Smith Bits, a Schlumberger company, introduced StingBlade, a conical diamond element bit. StingBlade bits increase run length and rate of penetration (ROP) while delivering improved steering response in directional applications. “In…
Wojciech Zmudzinski, chief pipeline engineer for McDermott (right) with an INPEX Ichthys Project representative during a valve manufacturing inspection at a factory in Italy. (Photo: Business Wire) McDermott…
Santos hit a gas discovery at the Lasseter-1/ST1 exploration well, offshore Western Australia. Map of WA-274-P from Inpex The block and its surrounding areas are considered an area of high exploration potential…
Santos announced the discovery of gas-condensate at the Lasseter-1 exploration well in WA-274-P, located in the Browse basin, offshore Western Australia. The Lasseter-1 well is located approximately 35km east-southeast of Santos’ Crown…
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…
About two-and-a-half years after construction began, Japan’s Inpex Corp. launched the hull of its Ichthys FPSO from the dry dock of the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering yard in Okpo, South Korea, the Japanese operator announced today…
Inpex’s Australian Ichthys LNG project has reached 50% completion less than two-and-a-half years after its final investment decision was made, the Japanese operator announced on 25 June 2014. The company said that the semisubmersible pipelay…
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd. announced on 16 June that the Pharos‐1 well, located offshore Western Australia, was drilling ahead at 4570 mRT in the 8½-in. hole section. Since last reported on 30 May, the 12¼-in. hole section was drilled 1719m from the 133⁄8-in…
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane announced the award of nine new permits located in Commonwealth waters offshore Western Australia, Victoria, and the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands as part of round one of the Australian government’s 2013 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release…
INPEX and Shell are investing in a project to construct a subsea optical fiber cable system incorporating the Ichthys and Prelude projects in Australia's Browse basin. The subsea fiber optic cable system, to be provided and operated by Nextgen Group…
INPEX has marked the first dry dock hull block erection on the Ichthys LNG project central processing facility (CPF) at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Samsung Heavy Industries’ (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea. With 150m x 110m topside dimensions…
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project has celebrated a key milestone for its floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility. The first block of the keel was placed during a ceremony in the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo…
Norway's Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has been awarded a US$5 million contract to acquire 3D EM data in the Asia-Pacific region. The contract, with US oil firm Apache, will see the the BOA Thalassa (pictured)start operations in northwest Australia on 25January…
Emerson Network Power has been selected as the main uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems provider for Shell’s Prelude floating LNG project. Prelude is the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project, currently under construction in Korea…
Atkins has successfully won a AUS$19 million flow assurance contract for the INPEX-operated Ichthys Project, offshore of Western Australia. The project will take gas from the Ichthys field, in the Browse basin, which will then undergo preliminary processing by offshore facilities…