Schlumberger signed a long-term software contract with Chevron Energy Technology Company. The new contract provides universal access to the Petrel E&P software platform across Chevron’s entire earth sciences organization. 'We have…
Statoil started the first stage of the Polarled installation project with the Solitaire pipelaying vessel connecting the pipeline in the Norwegian Sea to Nyhamma. Solitaire. From Allseas. The…
The oil and gas industry is responding to the low oil price environment with exploration budget cuts in 2015 which will average 30%, leading to suggestions that exploration activity could be significantly curtailed. However in an effort to drive value…
Russian oil exploration giant Rosneft sent a cancellation notice to North Atlantic Drilling Company Ltd. (NADL) to terminate its contract for the Energy Endeavor jackup. The Energy Endeavor. From Northern Offshore…
Lundin Norway began drilling the 7220/11-2 appraisal well in the Barents Sea South. The Island Innovator. From Island Drilling. The Alta discovery is located 10-20km northeast of Lundin…
KrisEnergy began its 570sq km 3D seismic survey in Block 120, offshore Vietnam using the CGG Amadeus vessel. Map from KrisEnergy. Block 120 overlies Quang Ngai Graben and Tri Ton Horst…
KrisEnergy’s Gulf of Thailand campaign is getting off to a good start with an oil and gas discovery already made at its first exploration well, the Rossukon-2. The Key Gibraltar jackup. From Shelf Drilling…
Drilling has started on the Roald Rygg well 6706/12-3 nearby the recently drilled Snedfrid North discovery in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil is drilling on Roald Rygg using the Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible drilling rig. Well…
Australia's Woodside Energy has signed production sharing contracts (PSCs) for offshore blocks AD-2, AD-5, A-4 and A-7, offshore Myanmar, paving the way for the company to start exploration work in the basin. The Blocks were awarded to the company in the 2013 Myanmar Offshore Bid Round…
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) announced that further to the award of Block 48/22c in the UK 28th offshore licensing round, the license area has been increased by 42sq km to the South and now contains the Hambleton discovery, in the North Sea…
No hydrocarbons were intersected at Karoon Gas Australia’s Kangaroo West-1 offshore Brazil. Map from Karoon. The exploration well, located in exploration block S-M-1165, reached its planned total depth of 3170m…
The Tamar partners awarded Dolphinus Holdings a US$1.2 billion contract to export natural gas from the Tamar project to Egypt. Tamar field. From Delek. For the first three years of the seven-year contract…
Statoil is expanding its presence offshore Indonesia with a new awarded exploration license in which the company will operate and own 100%. The new license, the Aru Trough I, covers an area of about 8300sq km and is located near Statoil’s…
The Gulf of Mexico (GoM) lease sale 235 that will offer 41.2 million acres for exploration and development in the central planning area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama begins tomorrow (18 March 2015). Secretary Jewell will…
National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi issued the following statement in advance of tomorrow’s Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas lease sale: 'This sale will be interesting due to low oil prices, which just dropped further this week…
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