London’s Afren is appointing Roc Oil's former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Alan Linn as its new CEO to take the place of Osman Shahenshah, who was terminated for “gross misconduct” in October 2014. Linn…
Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção (QGEP) awarded the McDermott International and GE Oil & Gas consortium a SURF contract to provide subsea equipment for the early production system (EPS) on the Atlanta field, offshore Brazil. Map from QGEP…
KrisEnergy began drilling the Rossukon-3 exploration well in G6/48 in the Gulf of Thailand using Shelf Drilling's Key Gibraltar jackup rig. Gulf of Thailand block map. From KrisEnergy. Rossukon…
India’s Reliance Industries’ (RIL) MJ Discovery is estimated to have 1.4 Tcf of unrisked contingent resources offshore India, according to partner Niko Resources. MJ Discovery map. From Niko. The…
Gazprom Neft and Petrovietnam signed a series of agreements to extend their collaboration activity on the Pechora Sea shelf. Dolginskoye field. From Gazprom. The joint oil and gas exploration…
After a fire that killed four workers, with three still missing, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) began to restore production at the Abkatún central processing platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Abkatún A. From PEMEX Flickr…
The attorney general’s office of Mexico is investigating the Petróleos Mexicanos' (PEMEX) Abkatún Permanente platform incident that left four dead, 16 injured and three missing, for possible charges of murder and mischief. The Abkatún Permanente platform…
The fire that broke out on the Petróleos Mexicanos' (PEMEX) Abkatún Permanente platform, causing the death of four workers and several injuries, was extinguished late last night (1 April). The Abkatún Permanente platform after the fire…
Exploration and production executives are facing a bleak year with tough budgets – but the mood wasn’t all doom and gloom at IP Week. Solutions are being suggested – as Meg Chesshyre reports. Yves-Louis Darricarrère…
EOR is taking off offshore, yet scientists at the University of Aberdeen believe more work needs to be done to understand the link between reservoir properties such as wettability and fluid flow to help in order to truly benefit from EOR…
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…
BW Offshore signed an agreement with Petrorio for a one-year extension for the lease and operation of the FPSO Polvo. The firm period has been extended to 3Q 2016 (from 3Q 2015), with options until 3Q 2022. BW Offshore is operating the FPSO offshore Brazil…
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…
Wood Group Kenny’s Luis F. Garfias outlines the challenges relating to material selection and testing for eventual use in harsh environments. Photo by Robert Callaway. The increasingly…
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…