Drilling & production

Arrow Energy has signed a deal to acquire four CSG drilling rigs form SWMS.

Cameroon’s government is looking to lift the country’s fuel subsidies but risks causing serious unrest as happened in Nigeria in 2011.

New poll commissioned by API finds that US voters support increased development of domestic energy resources, partly to secure more employment, as the economy looks set to play a central role in the upcoming presidential election.

Chevron Australia’s ‘Powering Careers in Energy’ initiative has been rolled out across five primary and high schools in Western Australia. The programme, which includes LNG-related studies, aims to provide students with an insight into a career in the energy industry.

BNK Petroleum has completed drilling of its Gapowa B-1 exploration shale well in Poland, the results have so far validated the company’s geological predictions for the concession.

RasGas’s first LNG carrier, the Furwairit, has set sail from Spain on its 100th delivery voyage.

Excelerate has received approval from the US DOE to export LNG for 20 years from its Lavaca Bay FLSO terminal.

Honeywell has received an order to supply a data consolidation and reporting solution to support operations at Australia Pacific LNG’s coal seam gas to LNG project.

Oil and Gas engineering Solutions is to perform FEED studies for Excelerate Energy’s Lavaca Bay LNG Floating Liquefaction Storage and Offloading Project.

Bordelon Marine Inc. announces the expected delivery of the first of three vessels from the new Stingray class series 252 foot DP2 PSV and MPSV. All of the vessels will be built at the Bordelon Marine Shipyard in Houma, LA.

GE has received orders to supply propulsion systems totaling 1105 MW for 23 new LNG ships in South Korea. The orders come from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Hyundai Heavy Industries.

Technip was awarded a five-year inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) frame agreement contract by ConocoPhillips (U.K.) Limited for various assets in the Central, Southern North Sea and East Irish Sea.

The feed contract for an oil and gas FPSO facility offshore Angola has been awarded to KBR.

Osaka Gas and Chubu Electric have acquired liquefaction rights to Train 1 of the Freeport LNG facility, the agreement clears the way for them to export LNG from the US mainland.

BP has been ordered by a Russian court to pay US$ 3.1 billion in damages to TNK-BP.