Indonesia awarded West Ganal oil and gas exploration block in offshore Makassar strait to a consortium of Eni Indonesia Ltd, PT Pertamina and Neptune Energy West Ganal B.V, Deputy Energy Minister Arcandra Tahar said on Monday.The consortium set a $159…
A Chinese survey vessel on Saturday extended its activities to an area closer to Vietnam's coastline, ship tracking data showed, after the United States and Australia expressed concern about China's actions in the disputed waterways.The Haiyang…
UK focused independent i3 Energy announced that the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig has arrived on location at the Liberator field and that the LPt-02 pilot well has now been spud.The results of the LPt-02 well will allow the…
TechnipFMC has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by Shell for the deepwater PowerNap project, located in the US Gulf of Mexico, the services company announced on Thursday.The award, an integrated…
Subsea services provider Rever Offshore said it it has completed multiple projects within the North Sea in 2019, building upon existing frame agreements which has allowed clients quicker access to its fleet of specialized subsea support vessels and team…
A developmental drilling program in the producing Manora field offshore Thailand has been completed ahead of schedule, project partner Tap Oil announced on Tuesday.The first of the three wells was spudded on July 9 by the Ensco 115 jack-up drilling rig…
Jan De Nul Group said it has installed all 20 foundations for the 120-megawatt (MW) Formosa 1 Phase 2 wind farm offshore Taiwan.As part of the Dutch company mobilized the Seaway Yudin to install the foundations as part of its EPCI contract for building of the overall balance of plant…
Equinor and partners OMV and Petoro have made an oil discovery in the Sputnik exploration well in the Barents Sea. Preliminary estimates peg recoverable resources at between 20 million and 65 million barrels of oil.The Sputnik well (7324/6-1) was drilled to a vertical depth of 1…
It’s hard to nail down when it all started — perhaps when the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador opted for the Norwegian model of direct government ownership shares in its offshore oilfields.Or it might have started with Equinor’s…
Production is shut down at the 220,000-barrel-per-day Hibernia oil platform off the coast of eastern Canada, Hibernia's largest shareholder ExxonMobil Corp said on Monday, after a temporary power cut led to oil and water leaking into the ocean…
Petrofac, in a joint venture (JV) with the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), has secured an engineering and technical services contract to support Total and SOCAR’s exploration and production activities in Azerbaijan, the UK Services company announced on Monday…
Once upon a time, many a year ago, the North Sea was seen as a new deepwater exploration frontier. Some may be surprised that it still is.Back in the 1960s, compared with the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico where drillers first got their feet wet…
Lundin Petroleum announced it has made an oil discovery at exploration well 16/5-8s, targeting the Goddo prospect in PL815 approximately 14 kilometers south of the Edvard Grieg field in the Norwegian North Sea.Lundin Norway is the operator of PL815 with a 60% working interest…
The Norwegian subsidiary of Polish state-controlled energy company PGNiG has received a permit to drill a wildcat well in the Shrek prospect, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) announced on Friday.Well 6507/5-9 S will be the first drilled in production licence 838 in the Norwegian Sea…
Equinor has exercised the fourth of six available one-month options to extend Prosafe's accommodation vessel Safe Boreas at the Mariner project in the UK sector of the North Sea to accommodate personnel working on Mariner in the hook up and early production phase through October 2019…