Exploration

ExxonMobil employee charities program sets new record for contributions with more than US$ 2.8 million raised for Washington DC area organisations.

Petrobras announces the discovery of good quality oil during drilling of well 4-BRSA-946C-SPS, informally known as Biguá.

Anadarko has made another significant gas discovery at its Barquentine-3 appraisal well, with this find the company should have enough gas reserve sin place to push on with its liquefaction plant development.

Petrobras has confirmed the presence of good quality oil in well 4-SPS-91 (4-BRSA-1002-SPS), in south Santos Basin, in an area known as Tiro and Sidon.

Girish Shirodkar, Strategic Decisions Group, India, provides an overview of the ASEAN members, centring on the strategic apparatuses in place to fuel future growth in South East Asia.

Weir Group expands US shale activities The Weir Group PLC has agreed to acquire Seaboard Holdings Inc, an independent wellhead solutions provider focused on the growing North American unconventional oil and gas drilling and production markets for US$ 675 million (£431 million).

In order to ease the supply of gas in Kenya, a natural gas pipeline between Tanzania and Kenya is being planned.

San Leon has announced the successful completion of its first shale gas exploration well in the Baltic Basin. The Talisman Energy operated Lewino 1G-2 well, on the Gdansk W Concession in Poland, has been drilled to 3600 m.

BP announced today that it has agreed to sell its interests in the Pompano and Mica fields in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to Stone Energy Offshore, LLC, a subsidiary of Stone Energy Corp.

The American Petroleum Institute supports pro job legislation to expand American energy production.

Kosmos Energy announced today that the Teak-3A appraisal well has confirmed a northern extension of the Teak discovery on the West Cape Three Points Block offshore Ghana.

FMC Technologies, Inc. has set a new deepwater completion record of 9627 ft (2934 m) with its enhanced vertical deepwater tree (EVDT) system.

Chevron Corp. has confirmed that cementing operations are now taking place as part of its well plugging activities on an appraisal well located in the vicinity of the Frade field offshore Brazil.

DNV are to class Dockwise’s new heavy lift vessel, the Dockwise Vanguard, the vessel is the world’s largest heavy lift vessel and can lift weights of to 110,000 tonnes.

Spectrum will commence acquisition of a new 2D multiclient seismic survey in November 2011 which covers several blocks in the northern equatorial margin offshore Brasil.