First crude oil production began from the Van Ghent well located in block P11b within the Medway development area, in Dutch North Sea, reported Dana Petroleum (operator), The well, located on the Dutch continental shelf approximately 60kms north west of The Hague, will produce oil via the Dana operated De Ruyter platform and it is [...]
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From 3-6 October 2011, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of management of operation and maintenance on Heimdal and the Heimdal riser platform (HRP). Objective The objective of the activity was to assess aspects of the management of preventive and corrective maintenance, including lags and outstanding maintenance on Heimdal and HRP, [...]
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Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company (IOEC) says phases 17 & 18 of the South Pars gas field will be operational until September 2012. “The phase 17 is scheduled to become operational in July and the phase 18 of the South Pars gas field will be launched in September 2012,” IOEC manager of phases 17 [...]
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Keppel FELS Limited is on course to deliver ENSCO 8505, the sixth of seven ENSCO 8500 Series® ultra-deepwater semisubmersible (semi) drilling rigs to Ensco safely, on time and within budget. The rig is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2012 with zero lost-time incidents in over five million man-hours worked. Upon completion, [...]
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Ithaca Energy Inc. announces progress on the BW Athena Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The FPSO conversion scope, which is the responsibility of BW Offshore, has proved to be more extensive than was envisaged at the start of the project. In spite of the increase in the amount of work required, BW Offshore [...]
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Woodside, as Operator of the North West Shelf Project, announced the North West Shelf Project participants have approved development of the first phase of the Greater Western Flank (GWF) Project off the north-west coast of Australia. The GWF Phase 1 Project will develop the Goodwyn GH and Tidepole fields, via a subsea tie-back to the [...]
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that it recently spudded the Bertam-2 appraisal well in the PM307 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) area, offshore Peninsular Malaysia. Bertam-2 is planned to be drilled to a total depth of 1,888 metres by the jack-up rig “Offshore Courageous”. The objectives of the well are to appraise and test the [...]
INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announces that its affiliate INPEX Masela, Ltd. and Shell Upstream Overseas Services Limited have completed the necessary procedures for the transfer of a 30% participating interest in the Masela Block, the Arafura Sea, Indonesia (Abadi project), where INPEX Masela is the operator of the project. As a result of the transfer, the [...]
Shell and Noble Corporation announce the Gulf of Mexico arrival of the Noble Bully I, a state-of-the-art offshore drilling rig that is designed to raise the bar in terms of safety and performance. The Noble Bully I is the first of two Bully rigs, jointly designed by Shell and Noble, and can be equipped to [...]
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Bumi Armada’s subsidiary, Armada TGT Ltd, signs Facility Agreement with seven financial institutions for facilities totalling USD341.1 million (MYR1.08 billion equivalent) to finance costs related to the conversion and installation of the FPSO Armada TGT 1 for deployment in the Te Giac Trang Field, offshore Vietnam. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation is the coordinating bank, mandated [...]
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