Eni made a significant gas discovery offshore Libya and found more gas than anticipated at its Merakes-1 well offshore Indonesia. Libya find Eni activity in Libya. From Eni. Eni…
Statoil awarded Coor Service Management a US$134 million five-year contract to provide offshore facility services on the Statfjord and Snoore fields. The Statfjord A. From Statoil. The…
Statoil and its partners temporarily halted drilling on the Veslefrikkin field in the North Sea. The Veslefrikkin field. From Statoil. Veslefrikk lies in Norwegian North Sea block 30/3 in production license 052…
GDF Suez E&P UK made a new discovery at the Dalziel structure in the UK Central North Sea. The Transocean Galaxy II jackup. From Transocean. Well 22/16-6 flowed at rates in excess of 8000…
Petrobras began early production at the deepwater Búzios field offshore Brazil. The Dynamic Producer. From Sembcorp Marine. Búzios is located in the Santos basin, about 200km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro…
New analysis by Wood Mackenzie looks at Mexico's Round One shallow water opportunities, a licensing round that includes nine shallow-water fields with a total of 356 MMboe of 2P reserves. These fields, which have not yet been put into production…
While most oil and gas operators and service companies are reducing expenses to keep costs down, some companies are beginning to falter due to financial distress. This month alone, two Houston-based companies, BPZ Energy (which trades under the name BPZ Resources) and Cal Dive International…
Premier Oil’s Pelikan is onstream after gas production began from the field, offshore Indonesia. Map from Premier Oil. The Pelikan field is located in the Natuna Sea Block A and has 75 Bcf of reserves…
CNOOC Ltd. announced that its Qinhuangdao 32-6 comprehensive adjustment project has commenced production. The Qinhuangdao 32-6 oilfield is located at the central north of Bohai Bay with an average water depth of approximately 20m. The…
BP signed final agreements to develop the US$12 billion West Nile Delta (WND) gas fields, with production set at reaching up to 1.2 Bcf/d in Egypt. BP worker on a platform in the Gulf of Suez. From BP…
Hoang Long Joint Operating Co. (HLJOC) has selected Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) to handle critical project management and engineering for the TGT-H5 wellhead platform that will tap energy reserves off the coast of Vietnam. Image from HLJOC…
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper announced the bureau will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area…
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) launched two pre-qualification contracts for the construction of the 105km offshore pipeline section under the Adriatic Sea. The contracts are for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI)…
The bodies of three crewmembers who went missing after an explosion on the Cidade de São Mateus FPSO last month have been found, the vessel operator BW Offshore announced today (3 March). The death toll from the explosion has now risen to nine…
The recent downturn in oil prices is expected to have minimal direct impact on Gulf of Mexico (GOM) crude oil production through 2016 because of the long timelines associated with GOM projects, according to a new report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA)…