Qatar Petroleum has reached an agreement with Chevron Morocco Exploration, a subsidiary of Chevron Corp., to acquire a 30% participating interest from Chevron’s 75% share in three deepwater offshore leases in the Kingdom of Morocco: Cap Rhir Deep…
Trendsetter Engineering has announced the successful qualification of our high‐temperature, metal‐to‐metal sealing TEX‐5 gasket. The TEX‐5 gasket is featured in Trendsetter’s proprietary Trendsetter Connection System (TCS) vertical flowline connection system…
Trendsetter Engineering was awarded a contract to design, manufacture and test the industry’s first 20,000 psi valve‐based capping stack. This capping stack will be capable of containing high pressure, high temperature subsea oil wells in the event of a subsea well‐control incident…
Athens Group’s Daniel Marquez discusses why new 20K control systems require a new approach to specification, acquisition, operation and maintenance procedures. Acquisition, operations, and maintenance…
Wild Well Control increased its presence in the Asia-Pacific region this month. Steve Nas, regional manager of Well Control Engineering – Asia-Pacific region, brings nearly 35 years of experience with a focus on underbalanced and managed…
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) granted Shell Canada the approval to begin its Shelburne Basin Venture Exploration Drilling Project, offshore Nova Scotia. The Stena IceMAX…
Norway-based PGS is to cold-stack a third vessel, the Ramform Viking ultra high capacity 3D seismic vessel, as it battles the downturn in the market. The Ramform Viking will be cold-stacked after it completes a MultiClient project offshore East Newfoundland in late October this year…
Shell disconnected the Noble Discoverer drillship from its anchors in the Chukchi Sea after weather temporarily put a halt to its Arctic operations over the weekend. The Noble Discoverer. From Shell Flickr…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has given Shell final approval to drill into deeper into hydrocarbon-bearing zones at its Burger J prospect in the Chukchi Sea, off Alaska, in the US Arctic. “After extensive review and under a robust array of safety requirements…
Trendsetter Engineering has completed work on a containment toolkit that can be deployed to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This follows their delivery of four subsea well capping stacks, designed to shut in an uncontrolled subsea well…
SeaBird Exploration has become the latest seismic vessel operator to stack one of its fleet. The Oslo stock market listed firm says it has stacked the Munin Explorer following its completion of the long-term time charter contract with SeaBed Geosolutions in August 2015…
The Transocean Polar Pioneer semisubmersible officially began Shell’s US$1 billion Arctic drilling program in the Chukchi Sea on 30 July. The Polar Pioneer. From Transocean. Drilling operations began at Shell’s Burger J prospect…
Shell’s arrival in the Chukchi Sea came with limitations from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) that allows the supermajor to begin drilling, but not into oil-bearing zones just yet. The Noble Discoverer…
The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) inspected Shell’s drilling rigs for its US$1 billion Arctic drilling program, the Noble Discoverer, Polar Pioneer and the Fennica icebreaker vessel in Alaska. Pre…
With a mean estimate of 23.6 billion bbl of undiscovered, technically recoverable conventional oil in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, the Arctic could be one of the last big finds. Heather Saucier examines what is at stake on the US side. Source…
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