Australasia
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December 12, 2016
EnerMech has been awarded its first contract by Subsea 7 in the Australian oil and gas market.
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December 09, 2016
CHC Group has announced that three new Sikorsky S-92 aircraft will begin serving Shell for the company’s Prelude FLNG project from its base in Broome, Australia.
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December 02, 2016
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a sizeable contract by Woodside Energy Ltd for the Greater Western Flank Phase 2 Project, offshore Australia. The Greater Western Flank is located on the North West Shelf of Australia, 60 km southwest of the Goodwyn Alpha (GWA) platform. The contract scope comprises the subsea tie-back of adjacent fields to the GWA platform, including the installation of manifolds, umbilicals and spool pieces, together with the pre-commissioning of the system.
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November 24, 2016
OMV New Zealand, the operator of Maari oil field, has ceased oil production and is de-manning the Maari wellhead platform (WHP) as a precautionary measure while it deals with a crack found in one of the platform’s horizontal struts.
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November 22, 2016
Beach Energy Limited and Cooper Energy Limited have announced that Penneshaw-1, an oil exploration well located in PR L 87 on the western flank of the Cooper basin, South Australia, spudded on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 at 00:15 hours.
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November 22, 2016
Veolia has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract for the supply of the customized water flood water treatment system on the Ngujima-Yin Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility that will operate in Woodside’s Greater Enfield Area Development fields, offshore northwest Australia.
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November 15, 2016
Woodside has completed its acquisition of half of BHP Billiton’s Scarborough area assets in the Carnarvon basin, located offshore Western Australia.
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October 21, 2016
Santos, the Australian oil and gas company, reported an 11% rise in third-quarter sales due to a boost in production.
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October 19, 2016
Successful Well Test in Bedout Basin Offshore Western Australia
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October 14, 2016
Statoil has informed the New Zealand Government of its decision to stop looking for oil and gas in the Reinga basin.
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October 13, 2016
BP picked up new offshore Australia gas fields to expand supply options for the North West Shelf LNG venture.
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October 12, 2016
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced that Origin Energy Resources Limited, the company's Joint Venture partner, has submitted a notification of discovery and an initial report on discovery to the Department of Primary Industry and Resources (DPIR) of the Northern Territory, Australia on the A mungee NW - 1H well in the Beetaloo basin, Australia.
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October 12, 2016
Searcher Seismic has commenced acquisition of the 11,000 km Hahonua 2D seismic survey offshore Papua New Guinea.
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October 11, 2016
BP has abandoned oil exploration in the offshore Great Australian Bight, five years after it began searching for resources in one of the world’s last frontier regions and before it could drill a single well.
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October 07, 2016
Karoon Gas Australia has been awarded a license for exploration permit EPP46. The permit covers 17,793 km2 of Australia’s most active and prospective frontier oil province, the Ceduna sub‐basin, in the Great Australian Bight (GAB), offshore South Australia.
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October 03, 2016
INPEX, Japan’s largest E&P company, has awarded Amec Foster Wheeler a consultancy contract for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.
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September 22, 2016
Papua New Guinea is backing a new greenfield liquefied natural gas facility led by France’s Total SA, in addition to an expansion of the existing $19-billion Exxon Mobil Corp. PNG LNG project.
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September 22, 2016
CGG announced today that the final pre-stack depth-migrated data for Phase 1 of its Davros 3D BroadSeis and BroadSource multi-client survey in the northern Carnarvon basin on the North West Shelf of Western Australia is available now.
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September 12, 2016
The INPEX-led Ichthys LNG project has reached a key milestone with both its central processing facility (CPF) and FPSO facility safely starting up their main power generators in the South Korean shipyards where they are being constructed.
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September 09, 2016
Bengal Energy has announced that the first four wells of the Cuisinier 2016 five well drilling campaign have been cased as future oil producers in the Murta horizon.
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September 09, 2016
Frank Calabria, who was named Friday as Origin Energy Ltd.’s new CEO, said he’ll focus on paying down a A$9-billion ($6.8-billion) debt pile and consider more asset sales when he takes over from Grant King next month.
