tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14411702578129551282024-02-09T07:10:27.695+11:00EnergymeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-23298558548512672892015-10-19T14:23:00.000+11:002015-10-19T14:24:50.528+11:00Environment Ministers from over 50 Muslim countries agreeEnvironment Ministers from over 50 Muslim countries agree on “Declaration for Environmental Protection”
The 6th Islamic conference of Envronment Ministers held in Rabat, Morocco on 8 - 9 October 2015 (the largest convening of Muslim-world Environment Ministers), facilitates agreement amongst Environment Ministers on a number of steps to tackle climate change and challenges facing sustainable Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-49817173114491311192015-10-16T14:27:00.000+11:002015-10-19T14:27:55.183+11:00Lundin Petroleum spuds exploration well on the Rolvsnes prospectLundin Petroleum reported that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has commenced drilling of exploration well 16/1-25 S on the Rolvsnes prospect in PL338C. The well is located approximately 6 km south of the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
Well 16/1-25 S will explore the Rolvsnes area, located between the Edvard Grieg Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-56973157412386927682015-06-01T11:51:00.000+10:002015-06-02T11:53:39.410+10:00Chevron to move deepwater platform following damageChevron Corporation reported that the Big Foot tension-leg platform (TLP) will be moved to sheltered waters from its location in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico following damage to subsea installation tendons.
The tendons were pre-installed in preparation for connection to the Big Foot TLP. Between Friday, May 29 and Sunday, May 31, 2015, several tendons lost buoyancy.
The Big Foot TLP was Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-9573589960826131102015-05-22T10:54:00.000+10:002015-05-25T10:55:00.671+10:00Protea launches new cranesProtea, a global manufacturer of offshore handling equipment, will be launching not one, but two types of game changing heavy lift cranes at Nor-Shipping 2015 in Oslo on 2-5 June.
Both cranes, by a combination of efficient, innovative design and the use of ultra-high grade steel in their construction, set new standards in lifting performance and structural efficiency.
“The target of any marine Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-74805065854524283332015-05-21T10:57:00.000+10:002015-05-25T10:57:38.544+10:00BG Group assumes operational control of QCLNGBG Group reported that operational control of Train 1 at its Queensland Curtis LNG plant has been formally transferred to QGC, BG Group's Australian subsidiary, from Bechtel Australia, which constructed the facility.
"We are pleased to be taking operational control of QCLNG following its successful start-up and commissioning over the past six months," said Helge Lund, BG Group’s Chief Executive
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-26305259249834480332015-01-07T13:25:00.000+11:002015-01-08T13:26:53.937+11:00ASCO Secures Statoil Contract in Norway
ASCO has secured a new contract for the provision of supply base services in Sandnessjøen, Norway by Statoil, commencing in July 2015.
The ten-year contract, with a value of between US$22 million and US$25 million (NOK 100 - 130 million), is for supply base services in support of Statoil's drilling and operational activities in the Northern part of the Norwegian Sea from Sandnessjøen, includingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-39013621525081626012015-01-07T13:23:00.000+11:002015-01-08T13:24:13.430+11:00Shell pays oil spill compensation
Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), announced a A$100 million (STG55 million) settlement agreement with the Bodo community in respect of the two highly regrettable operational spills in 2008.
The settlement provides for an individual payment to each claimant who accepts the settlement agreement in compensation for losses arising from Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-84405841096836588892014-08-14T14:14:00.000+10:002014-08-15T14:14:35.600+10:00Shell divests gas assetsShell is giving up its Pinedale and Haynesville onshore gas assets in exchange for about $2.1 billion of cash, plus additional acreage in the Marcellus and Utica Shale areas in Pennsylvania.
In one agreement with Ultra Petroleum, Shell will acquire 155,000 net acres in the Marcellus and Utica Shale areas in Pennsylvania and receive a cash payment of $0.925 billion from Ultra in exchange for 100 Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-66315056431480312922014-08-14T14:11:00.000+10:002014-08-15T14:11:25.135+10:00Latin America’s largest petrochemical company picks AVEVA softwareBraskem, Latin America’s largest petrochemical company, has signed a contract with AVEVA to convert the engineering and design data of 12 of its plants to AVEVA PDMS.
