The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Norwegian exploration and development company, Det norske oljeselskap ASA, a drilling permit for well 2/9-5 S. Well 2/9-5 S will be drilled from the Mærsk Giant jackup drilling facility at position 56°24’45…
UK oil and gas engineering firm, FES International, has secured a US$2.5million contract to supply its automated Diverless Bend Stiffener Connector (DBSC) to NOV Flexibles, for use by Subsea 7 on the Western Isles Development (WID) project in the northern North Sea area…
Asset integrity management firm XPD8 Solutions is to develop the maintenance program and inventory data for MODEC’s TEN MV25 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, operated on behalf of Tullow Oil, offshore Ghana. The…
Jumbo signed a Contract with Subsea 7 for the provision of the floating production, storage and offloading vessel mooring piles and ground chains installation for Dana Petroleum's Western Isles Development Project (WIDP). Installation…
Well completions were given a workover in the first Simplified Series talk of 2014 in Aberdeen in January. The talks are held monthly and organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s Aberdeen chapter Young Professionals group. January’s talk…
Paul Griffin, managing director, Dana Petroleum, North Sea, outlines the latest developments on the company's Western Isles development on the UK Continental Shelf to Aberdeen's Society of Petroleum Engineers Young Professionals section.
The North Sea Enoch oil field is due back on stream in early 2014, following restoration work on a new subsea tree and production testing. The Enoch field is on the border between the Norwegian and UK continental shelf, inBlock 15/5,in the southern part of the North Sea…
Cameroon's state oil company National Hydrocarbons Corp. (SNH) announced that it will offer a licensing round for four blocks, three offshore: Bomana, Lungahe, and Ndian River, all in the Rio Del Rey basin. The Bomana block covers 139…
Dana Petroleum’s Marcus Richards is stepping down as group chief executive after three years. Graham Scotton, chief operating officer will become the company’s acting group chief executive immediately. Richards joined the company following…
ThoughtStream: Opinion The shift in oil demand from industrialized to emerging economies is one that we at Dana Petroleum know only too well. An impressive North Sea success story with modest but ambitious beginnings in Aberdeen in the mid-1990s…
Dana Petroleum has made an oil discovery in the Moray Firth following the drilling of the Liberator exploration well. Dana drilled 13/23d-8 on the Liberator prospect in licence P1987, as operator, and discovered hydrocarbons in a Lower Cretaceous Captain sandstone reservoir…
Dana Petroleum group CEO Marcus Richards believes the oil industry is seeing a structural shift. He gave his personal views at a UK Chatham House event: I would like address the questions raised by the shift in oil demand to industrialized economies in terms of energy security…
Dwarfed by the majors and super majors, the impact of the small independent oil company on global exploration and production activity is often overlooked. But, these companies are driving increased production in mature provinces such as the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS)…
DONG Energy has made a gas discovery north-west of Shetland after a two-well exploration campaign through 2012-13. DONG said the Cragganmore exploration well, in Block 208/17, had been confirmed as a gas discovery. The well was drilled using the West Navigator drillship in 673m water…
Aberdeen-based Dana Petroleum named Reidar Hustoft its new managing director for Norway, effective February 1, replacing outgoing MD John M. Dahlen. Hustoft, who has 30 years experience in the North Sea, previously served as head of Dana’s Netherlands business…
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