The exercise is part of the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to strengthen the oil and gas industry’s ability to respond in the event of a deepwater blowout.
Lundin Petroleum AB is pleased to announce that drilling of exploration well 2/8-18S in PL440S has commenced.
CNOOC Limited announced a successful new discovery at Luda(LD)21-2 in Bohai.
Statoil confirms the potential of the pre-salt block in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.
FMC Technologies announced today it has signed two five-year contracts with Island Offshore Management to supply Light Well Intervention services for use by Statoil in the North Sea.
The latest North Sea licensing round for oil and gas drilling has broken all previous records for the number of applications received by the Government.
Both contracts are scheduled to be completed at the end of 2012.
The company says the new vessels will strengthen the increased recovery from offshore wells.
The company has finished its planned increase in the Carna discovery.
The company’s FROG personnel transfer capsule is now being used in the Campos Basin.
The contracts total more than $5 billion.
The audit was carried out in February, 2012.
The well was stopped last week and has been closely monitored since.
TOTAL has announced the gas release from the Elgin platform in the North Sea has been stopped.
Castrol Offshore has entered the Bangladesh market with Rahimafrooz Distribution Ltd.
The company believes the vessels will help deliver on its North Sea strategy.
The company has secured a $18 million order for subsea pipeline construction vessels.
BG Group today announced its fifth consecutive Tanzania gas discovery with the Mzia-1 exploration well.
Statoil is transferring operatorship of the Vilje field in the North Sea to Marathon Oil Norge.
TOTAL has informed the Department of Energy and Climate Change that their dynamic kill operation to try to stop the gas release from the Elgin well has begun.
The company estimates the Golfinho area holds 13 to 45 Tcf of gas in place.
The declaration of commerciality is for a portion of the Waimea Complex in the Campos Basin.
BP today announced that it has signed two production sharing contracts with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Minister for Resources and Energy formally released new offshore petroleum exploration areas at the annual Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association conference in Adelaide.
Statoil has reached an agreement to use Seadrill’s West Aquarius deepwater drilling rig for offshore exploration activities.
The licensees of Norway’s Johan Sverdrup discovery will select a development concept in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Nautronix have secured another order for the supply of their NASDrill RS925 deepwater acoustic positioning system.
Chinese offshore oil exploration and development in the South China Sea took another major step.
Stone Energy Corporation announces the signing of a definitive agreement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
Statoil and its partners have established a plan for further exploration drilling in the Skrugard area.
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following opening statement at the Full Committee hearing on “Evaluating President Obama’s Offshore Drilling Plan and Impacts on Our Future."
The well is located in the Albert Prospect in the northern North Sea.
The award is for the subsea infrastructure of the Siakap North - Petai Development Project operated by Murphy Sabah Oil.
More than a communication terminal, the IDP-780 supports a flexible Lua programming environment that provides customers the ability to develop their own on-board applications.
Oceaneering International announced it has secured a contract from Petrobras to supply approximately 200 kilometers of thermoplastic production control umbilicals for field development projects.
The recent discovery of a major oil field in Kenya was cause for significant optimism in the East African nation, but the latest projections have dwarfed even those encouraging early numbers.
Petrobras signed an agreement for the conversion of four VLCC vessels.
Baker Hughes Incorporated announced today that the international rig count for April 2012 was 1,178.
Pacific Santa Ana is the world's first drillship designed for dual gradient drilling, a technology with the potential to make deepwater drilling safer.
