Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract to automate the Maersk Oil Culzean gas field development in the North Sea. Image of Culzean, from Maersk. Emerson will provide…
Brazil and Mexico are not the only games in town in Latin America. The deepest water well ever drilled is lined up for offshore Uruguay and Exxon is set to test Liza offshore Guyana. Elaine Maslin reports. The newly minted Maersk Venturer drillship…
Focus on the small South American country of Uruguay is set to sharpen after Statoil took a further stake in the country's deep offshore acreage. Statoil, which earlier this month announced it would be a partner with Total on the first deep water exploration well offshore Uruguay…
Statoil is to join French oil major Total in drilling the first deep water exploration well offshore Uraguay. Statoil has agreed to take a 15% stake in Block 14, a frontier block in the deep water Pelotas basin, about 200km offshore, in the the South Atlantic Ocean…
Australia-based Otto Energy may leave the Philippines to focus on its North American assets, leaving joint venture partner Red Emperor Resources with an option to takeover more stake in SC 55. Map of SC 55…
Image: Maersk Venturer/ Maersk Drilling Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the drillship Maersk Venturer with oil major Total. The contract covers one exploration well (estimated duration 120 days) in block 14 offshore Uruguay…
Anyone who doubts high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) developments are a different ball game to normal-pressure, normal-temperature (NPNT) offshore projects should look at a simple example of a 12in ball valve. For a conventional development…
KBR has been awarded a detailed design engineering and follow-on services contract by SMOE, Singapore, for the topsides facilities for Maersk Oil's HPHT UK North Sea Culzean project. Specifically, KBR will deliver the living quarters…
Statoil has completed a farm-in transaction with ExxonMobil, acquiring a 35% interest in the ER 12/3/154 Tugela South Exploration Right offshore South Africa. The remaining interests are held by operator ExxonMobil (40%) and co-venturer Impact Africa (25%)…
UK authorities have given the green light to one of the largest new field discoveries in the UK North Sea – Maersk Oil’s £3 billion (US$ 4.5 billion) Culzean development. The project has been welcomed as a “clear signal the North Sea…
Otto Energy’s Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Palawan basin in the Philippines, has been drilled to the planned total depth of 2920m. The top reservoir was intersected at 2710m. Hydrocarbons were logged between 2710m and 2737m in reservoir…
Otto Energy spudded the Hawkeye-1 exploration well offshore Palawan basin in the Philippines on 31 July. The 36in conductor was run to 1906m and the 26in hole subsequently drilled to 2449m. Current operations are to cement the 20in casing string…
Red Emperor Resources NL announced that it has received formal notification from the Department of Energy of the Republic of the Philippines that approval of the assignment of the company’s 15% working interest in Block SC55 has been granted…
Otto Energy has mobilized Maersk Drilling’s ultra-deepwater drillship Maersk Venturer for the Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Philippines. The two companies originally signed a letter of intent back in March 2015. The Australian explorer says mobilization will begin on 31 July…
Red Emperor Resources is raising US$4.4 million (AU$5.76 million) for its upcoming drilling a appraisal program offshore the Philippines. The Maersk Venturer. From Maersk. The activity will take place in the deepwater Block SC55…