See the most read news of the week May 13 – 18, 2013
COSL Drilling Europe has announced that ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS has extended the contract for COSLRigmar on the Ekofisk Field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, with 7 months to 1 May 2014. In addition there are options in the contract for a duration of up to 6 months which are available for CoPNO [...]
Songa Offshore, a Cyprus based drilling contractor, has announced its fleet status update for May/ June 2012. Songa Venus achieved an average operating efficiency of 98% during the period. The rig continues to operate for Petronas Carigali in Malaysia. It is anticipated that the 1 year optional contract extension will be approved and issued during [...]
Petrobras announces that its average domestic and foreign oil and natural gas output in May was 2,601,223 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), up 1.9% on the figure for April. Fields in Brazil produced an average 2,350,476 boed, a rise of 2% on the previous month’s output. Foreign output stood at 250,747 boed, an [...]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, a governmental specialist directorate and administrative body, today released preliminary production figures for May 2012. Preliminary production figures for May 2012 indicate an average daily production of about 2 007 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 52 000 barrels per day (about 2.5 percent) less than in April [...]
Banambu Deep well is expected to commence drilling in mid-May, 2012, Cue Energy Resources reports. The well is located within the WA- 389-P permit, Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia. The well operator is Woodside as a result of a farm-out agreement announced on 13 th July, 2010. Woodside is committed to carry Cue’s share of [...]
Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) managing director, Mousa Souri, says the company will start drilling in oil layer of South Pars gas field up to the end of current Iranian month on 20th May. Speaking to Shana, POGC’s managing director, Mousa Souri, also said that the company has gained permissions to buy or lease [...]
Global maritime and offshore oil & gas engineering company Harris Pye is making significant gains in the Offshore oil & gas market, according to Group Managing Director Mark Prendergast. Prendergast stated today: ‘I can confirm that we are currently undertaking three major rig renovations simultaneously in the UK, Singapore and Brasil. Whilst I’d rather not [...]
Fairstar Heavy Transport N.V. (FAIR) announces that it will take delivery of the 50,000DWT semi-submersible vessel FORTE, currently under construction by Guangzhou Shipbuilding International (GSI) in China, on May 23, 2012. Willem Out, Chief Operating Officer of Fairstar, visited the FORTE just before the beginning of the Chinese New Year Holiday. He reported “GSI has [...]
Woodside advises that it intends to seek amendments to its Browse Basin retention leases, including a request to vary the condition relating to readiness for a final investment decision. The participants in the Browse Joint Venture are currently engaged in discussions on the final nature of this planned request for amendments. The request for amendments [...]
