Deepwater
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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.
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December 02, 2014
BERGEN, Norway -- Rocksource ASA has abandoned the Ivory exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, citing volume estimates indicating a resource base that was below the pre-drill low case estimate of 280 Bcf of gas.
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December 02, 2014
VIENNA, Austria -- OMV has commenced production at the MR-8A well from a previously undrained compartment in the Maari field off the Taranaki coast of New Zealand.
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December 02, 2014
TOKYO -- MODEC and its Brazilian partner Schahin Group have been awarded a contract for supply, charter, and operations of a FPSO vessel for the BM-C-36 block in the Campos basin by Petrobras.
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December 02, 2014
WESTHILL, Aberdeen -- Ennsub has been awarded a contract worth $3.15 million (£2 million) by Benthic to build a newly enhanced and portable Launch and Recovery System (LARS4) to complement the latest addition to its seabed drilling and geotechnical drill fleet.
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December 01, 2014
ABERDEENSHIRE, Scotland -- Industrial and emergency response provider NRC has announced the establishment of a new oil spill base in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The new 4.9-acre site in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, will act as a service, maintenance and training facility for NRC’s international activities.
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November 24, 2014
HARTLEPOOL, United Kingdom -- Royal Niger Emerging Technologies, a Nigerian service company, has awarded JDR a fast track contract supporting the West African Abo project for the manufacture of a 1.55 km hybrid steel tube and thermoplastic umbilical.
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November 24, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras completed the drilling of the first appraisal well -- 3-BRSA-1255 (3-RJS-731) -- in the Libra Consortium area on Nov. 6. Located in the northwest portion of the Libra block, in the pre-salt layer of the Santos basin, the well is approximately 4 km southeast of discovery well 2-ANP-2A-RJS.
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November 24, 2014
TULSA, Oklahoma -- Pipeline services specialist, T.D. Williamson (TDW) has executed a gas valve upgrade project on a deepwater gas export pipeline, offshore New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM).
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November 19, 2014
YANTAI, China -- CIMC Raffles has acquired a new order for its deepwater semisubmersible accommodation rig, the CR600, from C. Helios.
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November 17, 2014
NEW YORK -- Hess and Chevron announced that the Tubular Bells field in deepwater Gulf of Mexico has started crude oil and natural gas production. The field is located 135 mi southeast of New Orleans, in approximately 4,300 ft of water in the Mississippi Canyon area. The discovery well was drilled in 2003, and project construction began in October 2011.
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November 14, 2014
BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France -- Vallourec has been awarded a contract to supply premium tubes and connections for the ultra-deep offshore Kaombo project in Angola, operated by TOTAL E&P Angola.
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November 14, 2014
HOUSTON -- Production in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) is expected to reach a new peak of 1.9 MMboed in 2016, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest outlook.
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November 13, 2014
PARIS -- Technip has been awarded a contract by Anadarko Petroleum for the K2 Riser Base Gas Lift project, located in Green Canyon 608 in the Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of approximately 1,300 m.
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November 12, 2014
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Mubadala Petroleum has started production at its operated Manora oil field, located within the G1/48 concession, approximately 80 km offshore in 44 m of water, in the northern Gulf of Thailand.
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November 10, 2014
ZUG, Switzerland (Bloomberg) -- Transocean Ltd., the largest owner of deepwater drilling rigs, reported a third-quarter loss of $6.12 per share after taking one-time charges of $2.57 billion related to the value of its fleet. Transocean delayed publishing its earnings last week after announcing the writedowns, prompted by a slowdown in oil exploration after this year’s decline in crude prices.
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November 05, 2014
HAMILTON, Bermuda -- Seadrill Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Seadrill Partners to sell the ultra-deepwater drillship, the West Vela. Seadrill Capricorn Holdings, a 51% owned subsidiary of Seadrill Partners, will acquire all of the ownership interests in the entities that own and operate the drillship.
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November 04, 2014
SEOUL, Korea -- The naming ceremony for four semi-submersible rigs -- Hull No. 3031, 3032, 3034, 3035 -- ordered by Norwegian-based Songa Offshore was held on Oct. 24. The rigs were named as Songa Equinox, Songa Endurance, Songa Encourage and Songa Enabler, respectively.
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November 03, 2014
ABERDEEN, United Kingdom -- Churchill Drilling Tools, the provider of innovative dart activated drilling tools, has launched the HyPR (Hydraulic Pipe Recovery) system for the rapid and cost-effective recovery of stuck pipe. Stuck pipe situations cost operators hundreds of millions of dollars a year in wait times. The HyPR tool, developed by the Houston and Aberdeen-located company, can cut that cost significantly by enabling operators to get back on track much more quickly.
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November 03, 2014
PARIS -- CGG has announced another major commitment to its Gulf of Mexico StagSeis multi-client program with the prefunding of the entire 871-offshore-block program by an international E&P company. Representing over 20,000 sq km, this new full-program commitment for all three StagSeis surveys, IBALT, DEUX and TROIS, comes in addition to significant prefunding by several other E&P companies.
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October 30, 2014
TURKU, Finland -- Deltamarin announced that it has entered into a contract with Jurong Shipyard for the basic engineering of the Libra FPSO. Deltamarin’s scope of work covers the marine part of the Navion Norvegia shuttle tanker conversion into the Libra FPSO.
