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Afren completes Nigeria seismic shoot

May 13, 2014

A 3D seismic survey over offshore oil mining license (OML) 113 in Nigeria, covering 1045sq km, using the Polarcus vessel MV Polarcus Nadia, has completed, says Panoro Energy.   Data acquisition started March 24, and completed May 9. The…

Statoil exits Angola block

May 12, 2014

Statoil announced plans to divest its interest in the ENI-operated block 15/06 offshore Angola for US$200 million. The transaction, which will be effective 1 January 2013, means concessionaire Sonangol EP will pick up Statoil's 5% participating interest…

Hoegh, Egypt's Egas sign LOI for FRSU

May 12, 2014

Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd. has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. (Egas) for the use of one of Höegh's floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) – currently under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries…

Morocco well disappoints

May 07, 2014

The latest exploration well offshore Morocco has been plugged and abandoned after failing to find commercial hydrocarbons. The FA-1 well in the Foum Assaka offshore block was drilled by Kosmos Energy to a total depth of 3830m. The well…

Noble to drill Hagar Qim off Malta

May 03, 2014

Phoenicia Energy Co. Ltd.  informed Mediterranean Oil & Gas plc (MOG) that the Noble Paul Romano deepwater semisubmersible is moored in Valletta Harbor and is undergoing final inspection and acceptance tests before it begins drilling the Hagar Qim-1 wildcat in Block 7 of Area 4 offshore Malta…

Computerizing offshore Mozambique

May 01, 2014

Data gathering and large-scale reservoir modeling will be key to unlocking Anadarko's big gas development off Mozambique. Bruce Nichols spoke with Anadarko and engineers at Halliburton's Landmark to discover more. When Anadarko made three…

Tullow to start Suriname work in 2015

Apr 30, 2014

Tullow Oil has announced it plans a 4000km sq 3D seismic acquisition program next year in block 54 offshore Suriname. In January, the company agreed to a production-sharing contract that gave it a 50% operated stake, in partnership with state-owned Staatsolie…

Fastnet farms out to Korean outfit

Apr 30, 2014

UK-based Africa and Celtic Sea-focused explorer Fastnet Oil & Gas has farmed out a 9.375% interest in the Foum Assaka license, offshore Morocco, to SK Innovation, the energy and chemicals affiliate of SK Group, South Korea's third largest conglomerate…

MODEC selects XPD8 for TEN project

Apr 29, 2014

Asset integrity management firm XPD8 Solutions is to develop the maintenance program and inventory data for MODEC’s TEN MV25 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, operated on behalf of Tullow Oil, offshore Ghana. The…

Angola salvage will take 10 months

Apr 28, 2014

Boskalis said that salvage work to remove a capsized jackup from shallow waters near Angola's new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant should be completed by March 2015. The three-legged Perro Negro 6 jackup drilling rig (shown at…

Mauritania disappoints for Tullow

Apr 25, 2014

Tullow Oil's Tapendar-1 exploration well in the C-10 license, offshore Mauritania, has not encountered hydrocarbons and the well is being plugged and abandoned. Tapendar-1 is the second exploration well in Tullow’s Mauritania exploration campaign…

Cairn India evaluating Block 1, RSA's Orange basin

Apr 24, 2014

Cairn India acquired about 3010 line-km of 2D infill seismic over Block 1 of the Orange basin, off South Africa's Northern Cape Province, in Q1 2014. It is currently evaluating the data. The company acquired a 1981sq km 3D…

Plexus grows North Africa business

Apr 23, 2014

Oil and gas engineering services business Plexus Holdings has been awarded a contract with Galp Energia Tarfya to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well offshore Morocco. At its March capital markets day…

Deepwater Ivory Coast find

Apr 17, 2014

Total has made a 'very promising' light oil discovery in 2300m water depth as part of an intensive exploration campaign off Ivory Coast. The Saphir-1XB exploration well, the first exploration well on Block CI-514, is the first discovery in the San Pedro basin…

Total discovers oil off Ivory Coast

Apr 17, 2014

Total E&P announced today that its Saphir-1XB exploration well on Block CI-514 tested light oil in deep water off Africa's Ivory Coast. “Drilled in an abrupt margin play, this first well is the first discovery in the San Pedro Basin…

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