Deepwater
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May 04, 2015
Baker Hughes announced the introduction of its Hammerhead system—the industry’s first fully integrated wellhead-to-reservoir ultradeepwater completion and production system— at OTC 2015 on Monday.
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May 03, 2015
HOUSTON – The 2015 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) will kick off on Sunday, May 3, with the Annual OTC Dinner to honor the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Achievement Awards.
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April 30, 2015
Subsea Services Alliance has announced the first joint technology project between OneSubsea and Helix to engineer and manufacture a 15,000-psi intervention riser system.
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April 30, 2015
BP has confirmed the start of oil production from the Kizomba Satellites phase 2 development in Block 15, offshore Angola. Operated by Exxon Mobil, the deepwater project is expected to produce around 70,000 bopd at peak.
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April 30, 2015
Petrobras has finished drilling well 3-BRSA-1296-SES, in concession BM-SEAL-10, Block SEAL-M-499, in the ultra-deep waters of the Sergipe basin.
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April 30, 2015
LoneStar Energy Fabrication (LSEF) recently completed work on the $5.1-billion Big Foot drilling platform that is now ready to begin drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
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April 29, 2015
Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire MTN Communications (MTN), a leading provider of communications and content for remote locations around the world.
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April 29, 2015
Eni has started production, two weeks ahead of schedule, at Cinguvu oil field, from the West Hub Development Project in Block 15/06 in the Angolan Deep Offshore. The start-up follows the achievement of West Hub’s first oil last November through Sangos field.
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April 29, 2015
Ophir Energy has completed the acquisition of four deepwater Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) in Indonesia from Niko Resources .
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April 28, 2015
Five years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill poured millions of barrels of crude into the sea, BP is being challenged over its hunt for oil in the pristine waters off southern Australia.
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April 27, 2015
Kosmos Energy announced Monday that the Tortue-1 exploration well, drilled to test the Tortue West prospect, which forms part of the Greater Tortue Complex, in Block C-8 offshore Mauritania has made a significant, play-opening gas discovery.
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April 27, 2015
Tullow Oil Plc gained in London after a tribunal ruling on a maritime border dispute between Ghana and Ivory Coast allowed an offshore oil project to proceed.
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April 25, 2015
Shell Pipeline Company's Odyssey Pipeline System has successfully transported the first crude oil produced from the LLOG-operated Delta House platform in the Mississippi Canyon protraction area of the Gulf of Mexico.
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April 23, 2015
Wood Mackenzie has presented its latest analysis of the competitiveness of Black Sea deepwater developments and the significant Domino discovery, which look set to dramatically influence the region’s gas supply dynamics and corporate landscape, at the annual BBSPA conference in Vienna.
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December 30, 2014
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 6405/12-1 on PL584 and came up dry.
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December 30, 2014
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Seadrill has exercised a purchase option for the West Polaris, a 6th generation ultra-depwater drillship, from Ship Finance International.
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December 29, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras has received authorization from Brazil’s ANP to initiate the early production system of well 2-ANP-1RJS, located in Búzios field (formerly known as the Franco area), in the Santos basin pre-salt.
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December 24, 2014
RIO DE JANERIO -- Oil production in fields operated by Petrobras, in both the Santos and the Campos basins pre-salt, reached the historical 700,000 bpd mark on Dec. 16, the company has reported. About 74% of this volume (523,000 bopd) corresponds to the company´s share and 26% correspond to its partners.
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December 23, 2014
NEW YORK -- Hess Exploration Australia, an Australian subsidiary of Hess Corporation has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with the North West Shelf (NWS).
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December 22, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use Scarabeo 5 drilling facility for plugging and production drilling of wells in the Norwegian Sea.
