Production has finally started from Norway’s first Arctic oil field, at the Goliat floating production facility in the Barents Sea. The 180 MMbo field, the first producing oil field in the Barents Sea and the northernmost producing oilfield…
Production continues as the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) responds to a fatality at the Whistler Energy II Platform A, in the Gulf of Mexico. The GC 18 platform. Image from Epic…
Petrofac has been appointed as duty holder to support UK joint venture Anasuria Operating Co. (AOC) to take over operatorship of Anasuria cluster in the North Sea. Anasuria Operating Co. is a joint venture company formed between Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad and Ping Petroleum…
Williams Partners reached an agreement with Shell Offshore and Nexen Petroleum Offshore to provide deepwater gas gathering services to the Appomattox development, in the Gulf of Mexico. Appomattox is located 80mi offshore from the nearest shoreline in Louisiana…
Semco Maritime has been awarded a contract by Paragon Offshore for intermediate classification and service works on the Paragon MSS1 semisubmersible drilling rig. The service works will be performed at Semco Maritime’s rig facilities at Invergordon…
The government of India approved a natural gas pricing system for gas produced from high pressure high temperature, deepwater and ultra deepwater areas that could attract substantial investment in the country’s upstream sector, as well as generate job opportunities…
Statoil, in an effort to further improve efficiencies and reduce costs, has decided to not to proceed with the evaluations of a potential business center in Europe. “Employee representatives and management must continue their efforts to identify other actions to achieve this…
Oilfield services firm Petrofac has been appointed duty holder on the Anasuria cluster, in the UK North Sea. The role is in support of the Anasuria Operating Company (AOC), a UK joint venture formed between Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad (Hibiscus) and Ping Petroleum (Ping)…
Anadarko Petroleum has cut some1000 jobs from its workforce, as the company braces itself for its proposed budget cut of nearly 50%, to stay afloat during the downturn hitting the entire oil and gas industry. Anadarko CEO Al Walker…
Detecting corrosion is a huge headache for the offshore industry. CMR is developing a tool to spot it before it takes hold. Thomas Peter Christian Michelsen Research (CMR) in…
Atlantic Petroleum has agreed to sell its Norwegian activities to M Vest Energy - a company partly owned by Atlantic's existing management. The Norwegian activities include all of Atlantic's assets and licenses, the liabilities of the licenses…
Det norske oljeselskap has gained approval from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) for a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S, which is part of the Ivar Aasen field, in the North Sea. Well 16/1-26 S will be drilled from the Maersk…
The first production test at Eni’s Zohr 2X appraisal well delivered some 44 MMcf/d of gas, offshore Egypt. Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi. Image from Eni. The Zohr 2X well, Eni’s first appraisal well on its giant Zohr discovery…
Technip's joint venture with Sonangol, Technip Angola Engenharia Limitada, has been awarded a three year engineering services contract by Total E&P Angola. The contract covers services for the existing Girassol, Pazflor, Dalia and CLOV…
Polarcus is pleased to announce the start of production in the first of a series of three 3D seismic projects offshore Brazil. The project is being acquired using the Polarcus A-Class 3D seismic vessel Polarcus Alima. The first project…
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