The Republic of Gabon’s Ministry of Petroleum announced today that it has selected seven companies to participate in a final round of negotiations for deepwater blocks in the offshore licensing tender round from October 2013. The Ministry said Impact Oil & Gas…
The Doo Sung rig was contracted in and brought to Shell standards to deliver the campaign. Doo Sung is Korea’s only semi- submersible drilling unit, built in 1984 by Daewoo Shipbuilding Co., and owned by KNOC…
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has received a Letter of Award (LOA) from Hess Exploration and Production Malaysia for engineering, procurement, construction, transportation, installation, hook-up, and commissioning (EPCIC) services for the Bergading complex…
Mubadala Petroleum announced today that appraisal drilling and testing has confirmed the Pegaga discovery in Block SK320 offshore Malaysia as a substantial gas discovery with significant commercial potential. A third discovery, Sirih-1…
UK-based operator EnQuest has agreed to acquire ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia’s interest in the Seligi oil field and the PM8 PSC, offshore Malaysia, subject to approval by Petronas and conditions. The acquisition will…
UK-based independent EnQuest says it has made a discovery in the North Sea and agreed a field development project with Malaysia’s Petronas. Drilling on the North Sea Avalon prospect confirmed a discovery. EnQuest said preliminary analysis…
Japan's JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp., a wholly-owned unit of JX Holdings, says Petronas has approved the field develoment plan for the Layang gas field. JX Nippon intends to develop the field off the coast of the Malaysia's Sarawak state on Borneo…
ABS has been awarded the classification contract from Petronas for the company's second floating LNG facility (PFLNG 2). The vessel will be built at the Samsung Heavy Industries yard in Geoje, Korea. ABS has a history working with floating gas concepts…
Petronas has awarded a small field risk service contract (SFRSC) to EQ Petroleum Developments Malaysia Sdn Bhd (EnQuest) and Uzma Energy Venture (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd (Uzma) for the development and production of the Tanjong Baram field, located about 6km offshore Sarawak…
Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) announced that it has launched the hull of its first floating LNG (PFLNG SATU) facility at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. The facility…
Shell announced a deepwater natural gas discovery off Malaysia. The successful Rosmari-1 well is 135km off the coast of Sarawak, in the South China Sea (Block SK-318). It was drilled to a total depth of 2123m and encountered a gas column of more than 450m…
PETRONAS and Shell have made an oil discovery offshore Sabah, Malaysia. The discovery was made via the Limbayong-2 well during the appraisal of the Limbayong gas field by Shell. The appraisal well encountered 136 metres of oil bearing sands…
Roc Oil Ltd. has farmed in to a production sharing contract (PSC) in three fields about 50m off Malaysia. The D35, D21 and J4 fields are 100% owned and operated by Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali, with Roc Oil holding 50% participating interest…
Petronas has reached the final investment decision(FID) for its second FLNG facility project, off the coast of Sabah in Malaysia. The FID was approved by the Petronas board on 23 Jan 2014. Subsequently, Petronas has issued a letter of award for the engineering procurement…
Fugro and CGG's joint venture business Seabed Geosolutions has won a US$70 million contract to carry out a major ocean bottom cable (OBC) contract for PETRONAS Carigali in Malaysia on the Temana and D18 fields. The project will start at the end of Q1 2014…
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