Exploration

Keppel secures contract to perform second FLNG vessel conversion for Golar.

Petrobras declares commerciality of the Santos Basin pre-salt areas of Iara and Entorno de Iara.

Det norske has received consent to use Transocean Winner to drill production wells on the Alvheim field.

Step Change in Safety has announced its independence from Oil & Gas UK and will now be wholly owned by its 137 member organisations.

BG Norge AS (BG) is the operator for production licence PL 373 in the Tampen area in the northern North Sea.

Australian energy company WHL Energy Limited has announced that company has agreed to grant an extension to Tap Oil Ltd.

BP, on behalf of the Kinnoull field co-venturers, has announced the start of production from the Kinnoull field in the central North Sea.

BNK Petroleum Inc. has provided an update on its Tishomingo Field, Caney shale oil operations in Oklahoma, and its Polish shale gas project.

Independent oil and gas company Wentworth has announced a natural gas discovery onshore Mozambique.

The results of DNV GL’s fifth annual industry benchmark study on the outlook for the oil and gas industry will be launched on Monday 19 January, 2015.

Ithaca Energy Inc. has announced the appointment of Mr Roy Buchan as Chief Operations Officer, starting 5 January 2015.

Lundin Petroleum AB has completed the drilling of wildcat well 33/2-1 on PL555 located 200km northwest of Florø on the Norwegian west coast.

Dresser-Rand has released its 2015 training schedule, which includes a comprehensive list of product training programs.

Bjarte Slettevoll, Technical Manager of Norway’s Sanco Shipping, explains how the company is bringing a different kind of support to seismic ships.

Canacol has announced the acquisition of VIM 5 and VIM 19 contracts and the Clarinete gas discovery in the Lower Magdalena Valley of Colombia.