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Noble Energy’s Cyprus A-2 flow test

Oct 04, 2013

Noble Energy, Inc. announced that the A-2 appraisal well drilled on the Block 12 discovery off Cyprus encountered about 120ft of net natural gas pay within Miocene-aged sands. The Cyprus A-2 well, which is more than four miles northeast of the A-1 discovery location…

BG touts Pweza-3 flow

Oct 02, 2013

BG Group successfully completed a drill-stem test in the Pweza gas field in block 4 off southern Tanzania. The Pweza-3 appraisal was drilled approximately 2km north of the original Pweza discovery well by the Deepsea Metro-1 drillship in 1400m of water…

Salamander plugs Thai prospect

Sep 30, 2013

Salamander Energy plugged and abandoned its offshore Ayutthaya exploration well prospect in Block G4/50 in the Gulf of Thailand as a dry hole.  Ayutthaya is located less than 1 mi. northeast of the recent Surin oil discovery. The well was spud earlier this month…

W&T picks up Dantzler stake

Sep 30, 2013

W&T Offshore announced that it has acquited 20% interest in the Noble Energy's Dantzler prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Dantzler prospect is located in Mississippi Canyon blocks 738/782 off Louisiana. Noble has begun drilling…

Record PIG run on Nord Stream

Sep 26, 2013

Nord Stream has completed what is has described as a record-setting PIG run by running a pipeline inspection guage (PIG) along a 1224km route over 10 days. The run was to carry out a comprehensive inspection of the internal condition of both the Nord Straem pipelines…

Chevron launches US$90m fund

Sep 26, 2013

Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) announced today that it has launched its CTV Fund V, a US$90 million venture capital fund to invest in early- to mid-stage companies and in limited partnership funds. Investments from CTV Fund V will…

RWE Dea UK extends work with ODE

Sep 26, 2013

German operator RWE Dea UK has agreed a five year, £40 million, contract with engineering and operations support services contractor Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) to support its southern North Sea fields.  ODE has already been working for RWE…

Prelude turret takes shape

Sep 24, 2013

Drydocks World today marked the sailaway of the Prelude floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) vessel turret modules to the owner Shell. The first Module, the bogie support structure, standing 22m high, with a diameter of 30m and weighing…

Iskrystall wildcat proves gas

Sep 23, 2013

Statoil ASA, along with partners Eni Norge and Petoro, made a gas discovery at the Iskrystall prospect on PL608 off Norway in the Barents Sea. The well is approximately 30km southwest of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg and about 240km north of Hammerfest…

Ithaca agrees string of deals

Sep 23, 2013

Ithaca Energy has agreed string of farm-out deals on a number of UK North Sea assets.  Newly formed private-equity backed Oyster Petroleum is to take a 9% working interest in west of Shetland licences containing the Handcross prospect…

Breagh set back again

Sep 23, 2013

First production on the southern North Sea RWE Dea UK-operated Breagh gas field has been set back, again.  Sterling Resources, a partner on the project, said production start-up will now be delayed until mid-October, according to RWE…

Siri still offline, says Noreco

Sep 23, 2013

Noreco has said an end could be in sight to some of its production problems across UK, Norwegian and Danish North Sea sector assets.  The firm’s Huntington and Oselvar fields were both shut-in during parts of August. At the E.ON E&P-operated UK North Sea Huntington field…

Serica in Morocco, Namibia drilling

Sep 17, 2013

Serica Energy has said a drilling campaign will start offshore Morocco in October.  Drilling will be carried out on the Foum Draa and Sidi Moussa blocks in October, and H1 2014 respectively.  The well on the Foum Draa block (operated by Cairn Energy…

New player gets US$150 million backing

Sep 16, 2013

A newly formed UK-focused exploration company has secured US$150 million of funding from Norwegian private equity outfit HitecVision.  Oyster Petroleum's management team comprises of Richard Morgan as CEO, along with former colleagues Nigel Platt and David Went…

Sunbird awards contract off South Africa

Sep 14, 2013

Australian operator Sunbird Energy Ltd. has awarded a contract to Wood Group Kenny (WGK) Australia  to provide engineering and project management services for the Ibhubesi gas project, off the west coast of South Africa. The…

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