Lundin Norway AS confirmed a significant oil find in its Ghota discovery following the completion of a successful flow test of exploration well 7120/1-3, which proved gas flow at a rate of approximately 4,300 b/d. The test showed good production…
BG Group successfully completed a drill-stem test in the Pweza gas field in block 4 off southern Tanzania. The Pweza-3 appraisal was drilled approximately 2km north of the original Pweza discovery well by the Deepsea Metro-1 drillship in 1400m of water…
Cameron was awarded the contract to supply SBM Offshore with gas processing packages for floating production, storage & offloading (FPSO) vessels to be used at the Lula field, located in Brazil’s offshore pre-salt area. The FPSOs, Cidade de Maricá and Cidade de Saquarema…
Petrobras awarded Prysmian Group a contract worth approximately US$260 million for umbilicals. The award is related to a previous frame agreement covering 360km of umbilicals, most of it to be used in pre-salt fields. The contract comes…
Dow Chemical Co. announced a milestone in the commercialization of the DOW NEPTUNE™ Advanced Subsea Flow Assurance Insulation System at the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in New Orleans.…
Baker Hughes Inc. announced the availability of its StayCool™ multidimensional cutter, which helps operators drill to total depth faster and more cost effectively by extending cutter life and footage per run. Used exclusively on the Hughes…
Norway-based Odfjell SE signed shipbuilding contracts with Nantong Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co., Ltd., of China, for construction of four 17,000 cbm capacity LPG/Ethylene gas tankers. Odfjell also secured various options for delivery of up to four additional tankers…
Chevron Corporation today announced that its Australian subsidiaries have signed binding long-term sales and purchase agreements (SPAs) with Tohoku Electric Power Company, Inc. to supply LNG from the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia…
Offshore energy services provider Jaya Holdings Limited, based in Singapore, confirmed the on-time delivery of its second new multi-purpose platform supply vessel (MPSV), Jaya Vigilant. She sailed from Jaya’s shipyard in Batam yesterday and…
CGG has received a Letter of Award for a large, high-end seismic acquisition program off West Africa. The survey will mobilize the Geo Coral, Geo Barents and Pacific Finder vessels to conduct a 1484sq km BroadSeis, wide-azimuth survey…
Apache Corporation announced it has completed the previously announced sale of its Gulf of Mexico shelf operations and properties to Fieldwood Energy LLC, a portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings, for $3.75 billion in cash (subject to customary…
Rosneft and ExxonMobil have selected CB&I UK and Foster Wheeler Energy as the initial phase front end engineering and design (FEED) contractors for the two oil giants’ Russia Far East liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. The contractor selection process began back in August…
Salamander Energy plugged and abandoned its offshore Ayutthaya exploration well prospect in Block G4/50 in the Gulf of Thailand as a dry hole. Ayutthaya is located less than 1 mi. northeast of the recent Surin oil discovery. The well was spud earlier this month…
Drilling has begun on Houston-based BPZ Energy's A-18D development well at the Albacora field platform, located off Peru in Block Z-1. Drilling and completion is expected to take up to 12 weeks. Targeted depth of the well will be approximately 12…
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has been appointed by Tullow Oil as lead riser engineering consultancy for the delivery of the flexible riser system for its Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) field development, offshore Ghana. The TEN development is located in the deepwater Tano block…
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