Eni has started production from the Kitan oil field located between Timor-Leste and Australia, approximately 240km south of the Timor-Leste capital of Dili and 550km north of Darwin, Australia. Eni is operator of Kitan with a 40% interest while INPEX Timor Sea (35%) and Talisman Resources (25%) are
Oil recovery teams head out on the water last morning to collect oil spilled from the cargo vessel Rena. The teams spent day before yesterday preparing ocean-going vessels for an offshore operation. Modifications had to be made to some of the vessels to ensure the safe operation of the heavy special
Technip announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary DUCO Inc. was awarded two contracts, by Shell Offshore Inc, for the Cardamom and West Boreas field developments, located in the Gulf of Mexico. The contracts include the engineering, project management and construction of a 9,265m umbilical (Cardamo
TGS will commence acquisition of a new 3D multi-client seismic survey in November 2011 which covers 9,700 km2 over the Exmouth Plateau in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore NW Australia. The survey area is adjacent to existing large gas discoveries and covers newly available acreage in blocks WA-364-P, W
Phase 12 of Iran’s giant South Pars Oil and Gas field with an output of 84 million cubic meters of sour gas on a daily basis will come … Source: farsnews [mappress] Source: farsnews,
Enbridge Inc., Canada’s largest oil pipeline operator, has entered the Canadian natural gas processing business, taking a $900-million… (calgaryherald) [mappress] Source: calgaryherald, October 10, 2011
SEAS-NVE invites tenders for placement and protection on the seabed of a 12 kV submarine cable to Agersø and Omø. Total offshore trace length is approx. 6,000 metres. At depths up to 8 metres, at a distance of approx. 2,500 yards approx. 1 metre depth using a backhoe for the laying of the cable. [&h
Golar LNG Limited announced today that it has entered into an agreement to sell the companies that own the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Golar Freeze to subsidiary company Golar LNG Partners L.P. for a price of $330 million. The transaction is expected to close before the end of Oc
Cove Energy plc, the AIM quoted upstream oil and gas company focused on East Africa, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cove Energy Kenya Limited together with its partners, Anadarko Kenya Company a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Dynamic Global Advisers Kenya Limited
Total today signed with Novatek the final agreements to jointly develop the Yamal LNG project, becoming the main international partner on this gas liquefaction project with a 20% share. Novatek intends to keep at least a 51% interest in the project. “Total is very pleased to be given this opportunit
After operating StarIPS for 4 years on more than 15 vessels, Anthony Veder and MirTac have expanded the fleet wide implementation of the STAR IPS Fleet Management Software on Anthony Veder’s newly acquired ships. The former system was successfully converted to StarIPS and optimized to achieve the sa
Cecon has received Letter of Award for a fast-track pipeline installation project in West Africa. Engineering and Project Management will commence immediately with Installation expected completed by the end of Q4/2011. The project will be executed using Cecon installation spread on a third party cha
Aminex PLC (‘Aminex’ or the ‘Company’) announces that it has suspended further work on the Nyuni-2 exploration well in offshore Tanzania due to extreme drilling conditions. As previously announced, the Nyuni-2 well had been drilled to 3,450 metres measured depth and cased to 2,945 metres. However, i
WorleyParsons announced the award of a contract for construction management services as an integral part of the owner’s team on the Chevron Wheatstone Downstream Project. The onshore facility is located at Ashburton North, 12km west of Onslow in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The foundation pro
