Keppel FELS has delivered a second KFELS B Class jackup rig to offshore Mexican oil field services company, Integradora de Servicios Petroleros Oro Negro (Oro Negro). Named Laurus at Keppel FELS today, the rig was delivered eleven days early and with a perfect safety record. Laurus is the second of two high-specification jackup rigs that [...]
Halliburton announced today the successful completion of three wells in the Deep Water Gulf of Mexico utilizing Halliburton’s Enhanced Single-Trip Multizone (ESTMZ™) FracPac™ System. ESTMZ™ downhole tool system enables the operator to stimulate and gravel pack multiple production zones in a single trip. Designed for use in Dee Water and Ultra-Deep Water offshore completions, the [...]
Singapore’s Ezion Holdings has announced that it has in Joint Venture with Kim Seng Holdings Pte secured a contract with an approximate value of up to USD 148.6 million to provide a Service Rig over a 7 year period to support the oil & gas activities of a national oil major in Central America. The oil major is believed [...]
Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC, an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas announced yesterday the completion of sale of four non-core properties to a third party. The sale consisted of one non-operated and three operated fields in the Eugene Island, Ship Shoal and South Timbalier areas with net production of approximately [...]
Norway’s DeepOcean has been awarded a 20 months extension of the Atlantic Challenger contract with offshore contractor Constructora Subacuatica Diavaz, S.A. de C.V. (Diavaz), in Mexico. DeepOcean was awarded the existing contract in 2011 and the Atlantic Challenger has been working in Mexican waters for many years under previous contracts with Diavaz. The vessel has proven to [...]
Apache Corporation has announced that its subsidiaries were the apparent high bidders on nine shallow water blocks and five deepwater blocks in the recent Gulf of Mexico lease sale held by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Lease Sale 227, held March 20 in New Orleans, received 407 bids from [...]
Prosafe, a Cyprus-based owner of accomodation rigs today announced that Mexico’s Cotemar Group has awarded Safe Britannia rig a 640-day contract until the end of 2014 and that the Jasminia contract has been extended to the end of October 2013. The total value of the contract and extension is approximately USD 58.5 million. The rigs [...]
Keppel FELS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), has secured contracts from Mexican drilling company, Grupo R, to build four jackup rigs worth US$820 million. The jackup rigs will be built to Keppel’s proprietary KFELS B Class design and are scheduled for delivery progressively from 2Q 2015 to 4Q 2015. [...]
EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. today announced that it was the high bidder on five leases at the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 held last Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The five high bid lease blocks cover a total of 13,892 acres on a net and gross basis and are all located in [...]
Accommodations specialist, HB Rentals, a Superior Energy Services company, installed fourteen A60 – ABS/USCG approved buildings on an ABS-classed offshore construction vessel and provided fifteen buildings to a Lloyd’s-classed multipurpose platform supply vessel. Both vessels are located in Mexico, announced HB Rentals Senior Vice President of Global Operations Glenn Aguilar. The temporary building packages include [...]
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