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Cutting Completions Costs with a Single Trip

Dec 21, 2018

While the offshore industry has focused on cutting costs, Weatherford – known primarily as a land-based completions company – has invested heavily in building an offshore completions line.Mark Hopmann, Weatherford’s Completions president, says…

LLOG sets out multiple GoM developments

Sep 27, 2017

Deepwater Gulf of Mexico focused LLOG Exploration has set out plans for developing six projects, following successful exploration work in 2016-17, with nine deepwater wells due to be brought online by the end of 2018.  One well is already producing…

Cairn finds further Senegal success

May 18, 2017

Cairn Energy’s latest SNE well offshore Senegal, SNE-6, has proved to be successful, with the confirmation of good connectivity with the SNE-5 well. Map of Senegal, from Cairn. Cairn…

Global Maritime surveys Xin Guang Hua

Feb 10, 2017

Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering completed a suitability survey for the world’s second largest semisubmersible, the Xin Guang Hua, in advance of her maiden voyage. For the survey, Global Maritime carried out an independent assessment of all aspects of the vessel’s condition…

Exxon to start 5 projects by 2018

Jan 31, 2017

US giant ExxonMobil announced it will start five major offshore projects in 2017-2018, in addition to a Q4 2016 earnings of US$3.7 billion, which took a $2 billion impairment charge from its upstream sector. Image from Exxon…

Inpex extends UAE deals

Jan 16, 2017

Japan's Inpex Corp. has formed an agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) to extend the joint development of the Satah and Umm Al Dalkh oil fields offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Inpex subsidiary Japan Oil Development…

ALE in final stages of UZ750 operation

Dec 12, 2016

ALE is approaching the final stages of its load-out operations for the Upper Zakum 750 Island Surface Facilities (UZ750) Project, based 84km offshore, northwest of Abu Dhabi, UAE. The heavy lifting contractor secured the scope to deliver almost 100 different modules to the north…

Exxon's Liza-3 proves successful

Oct 26, 2016

ExxonMobil's Liza discovery, offshore Guyana, has upped its potential due to the company's successful run at the Liza-3 appraisal well, according to partner Hess Corp. The Steana Carron, from Stena…

ExxonMobil to add 450,000 boe/d by 2017

Mar 02, 2016

As ExxonMobil decreases its capital spending budget this year by 25%, the supermajor looks to start up 10 new upstream projects between now and 2017 that will see its production capacity increase. Tillerson…

Black Platinum to drill off Indonesia

Feb 26, 2016

Private equity funded Black Platinum Energy will move ahead with its plans for appraisal and development activities to prove up its shallow gas plays in East Natuna, offshore Indonesia, despite current industry conditions. Plans include drilling one exploration well…

Chariot completes Namibia 3D survey

Feb 19, 2016

Chariot Oil & Gas completed its 3D seismic survey in Blocks 2312 & 2412A offshore Namibia, in conjunction with its partners AziNam (20%), NAMCOR (10%) and Ignitus (5%). The survey comprised approximately 2600sq km of data and was conducted by PGS Exploration…

Lundin's Lorry prospect lacks fuel

Jan 20, 2016

Swedish exploration firm Lundin Petroleum's latest exploration well 6407/10-4 on the Lorry prospect in the Norwegian Sea has been classified as dry. The well, in PL700B, on the northern part of the Frøya High in the southern Norwegian Sea has been plugged and abandoned…

Ramboll to assess ZADCO subsea pipelines

Jan 19, 2016

The international engineering and design consultancy Ramboll Oil & Gas has been awarded an important contract by Zakum Development Co. (ZADCO), Abu Dhabi, which entails an integrity study of 15 subsea pipelines. The project will enable…

Low oil prices cast shadow on Middle East’s FPSO market

Jan 19, 2016

The United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s chances for taking on some of the world’s future floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) vessel construction are diminishing as the global market looks set to stall for at least five years, with local demand for floating facilities little better…

Middle Eastern resilience

Jan 01, 2016

Both maintaining and launching new offshore production is high on the agenda in the Middle East, not least in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran. IHS’ Mirzi Moralde outlines current activity in the region. Total’s…

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