UK-based oilfield services company Archer has received a 30-day notice of early termination of its modular drilling rig contract for the Archer Emerald from Talisman Sinopec Energy UK. The effective date of termination is expected as the 29 of January 2015…
Lundin Petroleum's exploration well 25/10-12S on the Kopervik prospect is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. The well was drilled in production license 625, 175km west of Haugesund on the Norwegian west coast and about 20km northwest of the Johan Sverdrup discovery…
Production testing on Karoon Gas Australia's Kangaroo-2 appraisal well offshore Brazil saw flow rates reach 3700 stb/d on a choke, says the firm. The Kangaroo-2 appraisal well, in exploration Block S-M-1165, in the Santos Basin, confirmed…
Oilfield services firm AGR has been awarded a three-year well management services contract with options with Edison Norge, supporting Edison across its operating licences, including the its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…
Aberdeen-based wellhead engineering firm Plexus Holdings has received purchase orders from Brunei Shell Petroleum to supply both high-pressure/high-temperature (HP/HT) and standard pressured wellhead systems and services for three additional exploration wells under an existing four year contract…
Royal IHC acquired a majority stake in Brazilian-based Brastec Technologies. Brastec Technologies designs and builds custom production lines for the production of umbilicals and flexible pipes. The company said the agreement allows them…
McDermott International obtained a contract to install the offshore jacket, deck and piles for the Ayatsil-A drilling platform for Pemex Exploracion y Produccion in the Bay of Campeche Ayatsil field. Ayatsil…
Eni has started production from Nené Marine field, offshore Congo, just eight months after obtaining the production permit and 16 months following the exploration discovery. The 1.5 billion boe field, in Marine XII Block, about 17 km from the coast and in 28m water depth…
JDR Cables has appointed former Aker Solutions UK regional president David Currie as its CEO and a member of the Board of Directors, effective 12 January 2015. Currie has nearly 30 years’ experience in the global offshore energy industry…
First oil production has started from ConocoPhillips Eldfisk II project in the Norwegian North Sea. The Eldfisk II project includes plans to drill 40 new production and water injection wells from the new Eldfisk 2/7 S platform. One of four pre-drilled wells is currently online…
Blue Water is to provide logistics services on a global scale to Semco Maritime over the next two years, building on years of cooperation by the two Danish companies on several rig and infrastructure projects. “Blue Water’s global experience of working in the Energy and Offshore business…
Five companies have been awarded licenses covering 10 exploration blocks in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia's first licensing round. The round had offered 29 blocks in the eastern Adriatic Sea covering a total of 36,822sq km. Bids were received from six companies for 15 exploration areas…
Sealing technologies are absolutely vital in our industry. The life and productivity of a well depends on the reliability of the seals found in a wide range of downhole equipment, from the tubing and liner hangers that support the flow to surface…
Siem Offshore recently accepted delivery of its newbuild dual fuel PSV Siem Symphony from Hellesøy Verft Shipyard in Norway. The vessel is now at work in the Norwegian offshore market. Built to Wärtsilä’s VS 4411 DF design, Siem Symphony can be powered by either LNG or marine diesel oil…
The Statoil-operated, NOK 22.6 billion Valemon high-pressure, high-temperature, gas and condensate development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea started first production yesterday (3 January). The Valemon field, containing an estimated 192 MMboe recoverable reserves…
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