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Designer mud

Sep 01, 2015

Designer mud is helping Total tap pressure depleted HPHT reservoirs in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin takes a look. The West Franklin well head platform installation last year.  Photos from Total…

Shell freezes Arctic operations

Aug 31, 2015

Shell disconnected the Noble Discoverer drillship from its anchors in the Chukchi Sea after weather temporarily put a halt to its Arctic operations over the weekend. The Noble Discoverer. From Shell Flickr…

Statoil comes up dry in the North Sea

Aug 31, 2015

Statoil, operator of production license 72 B, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/7-11 on behalf of production licenses 72 B, 72 D and 72 E. This is the second exploration well in production license 72 B. The…

OEG merges US business with CRT

Aug 28, 2015

OEG Offshore, a global provider of cargo carrying units (CCUs) and A60 modules to the oil and gas industry, has announced the merger of its US business with Louisiana based oilfield equipment provider Cameron Rental and Tank (CRT). The…

Statoil gets approval for Sigrun East

Aug 28, 2015

Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway to drill exploration well 15/3-10 in a prospect named Sigrun East with the potential of a sidetrack well.  The area where the well is to be drilled is around…

Shell finds hydrocarbons on Auriga

Aug 26, 2015

Shell has made a hydrocarbon discovery on the West-1 (Auriga) well on the northern Browse Basin offshore Australia.  Shell has been drilling the well, in Petroleum Permit Area AC/RL9, using the Stena Clyde semisubmersible drilling rig (pictured)…

Shell spuds Portrush prospect in Norwegian Sea

Aug 26, 2015

Shell has started drilling on the Portrush exploration well 6407/10-5 in the Norwegian Sea. The Portrush prospect is in license PL793 about 10km southeast of the producing Statoil-operated Njord field and 20km west of the Shell-operated Draugen field…

Statoil digs deeper in GoM

Aug 25, 2015

Statoil’s exploration and discovery efforts in the Gulf of Mexico are moving forward, as the Norwegian giant announced the spudding of the Yeti appraisal well earlier this month on 12 August. Transocean’s Discoverer Americas drillship…

Successful probe on Edvard Grieg

Aug 25, 2015

Lundin Norway has completed a successful appraisal well on the southeastern section of the Edvard Grieg field offshore Norway.  The well, 16/1-23 S, in license 338, was drilled using the Orwan Viking jackup rig in 108m water depth, 2…

Noble hits delays on Falklands Humpback

Aug 25, 2015

Noble Energy's Humpback exploration well in the south Falklands basin has hit operational issues with results likely to be delayed by about a month, according to partner Falkland Oil and Gas (FOGL).  The well, which spudded on 13 June 2015…

Lundin approved for two wells

Aug 24, 2015

The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway has granted Lundin Norway consent to drill two wells: one in the North Sea, and one in the Norwegian Sea. In the central North Sea, Lundin will drill the Rolvsnes prospect. The exploration well 16/1-25S…

Statoil's latest Cat-D rig delivered

Aug 24, 2015

Songa Offshore has today taken delivery of Songa Endurance from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea. Songa Endurance will shortly depart South Korea en-route to Norway to start an eight-year drilling contract with Statoil…

Second Gazprom Prirazlomnoye well onstream

Aug 21, 2015

After nearly two years, Gazprom Neft Shelf has brought its second well into production at the Prirazlomnoye field in the Russian Arctic. Image of the Prirazlomnaya field. From Gazprom. Prirazlomnoye is located in the Pechora Sea…

PPE seals installed on failsafe systems

Aug 19, 2015

Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE), a manufacturer of molded elastomer seals, has announced that SECC Oil and Gas, a supplier of couplings and connectors to the oil and gas industry, has installed its Perlast G75LT and G90LT O-rings in a…

Primeline lines up East China Sea drilling

Aug 19, 2015

Primeline Energy has entered into a turnkey drilling contract with China Oilfield Service Ltd. (COSL) for its 2015 exploration program of two wells in Block 33/07 in the East China Sea. Under the terms of the drilling contract, COSL has…

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