TELE-FONIKA Kable (TFKable) is to acquire subsea umbilicals and power cables supplier JDR Cable Systems. TFKable is a global producer of wires and cables. Both companies have a long history of collaboration, with TFKable being JDR’s business…
Centrica and Stadtwerke München have agreed to combine Centrica’s European oil and gas exploration and production business with Bayerngas Norge. The new joint venture company will be owned 69% by Centrica and 31% by Bayerngas Norge’s existing shareholders…
Statoil and partners Eni and Petoro have made a small gas discovery in the Blåmann well, between the Snøhvit and Goliat fields in the Barents Sea, despite having been looking for oil. The Songa Enabler…
Total has hired Noble Corp.'s Noble Globetrotter II to drill one well offshore Bulgaria, beginning in September. Noble Globetrotter II. Image from Noble. The contract is estimated…
Aker BP is preparing to submit plans for development and operation (PDO) for three of its projects by the end of 2017, and for the North of Alvheim and Askja-Krafla (NOAKA) project in 2018. Valhall Flank West…
Some 75.9 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are to be offered for oil and gas exploration and development, US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced. Image from BOEM…
The UK's The Welding Institute (TWI) has started a new project to advance the decommissioning of offshore structures thru use of remote underwater laser cutting. Over the next 30 years, some 600 fixed steel structures and 3000 pipelines will need removing from the North Sea…
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has been awarded a license in the Oil and Gas Authority's 2016 Supplementary Offshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round. The license, comprising Block 48/25a, includes the western part of the Vulcan North West…
Royal Dutch Shell encountered hydrocarbons in the initial Whale exploration well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Noble Globetrotter I. Image from Huisman. The well was safety…
ExxonMobil is preparing exploration activities offshore Suriname, after signing a production sharing contract (PSC) with Suriname’s national oil company Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname NV for deepwater Block 59. Image from Exxon…
Map of Anchor, from Chevron. Houston’s Cobalt International Energy has entered into a definitive agreement with its co-owners in the Anchor development to unitize and include Cobalt’s…
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has approved Eni’s exploration plan (EP) to drill four wildcats at the company’s Spy Island Drillsite (SID) in the Beaufort Sea. Map of Spy Island…
Providence Resources and its partners on the Barryroe field offshore Ireland have been given a two-year license extension as the firm continues its farm-out efforts. Barryroe is in Standard Exploration License (SEL) and is operated by Providence subsidiary Exola DAC (80%)…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has offered for award 12 licenses to 11 companies, including Statoil, BP, Shell, Maersk, Apache and EnQuest in the 2016 Supplementary Offshore Licensing Round. Fourteen blocks were originally on offer in this Supplementary Round…
Lundin Petroleum's latest well on the Alta field in the southern Barents Sea has confirmed reservoir communication and qualities. Lundin is now planning a sidetrack well, which will help to plan for the drilling of a horizontal well for use as in an extended well test…
Subscribe
