Offshore Asia News - page 166


Lundin in Imbok-1 P&A off Malaysia

Jan 11, 2016

Lundin Petroleum subsidiary Lundin Malaysia has completed the Imbok-1 exploration well offshore East Malaysia. The well, located in Block SB307/308 encountered minor oil shows and was plugged and abandoned. The well was targeting hydrocarbons in Miocene aged sands…

US rig count drops nearly 60% year-on-year

Jan 08, 2016

Baker Hughes’ rig count for December 2015 shows decreases across five of the six regions with the US suffering the most, representing a 59.3% drop year-on-year, and the Middle East with the only increase. Image from iStock…

ABS, MARIC expand collaboration

Jan 08, 2016

ABS, a provider of classification services to the global marine and offshore industry, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Marine Design and Research Institute of China (MARIC) to expand collaboration, focusing on operational…

Lundin spuds Bombazon well

Jan 08, 2016

Lundin Petroleum has started drilling the Bambazon exploration well in Block SB307/SB308, offshore East Malaysia. The Bambazon prospect is in shallow water and lies to the north of a major producing field in offshore East Malaysia. The well will target hydrocarbons in Miocene aged sands…

Petronas in Tanjong Baram first oil

Jan 07, 2016

PETRONAS started oil production from the Tanjong Baram field, offshore Sarawak Malaysia.  The field, which is estimated to produce an average of 2000 b/d, consists of a platform with production tied into the West Lutong Drilling Platform A (WLDP-A) complex via a flexible production pipeline…

BP awards Datum360 Azerbaijan work

Jan 06, 2016

Datum360 has been awarded – and has already delivered – a contract to deploy its Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that will standardize engineering information for the largest oilfield project in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian basin…

Cathelco wins ICCP orders for FPSO trio

Jan 05, 2016

Cathelco has won orders to supply hull corrosion protection systems for three FPSOs. Two of the systems are being supplied to MODEC, while the third will be installed by Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong yard in Singapore. The FPSO Cidade de Campos…

KrisEnergy ups reserves

Jan 04, 2016

Singapore's KrisEnergy has doubled its production of oil and gas in four fields in the Gulf of Thailand, in addition to one onshore gas field in Bangladesh. Together, production stood at 19,935 boe/d as at 1 January 2016. According to KrisEnergy…

Myanmar pays off for Woodside

Jan 04, 2016

Woodside Energy has made a gas discovery offshore Myanmar giving hope to the string of majors who entered the country following its emergence from sanction driven isolation.  Woodside made the discovery on the Shwe Yee Htun-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Rakhine Basin…

FPSOs: On the horizon

Jan 01, 2016

While the oil price has sucked much wind out of the sails of the FPSO industry, work must go on.  And there are still quite a few projects lined up from 2016-2018. Infield Systems presents this list of conversion and newbuild construction projects…

Top projects by expense for 2016

Jan 01, 2016

No. 1 – Chevron’s Big Foot Chevron’s Big Foot platform being towed to Walker Ridge. Photo from Chevron. Coming in at No. 1 on Infield System’s list of highest capex projects for…

First cut is the deepest

Jan 01, 2016

OE reached out to analysts Wood Mackenzie and IHS Energy to find out the view on the next 12-18 months. And the outlook is not so great for exploration spend. Audrey Leon and Elaine Maslin report. Wood Mackenzie Image from iStock…

Petronas PFLNG1 construction at 95%

Dec 30, 2015

The Petronas floating LNG1 (PFLNG1) has reached a 95% overall progress in its construction and will come onstream in 2016, the company said. In late September, Petronas began lifting the first topside module for its PFLNG1 facility at…

DW: World LNG spend to reach $241 billion

Dec 22, 2015

Capital expenditure (Capex) on LNG facilities has risen substantially in recent years, mostly due to growth in the global economy which has been driving demand for natural gas. Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecasts that this trend is set to continue…

DOF Subsea bags Asia, North Sea work

Dec 21, 2015

DOF Subsea inked US$30.8 million (NOK 270 million) in IMR and subsea installation contracts in the Asia Pacific and Atlantic regions that will use the company’s subsea project fleet. Skandi Hercules…

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