French oil company Total will drill the deepest offshore well by water depth using the Maersk Voyager drillship owned by Maersk Drilling.The Danish offshore drilling contractor said Tuesday that, based on the conditional letter of award previously announced in the third quarter of 2019…
The Netherlands-based SBM Offshore said the Liza Unity floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) hull has arrived in Singapore for topsides integration work ahead of planned startup for client ExxonMobil offshore Guyana in 2022…
With the Argos semisubmersible due to begin production from BP’s Mad Dog field in late 2021, the drilling team needed to ensure the drilling campaign stayed on schedule.BP did this by dedicating and integrating experienced drilling engineers and geoscientists to plan…
Oil giant Shell has made a decision to invest in the second phase of its Malikai deepwater development offshore Malaysia.In an announcement on Monday, Shell's Malaysian subsidiary Sabah Shell Petroleum Company, the operator of the Malikai Tension-Leg Platform (TLP) located offshore Sabah…
Offshore installation and construction specialist Subsea 7 has said it has won a 'very large' subsea equipment contract from Woodside for the Sangomar project offshore Senegal.Subsea 7 has won a contract in cooperation with Schlumberger's One…
U.S. oil firm Noble Energy has hired a 7th generation Maersk drillship for its drilling operation in Colombia.Maersk Drilling said Friday that Noble had awarded it a one-well contract for the Maersk Valiant drillship. The contract is set to begin in the third quarter of 2020…
The Stena Forth drillship has arrived in the Port of Callao Lima Peru ahead of drilling the Marina-1 exploration well for Australia's Karoon Energy.The exploration well is located in Peru's Block Z-38 Tumbes Basin, where Karoon is the operator with a 40% net interest…
Australian oil and gas firm Woodside has received the Senegal government exploitation authorization for the Sangomar field development offshore Senegal.Woodside filed the final development plan for the Sangomar oil field early in December 2019…
Gambia’s petroleum sector objective in the National Development Plan (NDP) of 2018-2021 is shaping up even before the year 2020 gains momentum after Australian firm FAR Ltd announced a key offshore data acquisition project in the West African country…
Offshore drilling giant Transocean has managed to secure new contracts and extensions for eight offshore drilling rigs since its last rig fleet status report issued in October 2019.'Since its last Fleet Status Report issued in October 2019, the company has secured an additional $352…
UK oil and gas player Premier Oil has chartered a Valaris drillship for its Brazilian operations.In its operational update on Tuesday, Premier Oil said it had chartered the Valaris DS-9 drillship. The rig, formerly known as Ensco DS-9, is of the Samsung 12000 design and was delivered in 2015…
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has obtained permission to drill an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea.The well 6507/8-10 S - the Grind prospect - is located in the production license 889, seven kilometers east of the Heidrun field. Neptune operates the offshore permit with a 60% stake…
Shares of Tullow Oil dropped by nearly a fifth on Thursday as the oil producer's update on the commercial viability of its new well offshore Guyana disappointed investors.Tullow said the Carapa well in the Kanuku offshore block contains oil…
Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) announced it has acquired stakes in two deepwater fields in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.Petronas said on Sunday its subsidiary Petronas Petróleo Brasil Ltda. (PPBL) completed its acquisition…
Subsea services firm Aqueos Corporation announced Friday it recently completed a diving and remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) campaign on the US West Coast.The work scope included level III and IV subsea surveys of three large conventional…
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