wells on the Troll Oseberg Gas Injection (TOGI) subsea facility, as well as plugback and/or drilling and completion on pro
UAE-based GMMOS Group announces it has rebranded to Stanford Marine Group (SMG) in order to better reflect its focus on chartering, operation, building, and maintenance of Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs). The Group has two main divisions focused on the marine sector: Stanford Marine (OSV chartering)
The latest results from Nord Stream’s environmental monitoring programme in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone, EEZ show that the company has complied with and even exceeded the conditions in the permit granted by the Swedish government. Calculations and models in Nord Stream’s Environmental Study
Faroe Petroleum plc, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic Margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that drilling operations have commenced on the Fulla exploration prospect (Faroe Petroleum 50%), located in
EXMAR announces that the OPTI-EX® floating production system has been successfully delivered to LLOG Deepwater Development Company on July 5th, at Mississippi Canyon 547 in the Gulf of Mexico. Mooring and installation of the OPTI-EX® will follow. Processing capacity of the OPTIEX® is 60,000 BOPD and
COSL720, a newly-built 12-streamer seismic vessel owned by China Oilfield Services Limited （“COSL”）, has successfully completed a 3D seismic data collection operation in Li Wan 43-11 region in South China Sea, marking completion of its first operation since commencing service. This operation was com
