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September 09, 2014
STRAUME, Norway -- Norshore Atlantic, Norshore’s first versatile drilling vessel, has now commenced on the contract with Sabah Shell Petroleum Company on Malikai field in Malaysia.
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September 08, 2014
CALGARY — Canadian well intervention specialist, DSI Thru-Tubing Inc., has agreed to become part of new international oilfield services company, ALS Oil & Gas.
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September 08, 2014
HOUSTON -- Paradigm has announced the release of its latest version of its integrated suite of well planning and drilling engineering applications. This major upgrade is integrated with Peloton’s database for drilling and well operations, and includes a new jar placement module based on technology acquired from Cougar Drilling Solutions.
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September 08, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway (Bloomberg) -- Statoil ASA’s first well off Norway with OAO Rosneft, the Russian state-run oil company targeted by international sanctions, may be delayed following a Greenpeace complaint. Drilling can’t start on the Statoil-operated Pingvin prospect in the Barents Sea until the appeal has been handled this week by the Norwegian Environment Agency, Reidar Evensen, a spokesman for the agency, said in an email. Greenpeace argued the arctic well is an oil-spill hazard.
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September 08, 2014
SANDEFJORD, Norway -- Ross Offshore has reported a contract award from Centrica Energy. The contract is for consultancy services within Drilling and Well, Subsea, Logistics and Marine operations.
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December 31, 2013
ABERDEEN -- Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, says the spudding of the Centrica operated Butch East exploration well 8/10-5S (Faroe 15%), the first of two back-to back-wells in Licence PL405/PL405B.
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December 27, 2013
STAVANGER (Bloomberg) -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for well 16/3-8 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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December 26, 2013
STOCKHOLM -- The appraisal program on the recently discovered structure in Block 4 onshore the Sultanate of Oman (B4EW4) continues with another very successful well. The sixth well (B4EW4-6) on the structure, flows in excess of 3,000 bopd on a 34/64 inch choke from the Lower Buah reservoir section of the Nafun carbonate group.
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December 26, 2013
LONDON -- Tullow Oil says that the 31/3-4 exploration well on the Mantra prospect offshore Norway has encountered reservoir quality sands but all intervals are water wet.
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December 25, 2013
LONDON -- Sound Oil is awarded the Santa Maria Goretti (SMG) Permit from the Italian Ministry of Economic Development.
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December 24, 2013
LONDON -- Tullow Oil has announced that the 31/3-4 exploration well on the Mantra prospect offshore Norway has encountered reservoir quality sands but all intervals are water wet.
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December 23, 2013
LUANDA -- With three offshore blocks, Maersk Oil Angola is one of the most active operators in West Africa. They began working in the country in 2005 and, by 2010, they had standardized the use of TenarisHydril Dopeless technology in all their offshore projects.
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December 20, 2013
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with Premier Oil Norge AS for the jackup Maersk Guardian for a one well drilling operation, the Myrhauk exploration well, in the Norwegian North Sea. The duration of the contract is approximately 62 days. The contract will commence in direct continuation of the present Lundin Norway AS contract during Q3 2014.
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December 19, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Petrobras has announced the discovery of an oil accumulation on concession BM-POT-17, the first in the deep waters of the Potiguar basin.
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December 19, 2013
MOSCOW -- Four new hydrocarbon deposits were discovered at Rosneft’s license blocks in eastern Siberia, and reserves for one of the reservoirs have been converted from C2 to C1 category. The increase in C1 recoverable oil and condensate reserves was over 10 million tonnes; gas reserves – 12 bcm, which was approved by the State Committee for Mineral Reserves after corresponding consideration.
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December 18, 2013
LONDON -- Tullow Oil said that the Paon-2A appraisal well in the CI-103 licence offshore Côte d’Ivoire has determined the down-dip extent of the Paon oil accumulation. The well encountered the water below the oil accumulation discovered at the Paon-1X well and pressure logging has located the likely oil water contact.
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December 16, 2013
DUBAI -- TAQA, the international energy company from Abu Dhabi, has received approval from the UK government for development of its Morrone field (block 9/23b) in the Central North Sea.
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December 16, 2013
HOUSTON -- Atwood Oceanics, Inc. has announced the delivery of the Atwood Advantage from the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME) shipyard in South Korea.
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December 13, 2013
ABU DHABI -- In the operation and development of a sour gas field, a key challenge is ensuring the process safety and integrity of the asset and, most importantly, the safety of the personnel working with high concentrations of hydrogen sulphide (H2S). To help the industry manage risks throughout the project’s lifecycle, DNV GL has now initiated a Joint Industry Project (JIP) for operators.
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December 13, 2013
HOUSTON -- Caterpillar Global Petroleum has added stainless steel fluid ends to the Cat XD line of well stimulation pumps and fluid ends. These fluid ends, compatible with all Cat XD Series components, will be available for order in the first quarter of 2014.
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December 13, 2013
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- Rigs targeting oil in the U.S. jumped the highest level in six months as horizontal drilling in Texas’s Permian and North Dakota’s Bakken formations surged.
