OGX has acquired an additional 20 percent stake in blocks BM-C-37 and BM-C-38, in the shallow waters of the Campos Basin, from its partner Maersk Oil, becoming operator of these blocks. OGX now holds a 70 percent interest in these blocks, with Maersk Oil holding the remaining 30 percent. “This transaction reflects not only our [...]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 16/2-9 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 16/2-9 S will be drilled from the Transocean Leader drilling facility at position 58°54’46.39’’N 02°26’22.80’’E following completion of drilling of wildcat well 16/2-8 for Statoil in production licence 265. The drilling [...]
Statoil has signed a new contract with Songa Offshore for hire of the rig Songa Trym, which will be used for exploration drilling on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Statoil has signed a new agreement with Songa Offshore relating to rig hire for use on its exploration prospects on the NCS. The semi-submersible rig has [...]
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has issued permits for three drilling rigs involved in separate programs on the Norwegian shelf. E. ON Ruhrgas Norge has consent to drill exploration well 31/8-1 in the northern Norwegian North Sea, using the semisub Borgland Dolphin. Drilling will start shortly and should last 41 days, rising to 69 days in [...]
Aminex Plc announced the spudding of the Nyuni-2 well, offshore Tanzania. The well spudded shortly after 00:00 hours this morning, local time, June 17. Nyuni-2 is being drilled from a surface location on the small Nyuni Island, approximately 30 kilometres off the mainland of Tanzania, to the south of the Rufiji River delta, using the [...]
Oil and gas driller Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc said it ordered a new deepwater drillship from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co at a cost of $610 million. Offshore drillers are expanding their fleets of vessels as energy companies spend more of their exploration budgets on oil and gas fields that lie beneath the ocean floor at [...]
Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. signed two drilling contracts with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. that are expected to generate up to $1.8 billion in revenue. The contracts represent 10 years of contract drilling backlog and will use two drillships to be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. at its South Korean shipyard. Each drillship is contracted for five years. One begins in late 2013 [...]
ExxonMobil Production Co., an affiliate of Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil Corp. reports that drilling and construction have started on an enhanced oil recovery project at the Means Field in Andrews County, Texas. The first phase of the project has the potential to recover as much as 5 million barrels of additional oil, an amount equal to [...]
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