KrisEnergy has spud the East Mayura-1 exploration well in the G10/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand, the operator announced on 20 October. The East Mayura-1 well, offshore Thailand, is being drilled by the PV DRILLING I jack-up rig…
MODEC has signed a contract for supply, charter, and operations of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel with Brazil's Petrobras on 13 October 2017. The firm charter period of the contract is 21 years. The FPSO will be deployed at the Sépia field operated by Petrobras…
US oil major Chevron is moving ahead with plans for an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project using polymer technology on its Captain heavy oil field in the UK North Sea. The Captain field was discovered in 1977, in Block 13/22a on the edge of the outer Moray Firth…
MHWirth has secured a contract from Wood Group Canada for a drilling package, including equipment, engineering and services for the West White Rose Project offshore Canada. Husky Energy is developing the West White Rose Project, together with its co-venture partners…
New figures released by the US Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) show that approximately 16,000 bbl (672,000 gallons) of oil have discharged from a damaged pipeline, operated by Louisiana’s LLOG Exploration…
Singapore-based explorer KrisEnergy will proceed with the first phase of its Apsara oil field, the first hydrocarbon project offshore Cambodia, the company announced today (19 October). Phase 1A of the Apsara development, in Cambodia Block A in the Gulf of Thailand…
Mediterranean explorer Energean Oil & Gas praised the “untapped potential” of its two blocks offshore Montenegro, which may hold 1.8 TCF of gas and 144 MMboe of liquids (438 MMboe in total), according to a new report by Netherland Sewell & Associates (NSAI)…
ARO Drilling, the 50:50 joint venture created last year by Rowan Companies and Saudi Aramco, started operations on 17 October. The joint venture will support Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, through which it seeks to modernize its economy and society…
BP Trinidad and Tobago (bpTT) has awarded a new contract and contract extension for two Rowan jackup rigs for drilling programs offshore Trinidad and Tobago. Jackup Rowan EXL II has been awarded a one-year, five-well drilling program scheduled to begin in the 1Q 2018…
TechnipFMC has agreed to acquire Plexus Holding's Wellhead exploration equipment and services business for jackup applications - the Jack-up Business - for up to US$56 million (£42.5 million). Plexus will initially receive $19.7 million…
The National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has approved Pemex’s exploration plans to probe Mexico’s first-ever pre-salt well in the Bay of Campeche. The probe, called YAXXTAAB-1 is in the AE0013-M-Pilar de Akal Kayab-04 area (pictured…
Subsea 7 will become the sole owner of the Normand Oceanic, a flex-lay and heavy construction vessel that is being managed by Solstad Farstad while under long-term contract to a third party. The company will take ownership of the vessel…
Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons, Ophir Energy and national oil firm GEPetrol have signed a new production sharing contract (PSC) for Block EG-24 offshore Rio Muni. Block EG-24 (formerly Block EG-20 and Block M)…
RockRose Energy has signed deal to acquire Idemitsu Petroleum from Japan's Idemitsu Kosan. The Idemitsu UK's assets comprise a substantial number of producing fields in the North Sea, which include: 30.8% stakes in Repsol's Ross and Blake fields…
Total subsidiary Total E&P Ireland has completed a farm-in deal with Providence Resources and Sosina Exploration on licensing option (LO) 16/27, containing the Avalon prospect, in the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. The deal…