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Drilling starts at Eldfisk

Oct 22, 2014

ConocoPhillips kicked-off the drilling campaign on its Eldfisk II project with Maersk Innovator. Five wells have been pre-drilled, and the drilling operations of the remaining 35 wells has now begun. Eldfisk II is one of four fields that comprise the Greater Ekofisk Area…

Pemex cancels evacuation plans off Campeche

Oct 22, 2014

Updated at 22 October 2014 at 3 p.m. Pemex called off the evacuation of its 15,000 workers in the Bay of Campeche after severe weather conditions improved.  Earlier today, OE reported that Mexican national Pemex began evacuating its…

Edvard Grieg moving forward

Oct 21, 2014

Lundin Petroleum shows how the production platform for the Edvard Grieg field has moved from the drawing board to reality, and is now beginning to resemble a real offshore platform. First oil from the field is scheduled during the 4Q 2015…

Statoil finds oil at Grane

Oct 21, 2014

Statoil discovered new oil resources in the D-structure at well 25/8-18 S in PL169, near the Grane field, in the North Sea. Map from Statoil.    The D-structure is located on the Utsira High…

NOV announces restructure

Oct 18, 2014

NOV has restructured into three business segments: NOV Rig Systems, NOV Wellbore Technologies, and NOV Completion & Production Solutions. NOV Rig Systems makes and supports drilling solutions, designing and manufacturing drilling equipment components…

Woodside adds Cameroon stake

Oct 16, 2014

Perth, Australia-based Woodside Petroleum will farm into 30% of the Tilapia production sharing contract offshore Cameroon, the company announced on 14 October. The company signed an agreement with Tilapia partners Noble Energy and Glencore for the block…

AccessESP unveils Access375

Oct 16, 2014

AccessESP unveiled its next generation, rigless electric submersible pump(ESP) conveyance system, Access375. Access375 is the fourth generation, single section, permanent magnet motor and is one fifth the length and weight of a conventional induction motor…

Petrobras starts Iracema production

Oct 15, 2014

Petrobras has begun production from FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba, located in Block BM-S-11 of the giant Lula field. The start-up represents the first in the Iracema Sul area of the presalt Santos basin, located 300km off the coasts of the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states…

Expro gets US$50 million Ichthys contract

Oct 15, 2014

Expro obtained a US$50 million contract to supply a high rate well testing package and ancillary services for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project, off Australia. Upon the terms of agreement, Expro will provide well testing, large bore subsea landing string…

RWG gets five-year Chevron contract

Oct 14, 2014

Chevron Thailand E&P Ltd. awarded Rolls Wood Group (RWG) a contract to service Rolls-Royce industrial gas generators operating at four separate offshore production facilities located in the Pattani Basin, 120 mi. from Thailand’s southern coastline…

Deepwater cost challenges and opportunities

Oct 14, 2014

Deepwater exploration offers one of the few attractive places for today's international oil companies, but costs will need to be curbed to make it work, senior executives said in Aberdeen today (14 October). Total's…

Eni increases Vietnamese acreage

Oct 14, 2014

Italian explorer Eni picked up two new exploration assets offshore Vietnam from state-owned oil company PetroVietnam, the company announced on 13 October 2014. Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi (pictured) and PetroVietnam president DO Van Hau…

OneSubsea gets Pemex Lakach contract

Oct 13, 2014

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) awarded the Houston-based, Cameron-Schlumberger joint venture OneSubsea, a US$270 million subsea production systems contract for the Lakach deepwater project offshore Mexico. The Lakach project is the first deepwater subsea field to be developed by Pemex…

CNOOC begins Enping 24-2 off South China Sea

Oct 13, 2014

CNOOC Ltd. began production on its Enping 24-2 oilfield in the Pearl River Mouth Basin off the South China Sea. Enping 24-2 has an average water depth of approximately 86m to 96m. The main production facilities include one drilling and production platform…

Odebrecht, Teekay sign LOI for Libra FPSO

Oct 10, 2014

Odebrecht and Teekay received a letter of intent from the Libra consortium to charter an FPSO for the extended well test campaign in the Libra area of the Santos Basin pre-salt, offshore Brazil, Petrobras announced on 10 October 2014. The…

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