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DOF Subsea Norway AS to Perform Geotechnical Survey for Shtokman Development AGBergen-based specialist subsea service company DOF Subsea Norway has been awarded a contract for the provision of Complementary Offshore Geotechnical Survey by Shtokman Development AG. DOF Subsea will commence work in the Shtokman Gas Condensate field in early September utilising own vessel Geobay. The scope of work, consisting of offshore geotechnical survey, onshore testing and reporting, will be carried out in cooperation with PeterGaz Ltd. Full text |
Discovery at the Zidane prospect
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BGP Marine shoots for Spectrum
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Spectrum's Levantine Basin seismic analysis validated by USGS assessment
Dry well at North Sea Balder Triassic
Noreco becomes owner and operator in the Barents Sea
ExxonMobil to Explore Black Sea with Specially Designed Transocean Drillship
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Total announces today that its Nigerian subsidiary, Total E&P Nigeria Ltd. (TEPNG), has encountered hydrocarbons in the area within the south-eastern corner of Oil Mining License (OML) 102, offshore south-eastern Nigeria, about 15 kilometres from the Ofon Field, in a water depth of seventy metres. Full text
StatoilHydro was today awarded operatorship of a large exploration area in the third Faroese Licensing Round. The area covers 5312 square kilometres, the largest licence ever to be awarded in Faroese waters. No drilling commitments are imposed under the licence, but StatoilHydro will gather seismic on the acreage. It has three to six years to decide whether to drill an exploration well. Full text
StatoilHydro has completed the drilling of an exploration well on the Nucula discovery, which is located around 110 kilometres east-northeast of the Goliat discovery in the Barents Sea. Full text
El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP) announced today that the Tot exploration well, 1-ESS-185D, located in the ES-5 block offshore Brazil, is a discovery. Through its Brazilian E&P subsidiary, El Paso has a 35 percent working interest in the Petrobras-operated well. The well is located 30 kilometers offshore in 61 meters of water, and was drilled to a total vertical depth of 4,521 meters. Full text
BHP Billiton today announced approval for the North West Shelf Cossack, Wanaea, Lambert, Hermes (CWLH) redevelopment project. The CWLH redevelopment project comprises the replacement of the existing Cossack Pioneer Floating Production Storage and Offtake (FPSO) vessel, selected refurbishment of existing subsea infrastructure and the existing riser turret mooring. Full text
StatoilHydro has completed the drilling of an appraisal well on the Pan/Pandora gas/oil discovery south of the Visund field in the North Sea. Full text
Mermaid Marine Australia Ltd (MMA) is pleased to announce that it has signed a formal Sublease with Chevron Australia Pty Ltd (Chevron) to support the development of the Gorgon Project. MMA announced in May 2008 that it had entered into an Agreement to Sublease with Chevron and negotiations between the parties have now been finalised. Full text
Minister Sean Power today announced the opening of the 2009 Rockall Licensing Round and published the details of the Round. Under the 2009 Rockall Licensing Round, oil and gas exploration companies will be invited to apply for new Frontier Exploration Licences in the Rockall Basin. The acreage on offer in the Rockall Basin to the west of Ireland. Full text
After encountering several discoveries in Krishna Godavari (KG) Offshore in recent past (including landmark ultradeep discovery at a water depth of 2841 metres in December, 2006), ONGC has now struck oil in nomination Block- IG at a water depth of 225metres in well G-4-6, 15 kms off Yanam coast, Andhra Pradesh. Full text
Tullow Oil plc announces that the Ebony-1 exploration well, located in the Shallow Water Tano licence offshore Ghana, has intersected two hydrocarbon bearing intervals in Late Cretaceous turbidite sands. Full text