Jasper Explorer drillship has arrived at Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, and is currently preparing for drilling operations. After the preparations are completed the drillship will start its drilling contract with CNOOC Congo SA. The drilling contract between Jasper Investments and CNOOC was signed in January 2013. Under the contract, the Jasper Explorer will drill two firm wells [...]
Brazil’s oil company HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. announces that today the semi-submersible drilling-rig Transocean Marianas from Transocean yesterday arrived in Walvis Bay, Namibia. The rig will undergo mandatory maintenance for the next three to four weeks, before starting HRT’s drilling campaign in Walvis and Orange sedimentary basins. The Marianas is expected to Start drilling [...]
Tugs Fairmount Summit and Fairmount Alpine have delivered the new build Noble Tamar jacket at location in the Tamar gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Israel. Both tugs towed the barge on which the jacket was loaded from the US to the field South-East of Cyprus. The 18,500 ton jacket was [...]
Vroon, an international shipping company, announced that VOS Sweet has safely completed her voyage from Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. Vroon Offshore Services’ latest addition to the subsea-support fleet arrived in the Netherlands on Thursday, 3 January 2013. Some final fitting work will be undertaken and her crane will be installed, following which the vessel [...]
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Petrobras announces that FPSO Cidade de Itajaí arrived, on the morning of Dec. 29, at its definitive location to be integrated to the Baúna and Piracaba field production system, which is in the Santos basin post-salt area. Chartered from OOG-TKP (the consortium formed by Odebrecht Óleo e Gás & Teekay Petrojarl), the vessel is being [...]
Coastal Energy Company, an independent exploration and production company with assets in Thailand, announced that the Atwood Manta jack-up rig has arrived on location at the Bua Ban North B field and is currently rigging up. The Company plans to drill eight development and appraisal wells at Bua Ban North with the Manta. Following completion [...]
Laguna Star ultra-deepwater drillship yesterday arrived in Brazil, QGOG Constellation S.A. announced. The unit will be operated by its subsidiary, Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás (“QGOG”), in water depths of up to 10,000 feet and well depths of up to 40,000 feet. It is equipped to operate in ultra-deepwater including the Brazilian pre-salt area. The Laguna [...]
Tap Oil Limited has announced that the drilling rig has arrived on location at Manora-5 exploration well, in the Gulf of Thailand. Manora-5 is the first of three wells planned in the 2012 exploration drilling campaign offshore Thailand. The exploration well is located in the G1/48 concession in the Gulf of Thailand, three kilometres north [...]
QGOG Constellation announces the arrival to Brazil of the ultra-deepwater drillship Amaralina Star on August 25, to be operated by its subsidiary, Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás (QGOG). The unit was built to operate in ultra-deepwaters to water depths of up to 10,000 feet and to drill wells depths of up to 40,000 feet. It [...]
Chevron Corporation announced that the Pacific Santa Ana, a deepwater drillship built to Chevron’s specifications, has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico to work for Chevron under a five-year contract. Pacific Santa Ana is the first drillship designed with the capacity to perform dual gradient drilling (DGD). “Pacific Santa Ana will enable us to demonstrate [...]
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