Transocean Ltd. announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 has set what the company believes is a world record for the deepest water depth by an offshore drilling rig of 10,194 feet of water while working for Reliance Industries offshore India. The rig, which is owned by a
Petrobras announces that it has completed the formation test for the first extension well of Guará, confirming the accumulation’s high productivity estimates, located in ultra deep waters, in the Santos Basin pre-salt area. During the test on well 3-SPS-69 (3-BRSA-788), located at block BM-S-9, flow
SeaBird Exploration PLC ,a global provider of marine solutions for seabed acquisition of 3D/4C/4D multimode seismic data with OBN operations, marine 2D and 3D seismic data, and associated products and services to the oil and gas industry, announces fleet update for Q1 2011 Vessel utilization is defi
Seadrill has exercised an option to build a new ultra-deepwater dual derrick drillship at the Samsung yard in South Korea. Total project price is estimated at US$600 million (includes project management, drilling and handling tools, spares, capitalized interest and operations preparations). The deli
Power conversion specialist Converteam has been selected to supply its sophisticated C-Series dynamic position (DP) control systems for two platform supply vessels (PSVs) destined for operation in the oil and gas fields of Russia’s northern seas. The award for Converteam’s sophisticated automatic po
The Australian federal government on Monday released the biggest area in more than a decade for offshore petroleum exploration, in a move… Source: Xinhua [mappress] Source:Xinhua, April 11, 2011;
Premier announces that the CRD-2X appraisal well in block 07/03 Vietnam has been drilled to a TD of 3785 metres MDRT, appraising the Miocene sands discovered in 2009 with the CRD-1X well. The well was deepened from the preliminary TD of 3109 metres MDRT to evaluate the Oligocene which was not tested
New Zealand police called in the air force Monday to monitor an offshore protest by environmentalists against a Brazilian oil company’s … Source;monstersandcritics [mappress] Source: monstersandcritics, April 11, 2011;
Chevron U.S.A. Inc. has awarded Framo Engineering the contract for engineering, procurement, manufacturing and delivery of complete subsea pumping systems for the Jack & St.Malo fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Framo Engineering Managing Director, Ole Gams Steine, states; “We are very proud and gratefu
Gondan shipyard has just signed a new contract with the norwegian shipowner Ostensjo Rederi. This contract came into force the 8th april 2011. The new vessel is a supply vessel that will support the operation of Oil Rigs operating in the North Sea. This new unit will be construction number c444 and
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (TGS) has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Stingray Geophysical Limited (Stingray). The transaction will provide TGS with a strong position in the rapidly growing market for Permanent Reservoir Monitoring (PRM) solutions. The acquisition wi
Octanex N.L. has been advised by Eni Australia Limited, the Operator of the Gawain-1 well located in the outer Exmouth Plateau permit, WA-362-P, that at 06:00 hours WST (Western Standard Time) on Monday, 11 April 2011, the well was at a depth of 3,778m MDRT (measured depth below rotary table) and ru
Tap Oil Limited has agreed to sell its interests in a portfolio of non-core assets in the Carnarvon Basin to companies in the Sydney based and privately owned Hardie Energy Group. As consideration for the assignments, the companies will pay Tap $2,000,000. Further details of the assets and the assig
UAE-based MIS Group (Maritime Industrial Services ), a diversified engineering and contracting group focused on the energy sector, has received a final payment of US$ 17.1 million, following the delivery and acceptance of MENAdrill II (Hull 110) for its client MENAdrill Investment Company (MENAdrill
