Aker Solutions has been awarded another subsea equipment contract by leading US independent oil and gas company Noble Energy Inc. This time Aker Solutions will deliver subsea control equipment worth approximately NOK 150 million. Scope of work is engineering, manufacturing and delivery of a subsea c
Nochi Dankner, Teddy Sagi, Ofer Nimrodi, Larry Mizel, Yosef Sultan were awarded gas exploration permits yesterday… [mappress].. Source:Globes, June 18, 2010;
AWE Limited reports that the Liyun-1 well started drilling at 1845 hours (Indonesian time) on June 17, 2010. At 0600 hours today, the well was running and cementing 20” casing at a measured depth of 86 metres. Liyun-1 is an exploration well in the Bulu Production Sharing Contract, which is located i
Neptune Marine Services Ltd announced that it has significantly strengthened its senior management team in Australia and internationally via the appointment of four leading oil & gas industry senior executives. Robin King has been appointed as Neptune’s Regional Vice President for Australia, New Zea
ADX Energy Ltd is pleased to announce that it has commenced the mobilisation of the Atwood Southern Cross semi submersible drilling rig to the Lambouka-1 location on the Kerkouane exploration license offshore Tunisia. Whilst the exact duration of the rig tow is weather dependant, it is estimated tha
Damen’s STAN Tug 1205 on the pontoons (A36) has been purchased at the Seawork exhibition by their fellow exhibitor Red7Marine. Nick Offord, (MD of Red7) commented: “We came to Seawork with a view to investigating our first major tug purchase and found that the first-of-type vessel brought by Damen w
CGGVeritas announced that it has signed a Technology Cooperation Agreement (TCA) with the Brazilian energy company, Petrobras, for the collaborative development and implementation of new technologies in the field of Geophysics. The TCA sets the framework for collaborative research projects between P
Drilling of the exploration well 6507/7-14S (Zidane prospect) in PL435 has started. The well is being drilled with the rig Bredford Dolphin, and the operator is RWE Dea. Results are expected during September. PL435 is situated in the Norwegian Sea, 10 km northwest of the Heidrun field, and several s
Noble Energy has awarded to Stress Subsea, Inc. the Subsea System Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for the Alen Project offshore Equatorial Guinea. The award includes four basic work scopes covering Subsea Hardware, Umbilicals, Flowlines and Export Pipelines. Stress’ responsibility includes engin
Cianbro crews are preparing for a job that will be visible to thousands of Mainers who look out to sea in the Rockland area. On or about June 17th, the 750 foot drilling vessel Stena Forth will appear on the horizon, approximately a mile and a half off the Rockland breakwater. For about one week, [&
EXMAR NV of Belgium (“EXMAR”) and LLOG Deepwater Development Company LLC of the United States (“LLOG”) have reached an agreement in principle whereby LLOG will acquire the semi-submersible production platform OPTI-EX™ from EXMAR. The OPTI-EX™ is currently located quay side in Ingleside, Texas. LLOG
Seatronics has invested £1 million in Sonardyne’s new 6G (Sixth Generation) range of acoustic and inertial navigation products and becomes the first subsea electronics rental company able to offer customers this leading-edge technology. The launch of 6G represents a major advance by Sonardyne in sub
The plan for development and operation (PDO) of the North Sea Gudrun field was approved by the Norwegian Parliament on 16 June. Production is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2014. ”This is an important day for us,” says Øystein Michelsen, executive vice president for Exploration & Product
VAALCO Energy, Inc. announced today the Southeast Etame No. 1 (“ETSEM-1”) exploration well completed drilling to a total depth of 9,045 feet (2,757 meters) offshore Gabon and encountered approximately sixteen feet (five meters) of Gamba sandstone section which logged oil full to base. The ETSEM-1 we
