This is the first seismic survey acquired there in approximately 30 years. PanamaSPAN™ is designed to provide the framework to evaluate the hydrocarbon potential of this unexplored area ahead of the anticipated inaugural license round.
Baker Hughes, a GE company has announced one of the first agreements of its kind with Twinza Oil Limited to provide fullstream support on the Pasca A gas condensate field, which is located off Papua New Guinea in the Gulf of Papua.
First gas has been exported from Cygnus Bravo, the satellite wellhead platform in the Southern North Sea’s Cygnus development, operated by ENGIE E&P UK Limited.
Well-Safe Solutions will provide a ground-breaking approach to the safe and cost-efficient decommissioning of subsea wells.
Statoil and partners OMV and Petoro have made a small gas discovery in the Gemini North well, northeast of the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea. The well also proved oil.
Expro has been awarded a substantial contract from global oil and gas company Maersk Oil for the provision of subsea and well test services on two offshore units in the North Sea.
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced a new 3D multi-client broadband reimaging programme offshore Brazil.
Centrica North Sea Limited (Centrica) has awarded HydraWell a three-year frame contract to provide plug & abandonment (P&A) technology and services for the operator’s “A Fields” in the southern part of the North Sea.
Last week the jacket for the Johan Sverdrup riser platform was installed by Thialf crane vessel owned by Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC). Weighing a good 26 000 t the jacket is the largest on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).
Premier Oil has provided a progress update on various drilling operations.
DeepOcean has acquired French company Searov Offshore SAS and has expanded its presence in West Africa.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7435/12-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
The latest annual health and safety data published for the UK offshore oil and gas industry signals a continued trend of improving performance despite 2016 being a challenging year, says Oil & Gas UK.
Once a production sharing contract for blocks 01 and 02 of the Cuu Long Basin expire, PC Vietnam Limited will hand the blocks over to the host authority.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for well 25/4-11, a wildcat well in production licence 677.