Petronas News

Petronas awards $70m OBC contract

Feb 03, 2014

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…

Petronas awards integrated contracts

Dec 13, 2013

Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) has announced a new gas discovery offshore Malaysia and the award of a three year integrated offshore installation contract. Operator on Block SK320, Mubadala Petroleum, discovered gas in the Sintok-1 well…

Contract Briefs: January 2014

Jan 16, 2014

Petronas awards integrated contracts Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) has announced a new gas discovery offshore Malaysia and the award of a three-year integrated offshore installation contract. PETRONAS awarded its Pan Malaysia Integrated…

Douglas-Westwood looks at FLNG market

Jan 08, 2014

The floating LNG (FLNG) market is poised for increased investment and activity from 2014 to 2020, with Douglas-Westwood forecasting total expenditure of US$64.4 billion in its new market report. Two-thirds of this spend is attributed to liquefaction infrastructure…

SE Asia comes to LAGCOE

Nov 11, 2013

Laissez les bons temps rouler. Deep in the heart of Louisiana oil country, US representatives from two Asian trade organizations made the case for local investment at the 2013 Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition (LAGCOE), held in Lafayette…

Global Briefs: November 2013

Nov 07, 2013

Transboundary may head to committee The US Senate bill ratifying the US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement, S. 812, is reportedly on its way to a conference committee. The Senate’s version of the bill, passed last month (October)…

Drilling and investment in Southeast Asia

Nov 01, 2013

Two countries – Malaysia and Indonesia– hold nearly two-thirds of the region’s reserves, and national oil companies outstrip international oil companies in regional capex. According to the Infield Systems Offshore Asia Oil & Gas Market Report to 2017…

Petronas awards contract offshore Sarawak

Oct 12, 2013

On 27 Sept 2013, Malaysia's Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) announced the award of a new Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation, and Commissioning (EPCIC) contract to a joint venture between France's Technip and Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd…

Newfield sells offshore Malaysian assets

Oct 23, 2013

Newfield Exploration Co., based in The Woodlands, Texas, today announced the signing of a share purchase agreement to sell all of its equity interests in Newfield Malaysia Holdings to SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad for a total cash consideration of US$898 million…

SapuraKencana's AME to inspect Carigali Hess facilities

Oct 28, 2013

Carigali Hess Operating Company Sdn. Bhd. awarded Allied Marine & Equipment Sdn. Bhd. (AME) a contract to provide subsea inspection to Carigali Hess’ facilities. AME is a subsidiary of Malaysia’s SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad. Within the terms of the contract…

Petronas greenlights Lundin's Bertam field development plan

Oct 10, 2013

Lundin Petroleum subsidiary Lundin Malaysia won the approval of its Bertam field development plan from Malaysia's Petronas. The Bertam field marked Lundin’s first development project in the country. Bertam, located about 100 mi offshore Peninsular Malaysia in PM 307…

Growing the Caspian’s small rig market

Oct 12, 2013

The Caspian Sea is a land-locked interior basin with established oil and gas production that has seen increasing activity since the bordering nations gained independence from the former USSR in the late 1990s. Five nations surround the sea: Russia…

Eni begins Timor Sea campaign

Oct 24, 2013

Eni successfully completed the Evans Shoal North-1 appraisal well in the Evans Shoal gas field in the Timor Sea, Australia. The field is located offshore in the NT/P48 exploration permit in the north Bonaparte Basin, approximately 300km northwest of Darwin…

JX Nippon signs Malaysian PSC

Sep 20, 2013

JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp. entered into a production sharing contract (PSC) for deepwater block 2F offshore Sarawak with Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) effective September 19. Deepwater block 2F is located in the northwest of Sarawak…

Eni Australia announces Timor Sea plans

Sep 13, 2013

Ernie Delfoes, managing director of Eni’s Australian division, announced that the company plans to spend up to US$230 million drilling in the Timor Sea over the next 18 months. On April 13, Eni was awarded an exploration production sharing contract in the Timor Sea…

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