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November 25, 2013
HOUSTON – Bureau Veritas has awarded certification to Statoil for meeting the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) protocols developed by the Center for Offshore Safety (COS), an enhanced set of requirements in the offshore oil and gas industry.
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November 25, 2013
HOUSTON – Aker Solutions has developed the Casing Stabilizer Arm (CSA) which eliminates the need for a person to be elevated on a derrick for tubular makeup.
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November 25, 2013
LONDON -- Tullow Oil plc has announced that the Agete-1 exploration well in Block 13T, onshore Northern Kenya, has discovered and sampled moveable oil with an estimated 100 meters of net oil pay in good quality sandstone reservoirs.
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November 22, 2013
LEIDSCHENDAM, The Netherlands -- Fugro Voyager, a purpose built DP2 geotechnical drilling vessel, is entering service with Fugro’s Offshore Geotechnical Division to expand its operations in the frontier areas of the Asia-Pacific region.
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November 22, 2013
ABERDEEN, UK -- Dana Petroleum has made an oil discovery in the Moray Firth following the drilling of the Liberator exploration well.
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November 22, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- American Sands Energy Corp., an oil sands exploration and development company operating in Utah, has commenced its drilling program at its Sunnyside, Utah, oil sands site to define parameters for its mine.
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November 22, 2013
STAVANGER -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has issued Lundin Norway a drilling permit for well 16/2-20 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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November 22, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras said that it has completed drilling one more well in Santos Basin pre-salt Franco area, one of the areas outlined in the Transfer of Rights Agreement.
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November 21, 2013
LONDON -- Ensco plc is extending its ENSCO 120 Series of ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rigs with the order of ENSCO 123 for delivery in second-quarter 2016.
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November 21, 2013
STOCKHOLM -- Lundin Petroleum through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway has completed exploration well 16/2-20S, located north of the Johan Sverdrup discovery in PL501, in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf. A sidetrack well will now be drilled.
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November 21, 2013
STAVANGER -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P a drilling permit for well 25/5-8, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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November 21, 2013
ABERDEEN -- Dana Petroleum has made a gas discovery in the Southern North Sea following the drilling of the Pharos exploration well.
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November 20, 2013
PERTH -- Clough posted that Clough AMEC has been awarded a two year contract extension by ConocoPhillips to provide operations and maintenance services to the Bayu-Undan facilities, located in the Timor Sea. The contract extension has an estimated value of $141 million.
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November 19, 2013
HOUSTON -- McDermott International, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has entered into an agreement with Petrobras for a short-term charter to supply its subsea construction vessel North Ocean 102 (NO102).
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November 19, 2013
HOUSTON -- TESCO Corporation has acquired automated catwalk technology from Custom Pipe Handlers Canada. The acquired catwalk models offer customers the ability to service drilling rigs using state-of-the-art rig mechanization technology.
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November 19, 2013
HOUSTON -- BP has added two drilling rigs to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, bringing its fleet to a company record nine rigs.
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November 19, 2013
MINATO -- Inpex Corporation said that a shallow gas release occurred on development well on the Tunu field lying in offshore Mahakam Block located in East Kalimantan, Indonesia on 8th November 2013.
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November 18, 2013
E. NORWALK, Connecticut -- Portable infrared analyzers, such as the InfraCal Analyzers from Wilks, have been used worldwide for measuring offshore oil in produced water for over 30 years. They have the advantage over other analytical instruments in that the measurement can be performed by non-technical users and are relatively unaffected by composition changes in the effluent.
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November 18, 2013
HOUSTON -- Christopher McPherson has been named director of sales, Americas for ExproSoft AS, a provider of well integrity management software. The announcement was made by Steve Greenland, V.P. sales and marketing.
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November 18, 2013
HOUSTON, TX -- Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC, an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, has announced two conventional pay discoveries in south Texas.
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November 18, 2013
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Seadrill has entered into an agreement to acquire the company that owns the yard construction contract of the newbuild high specification jack-up rig Prospector 3 from Prospector Offshore for a total purchase price of $235 million.
