ADX Energy Limited announced that it has completed an initial evaluation of the Lambouka-1 well results and has generated a preliminary resource estimate for the Lambouka gas discovery. The mean recoverable gas resource is estimated to be 309 BCF with the potential for significant associated condens
Statoil and Nautical Petroleum have today signed an agreement whereby Statoil will acquire 20.67% of Nautical Petroleum’s interest in UK offshore licence P335 containing the Mariner field. This strengthens Statoil’s position as operator, and together with its 81.6% in Bressay gives Statoil a more al
Seadrill’s new ultra-deepwater drillship West Gemini has commenced operations for Total in Angola. West Gemini, which was delivered from the Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea end of June 2010, arrived offshore Angola in West Africa end of August and has since arrival prepared for start-up of o
A brand new Craig Group vessel was christened, Monday September 20, at Aberdeen Harbour as the global shipping and energy services firm names one of the last vessels in its £130 million investment programme. The vessel, which is a NSS -IMT 948 designed emergency response and rescue (ERRV) vessel, wi
Ithaca Energy Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Ithaca Energy (UK) Limited (“Ithaca” or the “Company”), an independent oil & gas company with exploration, development and production assets in the UK sector of the North Sea, is pleaannounced it has received Field Development Plan (“FDP”) approval
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) highlighted that the Shah Deniz II natural gas field in Azerbaijan is the initial target of gas intended for the project. In a joint statement, shareholders EGL, Statoil and E.ON Ruhrgas said: “The TAP pipeline is designed to cater for the volumes of gas from Shah D
Fugro has been awarded a CSEM contract by Woodside, Australia’s largest publically traded hydrocarbon exploration and production company. The acquisition part of this contract, which is worth in excess of USD 2 million, will be subcontracted to Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA. The survey will take p
Total announces the signature of a Deed of Amendment (DOA) with PETROLEUM BRUNEI on the Brunei deepwater Block CA-1, previously known as Brunei Block J. The DOA amends the original Production Sharing Contract of Block J signed in 2003 and allows PETRONAS Carigali Overseas and Canam Brunei, a wholly-
Nautical Petroleum announces the results of the Kraken appraisal well located on UK Central North Sea block 9/2b, in which Nautical has a 35 per cent. equity interest. The 9/02b-4 well was drilled to a total depth of 4,502 feet Measured Depth (MD). The top of the target Heimdal III was encountered a
Nido Petroleum Limited on behalf of the SC 58 Joint Venture, provides the preliminary results of the deepwater sea-bed coring program completed in the NW Palawan basin in April 2010. Highlights of the preliminary interpretation and geochemical analysis of the acquired core data are as follows: • The
Dana Petroleum plc is pleased to report that the Dana operated Cormoran-1 exploration well has begun drilling offshore Mauritania, West Africa, just 2 kilometres southeast of Dana’s existing Pelican-1 discovery. The conductor has been run and Dana has already drilled the 26 inch hole section down to
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation (MCO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received an order for two carbon dioxide (CO2) gas injection compressors from Solar Turbines Incorporated of the U.S. The compressors on order will be installed on a fl
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted RWE Dea Norge AS a drilling permit for well 35/9-6 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 35/9-6 S will be drilled from the Bredford Dolphin drilling facility at position 61°22’16” north, 3°41’33” east after completing
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Total Exploration & Production Angola for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment for the CLOV development project. The award has a value of approximately $520 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. FMC’s scope
