Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its partners BP and NIKO today announced a significant gas and condensate discovery in the KG D6 block off the eastern coast of India. The KGD6-MJ1 well was drilled in a water depth of 1,024 metres – and to a total depth of 4,509 metres – to explore the prospectivity [...]
Brazil’s Petrobras has completed drilling and conducted a formation test in the well that discovered oil in the Rights Transfer area referred to as Florim, in the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster. Well 1-BRSA-1116-RJS (1-RJS-704), informally known as Florim, is located at a water depth of 2,009 meters, 206 km off the coast of the Rio [...]
The Rt Hon Edward Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change in the UK, joined GDF SUEZ E&P UK in Aberdeen yesterday to witness the signing of another major contract with the UK supply chain for the Cygnus project, . The deal with Burntisland Fabrication Ltd (BiFab) to construct the accommodation platform [...]
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 [...]
Talisman Energy, a Canadian oil and gas company with operations worldwide, has set a deadline for the removal of the troublesome Yme platform from the Norwegian part of the North Sea, Reuters has reported. The platform has been sitting unmanned in the Norwegian part of the North Sea since mid-July, 2012, when Talisman decided to evacuate the personnel [...]
The Executive General Manager (EGM) of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation (SNH) in Cameroon, Adolphe Moudiki and the Executive Chairman of EurOil Limited (EurOil), Chief Tabetando, today announced, that a discovery of condensate and gas was confirmed, following the drilling of the IM-5 appraisal/development well, in the offshore Etinde Exclusive Exploration Authorization, located in the Rio Del Rey Basin, Cameroon. [...]
Noble Energy, Inc. announced today a natural gas discovery at the Karish prospect offshore Israel. The discovery well was drilled to a total depth of 15,783 feet and encountered 184 feet of net natural gas pay in high-quality lower Miocene sands. The Karish well, located in the Alon C license approximately 20 miles northeast of the Tamar [...]
India’s drilling contractor Aban Offshore has secured a contract for its Aban Ice drillship, as reported by The Economic Times, an English-language Indian daily newspaper. According to the newspaper, the contract worth approximately $200 million comes from the India’s state-controlled oil company, ONGC. The drillship, capable of operating in water depths of up to 2000 feet, will [...]
Det norske oljeselskap ASA today announced that it has received approval from the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for the Ivar Aasen development in the North Sea. Total investments in the project are estimated at NOK 24.7 billion (approximately $4.3 billion) COO Øyvind Bratsberg commented: “ When the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of Ivar Aasen is approved by [...]
Rowan Companies plc, a U.S.-based drilling contractor specialising in high-specification jack-up rigs, today announced it has secured more work for its Gorilla IV rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. In its fleet contract status update the company revealed that Walter Oil & Gas has awarded a six month contract extension for the rig on a [...]
