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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.
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December 22, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Lundin Petroleum has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to carry out exploration drilling of appraisal well 16/4-9 S in a prospect named Luno II, in the central North Sea, to investigate the discovery's potential.
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December 19, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO (Bloomberg) -- Petroleo Brasileiro SA CEO Maria das Gracas Foster said in June that the development of Brazil’s giant oil discoveries beneath a layer of salt would be cheaper than competing North American projects. That advantage is quickly evaporating.
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December 18, 2014
HOUSTON -- FMC Technologies has received an order from Eni Angola to supply subsea production systems for its deepwater Block 15/06 East Hub development. The order has an estimated value of $393 million in revenue.
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December 18, 2014
OSLO, Norway -- Ocean Yield has agreed to sell the 1991 built seismic vessel "Geco Triton" to the charterer for $8.2 million.
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December 17, 2014
HOUSTON -- FMC Technologies has received an order from Star Deep Water Petroleum Limited (a Chevron company), operator of the Agbami field, to provide subsea equipment for operations in the Agbami field, offshore Nigeria. The Agbami field is located 70 nautical miles (113 km) off the coast of the central Niger Delta region, at a water depth of approximately 4,800 ft (1,463 m).
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December 17, 2014
LUXEMBOURG -- Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Hess Corporation for installation work in support of the Stampede Project in deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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December 16, 2014
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Blue Ocean Technologies' Interchangeable Riserless Intervention System (IRIS), recently intervened on a deepwater production well in the Gulf of Mexico’s Desoto Canyon, reaching a record-breaking 8,200 ft.
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December 15, 2014
CALGARY, Alberta -- Husky Energy and CNOOC have started production at the Liuhua 34-2 gas field in the South China Sea, the second field to be brought online at the Liwan Gas Project this year.
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December 10, 2014
SCHIEDAM, The Netherlands -- Jumbo has signed a contract with Technip Oceania for the installation of thirteen subsea structures for the Chevron Wheatstone Project.
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December 10, 2014
HONG KONG -- CNOOC has signed three production sharing contracts (PSCs) with KUFPEC for Blocks 52/22, 52/26 and 63/13 located in the Yinggehai basin of the South China Sea.
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December 09, 2014
ADELAIDE, Australia -- Origin Energy has confirmed its Speculant-1 exploration well discovered potentially commercial quantities of gas in Waarre Formation reservoirs in the Otway basin, offshore Victoria, within the Origin operated VIC/L1(v) permit.
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December 09, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Statoil has been awarded four new exploration permits in the East Coast, Pegasus and Reinga basins, offshore New Zealand. The permits were awarded by the nation's government through the 2014 Block Offer.
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December 09, 2014
MILAN, Italy -- Eni has started production of first oil from the West Hub development project in block 15/06 in the Angolan deep offshore, approximately 350 km northwest of Luanda and 130 km west of Soyo.
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December 08, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Centrica Resources Norge, operator of production license 528 B, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6707/10-3 S. The well resulted in a minor gas discovery.
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December 08, 2014
TOKYO -- MODEC's FPSO Cidade de Mangaratiba MV24, located in the BM-S-11 block (Iracema Sul area) in the giant 'pre-salt' region of the Santos basin offshore Brazil, has achieved first oil production in the middle of October.
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December 08, 2014
STAVANGER, Norway -- Statoil, Gassco and Exxon Mobil have received consent from Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for manned underwater operations between Dec. 1, 2014, and Nov. 30, 2015. Statoil has signed framework agreements with Technip Norge AS and Subsea 7 Norway for the provision of such services to the three companies.
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December 04, 2014
PHOENIX -- Freeport-McMoRan has announced positive drilling results from its 100%-owned Holstein Deep and Dorado development wells in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
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December 03, 2014
RIO DE JANERIO -- Petrobras has announced the discovery of natural gas accumulation at Orca-1 exploratory well, in Tayrona block, at Colombian Caribbean deepwaters, 40 km off the coast of La Guajira.
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December 02, 2014
SAN RAMON, California -- The partners for the deepwater Jack and St. Malo project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, led by operator Chevron, have announced that crude oil and natural gas production has started.
