Norway's DNO International AS has completed a farm-in by its wholly-owned subsidiary DNO Tunisia AS to the Sfax Offshore Exploration Permit and the Ras El Besh Concession in the Republic of Tunisia. The agreement, with Eurogas International Inc…
Trinity Exploration & Production spudded the El Dorado exploration prospect, located offshore the west coast of Trinidad in the PGB license in 6ft of water. The well is 2km from Trinity-operated production infrastructure. Trinity is operating…
Trinity Exploration & Production spud the El Dorado exploration prospect today. The well is located off the west coast of Trinidad in the PGB license in 60 ft of water, about 2km from Trinity-operated production infrastructure. Trinity…
Calgary-based BP Exploration (Canada) Ltd. has proposed a 3D seismic acquisition program over Exploration Licenses 2431, 2432, 2433 and 2434 (shown in dark green, center of map at right). The blocks are 230 to 370 km southeast of Halifax…
Trinity Exploration & Production plc, an independent focused on Trinidad and Tobago, issued an update today on its upcoming exploration program. Trinity plans to spud two offshore exploration wells in 4Q 2013, one on the west coast (El…
Irish independent Circle Oil Plc announced today that its subsidiary, Circle Oil Tunisia Ltd., has increased its stake in the offshore Mahdia license to 100%, after acquiring the remaining 30% working interest from Tethys Oil & Mining Inc…
Statoil announced a light, high-quality oil discovery at its Harpoon prospect (EL 1112) in the Flemish Pass basin, off Newfoundland, Canada. The semisubmersible West Aquarius drilled the well in about 1100m of water. Harpoon is located 500km northeast of St…
Occidental Petroleum Corp. of Qatar (Oxy Qatar), and Qatar Petroleum signed a deal on the Phase 5 field development plan (FDP) regarding the Idd El Shargi North Dome (ISND) offshore Qatar. Both companies plan to maintain the field’s output of about 100…
Chesapeake Energy Corp. chose Robert Douglas Lawler, Anadarko’s senior vice president of international and deepwater operations, to replace Aubrey McClendon. Svein Arild Killingland joins Norwegian Energy Co. (Noreco) as its CEO, succeeding Einar Gjelsvik…
Norwegian oil and gas company DNO International is increasing its acreage offshore Tunisia and plans to drill next year. Through its subsidiary DNO Tunisia AS, the firm has entered a farm-in agreement on the Sfax offshore exploration permit and the Ras El Besh concession…
Petroceltic's wholly owned subsidiary, Petroceltic Italia Srl, has been awarded the exploration permit 'B.R272.EL' in the Central Adriatic offshore Italy (formerly application block d.507).The award of the B.R272.EL permit is a significant step…
Nils Adamsen has joined Danish consultants Ramboll Oil & Gas as business development director. Adamsen, a mechanical engineer, previously served with Disa Industries, Brüel & Kjær Vibro and Alfa Laval.
Guadalajara construction | TransCanadaTransportadora de Gas Natural del Noroeste, a subsidiary of TransCanada, has entered a $1 billion deal with Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) to build, own and operate the El Encino-to-Topolobampo pipeline…
Yasser Mufti (pictured) has been named Saudi Arabia governor for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. He replaces Majid al-Moneef, a candidate to succeed Abdalla Salem el-Badri as Opec secretary general later this year.
Bart Heijermans is the new group CEO of recently restructured subsea engineering and trenching services provider DeepOcean. He previously served as EVP and COO of Helix Energy Solutions and before that held senior posts with Enterprise Products Partners, El Paso and Royal Dutch Shell.
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