FG International Holland BV, the Dutch special lifting company, in close cooperation with local partner CR Asia, has replaced the riser hose that forms the centre piece of the Arthit/Bongkot development. After meticulous planning triple redundancy was applied to make sure the replacement would be pe
BP announced today that it has reached agreement to sell its upstream businesses and associated interests in Venezuela and Vietnam to TNK-BP for a total of $1.8 billion. TNK-BP, Russia’s third largest oil company, is owned equally by BP and the AAR Consortium (comprising Alfa Group, Access Industrie
Tap Oil Limited announces that the Manora-4 appraisal well, in concession area G1/48, Gulf of Thailand, was spudded on 14 October 2010. Manora-4 is a stepout well targeting an area adjacent to the Manora Field. The Manora Field was discovered by the Manora-1 exploration well in November 2009. Tap’s
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 102 C, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 25/5-7. The well is located about 20 kilometres northeast of the Heimdal field in the North Sea. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in the Middle Jur
Seadrill has entered into an agreement for the construction of two jack-up drilling rigs with Jurong Shipyard (JSPL) in Singapore. The new units are scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter 2012 and first quarter 2013 respectively, and total project price is estimated at US$400 million, which in
KBR announced that it has been awarded a contract to execute the topsides detailed design for TOTAL’s CLOV floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. This project is the fourth development pole in Angola’s deep offshore Block 17, after Girassol, Dalia and Pazflor. Located approximately
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 3/8-1. Well 3/8-1 will be drilled from the Mærsk Guardian drilling facility at position 56°27’16.93’’north and 4°25’7.30”east. The drilling programme for well 3/8-1 applies to drilling of an exploration
ION Geophysical Corporation announced that it has acquired 6,500 km of regional seismic data for sponsoring E&P clients in the Danmarkshavn basin offshore Northeast Greenland, adding to the 5,300 km of data the company acquired there last season. The Danmarkshavn basin is one of the least explored,
WesternGeco announced today that it has begun the acquisition of the Revolution multiclient survey. Revolution marks the first time that Dual Coil Shooting* multivessel full-azimuth acquisition has been performed commercially in the industry worldwide. Located in the East Breaks and Garden Banks are
Desire Petroleum plc, the oil and gas company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, advises that the 14/15-1 well on the Rachel prospect has reached a total depth of 2,877 metres. Initial wireline logging shows that no hydrocarbons have been found. However a substantial thickness of sandstone
Gazprom’s headquarters hosted a working meeting moderated by Alexey Miller and devoted to development of the Shtokman gas and condensate field. Participating in the meeting were heads and experts of Gazprom’s structural subdivisions, subsidiaries and Shtokman Development AG. The meeting participants
Federal investigators probing the cause of the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill in history said it will take more than a month of tests to determine why a key device failed to prevent the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The 50-foot-tall stack of valves known as a blowout preventer (BOP) that sat atop
Since 2001, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has published an extensive database from more than 1000 exploration wells on the Norwegian shelf. The WDSS (well data summary sheets) for these exploration wells on the Fact Pages contain a lot of well-related information and data that are no longer co
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA has been awarded a shallow water survey in Malaysia worth more than USD 2.5 million by a major oil company. These contract revenues will be recognised in the fourth quarter of 2010. The 3D EM survey is currently underway using the vessel BOA Galatea. About EMGS EMGS,
