China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) is reaching the final phase of the installation of the 30,000-metric-tonne topsides on the jacket at the Liwan 3-1 field in the South China Sea, China Daily has reported. The news agency added that it has been informed by CNOOC that the progress has experienced a minor setback on Thursday due [...]
China’s geophysical services company BGP has signed a three year Cooperative Agreement with Norway’s TGS to acquire, process and market multi-client 2D and 3D seismic data in East Africa. The agreement includes an initial 2D multi-client 13,135 km seismic survey in west Morondava, offshore Madagascar. The newly acquired data will extend and infill the existing regional [...]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 6608/11-8 in the Norwegian Sea. The well will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling rig. The drilling programme for well 6608/11-8 relates to drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 128. Statoil Petroleum AS is the operator with an [...]
Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 16/2-18 S at the Johan Sverdrup field with the Ocean Vanguard rig. Water depth at the site is 112 metres. The drilling is scheduled to begin at the end of May 2013 and has a duration of approximately 63 days, depending [...]
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Mediterranean Oil & Gas Plc (MOG) has reached agreement with Genel Energy Plc to enable the deep-water semi-submersible drilling rig, the Paul Romano, which Genel has contracted with Noble Corporation, to drill one exploration well offshore Malta Area 4 in the fourth quarter 2013. The Paul Romano will drill the Hagar Qim 1 exploration well in [...]
Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7/4-3, offshore Norway. The well was drilled 24 km north of the Lundin Petroleum operated Brynhild field in the North Sea, offshore Norway, and approximately 22 km east of the UK Everest field. The exploration well 7/4-3 was targeting the Upper Triassic and Upper Cretaceous reservoirs [...]
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) and TGS have signed a cooperation agreement to develop joint multi-client projects in defined areas of north-western Europe. With this agreement, EMGS will be given access to TGS’s 2D seismic data as the basis for planning new 3D controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) projects, while TGS obtains access to 2D/3D CSEM data to [...]
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Otto Energy Limited, operator of the producing Galoc oilfield joint venture offshore the Philippines, has announced that the drilling rig “Ocean Patriot” has started mobilisation from Singapore and is currently under tow with the tug Pacific Battler. The rig has completed its five-year survey works and also the load out of drilling equipment required for the campaign. It is being [...]
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will deliver operations & maintenance services to Hess Corporation’s Baldpate production platform in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, under a new five-year contract. WGPSN will also provide these services to Hess for the Tubular Bells and Stampede deepwater facilities in the Mississippi Canyon and Green Canyon regions of the Gulf of [...]
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Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Total have anounced the signing of a framework of Agreement whereby QPI will participate in Total E&P Congo through its subscription to a 15% share capital increase of this company. This participation reinforces Qatar’s commitment to invest in Africa and illustrates Congo’s willingness to welcome Qatar as a new partner. [...]
