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Baker Hughes Profit Rises on Strong Foreign Demand

Oct 30, 2019

Baker Hughes Co reported a rise in quarterly adjusted profit on Wednesday, helped by increased demand for its oilfield services and higher margins for its turbomachinery such as gas turbines and compressors.The company's results contrasted with…

Spirit Energy Raises Production at Chiswick

Oct 29, 2019

Spirit Energy has raised production from one of its North Sea fields following a £68.5 million ($88.3 million) drilling campaign, the UK based independent announced on Tuesday.First gas from a new well at Spirit Energy’s Chiswick field in the…

Hess Makes Gulf of Mexico Oil Discovery

Oct 29, 2019

Hess Corporation has made an oil discovery at the Esox-1 exploration well located in Mississippi Canyon Block No. 726 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, the US-based independent announced on Tuesday.Esox-1 was drilled in 1,405 meters water depth…

BP Makes Major Gas Find off Mauritania

Oct 28, 2019

Oil supermajor BP has made a major gas discovery in the Orca-1 exploration well in the BirAllah area offshore Mauritania, partner Kosmos Energy announced on Monday.Located approximately 125 kilometers offshore Mauritania, Orca-1 was drilled in approximately 2…

Conrad Reports Well Issues in Indonesia

Oct 25, 2019

Conrad Petroleum said it encountered problems while conducting testing at its Tambak 2 appraisal well on the Mako gas field offshore Indonesia.Conrad, operator of Duyung PSC, said it had successfully drilled the Tambak-2 well on October 15. Later…

Petrobel Makes Discovery Offshore Egypt

Oct 25, 2019

Italian supermajor Eni said new resources have been discovered in the Abu Rudeis Sidri development lease, in the Gulf of Suez where the operating company Petrobel, equally held by Eni and by national oil company Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)…

Wood Wins Commissioning Work from Apache

Oct 25, 2019

Services firm Wood said it has been awarded a contract with Apache to provide commissioning services to the Beryl Alpha, Beryl Bravo, and Forties Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta platforms located in the UK North Sea.Apache will leverage Wood’s…

Tullow and Partners Plot Next Steps in Guyana

Oct 24, 2019

Tullow Oil and its partners in the Orinduik block offshore Guyana are plotting their next steps following two discoveries on the closely watched hotspot earlier this year.The London-based operator, which owns 60% working interest in the 1,776-square-kilometer Orinduik block…

Chinese Ship Exits Vietnam's Waters After Disputed Surveys

Oct 24, 2019

A Chinese oil survey vessel that has been embroiled in a tense standoff with Vietnamese vessels in the South China Sea left Vietnamese-controlled waters on Thursday after more than three months, marine data showed.The Chinese vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8…

Mooring Change-out for the Alba FSU

Oct 23, 2019

Services firm InterMoor said it said it swapped out 12 mooring lines on the Chevron-operated Alba floating storage unit (FSU) currently moored in 140 meters water depth in the UK North Sea.The scope of the project included engineering, procurement…

'Serious Injury' on Offshore Drilling Rig

Oct 21, 2019

An Australian offshore energy regulatory body has issued a prohibition notice to Diamond Offshore following a serious injury to a worker on board one of its mobile offshore drilling units operating in the Bass Strait last month.The National…

Premier Makes Find at Tolmount East

Oct 17, 2019

Premier Oil found gas while drilling at the Tolmount East well in the North Sea, the company announced on Thursday.The 42/28d-14 well in P1330, Block 42/28d was targeting 220 BCF of P50 gross resource, in an undrilled area four kilometers east…

Drilling Activity Buoyant in Norway

Oct 16, 2019

The number of wells drilled could challenge all-time high levels by the end of the year in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), while global offshore exploration activity has been flat year-to-date.Rystad Energy expects that this high activity…

Greater Castberg Survey Wraps Up

Oct 16, 2019

Marine geoscience companies CGG and TGS announced they have completed a 5,000 square kilometers multi-client 3D survey in the highly prospective Greater Castberg area in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.The survey commenced in the second quarter…

PGNiG Makes Shrek Discovery

Oct 15, 2019

PGNiG announced it has made a discovery in the Shrek prospect in the Norwegian Sea, about 210 kilometers northwest of Brønnøysund.Based to preliminary estimates, recoverable resources range between 19 million and 38 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe)…

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