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KrisEnergy contracts jackup for Thai campaign

Jun 24, 2014

KrisEnergy Ltd. an independent upstream oil and gas company, announced it has contracted the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig for development, appraisal and exploration drilling in two licenses in the Gulf of Thailand. The contract with Shelf Drilling (Southeast Asia) Limited…

Lukoil kicks off Caspian drilling

Jun 23, 2014

Russian national Rosneft and private oil giant Lukoil have started drilling appraisal well №. 1 at the Caspian Oil Co.-operated Ribachya structure in the North Caspian project license. Total prospective resources of the block are estimated at 1…

CGX Energy sets sights on Guyana

Jun 20, 2014

CGX Energy Inc. announced the completion of reprocessing and merging of existing seismic surveys from the company’s 100% owned Corentyne petroleum prospecting license (PPL) offshore Guyana. The results of the reprocessing have assisted in…

Rig arrives for Arctic drilling

Jun 18, 2014

GSP Saturn has arrived for exploration drilling at the Gazpromneft Sakhalin-operated Dolginskoye field, located in the Arctic shelf of the Pechora Sea. The Gazprom Neft subsidiary announced 21 January its plans to drill an exploration well and take core samples at the field…

Hanøytangen Rig Services partnership launched

Jun 03, 2014

The three Norwegian offshore service companies, Bergen Group, Semco Maritime, and Apply Rig & Modules, have joined forces to setup a new partnership, Hanøytangen Rig Services, to meet the growing rigging service market. According to a statement from the three companies…

TAO-1 spud nears

Jun 03, 2014

Australia-based Tangiers Petroleum says the Ralph Coffman jackup rig is on location offshore Morocco and close to spudding the Tao-1 well in the Tarfaya Offshore Block. The rig was loaded onto the heavy lift vessel MV Transshelf on the 25 May 2014…

Seajacks Hydra delivered

Jun 03, 2014

UK-based offshore vessel operator Seajacks has taken delivery of its fourth vessel, Hydra (pictured), from Dubai-based oil and gas engineering and fabrication firm Lamprell. Hydra is the fourth vessel Lamprell has built for Seajacks, which has a fifth vessel…

World's largest liftboat nears completion in Asian yard

May 30, 2014

A.K. Suda reports that the world’s largest liftboat has been built by Triyards Marine, Saigon Shipyard in HCMC, Vietnam, and will be delivered to Singapore-based EMAS Offshore in June. The 450ft (137.25m) truss-legged liftboat was designed by A…

GDF announces Cepheus gas find

May 28, 2014

GDF Suez E&P UK has struck has on the UK southern North Sea (SNS) Cepheus 44/12a-6 exploration well. A gas column was found within the Permian Lower Leman sandstone, the primary reservoir target.   The well was spudded on 9 March 2014 and drilled to 12…

Saipem wins Caucasus E&C contracts

May 28, 2014

Saipem has been awarded a new engineering and construction contract in the Caucasus region and some new drilling contracts in the Middle East, for a total value of about US$750 million. In the E&C onshore sector, Saipem has been awarded by the Shah Deniz consortium…

Naga 3 jackup on location

May 28, 2014

Fairmount Marine's tug Fairmount Expedition has towed jackup rig Naga 3 from the PV Marine Shipyard in Vung Tau, Vietnam, to the RD-19X Block 15-2 oilfield offshore Vietnam. Last month the tug towed the rig from Singapore to the shipyard…

Rosneft to take Seadrill unit stake

May 26, 2014

Rosneft is to take a 'significant equity stake' in drilling firm North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) as part of an agreement between NADL and its majority owner Seadrill, as the Russian firm looks to ramp up its offshore exploration efforts.   The agreement…

Sterling reports on production, frac at Breagh gas field

May 23, 2014

Calgary-based Sterling Resources issued its 1Q results today, reporting US$20.5million revenue attributable to production from the Breagh gas field in the UK North Sea, and expenses of $2.6 million during the quarter. The average expected…

Deepwater slowdown continues

May 22, 2014

Maersk Drilling has again warned about a slowdown in the deepwater market, but says it still has a positive long term view on the deepwater market.  The company is investing $US5.2 billion in eight new rigs, which are being delivered between 2014 and 2016…

Maersk inks jackup for Culzean

May 21, 2014

Houston-based Hercules Offshore has signed a five-year drilling contract with Maersk Oil North Sea UK for a newbuild jackup rig to be owned and operated by Hercules Offshore.   The new Friede & Goldman JU-2000E design jackup will be built…

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