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Chevron Deploys a Second Ultra-Deepwater DrillshipChevron U.S.A. Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), today announced that it has commenced operations on the Discoverer Inspiration, an ultra-deepwater drillship, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The vessel has the capability to drill wells in 12,000 feet (3,650 meters) of water to a total depth of 40,000 feet (12,200 meters). Full text |
First Oil Production from Pyrenees Development Offshore Western Australia
Apache reports first oil from Van Gogh development in Western Australia's Exmouth Basin
AGR TO UNDERTAKE MAJOR FALKLANDS DRILLING PROGRAMME
Spectrum sets sights on East Coast U.S geology
Aker Spitsbergen enters operations
Subsea 7 complete of the Girassol Pipeline Repair Project for Total E&P Angola
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UK-based specialist measurement technology company Optical Metrology Services (OMS) Ltd has successfully completed a six-week pipe inspection study for BP Exploration (Angola) Ltd, Block 31 PSVM deepwater Development in Angola. Full text
BJ Services Company today announced that it has completed a major contract to provide a range of precommissioning services for Helix Energy Solutions Group. The services were carried out on an 18-well subsea production system on the KG-D6 field in the Krishna Godavari Basin in the Bay of Bengal, offshore the east coast of India. Full text
TDW Offshore Services AS (TDW) announced that it has completed a pipeline pressure isolation operation in Malaysia with Amserve Engineering on behalf of Malaysia LNG Sdn Bhd (MLNG), a subsidiary of PETRONAS, the national oil company of Malaysia. Full text
The UK's leading supplier of subsea connection systems, First Subsea Ltd is an innovator in subsea connection and mooring systems for deepwater platforms, FPSOs, subsea field buoy, pipeline and turret architectures and marine energy. It is also a member of the Subsea UK Trade Group and The Society for Underwater Technology. Full text
Deepwater mooring specialist, First Subsea, has been awarded a contract by SOFEC Inc to supply the mooring connectors for the PSVM (Plutao, Saturno, Venus and Marte) FPSO to be installed in the ultra deepwater development in Block 31 offshore Angola. The FPSO is an external turret-moored FPSO in 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) of water. The double-hulled PSVM FPSO will have production capacity of 157,000 barrels per day. Full text
Subsea 7's new state-of-the-art remotely operated vehicle support vessel (ROVSV), the ‘Normand Subsea', has commenced her first project for Shell in the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Full text
BISSO MARINE, a premier provider of energy and maritime support services, successfully buried a pipeline 16 feet below the hardened seabed of the Gulf of Mexico. Working in 54 feet of water, the crew of the DLB BIG CHIEF installed a hot tap and used one of the company’s three 2,700 gpm@1,150 psi Super Jet Pump Systems to bury 13,893 feet of pipeline 10 miles off Galveston Island. Full text
The fire on Seadrill's West Atlas mobile offshore drilling unit and PTTEPA's Montara wellhead platform in the Timor Sea was extinguished on 3 November 2009, following a successful operation by Seadrill's West Triton mobile drilling unit to intercept and kill a leaking well. Full text
BJ Services Company recently completed a major subsea pipeline precommissioning operation for Saipem S.A. in Nigeria on the Akpo development, one of the largest deepwater developments ever undertaken. The Akpo field lies in the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 130 Block approximately 124 miles (200 km) south of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with water depths of 3,936 ft to 4,593 ft (1200 m to 1400 m.) Full text
Eni has started production from its Longhorn gas field located in the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Canyon Blocks 502/546, 60 miles off the Louisiana coast. The Longhorn project achieved its first production in just over 3 years from the initial exploration discovery made in July 2006, and was completed in less than 2 years from the sanction. Full text