OMV New Zealand has awarded Australia's MMA Offshore a contract to help with the decommissioning of several wells in the Maui field, 35 kilometers off the coast of Taranaki, New Zealand.MMA’s UK-based engineering team has designed and developed…
FPSO operator BW Offshore has reached a settlement with the New Zealand government over the FPSO Umuroa, which has been stuck at the Tui field, around 50 kilometers off the coast of Taranaki, for months.BW Offshore has been unable to remove…
Oil and gas company Jadestone Energy and OMV have agreed to extend the long-stop date for the completion of Jadestone's acquisition of OMV's stake in the Maari project, in the shallow waters offshore New Zealand.Singapore-based Jadestone in…
Austrian oil and gas company OMV has de-manned its offshore platforms in the Taranaki Basin in New Zealand to only essential crews due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Responding to request for comment by Offshore Engineer on how it is dealing with the COVID-19 situation…
Austrian energy firm OMV has said it has struck oil and gas in the Taranaki Basin offshore New Zealand. OMV, as the operator of the Petroleum Exploration Permit (PEP) 60093, started drilling at the Toutoiwai-1 well in early March 2020.The oil…
FPSO-leasing company BW Offshore has been unable to remove the Umuroa FPSO from the Tui field in New Zealand following the contract termination, client liquidation, and the country's court and environment regulator intervention.The company was…
Norwegian offshore shipping company Solstad Offshore has signed a contract with OMV Taranaki Ltd for the provision of a Platform Supply Vessel for the oil company's operations in New Zealand.The platform supply vessel Normand Tortuga will support…
Independent oil and gas producer Jadestone Energy announced it has entered a deal with OMV to acquire its 69% operational stake in the shallow water Maari project offshore New Zealand for $50 million.The Maari Project is a mid-life producing asset located in permit PMP 38160…
Trendsetter Vulcan Offshore (TVO) has contracted with independent oil and gas company Tamarind Resources to provide its next-generation Wellhead Fatigue Mitigation Systems for deployment offshore New Zealand. The new system alleviates the impact of modern…
Royal Dutch Shell plc announced Friday it has completed the sale of its New Zealand upstream oil and gas assets, marking the supermajor's exit from the Oceania country.The $578 million sale to Austrian integrated oil and gas company OMV includes the Māui…
New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) has entered a US$25 million (NZ$35 million) contract with Mitsui E&P Australia to purchase Mitsui's 4% interest in the Kupe gas and light oil field, offshore New Zealand. Kupe is offshore from South Taranaki in the Taranaki basin…
More than 481,730sq km of exploration acreage has been opened to tender offers in New Zealand, including five offshore, two onshore and one straddling on- and offshore. The country's Block Offer 2017 tender for petroleum exploration permits…
New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) entered a deal to secure a 50.01% holding in its Australian subsidiary, Cue Energy Resources. “Our controlling interest in Cue provides diversified exposure to Cue's production and exploration interests in Australia…
Austrian operator OMV is restarting production from the Maari/Manaia wellhead platform, offshore New Zealand, in which a crack was found late last year. A temporary repair has been made and now OMV, with advisors AMOG and Worley Parsons…
Australia's AWE has sold 57.5% of its stake in the Tui area oil fields in the Taranaki basin offshore New Zealand, to Kuala Lumpur-based Tamarind Management. Subject to approvals from the New Zealand government and the Tui joint venture…
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