Completions
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October 21, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras has completed a formation test in well 3-BRSA-1178D-SES (3-SES-176D), informally known as Farfan 1. This is the first well to evaluate the production capacity of the accumulation located in the concession area BM-SEAL-11, block SEAL-M-426, in the ultradeep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.
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October 18, 2013
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Atlas Copco has purchased the operational assets of Archer Underbalanced Services, a leading service provider of down-the-hole hammers, drill bits and compressed air packages to U.S. land-based oil and gas drilling companies.
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October 18, 2013
WASHINGTON -- Sixty-four percent of voters in Florida support offshore drilling for domestic oil and natural gas resources, according to a new poll conducted by Harris Interactive for the American Petroleum Institute's “What America is Thinking on Energy Issues” series.
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October 18, 2013
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- Schlumberger Ltd. said third-quarter profit rose as higher crude prices led to more drilling around the globe.
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October 17, 2013
STAVANGER -- Repsol Exploration, operator of production licence 541, has completed drilling of wildcat well 4/4-1. The well is dry.
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Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announces drilling permit for well 8/10-5 S – production licence 405
October 17, 2013
STAVANGER -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Centrica Energi a drilling permit for well 8/10-5 S. Well 8/10-5 S will be drilled from the Mærsk Giant drilling facility at position 57°3’32.49’’north and 3°6’46.91”east.
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October 16, 2013
STAVANGER, Norway -- Repsol Exploration Norge AS, operator of production license 541, has completed drilling of wildcat well 4/4-1. The well is dry.
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October 16, 2013
ZUG, Switzerland -- Transocean Ltd. has been awarded a five-year contract for a newbuild dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillship by Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
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October 16, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea -- DSME has been awarded its first jackup rig contract after a 30 year hiatus.
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October 16, 2013
JOHANNESBURG (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s plans to exploit shale-gas reserves are “indefensible” and will lead to a legal battle, an environmental group said after the government published draft regulations on drilling in the Karoo region.
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October 15, 2013
LONDON (Bloomberg) -- BP, bought its first assets in Morocco with the purchase of stakes in three blocks operated by Kosmos Energy Ltd. BP will buy an interest in the Essaouira, Foum Assaka and Tarhazoute offshore blocks in the Agadir Basin by paying for an exploration well in each, part of a second exploration well and past costs, Kosmos said in a e-mailed statement without disclosing terms.
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October 15, 2013
STOCKHOLM -- Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, posts the completion of wildcat well 6608/2-1S. The well was drilled in PL330 about 60 km east-southeast of the Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea.
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October 14, 2013
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Lundin Petroleum AB, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS, has announced the completion of wildcat well 6608/2-1S.
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October 14, 2013
BRISBANE, Australia (Bloomberg) -- J. Michael Yeager, the former head of BHP Billiton Ltd.’s oil and gas division, was named CEO of Maverick Drilling & Exploration Ltd., an explorer that’s listed in Australia and focused on the U.S.
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October 14, 2013
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Seadrill Limited has entered into an agreement to sell the company that owns the tender rig T-16 to Seadrill Partners LLC for a total purchase price of $200 million, less approximately $93 million of debt outstanding under the credit facility secured by the T-16.
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October 14, 2013
OSLO (Bloomberg) -- A well at DNO International and Genel Energy’s Tawke oilfield in northern Iraq flowed at a record rate, bolstering prospects for higher output from the region as it completes an export pipeline to Turkey.
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October 14, 2013
STAVANGER -- Statoil Petroleum, operator of production licences 046 and 046 BS, has completed the drilling of wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A on the Volve field, located between the Sleipner West and Sleipner East fields in the central North Sea.
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October 11, 2013
STAVANGER -- Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licences 046 and 046 BS, has completed the drilling of wells 15/9-F-1 and 15/9-F-1 A on the Volve field, located between the Sleipner West and Sleipner East fields in the central North Sea.
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October 10, 2013
GEOJE-SI, South Korea -- Maersk Drilling’s first ultra-deepwater drillship was named in a ceremony held at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje-Si, South Korea. Mrs. Nathalie Newman, wife of Mr. Harry E. Newman Jr., ExxonMobil Global Drilling Manager, had the honour of naming the drillship, Maersk Viking.
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October 09, 2013
OKLAHOMA (Bloomberg) -- Aubrey McClendon, who built Chesapeake Energy into the second largest United States natural gas producer before his ouster in April, raised about $1.7 billion from private equity firms to explore an Ohio formation he once projected would be among the richest United States shale deposits.
