Lukoil and Inpex Corporation have successfully completed testing of the fifth well as part of the appraisal phase at the Eridu field (Block 10) in the southern part of Iraq. The well recorded daily flow rate of more than 1,500 cubic metres of oil…
ION Geophysical has announced a new 2D multi-client reimaging programme off the Pacific coast of Central America. The Maya Reprocessing programme covers unexplored open acreage which has not had E&P activity in 40 years. Previous exploration wells along the margin suggest the presence…
Saudi Aramco signed a land lease agreement with McDermott Arabia Company on the 26th March to establish an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) facility in the King Salman International Complex for Maritime Industries in Ras Al-Khair, Saudi Arabia. A joint press release said…
People living in Queensland’s capital could soon be ferried about the city through dedicated transport corridors on zero emissions, electric buses. The Brisbane Metro, which forms a primary part of Brisbane City Council’s strategy to provide its residents with quick, safe and clean transport…
Solstad Offshore has been awarded a contract by Ophir Thailand (Bualuang) to perform the offshore installation of the Bualuang Charlie wellhead platform structure as part of the Bualuang Phase 4B Development Project. The project is located in the Gulf of Thailand and comprises the…
Shell is preparing to start drilling an exploration well in the Black Sea offshore Bulgaria within days. On the 26th March Reuters reported, citing a Shell Bulgaria manager who said that the well at the Block 1-14 “Khan Kubrat” license area would be spud…
Polish oil company PGNiG will drill its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf using the Odfjell Deepsea Nordkapp semi-submersible drilling rig. PGNiG said on the 26th that it had signed an agreement with Aker BP for the lease of the Odfjell…
Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) has completed a major refit of the Stena Drilling semi-submersible Stena Don. The vessel arrived at DVR in October 2018 and departed for a contract for Total off the UK’s Shetland Islands in February 2019. The most significant aspect…
The dramatic ramp-up in US shale production is running into a combination of issues — technical and financial — which threaten to slow the pace of expansion, according to some of the industry’s biggest companies. Schlumberger and Halliburton, two of the largest providers of…
Shell has sent first condensate cargo from its huge FLNG facility offshore Western Australia – The Prelude. The Floating LNG project located 475 kilometres north-northeast of Broome in Western Australia, shipped its first cargo over the weekend, Reuters has initially reported, citing a statement…
