Perupetro has contracted Spectrum for 2D seismic work prior to the country's international bid round on 12 December. Spectrum will reprocess approximately 13,000km of 2D multiclient regional seismic data covering the lease sale blocks for the Peruvian state-owned and regulatory body…
Soma Oil & Gas Exploration, a Somalia-focused exploration company, today issued its audited annual report and financial statements for 2013. On 6 August 2013, Soma signed a Seismic Option Agreement (SOA) with the Ministry of National Resources of the Federal Government of Somalia…
Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has secured a contract to provide a range of mooring services for Repsol's drilling operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Under the contract, DSM will provide marine engineering services and deliver the mooring equipment…
Milton Roy, manufacturer of controlled volume pumps, recently enhanced its SOLAROY series of solar-powered metering pumps. The SOLAROY series feature an enhanced drive engineered to accommodate target-end load force. New radial bearings…
Teekay Petrojarl has gone live with Petrotechnics' Proscient operational performance and predictive risk platform on its Voyageur Spirit asset in the North Sea. The Voyageur Spirit Proscient go-live kicks off the global deployment of…
Mirage Machines, an Acteon Company, has invested in the launch of a subsea-focused engineering research and development subsidiary for North America in Houston. Mirage Subsea has been established with an initial staff of five operating…
Weatherford International licensed the Ikon Science RokDoc RT software system to support its global rig-based real-time pore pressure specialists team. The RokDoc RT system provides critical modelling tools that allow the pore pressure specialists…
Polarcus Adira is in transit from Las Palmas to the Gulf of Mexico to begin a 6-month charter for TGS. It will be Polarcus' first project in the US. The survey for TGS will cover an area of 11,500sq km. It will entail the towing of a…
Downhole video technology company EV has launched its Integrated Video Caliper (IVC) product to the well intervention market, which provides real-time answers to well integrity issues. The technology has been launched globally following two years of development and field trials in Canada…
The Offshore Europe Partnership has announced the appointment of two co-chairmen for SPE Offshore Europe 2015, one of whom will lead the keynote program with the other leading the technical program. Michael Engell-Jensen (pictured below)…
Centrica Energy is considering three different concepts to develop the Butch discovery in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea according to partner Faroe Petroleum. Three concepts under study are a subsea tie-back to the Ula field,…
Fractured basement reservoir explorer Hurricane Energy says future development of its Lancaster oil discovery west of Shetland on the UK Continental Shelf is expected to be through a phased approach. The firm, which announced successful results of a well test on Lancaster earlier this year…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has signed a data licensing agreement with a customer worth US$3.5 million for the provision of 3D EM data from EMGS's multi-client data library in the Barents Sea. 'It satisfying to note that our multi…
Abu Dhabi-owned green energy firm Masdar is to invest £525 million in a 35% stake in the planned Dudgeon offshore wind farm, offshore England, alongside Norweigan partners Statoil and Stakraft. Based 32km off the coast of north Norfolk…
Site survey work has started at the Parkmead Group-operated Skerryvore oil prospect in the central UK North Sea. The Skerryvore prospect has the potential to contain up to 122MMbo on a most likely, P50 basis, according to Parkmead. The…