Canadian petroleum companies engaged in offshore oil and gas production said Monday that they expect only a slight effect on their operations due to international moratoriums on deepwater drilling. Nexen President and Chief Executive Marvin Romanow, whose Calgary-based company has delayed an explora
Obama’s Gulf Spill Speech [mappress] Source: Ghanaweb, June 16, 2010:
Ghana is set to begin oil exploration off the Tema coast. An agreement to this effect has been signed and the government later Tuesday … [mappress] Source: Ghanaweb, June 16, 2010:
A 408 km gas pipeline has been commissioned in Peru as part of the Peru LNG project, which involved construction of the first LNG plant in… [mappress] Source: pipelinesinternational, June 16, 2010;
China’s Port Industry showed a clear sign of recovery at the end of 2009. [mappress] Source: noppen, June 16, 2010
Major cruise liner operator P&O Cruises has backed a call for the Cairns shipping channel to be dredged so its larger vessels can… [mappress] Source: The Crains Post, June 16, 2010;
Sibu MP Wong Ho Leng has claimed in Parliament that he has measured the depth of the Rajang River and found that some areas are slightly… [mappress] Source: thestar, June 16, 2010;
Dredging Corporation of India (DCI) has managed to bring its operating profit into a positive territory by deploying its 3 assets, which… [mappress] Source: dnaindia, June 16, 2010;
The expansion to the Port of Anchorage will likely cost $1 billion before construction is through, and the port’s director says beluga… [mappress] Source: workboat, June 16, 2010;
BP said its Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) project was not affected by a strong quake off Indonesia’s Papua region… [mappress] Source: upstreamonline, June 16, 2010;
Neon Energy Limited is pleased to announce the completion of 2D seismic acquisition operations in Block 120 and Block 105-110/04 (“Block 105”) offshore Vietnam. The Aquila Explorer seismic vessel, contracted from Seabird Exploration, ceased operations on Block 105 on 12 June 2010. The 3,827 km seism
At 2:15 p.m. CDT, the Discoverer Enterprise resumed containment operations following a short outage caused by a lightning strike at 9:30 in the morning . The U.S. Coast Guard gave authorization for the operation to resume at 1:40 p.m. after the ship’s crew completed safety and operational assurance
EnCore Oil plc announces that well testing operations on the EnCore operated ‘Catcher’ oil discovery located in UK Central North Sea block 28/9 have been completed. EnCore and its co-venturers now plan to side-track the well to the Catcher East area. The fluid sampling programme was successfully per
The Fushia 1 exploration well has been drilled to a total depth of 2959 metres. Well site hydrocarbon shows and logging whilst drilling has confirmed that the well has discovered a 15 metre gas column in the Birsa Formation sandstones. The logs indicate that the sandstone is high quality with a poro
