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Eni makes 15 Bcm Egypt find

Jul 21, 2015

Italy's Eni has discovered gas at the Nooros exploration prospect in the Abu Madi West license, in the Nile Delta, offshore Egypt. Preliminary estimates of the discovery account for a potential of 15 Bcm of gas in place with upside, plus associated condensates…

Bittersweet for Edison's Haribo

Jul 21, 2015

Edison Norge's exploration well on the Haribo prospect in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea has been declared dry. Partner Noreco Norway said well will now be plugged and abandoned. The well spudded on 21 June using the semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Searcher…

Final Cygnus module sets sail

Jul 21, 2015

GDF Suez' Cygnus Alpha compression module (ACM) sailed away from Heerema Fabrication Group's Hartlepool facility on the night of 20 July, marking the completion of last of four main structures built at the facility for the Cygnus development…

Baker Hughes releases Integrity eXplorer

Jul 20, 2015

Image: Integrity eXplorer cement evaluation service/Baker Hughes Baker Hughes announced the commercial release of its Integrity eXplorer cement evaluation service: a change…

Collaboration wins at Jack/St. Malo

Jul 20, 2015

Chevron information technology teams from around the world put their stamp on Jack/St. Malo, providing the technical support that helped the major capital project achieve first oil in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico (GOM), reports the company…

Greene’s Energy appoints new president

Jul 20, 2015

The board of directors of Greene’s Energy Group, a provider of integrated testing, rentals and specialty services, announced that chief executive officer Robert Vilyus has elected to retire from the company and the board of directors in September 2015…

Songa won’t pay Daewoo cost overruns

Jul 20, 2015

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) delivered notices of arbitration regarding the construction contracts for Cat D-rigs to be delivered to Songa Offshore, according to Songa Offshore CEO, Bjørnar Iversen. In its 1Q 2015 interim financial report…

LR Senergy unveils IC software solution

Jul 20, 2015

LR Senergy, an energy services company, unveiled its geological software solutions, IC, while exhibiting at the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) Annual Symposium in California. IC is a fully modularized package…

Halliburton seeing red

Jul 20, 2015

Halliburton’s 2Q 2015 results have the company in the red, with a 16% drop in its total revenue, compared to 1Q 2015, that the company says is due to the industry’s recent downturn. Image from Halliburton…

Sinopacific snaps up Middle East and Mexico orders

Jul 20, 2015

Chinese shipbuilder, SINOPACIFIC Shipbuilding Group won the bid for the construction of nine anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels for Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) and its wholly owned subsidiary, ESNAAD. The design that won the bid is the SPA80A…

Vallianz tops $1 billion order book in 2015

Jul 20, 2015

Vallianz Holdings has chalked up another major string of contracts in the Middle East, taking its 2015 order book to over US$1 billion - a record for the fast growing firm. The latest contracts for Singapore-based Vallianz, which provides…

Cluff eyes southern North Sea drilling

Jul 20, 2015

UK-based Cluff Natural Resources says it has made 'significant progress' on its plans for exploration drilling in southern North Sea licenses. The company was formed to exploit underground coal gasification (UCG), but it is also exploring for natural gas in the southern North Sea…

Polarcus starts Gambia 3D survey

Jul 20, 2015

Seismic acquisition firm Polarcus has started a new 3D broadband multi-client project across the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea-Bissau basin, offshore Northwest Africa. The project, supported by industry funding, will cover 1500sq km offshore The Gambia and is expected to run for 50 days…

Jubilee gas export outage

Jul 20, 2015

Oil output at the giant Jubilee field has been constrained after gas output was suspended 3 July due to technical issues with gas compression systems on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Kwame Nkrumah, says operator Tullow Oil…

Maersk Drilling extends rig contract

Jul 17, 2015

Image: Heydar Aliyev/Maersk Drilling Maersk Drilling has been awarded a five-year contract extension for the semisubmersible Heydar Aliyev rig with BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) acting as operator of  the Shah Deniz field…

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