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Statoil Hires Teekay’s FSO for Gina Krog Field

Statoil Hires Teekay’s FSO for Gina Krog Field

  Teekay Offshore Partners L.P.  today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil), on behalf of the field license partners, to provide a floating storage and offtake (FSO) unit for the Gina Krog oil and gas field located in North Sea. The contract will be serviced by a new [...]

Tangiers Completes Australian Farm-Out Deal

Tangiers Completes Australian Farm-Out Deal

Tangiers executes farm-out agreement on Australian exploration acreage. Deal gives Tangiers ongoing exposure to the exploration upside while enabling it to focus its resources on acquiring interests in African oil and gas assets

Salamander Submits Insurance Claim for North Kutei Drilling (Indonesia)

Salamander Submits Insurance Claim for North Kutei Drilling (Indonesia)

Salamander announces that an insurance claim is on-going relating to the North Kutei drilling campaign in Indonesia. The campaign has so far resulted in the South Kecapi oil and gas discovery and a suspended potential gas discovery at North Kendang-1. Operations on the Bedug-1 exploration well continue. As reported on 11 April 2013, the drilling [...]

KCA Deutag to Manage Perisai Drilling Ops in Malaysia

KCA Deutag to Manage Perisai Drilling Ops in Malaysia

International drilling contractor, KCA Deutag, has announced it has signed a contract with Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Bhd of Malaysia for the provision of drilling operations, management and maintenance services on the Perisai Pacific 101 jack-up. The agreement also calls for KCA Deutag to train, coach and mentor National Malaysian management and crews. Perisai is an [...]

Oil & Gas UK Welcomes EU Offshore Safety Directive

Oil & Gas UK Welcomes EU Offshore Safety Directive

Oil & Gas UK has welcomed the announcement that a plenary vote in the European Parliament will see the introduction of a directive on offshore safety and environment. Robert Paterson, Oil & Gas UK’s health, safety and employment director, said: “Oil & Gas UK has worked hard to campaign for this directive in place of [...]

EMGS Extends Charter Period for Atlantic Guardian

EMGS Extends Charter Period for Atlantic Guardian

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has entered into an agreement with North Sea Shipping to extend the charter hire period for the vessel Atlantic Guardian from 1 September 2013 to 1 March 2014. Furthermore, EMGS has agreed to charter the vessel for an additional period of at least two years, with three optional one-year extensions. Under [...]

GDF Suez Sells Share in Njord License to Core Energy (Norway)

GDF Suez Sells Share in Njord License to Core Energy (Norway)

GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS has signed a contract with Core Energy selling a 12 % share in the Njord license, PL107, in the Norwegian Sea. It includes also the transfer of 12 % of the Noatun discovery, 3.67 % in the Kristin Gas Export Pipeline Joint Venture and 0.162 % in the NSGI Joint [...]

Chariot Gets Namibian Licence Extension

Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, the Atlantic margins focused oil and gas exploration company, today announces that the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Namibia has granted a one year extension for the First Renewal Phase on the Central Area Blocks, (Licence 19, covering Blocks 2312 A & B and Northern halves of 2412 A [...]

AGR to Get $27 Mln for Drilling Services in Africa

Norway’s AGR Petroleum Services has signed a 160 million NOK ($27.6 mln) contract with Genel Energy to deliver well management services for Genel Energy’s North, West Africa offshore drilling campaign.  Under the terms of the contract, AGR will provide full well management and related services, including drilling engineering and planning services, supply chain management and operations support for Genel Energy’s high impact [...]

Nam Cheong Appoints New CEO (Malaysia)

Nam Cheong Appoints New CEO (Malaysia)

Nam Cheong Limited Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel (“OSV”) builder, today announced the appointment of Leong Seng Keat as the Group’s Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. He was Nam Cheong’s Executive Director, and the new appointment is in line with the Group’s strategy to strengthen and streamline the management team as it embarks on [...]


 




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