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…
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…
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…
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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…
The winners of the 2013 UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards, sponsored by Maersk Oil UK, were announced at a special lunchtime awards ceremony in Aberdeen today (24 April) The showcase event, held at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre…
Statoil chronicles steerable liner drilling tests on its Statfjord and Brage oil fields in the North Sea.
Veripos is delighted to announce that on 23 April, the company concluded an agreement with developers after receiving planning consent for a new global headquarters and regional support base in Aberdeen. The building will be owned by Veripos…
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 360, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 16/8-3 S (Lupin prospect). The well was drilled about 40 kilometres east of the Sleipner Øst field and 60 kilometres south of the…
NorSea Group, the leading supplier of base services and integrated logistics systems to the Norwegian oil and gas industry, and the Scrabster Harbour Trust in Caithness have just signed an agreement which will result in major investment and new job prospects for the local economy…
BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, has been granted a patent for its strain measurement system and unique attachment scheme that can be integrated into the insulation layer on ultra-deep water Steel Catenary Risers (SCRs)…
A welcoming ceremony was held for two newbuild vessels SL Gabon and SL Libreville at Port‐Gentil, Gabon on 17 April. Among those attending the ceremony were the Minister Delegate of Transport Mr Emmanuel Jean Didier Biye, the Governor of the Ogooué Maritime Province Mr Martin Boguikouma…
ULSTEIN is currently customizing their innovative Chain type Stinger Handling system concept for three different companies on three different continents. The compact system improves both the vessel design and pipe-lay operations, and as acknowledgment on April 16th 2013…
Premier Oil has announced success on an exploration well and side track on its North Sea Bonneville prospect. Bonneville, 4km south of the Burgman discovery in the Catcher area licence in the central North Sea, found oil on well 28/9a-6 and its side track…
ExxonMobil has started drilling on the Dunquin prospect offshore the west coast of Ireland, partners in the licence said this morning. Drilling operations are expected to take several months to complete using the Eirik Raude semi-submersible drilling unit…
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