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Tekmar invests £1m in north east

Apr 29, 2013

Tekmar, the leading subsea technology company, has announced a £1million investment programme, which will more than treble the size of its North East England facility and create in excess of 30 new jobs. The Newton Aycliffe-based company…

New Exec VP for Songa

Apr 29, 2013

Songa Offshore SE today announced the recruitment of Jan Rune Steinsland as new Executive Vice President of Songa Offshore SE. Steinsland will report to interim CEO Jens A. Wilhelmsen and work alongside CFO Geir Karlsen to strengthen the company's financial control and reporting structures…

Dry well on Storbarden

Apr 29, 2013

Bergen-based explorer Rocksource said this morning that its exploration well on the Storbarden prospect will be plugged and abandoned after finding no hydrocarbons.  The well was drilling on PL 506S in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea using the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig…

Gazprom to produce from Kirinskoye, Prirazlomnoye fields

Apr 26, 2013

The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the progress with the program for hydrocarbon resources exploitation on the Russian Federation shelf until 2030. It was mentioned that the Russian continental shelf was a region of the company's strategic interest…

Dana spuds a new exploration well

Apr 26, 2013

Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum has spudded a new exploration well in the Southern North Sea from its De Ruyter platform. Dana is drilling the P11-08 exploration well using the jackup Noble Lynda Bossler, in the production licence P10a…

Aasta Hansteen work for Hertel

Apr 26, 2013

Hertel Offshore have signed a €70 million contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries for the engineering, design and construction (EPC) of the new accommodation for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen platform. This is another big Norwegian contract…

Ramform Titan named

Apr 26, 2013

Safety, efficiency and productivity are the key features of the 24-streamer Ramform Titan which was named today at MHI yard in Nagasaki, Japan.  The new ship will be the most powerful and efficient marine seismic acquisition vessel ever and the widest ship in the world at the waterline…

Total hits oil off Ivory Coast

Apr 25, 2013

Total announces that the Ivoire-1X exploration well, located in the western portion of Block CI-100 in 2,280m of water, encountered 28m of net oil pay in a series of about 100m of Cretaceous reservoirs. The oil in the abrupt margin geological play is light 35 API oil…

Anadarko touts Phobos find

Apr 25, 2013

Anadarko Petroleum encountered high-quality oil at its Phobos-1 deepwater Gulf of Mexico well, the company announced on 25 April 2013. Located in Sigsbee Escarpment in Block 39, the company found 250 net ft of oil in lower tertiary-aged reservoirs…

PGS orders two vessels from MHI

Apr 25, 2013

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has received an order for two vessels capable of three-dimensional (3D) seismic data acquisition for sea bottom resource exploration from Petroleum Geo-Services ASA (PGS), a leading company in marine seismic and reservoir data acquisition…

Summer drilling for Lancaster discovery

Apr 25, 2013

Hurricane Energy is pleased to announce that it has taken assignment of a rig contract between Transocean and ATP for the provision of the GSF Arctic III semi-submersible drilling rig, for a one well slot, to be utilised in drilling and testing the Company’s Lancaster basement oil discovery…

Statoil finds more at Gullfaks

Apr 25, 2013

Statoil and partner Petoro have proven considerable additional resources in the Shetland Group/Lista Formation in the Gullfaks licence. The Shetland Group and the Lista Formation are younger and slightly shallower deposits with different…

ONS Norway prepares for take-off

Apr 25, 2013

For almost 40 years ONS has been a broad-based international energy event and a leading meeting place for everyone involved in the oil and gas industry and the entire energy sector. Focus on the supply industry on the Norwegian Continental…

ENI increases Mozambique estimates

Apr 24, 2013

Mamba South 3 was drilled in water depth of 1,571 meters and reached a total depth of 4,948 meters. The well is located approximately 6 kilometers North of Mamba South 1, 12  kilometers north west of Mamba South 2 and approximately 50 kilometers off the Cabo Delgado coast…

Craig International Supplies launches West African alliance

Apr 24, 2013

Craig Group seeks Ghana bases Craig International Supplies (CIS), a division of global shipping and energy services firm Craig Group, has announced at the 4th Ghana Summit, Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, a strategic partnership…

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