A flurry of major gas discoveries in East Africa in 2012 shone a spotlight on the region. Four years later, while efforts to bring some of those resources to market via LNG developments are progressing, the exploration effort offshore appears to be in the doldrums…
Russia's President Vladimir Putin inaugurated first oil from the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea yesterday (31 October). The V. Filanovsky field, discovered by Lukoil in 2005, is Russia’s largest oil discovery for the past 25 years…
Intelligent energy still means quite a lot of different things to different people, including the extent of its role in the oil and gas business. Elaine Maslin reports. In the spotlight at SPE Intelligent Energy: Judson Jacobs…
SEA Hibiscus has signed a US$25 million deal with Shell to acquire operatorship and 50% stake in four fields in the 2011 North Sabah Enhanced Oil Recovery production sharing contract (PSC), offshore Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia operations…
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) is making an investment of US$1 billion over the next 10 years to develop and accelerate the commercial deployment of innovative low emissions technologies. OGCI Climate Investments (OGCI CI)…
The UK business of CNOOC-owned Nexen Petroleum is planning two high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) exploration wells in the North Sea, with at least one in 2017, and assessing a phase 2 of its massive Buzzard development. Presenting…
Talk of an IT and OT convergence has been increasing, including in the oil and gas business. Elaine Maslin reports. 'The first thing people need to realize is there’s an ugly job to do and [they need to] roll up sleeves,” says Duncan Irving…
The drill floor robot is no longer a vision, it’s a reality and it’s going to start operations offshore Norway next year. Elaine Maslin reports. The world’s first drill floor robot installed at the Ullrigg Drilling and Well Centre…
Supermajor Shell gives another look at how the company is using 3D printing technology. Shell teams can produce scale prototypes of equipment destined for use in projects in a fraction of the usual time – from a huge buoy destined for the Gulf of Mexico…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and Russian petroleum authorities (Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency, Rosnedra) have entered into an agreement to exchange seismic data from the areas around the demarcation line in the Barents Sea…
While it seems most Arctic exploration activity has slowed, it really depends on where you look. Bruce McMichael reports. Gazprom Neft’s Prirazlomnoye facility, in the Russian Arctic. Photos from Gazprom Neft…
Intelligent Engineering has seen its SPS repair system used on a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel offshore Cameroon. The FSO Komi Kribi 1 (KK1), converted in 1977 from a VLCC and operated by ExxonMobil for Cameroon Oil Transportation Co…
Malaysia's MISC Berhad has launched arbitration proceedings against Shell to seek resolution on contractual disputes worth some US$245 million concerning the construction and lease of the Gumusut-Kakap semi-floating production system (Semi-FPS)…
Mexican state owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has applied to Mexico's Energy Ministry, SENER, for a joint venture for two shallow water fields in the Gulf of Mexico on 18 October, according to news reports. Image from Pemex…
After years of delays and soaring costs, the first batch of export crude oil has been shipped from the giant Kashagan oil field. The development, in the north Caspian Sea, was hit by its latest set back last year, after issues with the…
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