A well drilled 10km southwest of the producing Goliat oilfield in the Norwegian Barents Sea by Italian major Eni was dry, says the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Well 7122/10-1 S was targeting hydrocarbons in Middle Triassic reservoir rocks (Kobbe formation)…
Liv Hovem will take over as CEO of DNV GL’s Oil & Gas business area, which provides integrated technical assurance and advisory services to operators, suppliers and regulators across the oil and gas value chain, from project initiation to decommissioning…
Well-Safe Solutions has appointed a director of well abandonment, adding to the new company's list of decommissioning experts. Matt Jenkins has joined Well-Safe from Conoco where he led the firm's UK plug and abandonment (P&A) engineering…
Hansa Hydrocarbon's N05-1 exploration well offshore the Netherlands on the GEms licences has made a significant has discovery. Map of Geldsackplate. From Hansa. The Ruby discovery extends across the N04…
Italian major Eni is pushing forward with its exploration efforts offshore Mexico after drilling its latest successful well and signing three new licenses won during Round 2.1 back in June. The firm also says its preparing a development…
CGG has completed ahead of schedule an 11,500sq km wide-azimuth (WAZ) survey on behalf of Pemex in the deepwater Perdido area. This new survey has been acquired perpendicularly to existing WAZ data and the combined Imaging of this first…
Total has agreed an option agreement with Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas to acquire a 25% stake in the Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana, South America. Eco subsidiary Eco Guyana currently holds a 40% working interest in Orinduik, with Tullow Oil…
ConocoPhillips is expected to enter into a frame agreement with Norway's AF Gruppen for the future removal and disposal of up to seven platforms in the Southern North Sea. The frame agreement includes engineering, preparation, removal…
Mexico has signed 10 exploration and extraction contracts with bid round winners from this June's shallow water Round 2.1. Companies signing contracts on Monday (25 September) included Mexico's state owned firm Pemex and its partners Germany's DEA and Colombian operator Ecopetrol…
New exploration in the North Sea will be supported by a US$6.7 million (£5 million) UK government fund for 2018/19, Philip Hammond announced today (25 September) during a visit to Aberdeen and Dundee. The funding will be used by the Oil and…
Chevron’s Erskine field is back up and running offshore the UK, following maintenance work at Shell’s Lomond, according to partner Serica Energy. Erskine field restarted at the end of last week and the field has produced continuously over the weekend…
Mermaid Maritime’s joint venture company formed between Mermaid and a local offshore services operator has secured a contract extension for offshore inspection, repair and maintenance services with a national upstream oil and gas company following its initial five-year contract period…
Production at Noble Energy’s Tamar platform offshore Israel has come to a stop after a crack was found in an emission pipe used to release natural gas and pressure, according to partner Delek Drilling. The Tamar platform…
CGG announced the start of acquisition of its first Complementary Wide-Azimuth (CWAz) survey, known as AC CWAz, a BroadSeis 3D multi-client program in southern Alaminos Canyon, in the Gulf of Mexico. CWAz 3D survey map of 130 blocks…
Plexus Holdings was awarded a contract with Centrica North Sea to supply its POS-GRIP 'HG' 10,000psi adjustable production wellhead for a gas production well in the UK Southern North Sea. Plexus has previously supplied Centrica with its…
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