This large contract is the result of a successful pilot project executed earlier this year. Braskem chose AVEVA over several other software vendors, attributing their decision to the confidence they had built up in AVEVA’s Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-35531437552269750562014-08-12T14:19:00.000+10:002014-08-15T14:19:33.134+10:00OneSubsea, Helix and Schlumberger form allianceOneSubsea, Helix Energy Solutions Group and Schlumberger have entered into a letter of intent to form an alliance to develop technologies and deliver services to optimize the cost and efficiency of subsea well intervention systems.
Helix is a leading subsea well intervention provider, with the largest fleet size of well intervention vessels, and an unequalled track record in cost-effective Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-80578051002929684782014-08-12T14:16:00.000+10:002014-08-15T14:16:40.182+10:00Tata Steel secures deal with Subsea 7Tata Steel has signed a global framework agreement with Subsea 7, one of the world’s leading contractors in engineering, construction and subsea services to the offshore industry, which will formalise a 25-year working relationship between the two global giants. This long-standing partnership, which has seen four multi-million pound North Sea contracts signed in the last 12 months alone, is Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-81933680850872932762014-08-11T03:00:00.000+10:002014-08-11T03:00:01.522+10:00Physicists create water tractor beamPhysicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have created a tractor beam on water, providing a radical new technique that could confine oil spills, manipulate floating objects or explain rips at the beach.
The group, led by Professor Michael Shats discovered they can control water flow patterns with simple wave generators, enabling them to move floating objects at will.
"We have Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-57086704486050103332014-08-08T21:16:00.001+10:002014-08-08T21:17:10.427+10:00Schlumberger Norway awarded statoil contractSchlumberger Norway has been awarded a contract with Statoil to provide integrated drilling services for the Norwegian continental shelf licenses Gullfaks, Gullfaks Satellites, Snorre, Statfjord , Tordis/Vigdis, Visund.
The agreement also covers exploration drilling on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).
Taking effect on 1 September 2014 the contract has a value of NOK 1.15 billion for an Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-1063864625501225452014-08-07T21:26:00.000+10:002014-08-08T21:27:05.229+10:00Statoil completes 2014 Hoop exploration programmeStatoil has together with its partner Idemitsu Petroleum Norge made a small gas discovery in the Mercury prospect in PL614 in the Barents Sea.
This completes Statoil’s 2014 exploration programme in the Hoop area.
Statoil drilled three exploration wells in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea: Apollo and Atlantis in PL615 and Mercury in PL614. Those were Statoil’s first operated wells in the Hoop Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-49288531931169274102014-08-07T21:24:00.000+10:002014-08-08T21:24:20.648+10:00SOCO Vietnam updateVietnam, Block 16-1 - Te Giac Trang field
The TGT partners continue to focus on achieving approval for the H5 Field Development Plan (“FDP”) and meeting the first oil target in September/October 2015.
The Hydrocarbons Initially In Place/Reserve Assessment Report (“RAR”) was approved on 18th June 2014, and the work is ongoing on the FDP which is expected to be submitted for approval by the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-85076647324621760212014-08-07T21:20:00.000+10:002014-08-08T21:20:42.365+10:00SOCO spuds Lidongo X Marine-101, Congo BasinSOCO announces that the Lidongo X Marine-101 (LXM-101) exploration well has spudded in the Marine XI Block, located in the Congo Basin, offshore the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville).
The LXM-1 well is designed to test the extension of an adjacent gas/condensate/oil field into the Marine-XI license block. The LXM-101 well is located 23 kilometres north west of Pointe Noire in a water depth of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-62770081794239808872014-08-06T22:02:00.000+10:002014-08-08T22:02:30.352+10:00Lundin Petroleum spuds exploration well in Barents SeaLundin Petroleum started drilling exploration well 7220/11-1 in PL609.
The well will target the Alta prospect, which is located some 20 km northeast of the Gohta discovery in the Barents Sea.
