The 1800-tonne subsea template for the Åsgard subsea gas compression pioneering project is en route from the shipyard in Egersund to the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. Subsea compression will increase recovery from the Åsgard-field by 280 milion barrels of oil equivalent when it comes on stream in 2015. Three modules have been completed: [...]
Seaway Heavy Lifting wins contract for transport and installation of Statoil’s Gullfaks Wet Gas Compression unit. Seaway Heavy Lifting has been awarded a heavy lift contract from Subsea 7. This contract is part of Subsea 7’s main contract with Statoil for the Gullfaks Subsea Compression Project in Norway. Seaway Heavy Lifting’s scope includes Transport & Installation (T&I) of [...]
APPEA has awarded its highest honour, the prestigious Reg Sprigg Medal for outstanding service to the industry, to Dr John Jackson. Presenting the award at the APPEA 2013 Conference dinner on Tuesday evening, APPEA Chairman David Knox said Dr Jackson is a man of many talents. “He is an exceptionally good geologist and petroleum executive, [...]
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Japan’s oil and gas company INPEX has signed a Cooperation Agreement with Rosneft, Russia’s largest national oil company, to pursue the opportunity to jointly explore and develop the exploration blocks, Magadan 2 and 3 blocks, in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. The blocks are located approximately 50-150km southern offshore of Magadan city, the city of Far Eastern region of Russian [...]
On Saturday 18th May, just over a year since the construction works began, Ravenna-based Rosetti Marino delivered the new Platform Supply Vessel “F D UNTOUCHABLE” to Naples-based Fratelli D’Amato Spa. This is the Rosetti shipyard’s newest arrival built for the Shipping Company owned by Mr. Luigi D’Amato and is tenth of a numerous series of [...]
Karoon Gas Australia has announced that at 06:00 WST on the 23rd of May an 8-1/2” drilling assembly was being made up as final preparations are made to recommence drilling in the 8-1/2” hole section at the ConocoPhillips-operated Proteus-1 well, offshore W. Australia. Since the last update the 8-1/2” hole section was drilled to a [...]
China’s geophysical services company BGP has signed a three year Cooperative Agreement with Norway’s TGS to acquire, process and market multi-client 2D and 3D seismic data in East Africa. The agreement includes an initial 2D multi-client 13,135 km seismic survey in west Morondava, offshore Madagascar. The newly acquired data will extend and infill the existing regional [...]
GDF SUEZ E&P Norge AS has signed a contract with Core Energy selling a 12 % share in the Njord license, PL107, in the Norwegian Sea. It includes also the transfer of 12 % of the Noatun discovery, 3.67 % in the Kristin Gas Export Pipeline Joint Venture and 0.162 % in the NSGI Joint [...]
Iran’s Marine-1 semi-submersible drilling rig is set to begin a 12-wells drilling campaign in the phase 20 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, according to Pourya Pornouri, Managing-Director of the International Drilling Company. The campaign will take three years to finish. According to the news published on the Pars Oil and Gas Company’s web [...]
Norwegian oil company Det norske oljeselskap ASA today announced that it had a satisfactory first quarter despite recording a net loss of NOK 20 million. The discovery in licence 502 confirmed that the Johan Sverdrup field extends into this licence. The discovery in licence 457 (Asha) is an extension of the Ivar Aasen field, and [...]
