Premier Oil News

 

Solan on for 2015 first oil

May 13, 2015

Premier Oil is planning to make sanction decisions on its Falkands Sea Lion and Norwegian Vette developments in 2016, the operator said this morning.  The plans come as the firm says it is making “improved progress” on the completion…

Premier spuds latest Falklands target

Apr 09, 2015

UK-based Falklands explorer Premier Oil has spudded its second 2015 exploration campaign well in the north Falklands basin. The Eirik Raude. From Ocean Rig.   If successful, the 14/20…

Falklands success for Premier Oil

Apr 02, 2015

Premier Oil’s first exploration well in its 2.1 billion bbl 2015 Falkland’s drilling campaign has confirmed the extension of the giant Sea Lion discovery.  The 14/15b-5 Zebedee exploration well, using the Eirik Raude semisubmersible drilling rig…

Premier starts 2015 Falklands campaign

Mar 06, 2015

Premier Oil spudded its first 2015 Falklands drilling campaign well, 14/15-5, using the Eirik Raude semisubmersible drilling rig on the Zebedee prospect on 6 March. The well, on license PL004b, will test a total of seven stacked fan bodies…

Premier maintains momentum

Jan 14, 2015

Independent oil firm Premier Oil is sticking to an eight-well exploration campaign in 2015, including its four-well campaign in the Falkland Islands, due to start in March, and its first well in the emerging Mandal High play offshore Norway…

Noble eying 1.6bn bbl Falkland prize

Sep 17, 2014

US-based explorer Noble Energy has lined up a string of prospects in the Falklands with prospective resources totaling up to 1.6 billion barrels of oil.  The firm has been assessing 2D seismic and new 3D datasets in the south and east Falkland basin…

BW inks Catcher loan

Aug 05, 2014

BW Offshore has agreed a US$800 million, 10-year credit facility for the Catcher floating production, storage and offloading project.  The facility is a combined construction and long term financing facility. The credit facility was substantially…

First oil from Dua, Vietnam

Jul 11, 2014

Oil production began today at the Dua oil project, operated by Premier Oil offshore Vietnam, 40 years after the field was discovered. The Dua field discovery well, Dua-1X, was drilled in 1974 and flowed 1500 bo/d. Premier Oil acquired…

Subsea 7 wins Catcher prize

May 21, 2014

Subsea 7 has been awarded its largest UK engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning (EPIC) services contract, by Premier Oil. The contract, worth more than US$460 million, will be for work on Premier Oil's Catcher Area development…

BW seals Catcher FPSO deal

May 02, 2014

BW Offshore has signed the contract with Premier Oil for the provision of a floating production, storage and offloading vessel to operate on the Catcher oil field in the UK North Sea.  The firm charter period of the contract is seven years…

Premier inks BW Offshore FPSO

Apr 01, 2014

BW Offshore has signed a Letter of Award (LOA) with Premier Oil for a floating production unit (FPSO) to operate on the Catcher oil field in the UK North Sea. The LOA will be converted into a final contract subject to final partner sanction…

Premier CEO Lockett to resign

Feb 04, 2014

Premier Oil CEO, Simon Lockett, announced his plans to step down from the company once a successor can be found. Lockett's move follows Premier Oil's concept select decision on the Sea Lion development, a 394MM boe project, in 450m water depth…

Falklands farm-out hampered

Sep 16, 2013

Desire Petroleum has said a farm out process on its Falklands acreage has been held back by uncertainty over the timing and scope of the development of the Sea Lion oil field. A lack of a firm date for the mobilisation of a rig to the…

Premier Oil in the process of choosing FPSOs

May 15, 2013

UK explorer Premier Oil is in the process of choosing FPSOs for both its Catcher (UK Blk 28/9) and Bream (Norway Blk 17/12) North Sea development projects. Concept select for Catcher was agreed in December and development approval is expected to the sought once tendering is complete…

Aker Solutions wins Solan work

Apr 11, 2013

Aker Solutions has won a contract to provide hook-up, commissioning and facility management services to Premier Oil at the operator's Solan field development, west of Shetland.The hook-up project will see two subsea production and two subsea…

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