STEP Offshore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aker Solutions, has won a contract from South Korea’s STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co., LTD (“STX”) to supply equipment for a new, dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater Globetrotter-class drillship(image). The owner of the ship is Noble Corporation. STEP O
Is there a federal moratorium on offshore drilling in the Arctic or not? Patti Epler (Alaska Dispatch) [mappress] Source: Alaska Dispatch, December 29, 2010;
Ithaca Energy Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Ithaca Energy (UK) Limited, an independent oil & gas company with exploration, development and production assets in the UK sector of the North Sea, announces that stable production from the second workover well (A23) on Beatrice Alpha has increased
Repsol and Sinopec today successfully closed the agreement reached in October to jointly develop the exploration and production of its Brazil offshore assets and to create one of the Latin America’s largest private energy companies. After obtaining the necessary authorizations from the authorities o
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has granted consent to perform manned underwater operations in 2011 within the framework of a joint operations agreement for underwater services between ExxonMobil, Gassco and Statoil. The planned activities in 2011 include e.g. work on the Statfjord C (ph
Tap Oil Limited provides the following update on the Zola-1 exploration well, offshore Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Location / Proposed Depth The Zola-1 well is located in permit WA-290-P, immediately south of the giant Gorgon gas field in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. The well is b
In November, Petrobras’ average oil production in Brazil was 2,030,924 barrels per day, which corresponds to a 4.7% increase against the daily average in October, and 2% against the same month a year ago. This volume shows sustainable production above 2 million barrels of oil per day, a mark reached
Desire Petroleum plc the oil and gas company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, advises that the 25/5-1 well on the Dawn/Jacinta prospect has reached a depth of 1,313metres. Drilling and wireline logging data shows that no hydrocarbons have been found in the Jacinta Prospect. The well will
Tap Oil Limited (“Tap”) provides the following update on the Craigow-1 exploration well, offshore Bass Basin between Victoria and Tasmania. Location / Proposed Depth The Craigow-1 well is located in permit T/47P in the offshore Bass Basin between Victoria and Tasmania. The well is being drilled in 7
Nido Petroleum Limited , as Operator of Service Contract 54A (SC 54A), provides this update on the operations at Tindalo. Since the last operations update on 22 December 2010, subsequent water analyses from Zones 1, 2 and 3 indicated that produced water was formation water. In addition, increasing w
MEO Australia Limited advises that since the last progress report, abandonment operations were completed and the Songa Venus semi-submersible drilling rig was released at 04:15 hrs Perth time, Sunday 26th December 2010. Drilling operations on the Artemis-1 program were conducted safely and without e
Work has begun in Peterhead on a pioneering underwater tool developed by Aberdeen-based Ecosse Subsea Systems. Ecosse Subsea Systems was recently awarded a £30,000 Scottish Enterprise grant to assist in the research and development of SCAR, a specialist trenching plough, and fabrication is now under
Oil regulator PNGRB has invited bids for laying two natural gas pipelines, which will partly include the one already being laid by … [mappress] Source: Business Standard, December 28, 2010;
1.753m tons of condensate were produced from Shah Deniz offshore gas condensate field in January-November, sources in SOCAR reported. By Rufat Abbasov (News.az) [mappress] Source: News.az, December 28, 2010;
