One of the UK’s most highly regarded oil and gas industry leaders will be given a special award for his services to offshore safety at a special awards ceremony on 18 April 2012. The Award for Services to Safety will be presented to Mike Bowyer at the 2012 UK Oil and Gas Industry Safety Awards, [...]
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has received a letter of award (LOA) from Saipem in relation to the offshore project for the Ichthys gas export pipeline development near Darwin, Northern Australia. The project value to Boskalis amounts to approximately EUR 200 million (USD 262 million) . INPEX is the main developer of the Ichthys project [...]
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Xtract Energy today announced that the P2-10 well is currently being drilled by Chevron using the Noble Byron Welliver jack-up drilling rig and is now designated as “tight hole” in order to protect their proprietary technology being used to drill the well . “Tight hole” designation means that information regarding specific activity and progress is [...]
Ithaca Energy Inc. announces that the Company has received Field Development Plan (“FDP”) approval for the Stella and Harrier Fields from the UK government. The joint development of the Stella and Harrier fields, located in the Central North Sea, will involve the drilling of subsea horizontal wells tied back to the “FPF-1″ floating production unit, [...]
The semi-submersible drilling facility COSLInnovator has received the PSA’s Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC). On 30 March 2012, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) granted COSL Drilling Europe AS an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the semi-submersible drilling facility COSLInnovator. COSLInnovator was constructed at the Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China. The drilling package was delivered by [...]
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Keppel AmFELS LLC, a US wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has won a contract from Mexico’s Perforadora Central SA de CV (Perforadora Central) to build a repeat jackup rig worth US$205 million. Slated for delivery in 1Q 2014, this latest high specification unit will be based on the LeTourneau Super [...]
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Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) has been granted consent for use of the Ocean Vanguard mobile drilling facility for drilling top holes on Oseberg Sør (Stjerne) in the North Sea. The consent covers drilling of top holes in connection with the development of 30/9-22 Stjerne. The plan for development and operation (PDO) of Stjerne was approved [...]
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Octanex N.L. announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Octanex NZ Limited (Octanex NZ), has been granted a 100% interest in a fourth petroleum exploration permit, PEP 53473. The permit is located in the offshore Taranaki Basin of New Zealand. The permit lies between the PEP 51906 and PEP 52593 permits (in which Octanex NZ holds [...]
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A true hybrid energy system is currently being developed for installation on board the offshore supply vessel Viking Lady. An impressive battery pack for energy storage will soon be installed. When the new system is complete, the operation of the engine will be more smooth and cost effective giving further emission reductions. The Viking Lady [...]
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Faroe Petroleum, the operator of the Clapton prospect, will use the Maersk Guardian jack-up rig.