The main objective of well 7220/11-1 is to prove the presence of hydrocarbons in sandstones of Triassic age in addition to carbonates of Permo-Carboniferous age. Lundin Petroleum estimates the Alta Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-5843779022316530962014-08-06T21:59:00.000+10:002014-08-08T21:59:37.439+10:00Lundin Petroleum completes Tembakau appraisal wellLundin Petroleum has completed the first well in its 2014 Malaysian drilling campaign with the successful drilling and testing of Tembakau-2 appraisal well in Block PM307, offshore Malaysia.
Tembakau-2 was drilled by the jackup rig West Prospero to a depth of 1,450 metres in 68 metres water depth. The well targeted stacked gas reservoirs in Miocene aged sands in a large, low-relief, structure Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-90549347166266590542014-08-06T21:56:00.000+10:002014-08-08T21:57:17.745+10:00First oil from Bonga North West deep-water projectShell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd (SNEPCo) started oil production from the first well at the Bonga North West deep-water development off the Nigerian coast on Tuesday 5 August 2014, another milestone for the country’s energy industry.
“This is an excellent addition to our deep-water portfolio – a key growth theme for Shell’s world-wide upstream business,” said Andrew Brown, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-39885774006970196812014-08-06T21:29:00.000+10:002014-08-08T21:30:09.875+10:00Fugro deepwater search MH370The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has awarded Fugro an additional contract for the deployment of two specialist vessels, equipment and expertise in the deep-water search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (MH370).
Fugro will mobilise its vessels Fugro Equator and Fugro Discovery, both fitted with specialist deep tow survey systems for the work. Since June, the Fugro EquatorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-51300661119564870452014-08-04T22:05:00.000+10:002014-08-08T22:05:59.891+10:00Noble Corporation completes Spin-Off Of Paragon OffshoreNoble Corporation has completed the spin-off of all of the outstanding shares of Paragon Offshore plc, which owns most of Noble's standard specification drilling business.
Noble and Paragon are now two separate, publicly-traded companies.
On August 1, 2014, Noble distributed to its shareholders one ordinary share of Paragon for every three ordinary shares of Noble held at 5:00 p.m., New York Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-84631593931717407202014-06-19T09:22:00.000+10:002014-06-20T09:23:33.695+10:00Lundin: Tembakau Appraisal Well in MalaysiaLundin Petroleum has commenced the first well in its 2014 Malaysian drilling campaign with the spud of the Tembakau-2 appraisal well in Block PM307, offshore Malaysia.
The well will target stacked gas reservoirs in Miocene aged sands in a large, low-relief, structure discovered by Lundin Petroleum’s Tembakau-1 in late 2012.
The discovery well penetrated 60 metres of net gas sands in five high Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-46380966650293863552014-06-18T09:26:00.000+10:002014-06-20T09:26:17.716+10:00Statoil: gas discovery offshore Tanzania The discovery in the Piri prospect is Statoil and co-venturer ExxonMobil’s sixth discovery and the fifth high-impact discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania.
The discovery of an additional two to three trillion cubic feet (tcf*) of natural gas in place in the Piri-1 well brings the total of in-place volumes up to approximately 20 tcf in Block 2.
“Since 2012 we have had a 100% success rate in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-7950567461412736342014-06-17T09:30:00.000+10:002014-06-20T09:30:42.369+10:00CGG wins Saudi Aramco contractCGG reported ARGAS, its joint venture with TAQA in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded a major contract by Saudi Aramco for an extensive, high-density land seismic program across the Kingdom. Sercel, CGG’s equipment division, will supply all the seismic equipment deployed on this survey program.
The three-year contract provides for two optional extension periods of one year each. The program is Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441170257812955128.post-34032368372943241012014-05-16T13:00:00.001+10:002014-05-16T13:00:29.865+10:00Clough AMEC JV signs Arrow Energy contractThe Clough AMEC Joint Venture has signed a $20 million Engineering Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) contract for Arrow Energy’s Daandine Expansion Project.
The Daandine Expansion Project includes the installation of additional well facilities and new gas and water gathering pipelines in the Daandine field in Queensland’s Surat Basin.
The contract includes the expansion of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com