Endeavour International Corporation announced today that the United Kingdom Department of Energy and Climate Control (DECC) has approved… [mappress] Source: Alphatrade, June 30, 2010
Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions a frame agreement for maintenance and modifications on their offshore installations Snorre A/B, Gullfaks A/B/C, Visund and Åsgard A/B in Norway. The contract period is for four years and includes options for further extensions up to four years. The yearly volume of
Technip has been awarded a lump sum engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) contract by Burullus Gas Company SAE(1) for the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Phase VIIIa development project. The contract value is in excess of USD300 million. The project consists in the expansion o
Asim Ghosh, Husky Energy Inc.’s new boss and a man with virtually no experience in the energy business, sees himself more as a fund manager… [mappress] Source: Financial Post, June 30, 2010
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Marathon consent to carry out manned underwater operations on the Volund and Alvheim fields in the North Sea using the vessel DSV Seven Pelican. The consent relates to carrying out manned underwater operations (MUO) in 2010 and includes well work
Dominion announced the results of a competent persons report (CPR) on the first prospect in Block 7, offshore deep-water Tanzania. The “Alpha” prospect has a mean prospective resource of 1.104Bbbl of oil or 7.069Tcf of gas, based on the CPR recently concluded by Energy Resource Consultants Ltd. (ERC
Lundin Petroleum AB (“Lundin Petroleum”) through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS announces the approval from the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy of the plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Gaupe field (former Pi) in PL292, located in the Norwegian North Sea. First
Marine Subsea UK, a provider of subsea well intervention, decommissioning and construction support solutions to the global subsea… [mappress] Source: newstatesman, June 29, 2010;
Aker Solutions has secured a three-year contract extension for engineering and construction work with client Nexen Petroleum UK Limited in the UK sector of the North Sea. Aker Solutions estimates the contract value to be approximately GBP 60 million. “It is a strategic objective for Aker Solutions t
The Stena Forth deep sea drilling vessel, which has been undergoing maintenance repairs off the Maine coast since June 17, is scheduled to depart the area today to continue its global mission of oil exploration. Late last week, Cianbro finished installing the last of three new propulsion units on th
Salamander Energy plc, the Asia focussed independent oil and gas exploration and production company, announces that it has plugged and abandoned the Tom Su Lua-1X exploration well in Block DBSCL-01, in the Vinh Chau Graben system, offshore southern Vietnam. The DBSCL01-TSL-1X well, the first explora
FMC Technologies, Inc. announced that it has signed a four-year subsea manifold frame agreement with Petrobras , Brazil’s national oil company. The award is expected to result in approximately $300 million in revenue to FMC Technologies if all of the subsea equipment included in the agreement is ord
EnCore Oil plc provides an update on the Catcher East side-track well located in UK Central North Sea block 28/9. The 28/9-1Z well has successfully encountered excellent quality oil bearing sandstones very similar to those in the Catcher discovery well, with average porosity of approximately 34 per
OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A., the Brazilian oil and gas company conducting the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, announced today that it has identified an oil-bearing interval in the Albian section of well 1-OGX-14-RJS, located in the BM-C-40 block, in the shallow water
