The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given its consent to Equinor Energy to undertake exploration drilling in block 30/2 north-west of the defunct Huldra gas and condensate field in the North Sea. Block 30/2 is located in production licence 878 where Equinor as the operator will drill pilot hole 30/2-U-1 in 142 metres water depth […]
A final investment decision (FID) statement for the first phase development of the Sangomar oil field offshore Senegal has been signed by the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore joint venture (RSSD joint venture). An official ceremony saw Cairn Energy and its joint venture partners, Woodside Energy and FAR inking the FID statement […]
SapuraOMV Upstream has started production from the Larak gas field as part of the SK408 gas fields in Malaysian waters off the coast of Sarawak. The Larak gas field development was executed within budget, said SapuraOMV Upstream, which is a partnership between Malaysia’s Sapura Energy and OMV Exploration & Production, a subsidiary of Austrian oil […]
Sangomar FPSO contract : MODEC has signed a contract with Woodside Energy to deliver a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Sangomar field development phase 1 offshore Senegal. Recently, the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (RSSD) joint venture was granted approval from the Senegalese government to move ahead with […]
Maersk Drilling has bagged a contract worth $18.2 million for its Maersk Valiant drillship from Noble Energy for the drilling of a well in Colombian waters. The contract for the Danish drilling rig operator is anticipated to begin in the third quarter in 2020 in direct continuation of the Maersk Valiant drillship’s previous contract. Estimated […]
The Senegalese government has approved the development and exploitation plan for the Sangomar oil project in the African country’s territorial waters submitted by Woodside Petroleum and its partners. Operating as the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (RSSD) joint venture, the partners have been given the exploitation authorization for the development of the […]
The TurkStream gas pipeline project, the third pipeline to bring Russian gas to Turkey, has been officially opened by Russia and Turkey in the presence of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Developed by Russian gas giant Gazprom and Turkish oil and gas company Botaş Petroleum Pipeline, the TurkStream pipeline […]
OALP round 4 results : State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has bagged exploration and production rights for all the seven onshore oil and gas blocks on offer at the Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP IV) held by the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG). The onshore oil and gas blocks are […]
Equinor said that the Johan Sverdrup oil field operated by it in the Norwegian North Sea has been officially inaugurated by Erna Solberg, the Prime Minister of Norway. In October 2019, Equinor and its partners Lundin Norway, Petoro, Total, and Aker BP started production from the first phase development of the Norwegian oil field. Since then, […]
Maka Central discovery : Apache Corporation and Total have pulled off a major oil discovery in Suriname Block 58 in the offshore in the Guyana-Suriname basin through the drilling of the Maka Central-1 well. The exploration well was drilled by the Noble Sam Croft drillship in water depth of around 1,000 meters when it encountered […]