Norway-based seismic acquisition firm Spectrum has started a 12,000km multi-client 2D seismic survey offshore Brazil's Pelotas Basin. The new acquisition program will infill both Spectrums' new 7500km survey acquired in 2013 and 12,000km of data reprocessed in 2014…
The southern North Sea Crosgan appraisal well is to be plugged and abandoned after encountering gas bearing sands. The Crosgan appraisal well 42/15b-3 was drilled in the Greater Breagh Area, in Quad 42. The well has reached a total depth…
Lundin Petroleum has made a gas discovery on the Zulu well, close to the giant Johan Sverdrup discovery, offshore Norway. Wildcat well 26/10-1, which is the first well in production license 74BS, hit an estimated 36m gas column in very good reservoir quality Utsira Formation sands…
The US Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer 41.2 million acres for oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico under lease sale 235, which will be held on 18 March 2015 in New Orleans…
Rod Starr joins Polarcus as its next chief executive officer (CEO) effective 5 February. Starr has more than 30 years industry experience, starting his career with Unocal where he spent 16 years in various planning and financial roles…
InterMoor, an Acteon company, named Cohen Guidry regional manager for West Africa. Guidry will report to Tom Fulton, InterMoor’s global president. Fulton said, “Cohen’s dedication, initiative and knowledge of the West Africa region will…
Construction on Seanic Ocean Systems’ new, state-of-the-art facility will soon be underway in west Houston. The company’s relocation and expansion will provide extensive space for manufacturing of subsea hardware and tooling, equipment storage and client collaboration…
US oilfield services giant Weatherford has joined its big three competitors in announcing a headcount reduction amounting to thousands as the industry faces cut backs into 2015. Weatherford says it is targeting a 5000 cut in staff, more than 85% of which will be in the Western Hemisphere…
Statoil's Visund oil and gas field is to benefit from standardized fast-track umbilicals developed by Nexans. The field in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea will be the fifth project to use these standard umbilicals. The standardized…
First oil from the Nasr oil field, 130km offshore Abu Dhabi, started 24 January, according to partner, Japan's INPEX. First production has been achieved through existing facilities - the Abu Al Bukoosh (ABK) and Umm Shaif oil fields…
Petrobras has made a new heavy oil discovery in concession BM-C-35 (exploratory block C-M-535), in the Campos Basin post-salt layer. The discovery was made while drilling well 1-BRSA-1289-RJS (ANP nomenclature) / 1-RJS-737 (Petrobras nomenclature)…
Petrobras CEO Maria das Gracas Foster and five directors stepped down from their posts on Wednesday (4 February) following months of scandals. Gracas Foster has been at the helm of the national operator since 2012, and spent over 30 years with Petrobras…
A unique and long-awaited sight arrived at one of Europe’s busiest ports early January - Allseas’ 382m-long, 124m-wide platform installation/decommissioning and pipelay mega-vessel Pieter Schelte. KOTUG…
Gas has been found in great quantities offshore East Africa. What will be the challenges around getting it to shore? Alex Hunt takes a look. The East African coastline. Image from the GRID-Arendal Continental Shelf Programme…
A three phase asset management strategy could help counter costs, says ABB’s Will Leonard. In mid-December, the price of oil fell further after the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast weaker demand in 2015. Brent crude fell to around US$60 a barrel…