Deep Down, Inc., an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services yesterday announced it has received an order from a major international controls manufacturer for the manufacture and deployment of specialized short umbilical jumpers worth in excess of $1.5 million. The order is for the first phase [...]
add energy has completed the acquisition of Oracle Risk Consultants (ORC). Oracle is a leading technical safety & risk consultancy company based in Perth, Australia, servicing the offshore oil and gas and onshore hazardous facility industries. Oracle is focused on the highly active Australian market, and on projects in the surrounding APAC countries. Thus, the [...]
MEO Australia Limited advises the following personnel changes effective 1st June 2013. Dave Maughan has elected to retire from his current role as Exploration Manager, effective 1st June 2013 and has accepted an ongoing advisory role with commensurately less demand on his time. Concurrently, Peter Stickland will move from his current role of New Ventures [...]
Cementing its position as a leading supplier of specialist offshore engineering solutions across international markets, Aquaterra Energy has established Aquaterra Energy Asia Pacific and appointed Ken Crawford as General Manager (Asia-Pacific) – Aquaterra. Patrick Phelan, Managing Director of Aquaterra Energy, said: “We have a growing reputation as a leading global operation with highly respected offshore [...]
Tap Oil, an independent oil and gas exploration company from Australia, has provided the following update of the Bianchi-1 gas appraisal well in Retention Lease WA-49-R, located off Western Australia. During the period from 0600 hours (AWST) on 15 April 2013 to 0600 hours (AWST) on 23 April 2013, the Bianchi-1 well drilled to a [...]
Octanex N.L. has announced that the Kokako 3D seismic survey, that is located within and adjacent to PEP 53473 (Permit) in the offshore Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, has been completed. The Company’s 50% interest in the Permit is held by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Octanex NZ Limited (Octanex NZ). New Zealand Oil & Gas Limited (ASX Code: NZO) (NZOG) [...]
Australian oil and gas company WHL Energy Ltd has welcomed media reports that drilling activities have restarted on the Palta‐1 well in offshore Western Australian permit WA‐384‐P. The company quoted an article in The West Australian today which said that the Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) “Noble Clyde Boudreaux”, which has been contracted to drill Palta‐1, has [...]
Australia’s Tap Oil Limited announces that at 0630 hours (AWST) on 15 April 2013 the Ensco 104 rig commenced drilling the Taunton-5/5H well to appraise the Taunton oil field, located in the TL/2 production license and the TP/7 exploration permit. Taunton-5/5H will be drilled in shallow water as a deviated well in TL/2 to obtain [...]
Australia’s oil and gas company Santos today announced that Peter Coates will retire as Chairman at the Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2013. He will be succeeded by Ken Borda, who has been a non-executive director of Santos since 2007. Coates will remain a non-executive director to ensure an orderly transition of responsibilities. Coates, [...]
Matrix Composites & Engineering (Matrix) announces it has entered into an agreement with Allseas for the supply of rigid pipeline installation buoyancy for the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. The agreement will aid in sustaining the local manufacturing industry and support 225 local jobs, particularly in Kwinana and Rockingham. Under the agreement, 35 people [...]
