Sevan Drilling, a Norway-based drilling contractor which owns a fleet of Ultra Deepwater drilling rigs of a specific cylindrical design, yesterday, during its Investor Day presentation announced it would not take options for the rigs 5. and 6. at Cosco shipyard. The company’s representatives said they wanted to focus on securing a contract for its rig [...]
On 27 February 2013, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit within risk and barrier management, technical safety, maintenance management, logistics, follow-up of terms stipulated in the AoC decision and winterisation on West Hercules. The audit was a follow-up of previous audits in connection with issuance of an AoC for the rig. [...]
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Oxford professor, Paul Taylor, will visit the National University of Singapore from 25 March to 2 April 2013 under the Maritime Technology Professorship (MTP) programme, which aims to enhance research and development (R&D) in marine and offshore engineering research in Singapore. Professor Taylor is a Professor of Engineering Science and Fellow at Keble College in [...]
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Swift Energy Company announced today that as of 3:12 p.m. local time , Thursday, it has brought under control an outflow of water, oil and natural gas resulting from a marine vessel collision with a Swift Energy operated shut-in well head in the shallow waters of its Lake Washington field in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, which [...]
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has managed to refloat its drilling rig Kulluk that ran aground offshore Alaska, after breaking free from tugboats last week. The Kulluk was driven aground by violent weather on the southeast shoreline of nearby Sitkalidak Island on December 31, 2012, while under tow from Alaska to Seattle, Washington State. The rig [...]
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CGX Energy Inc. has transitioned to a new Corentyne petroleum agreement (“Corentyne PA”) and petroleum prospecting license (“Corentyne PPL”) offshore Guyana effective as of November 27, 2012, renewable after four years for up to ten years. The new Corentyne PA applies to the former offshore portion of the Corentyne PPL, covering 6,212 square kilometres. The [...]
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has decided to initiate an investigation of the stability incident on the mobile drilling facility Scarabeo 8 in the Barents Sea on 4 September 2012. Scarabeo 8 is a semi-submersible drilling facility owned by Saipem SpA Norwegian Branch (Saipem). The facility is currently engaged in exploration drilling for Eni [...]
Cyprus-based SD Standard Drilling Plc (“Standard Drilling”) has today entered into a final SPA for the sale of one rig (B324) under construction and further issued the buyer an option to purchase a second rig (B337) under construction. If the option is exercised the gross combined price will be USD 426m. The option to purchase [...]
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Statoil is initiating an internal investigation following a gas leak on the Heimdal platform in the North Sea on Saturday 26 May. The incident will also be investigated by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway. The gas leak occurred during the testing of emergency shutdown valves. Due to shutdown for maintenance on parts of the Heimdal [...]
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U.S. energy giant Exxon Mobil expects to book the reserves it will develop in Russia’s Arctic with state oil company Rosneft under U.S. SEC … By Melissa Akin (Reuters) Source:Reuters ,September 27, 2011;
