Wright’s Well Control Services (WWCS) has been awarded a contract from an operator in the Gulf of Mexico for the surface plug & abandonment of sixteen wells. Work on this project will commence in the first quarter of 2012 and is expected to be completed by the end of June 2012. WWCS will use its [...]
China Oilfield Services Limited （“COSL”）on Friday announced that COSL4 platform has recently received a Safety Production Award in the year-end safety conference hosted by a Mexican state-owned petroleum company PEMEX for its track record of having 1,456 days of zero-event operation. Over the years, COSL4 platform has been implementing a very strict safety management model [...]
Prosafe, a Cyprus-based owner and operator of semi-submersible accommodation/service rigs has been awarded a contract by Cotemar Group (“charterer”) for a contract extension for Safe Hibernia to be used at Pemex’ Cantarell, an aging supergiant oil field in Mexico. The Safe Hibernia bareboat contract is extended by 744 days, through to end-December 2013. The value of [...]
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Subsea 7, a major player in seabed-to-surface engineering construction, and services, today announces the award of two engineering and installation contracts from Shell for the Cardamom and West Boreas Projects in the Gulf of Mexico. Subsea 7’s scope of work on West Boreas is the installation of a 6,096m (20,000ft) long umbilical as well as [...]
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TGS has commenced acquisition of a 3D multi-client wide azimuth (WAZ) survey covering 11,655 km2 in the Gulf of Mexico in partnership with WesternGeco. The survey, Patriot WAZ 3D, will be the first orthogonal WAZ survey covering a large portion of the existing Freedom WAZ data set. Following the acquisition of Patriot WAZ the data [...]
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International energy consultancy Xodus Group has secured more than $1 million of contracts in the Gulf of Mexico since it opened its office in Houston in February. The company’s recruitment drive continues and it has invested $2 million in a move to new larger premises in Richmond Avenue in the city’s energy corridor. The [...]
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation today announced it sold its interest in the deep rights (below 23,499 TVDSS) in one of its Telemark Hub properties to a third party for an undisclosed amount resulting in an estimated gain of $26 million. In addition to the cash proceeds, ATP retained a 1% overriding royalty interest. Leland [...]
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Today, Nexen Inc. , an independent, Canadian-based global energy company has entered a joint venture with China’s CNOOC Limited in the Gulf of Mexico. The joint venture will provide CNOOC Limited with a working interest in up to six deepwater exploration wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Among the prospects included in the deal [...]
Petrobras last week announced a new oil discovery in the extreme southwestern part of the Walker Ridge concession area, located in America’s Gulf of Mexico ultra-deep waters. The discovery confirms the Lower Tertiary’s potential in this area. The Logan discovery is approximately 400 km (250 miles) southwest of New Orleans, at a water of around [...]
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Van Oord‘s flexible fallpipe vessel (FFPV) Tertnes has been to the east coast of Mexico (Bay of Campeche) to execute subsea rock installation projects on pipelines and cables for various main contractors. The ultimate client is state oil and gas company PEMEX. FFPV vessel Tertnes was deployed to the Far East via the Panama Canal [...]
