Bass Strait Oil Company Limited will suspend work program for two of its Gippsland permits, offshore Australia. The company had sought and has received approval from the National Offshore Titles Authority (NOPTA) for a 6 month suspension of the work program for both its Gippsland basin permits, Vic/
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd has announced that a 213 metre gross oil column has been confirmed in the Echidna-1 exploration well, in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil, from wireline pressure data across the Paleocene and Maastrichtian aged reservoir intervals. The well was spudded on March 31, 2015. Acc
The Government of Canada is about to invest more than $10 million over the next two years in harbor improvement projects at seven Nova Scotia harbors that will provide a safer and more efficient working environment for local fishermen and harbor users. The announcement was made by the Honorable Pete
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 13 – April 19). Technip has been awarded a brownfield subsea contract for the Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, operated by Dana Petroleum, located in the central
Solstad Offshore ASA has received confirmation from Chevron Offshore (Thailand) Ltd., Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Ltd. and Chevron Pattani Ltd. in Thailand for the 2016 Offshore Installation Campaign utilizing its DLB “Norce Endeavour”. DLB “Norce Endeavour” will install multiple ne
CAMAC Energy Inc. has informed that the Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading vessel (FPSO) Armada Perdana will be ready for production from the Oyo-8 well, offshore Nigeria, in one week’s time. The owner of the vessel, Malaysia’s Bumi Armada Berhad, informed the company that the renewal of t
LLOG Exploration Company, L.L.C. (LLOG) initiated production from the Delta House floating production system (FPS) at Mississippi Canyon 254, in the Gulf of Mexico, in 4500 feet of water. LLOG’s Gulf of Mexico joint venture partner is Blackstone Energy Partners, and its co-owners, the entities manag
Eni Norge’s Goliat FPSO has arrived in Hammerfest, Norway, today from South Korea after a 63-day voyage covering 15,608 nautical miles. It will now undergo final preparations for the first oil production from the Barents Sea. When the field comes on stream later this summer, Goliat will become the w
Plexus Holdings has secured its first contract with Cardon IV, a gas licence granted by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mines of Venezuela to Eni Venezuela B.V and Repsol Venezuela Gas, S.A., for the supply of mudline suspension equipment services for a development well offshore Venezuela. The value o
UK based boatbuilder Meercat Workboats has won a new order from global defence, aerospace and security company BAE Systems for a bespoke 15m dive support vessel. The company plans to complete the boat by the end of May. It will be used in Portsmouth Dockyard for subsea maintenance, repairs and inspe
UK oil and gas engineering firm FES International has been awarded a contract by Subsea 7 for the supply of fully automated Diverless Bend Stiffener Connectors (DBSCs). The manufacture of the DBSCs is currently underway at FES International UK headquarters in Northumberland, UK, the company informed
Petrobras has completed the formation test (evaluation of an oil deposit’s potential) on well 3-BRSA-1286-SES (ANP nomenclature), located in concession BM-SEAL-11, in ultra-deep waters of Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, offshore Brazil. According to Petrobras, drilling activities have confirmed two light oil
BG Norge AS, operator of production licence 373 S, is completing drilling of exploration well 34/3-5, located approximately five km southeast of the Knarr Field in the Northern North Sea, around 120 km West of Florø. The well is dry. The objective of well 34/3-5 was to prove petroleum in Early Juras
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted OMV Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7324/8-2, in the Barents Sea. Well 7324/8-2 will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 7324/8-2 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in produ
