Karoon Gas Australia made a discovery at the Echidna-1 exploration well, the third in the Santos drilling campaign, offshore Brazil. Image from Karoon. According to the Australian company…
Japanese exploration firm JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration's Malaysia subsidiary is planning two further exploration wells offshore Malaysia after confirming a deepwater oil discovery. The Bestari-1 exploration well, the first drilled in Deepwater Block R (the Block)…
Stavanger-based Ziebel announced that for the first time in oil and gas history, the Z-Line, a gravity-deployed slim carbon composite cable, was used to acquire meaningful distributed temperature and distributed acoustic fiber optic data during a commercial well intervention…
Seadrill added Charles Woodburn to its board of directors. Woodburn has been CEO of Expro Group since 2010. Previously, he spent 15 years with Schlumberger where he held many senior management roles, including president of Wireline. More recently…
Blue Ocean Technologies Interchangeable Riserless Intervention System (IRIS) recently intervened on a deepwater production well in the Gulf of Mexico’s Desoto Canyon reaching a record-breaking 8200ft. Image from Blue Ocean…
Australia’s Karoon Gas encountered oil in five separate zones in the Kangaroo-2 appraisal well in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. Map of the five wells located in the Santos basin. From Karoon. Kangaroo…
Drilling continues at Karoon Gas Australia’s Kanagroo-2 in the 12 ¼ in. hole section at a current depth of 1760m. The Olinda Star. From Karoon. The Kangaroo-2 appraisal well is located…
Vaalco Energy, Inc. temporarily shut-in Well 2-H in the Ebouri field, offshore Gabon. The shut-in was to determine the cause of pressure communication between the tubing and casing annuli. Ebouri is a redevelopment project located within the Etame Marin permit…
CNOOC discovered oil in its second Beibu Gulf well, WZ12-10-2, in Block 22/12, off the southern Chinese coast. The shallow-water (36m WD) location is about 1.6km (1mi.) east-northeast of the WZ12-8W platform and about 3.2km west-southwest of the previously drilled discovery well…
Aberdeen-based Wireline Engineering further expanded its operations in Southeast Asia with an increase in staff and office space. Equipment maintenance is carried out by skilled technicians. Image…
Schlumberger today launched the Quanta Geo photorealistic reservoir geology service at the Offshore Northern Seas Annual Conference and Exhibition (ONS). The new service includes the industry’s first microresistivity imager that produces oriented…
ConocoPhillips encountered a hydrocarbon pay in the Browse basin, off Western Australia, according to partner Karoon Gas. Karoon said the Pharos-1 well, in permit WA-398-P, showed a 53m gross interval, with a 34m net pay interpreted in the gas charged Montara formation sandstone reservoir…
Statoil has exercised a two-year contract extension with Altus Intervention for the provision of mechanical wireline services on Statoil-operated fields and mobile drilling units on the Norwegian continental shelf. The scope of the extended…
Aker Solutions’ former well intervention services business, which was acquired by private equity fund EQT VI in January this year, has been restructured and will operate under two brands from 22 Apr 2014: Altus Intervention and Qinterra Technologies…
The Sunbird-1 exploration well in area L10A offshore southern Kenya is to be plugged and abandoned after finding hydrocarbons. Pancontinental Oil & Gas, which holds 18.75% WI in the BG Group-operated well, said while hydrocarbons were found…