Premier Oil’s first exploration well in its 2.1 billion bbl 2015 Falkland’s drilling campaign has confirmed the extension of the giant Sea Lion discovery. The 14/15b-5 Zebedee exploration well, using the Eirik Raude semisubmersible drilling rig…
Ask about subsea well intervention and most assume it’s riserless light well intervention you want to talk about – for good reason. Elaine Maslin reports. Subsea light well intervention visualized by FMC Technologies…
Karoon Gas Australia spudded its third well in the Santos basin drilling campaign, offshore Brazil. Map of the Santos basin, from Karoon. The Echidna-1 exploration well is located in exploration block S-M-1102…
Total E&P Congo awarded Fugro a five-year, US$100 million contract for remote operated vehicle (ROV) services and remote subsea tooling in the Moho Nord field offshore Africa. Image of Fugro's FCV 3000 work class ROV system…
Well drilling and management specialists Acona UK have completed a two-well campaign for Perenco UK in the Southern North Sea. The seven-month campaign, using the Transocean GSF Monarch jackup, drilled a subsea well on the Leman field…
Unique fields deserve equally unique intervention solutions when production begins to wane, this was the challenge Stone Energy had to meet when it contracted Cross Group to develop new methodology and technology for its Pompano subsea production template…
Sir Ian’s Wood Report, published last year, identified technology as an integral component to ensuring the success of maximizing the economic recovery of the UK Continental Shelf (MER UK). As the Wood Report states, new field discoveries…
Reservoir engineers are getting to grips with automatic flow control devices to limit water cut and gas breakthrough – just as they did with their passive forbearers, explain Benn A Voll, Ismarullizam Mohd Ismail, and Iko Oguche. Fig…
Northern Offshore is delaying the delivery of two of its high specification jackups due to the downturn of the drilling market. The West Navigator. From NADL. Northern was able to…
ABB shows off the newest addition to its line of Azipod electric propulsion offering, the Azipod D. ABB says that the electric propulsion behind ABB’s Azipod units enables ship owners and operators to lower maintenance costs and cut fuel consumption…
Houston-based VAALCO Energy is in the process of plugging and abandoning its post-salt Kindele-1 well, offshore Angola after encountering non-commercial hydrocarbons. Map of Kindele-1, offshore Angola…
Atlantis awarded Lockheed Martin a construction contract for the tidal stream energy project, MeyGen, to deliver the 1.5 MW AR1500 turbine to fulfill the company’s MeyGen project turbine supply obligations. The 1…
Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Keppel FELS delivered a KFELS B Class jackup rig to Mexican national oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). The Kukulkan jackup. From Keppel. The…
Russian oil exploration giant Rosneft sent a cancellation notice to North Atlantic Drilling Company Ltd. (NADL) to terminate its contract for the Energy Endeavor jackup. The Energy Endeavor. From Northern Offshore…
Lundin Norway began drilling the 7220/11-2 appraisal well in the Barents Sea South. The Island Innovator. From Island Drilling. The Alta discovery is located 10-20km northeast of Lundin…