Recently Imtech Marine, specialized in system integration, successfully completed three innovative new-build vessel projects in Singapore; Seven Borealis for Subsea 7, Rockpiper for a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster NV and Flintstone for Tideway, part of the DEME Group. The ships will all operate in the oil and gas market. Imtech Marine has combined specific [...]
April 13, 2012 | Posted in
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News,
NEWS BY TOPIC,
News Categories,
REGIONAL NEWS,
South & Central Asia,
Top Stories,
Vessels |
Read More » 
Octanex has been advised by Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd (Shell) that it has completed acquisition of the new Tortilla 2D seismic survey in the WA-385-P permit. The Tortilla survey is a relatively small 783 km 2D marine seismic survey that fulfils the final work commitment for the WA-385-P permit in the current term. It [...]
![InterMoor Completes Falkland Islands Job for AGR]()
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has completed a 27-month contract for AGR on their multi-client exploration drilling project off the Falkland Islands. The campaign kicked off early 2010 with the mobilization of Diamond Drilling’s Ocean Guardian semisubmersible from Invergordon, UK, and the 164-day roundtrip tow to exploration locations in the remote North Falkland basin and one [...]
HYSY720, a seismic vessel owned by China Oilfield Services Limited （“COSL”）, has successfully completed 3D seismic data acquisition in East China Sea, establishing a precedence of all-weather operations for COSL’s geophysical fleet. This operation is the first East China Sea contract as well as the largest in terms of exploration area for HYSY720. It covers [...]
March 30, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the News,
Company News,
Featured,
News,
NEWS BY TOPIC,
News Categories,
Press releases,
REGIONAL NEWS,
South & Central Asia,
Vessels |
Read More » 
Hercules Offshore, Inc. announced today that it has closed the previously announced acquisition of the offshore drilling rig Ocean Columbia from Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. for $40 million in cash. Ocean Columbia, which will get a new name, Hercules 266, is a LeTourneau Class 82 SD-C jack-up drilling rig registered and flagged in the Marshall [...]
March 29, 2012 | Posted in
Americas,
Company News,
Featured,
News,
NEWS BY TOPIC,
News Categories,
Press releases,
REGIONAL NEWS,
Research & Development,
Top Stories |
Read More » Pancontinental Oil & Gas NL, an oil & gas exploration company with key assets in Australia, Kenya and Namibia. announces the completion of the Nanaa 3D seismic survey in area L8 offshore Kenya. The survey is additional to the earlier Mbawa 3D survey. Conducted by operator Apache Corporation on behalf of the L8 Joint Venture, [...]
March 22, 2012 | Posted in
Africa,
Company News,
Featured,
News,
NEWS BY TOPIC,
News Categories,
Press releases,
REGIONAL NEWS,
Research & Development,
Top Stories |
Read More » 
The well was completed as a dual producer to a depth of 2,765 metres. It tested for initial production at 1,682 barrels of oil per day at the short string with the long string testing at 1,714 barrels of oil per day.
March 19, 2012 | Posted in
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
Middle East,
News,
NEWS BY TOPIC,
News Categories,
Press releases,
REGIONAL NEWS,
Top Stories |
Read More » 
EnQuest PLC (‘EnQuest’) today announces that it has completed the acquisition of 25% of the in the UK North Sea blocks 9/2b and 9/2c, including the Kraken discovery, from Nautical Petroleum plc. This agreement and the associated details of the transaction were announced on 24 January 2012 when Enquest reported it would will pay Nautical [...]
Coastline Surveys has successfully completed a Pre-decommissioning Environmental Survey on behalf of Energy Resource Technology (UK) Ltd, a division of HELIX. The programme is in preparation for the decommissioning of Camelot CA production platform and associated sub-sea infrastructure, which is located in Block 53/1a of the Southern North Sea. The work involved Geophysical Survey utilising [...]
March 2, 2012 | Posted in
Also in the News,
Company News,
Europe & Eurasia,
Featured,
News,
NEWS BY TOPIC,
News Categories,
Press releases,
REGIONAL NEWS,
Research & Development |
Read More » Transocean’s Deepwater Millennium vessel recently left the South Africa’s Port of Ngqura near Port Elizabeth after undergoing a number of upgrades and modifications by DCD Marine. The Deepwater Millennium vessel is a Samsung/Reading & Bates designed, dynamically positioned drillship capable of drilling in water depths up to 2 468 metres (upgradable to 3 048 metres) [...]
February 28, 2012 | Posted in
Africa,
Also in the News,
Company News,
Featured,
News,
NEWS BY TOPIC,
News Categories,
Press releases,
REGIONAL NEWS,
Vessels |
Read More »
