Total announces that its subsidiary, TEPA (Block 15/06), Limited, and its partners have made a new oil discovery in Block 15/06 with the well Cabaça SE-1, in the Angolan deep-offshore. The well, located in 470 metres of water depth and 100 kilometres from the Angolan shore line, encountered signific
Since arrival at ADX Energy Limited Lambouka-1 well location on July 2, the Southern Cross Semi Submersible drilling rig was positioned and anchored. Equipment and materials were offloaded then readied in preparation for Spud. The well was spudded 11:40 GMT on July 11 and successfully drilled the 36
The three ram capping stack was installed on the Deep Water Horizon LMRP at 7 p.m. CDT. The stack completes the installation of the new sealing cap. Following installation of the capping stack and in line with the procedure approved by the National Incident Commander and Unified Area Command, the we
Apache Corporation announced that David Carmony has been promoted to be vice president – Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S). “Apache has always had a strong safety culture,” said G. Steven Farris, Apache’s chairman and chief executive officer. “David will work with me and our regional operating
Sevan Drilling AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sevan Marine ASA, has signed a mandate letter and term sheet with DVB Group Merchant Bank (Asia) Pte Ltd and NIBC Bank N.V. for the arrangement of a USD 530 million limited recourse secured term loan facility. The facility will replace the existing deb
RetroClamp can be installed by diver or ROV, making it useful for anode retrofits in shallow or deep water. The RetroClamp was originally designed to facilitate ROV attachment of retrofitted cathodic protection anode sleds to offshore pipelines. The first clamps were built and deployed in 2000 and s
Aberdeen-based Aiken Group has filled a gap in the market by “growing” its own talent in-house in a project spearheaded by the initiative of two students. The 23-year-old oil and gas firm is a leading and innovative supplier of integrated, solutions-based engineering and a specialist service provide
Eidesvik has entered into a contract to build the fourth platform supply vessel powered by natural gas, and by doing so Eidesvik has again proven a strong commitment to green solutions. Eidesvik built the world’s first natural gas powered cargo vessel as early as in 2003 (Viking Energy) and they are
FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, confirms that the Toroa F61/5-1 exploration well has been drilled to a total depth of 2476 metres and logging operations have now been completed. The well did not encounter
While the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to wreak havoc and make headlines, Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil industry… [mappress] Source: QMIagency,July 12, 2010;
State-owned Chinese oil producer Sinopec said Monday its Addax subsidiary has struck oil offshore Nigeria after the unit was acquired last… [mappress] Source: AP, July 12, 2010;
BP today provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico. Subsea Source Control and Containment Following approval from the National Incident Commander, BP this past weekend began replacing the existing lower marine riser package (LMRP) contain
After nearly two years of engineering, procurement, and project preparations, Dockwise has completed the first of two float-overs for the Vyborg Project in Korea. The Vyborg Project with total revenues of approximately USD 100 million is big in scope. And size: It involves moving two 15,000 metric t
The Clair Ridge Joint Venture has awarded Aker Solutions an EPC-contract for delivery of two steel jackets, which will be located west of Shetland. “Jacket structures is the core business for our yard in Verdal and I am pleased to see that we have won such a huge and important contract in an interna
