The naming ceremony of the semisubmersible rig Deepsea Aberdeen was celebrated at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering yard in Okpo, South Korea 25 June. The sea trials will roll out from July-August. Odfjell Drilling…
Tangiers Petroleum has said the Ralph Coffman jackup rig started drilling at the TAO-1 exploration well, offshore Morocco, yesterday. The TAO-1 well is within a proven petroleum system, adjacent to the Cap Juby heavy oil discovery and has been designed to test up to three stacked objectives…
Bourbon Offshore celebrates delivery of its 500th vessel, placing the group at the head of the world's largest fleet of vessels operated1 for the offshore marine services industry. Bourbon announces the entry into service of the Bourbon Evolution 806…
Eni has entered into a production sharing contract (PSC) with state-owned PetroVietnam for the exploration of Block 122, off eastern Vietnam. The Italian firm’s CEO, Claudio Descalzi, met with PetroVietnam President and CEO, Do Van Hau, in…
Fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy has successfully completed the testing phase of its horizontal appraisal well in the Lancaster fractured basement oil discovery West of Shetland. The well will be suspended as a future producer…
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a signed contract from Tullow Oil Norge AS worth US$7.7 million for 3D EM data acquisition in the northern part of the North Sea. 'We are delighted to work with Tullow again, and also…
Ophir Energy says its Okala-1 well in the Mbeli Block offshore Gabon found developed sandstones but no significant hydrocarbon shows. The well was drilled by the Vantage Titanium Explorer drillship to a depth of 4229m measure depth targeting Cretaceous sands in the pre-salt section…
Subsea 7 has selected BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, to supply the riser monitoring system for the Aasta Hansteen Spar, about 300km off the coast of Norway. The integrated system includes an innovative…
Inpex’s Australian Ichthys LNG project has reached 50% completion less than two-and-a-half years after its final investment decision was made, the Japanese operator announced on 25 June 2014. The company said that the semisubmersible pipelay…
Core Grouting Services, an Acteon company, has successfully commissioned a new high volume, high strength grout mixing and pumping unit. The equipment is specifically designed for mixing and pumping high strength grout with a compressive strength of >100 MPa…
Mubadala Petroleum began drilling operations on the Rojana-A exploration well in block G11/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, partner KrisEnergy Ltd. announced on 23 June 2014. The company is drilling the Rojana-A well using Atwood Oceanics' Atwood Orca jackup rig…
Byron Energy Ltd. announced that the Byron Energy SM 6 #1 BP01 well reached a measured depth of 2338m and a true vertical depth of 2321m as of 23 June. Current operations are circulating in preparation to trip out of the hole to change the drill bit…
UK-based downhole video technology specialist EV has completed a £69 million management buyout backed by Dunedin, the UK mid-market buyout house. Headquartered in Norwich, EV provides downhole video applications for the oil and gas industry…
Technip has agreed to take a majority stake in Norwegian firm Inocean after entering into a strategic cooperation agreement with the firm, to further develop offshore floater engineering services for the Norwegian continental shelf and other offshore markets worldwide…
Aker Solutions' subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services was notified by Total in Angola of the termination of a US$250 million, two-year contract for the Skandi Aker vessel. Skandi Aker started operations as a well-intervention vessel for the first time in September last year…