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Chevron hits at Anchor appraisal

Oct 29, 2015

Chevron’s appraisal of the Anchor discovery proved successful oil pay in the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Trend, in the US Gulf of Mexico that the company says indicates a significant discovery of potentially hub class scale. Chevron's…

Humback fails to impress

Oct 29, 2015

Noble Energy's Humback exploration well offshore the Falklands has encountered non-commercial quantities of oil and gas, Falkland Oil and Gas confirmed this morning. The 53/02-01 Humpback exploration well, which was running over schedule and budget…

Noble brings Big Bend online

Oct 28, 2015

Noble Energy has commenced production from the Big Bend oil development in Mississippi Canyon 698 of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Noble and partners expect the single-well field to reach a maximum gross production rate of approximately 20…

Keppel FELS delivers jackup to ADC

Oct 28, 2015

Keppel FELS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) delivered the ARABDRILL 70 jackup rig to Arabian Drilling (ADC).  ARABDRILL 70 is the fourth KFELS B Class jackup rig to work for ADC. Keppel FELS had previously delivered two jackup rigs…

Badger Explorer technology in development

Oct 28, 2015

Badger Explorer and the University of Glasgow, supported by the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre (OGIC), will collaborate on the development of the Badger Explorer technology, a rig-less formation and reservoir evaluation tool. The device drills down to the target reservoir…

Atwood, Mubadala extend contract

Oct 28, 2015

Houston-based Atwood Oceanics, announced that one of its subsidiaries had agreed to a nine-month extension and rate adjustment to its existing contract with Southeast Asia's Mubadala Petroleum for the ultra premium jackup, the Atwood Orca…

Worker named in deadly GoM accident

Oct 27, 2015

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) identified the Pacific Drilling employee who died during drilling operations onboard the Pacific Santa Ana drillship in the US Gulf of Mexico. BSEE has confirmed that 34-year-old Sam Whitley…

Deep Sea Mooring bags Lundin gig

Oct 27, 2015

Global Maritime Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has been awarded a three-year contract with Lundin Norway to provide services and products supporting Lundin’s activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) including mooring equipment for drilling rigs and accommodation units…

Rosebank rig deal dumped

Oct 27, 2015

Fred Olsen Energy has formally declared that construction contract for a newbuild semisubmersible rig which was originally destined for development drilling at the Chevron-operated Rosebank oil development in the UK West Shetlands region has been cancelled…

2017 Spanish Point spud planned

Oct 27, 2015

Drilling on the Spanish Point area offshore Ireland is now scheduled for 2017, according to partner Providence Resources, which is now looking to farm-out some of its 58% interest in the license.   Spanish Point, in Frontier License 2/04 and 4/08…

Hibiscus spuds Sea Lion-1 off Australia

Oct 26, 2015

Hibiscus Petroleum's wholly-owned subsidiary Carnarvon Hibiscus (CHPL) has commenced drilling operations at its Sea Lion-1 exploration well, off the coast of the state of Victoria, in southeast Australia. Not to be confused with Premier Oil's Sea Lion project offshore the Falkland Islands…

Lundin in small Malaysian gas find

Oct 26, 2015

Lundin Petroleum's Malaysian subsidiary, Lundin Malaysia, has made a small gas discovery with the Mengkuang-1 exploration well in license PM307, offshore Malaysia. Lundin announced the well had been spud in early October, and the operation…

Europa: Low rig rates is an opportunity

Oct 26, 2015

Europa Oil & Gas CEO Hugh Mackay says now is a perfect chance to drill on the firm’s offshore Irish prospects thanks to rig rates being at their lowest in a decade. The CEO, whose firm is targeting 1.5 billion boe, unrisked, in three…

Centrica to bring more York gas on tap

Oct 26, 2015

Centrica Energy has started drilling a new well from the York gas field in the southern North Sea, offshore England, after nearly £80million of investment. The new well, the fourth at York, will tap an additional 20 Bcf of gas and extend the life of the field out to 2020…

Vietsovpetro JV in Vietnam find

Oct 23, 2015

The joint venture of Zarubezhneft and Petrovietnam Vietsovpetro made a commercial discovery of the Sturgeon field offshore Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Map of Block 09-3/12 (the greyed area)…

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