Deepwater
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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.
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October 29, 2014
LONDON -- Petrofac has been awarded a contract to work with the Government of Nova Scotia, to help it identify the best way forward to exploit its ultra-deepwater oil potential.
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October 29, 2014
SAN RAMON, California -- Chevron has announced that its subsidiary, Union Oil Company of California, has reached a final investment decision to proceed with the development of the Hess Corporation-operated Stampede project in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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October 28, 2014
AMSTERDAM—Schlumberger has released the Invizion Evaluation well integrity service, which helps operators evaluate zonal isolation by using integrated drilling, cementing and well logging data.
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October 28, 2014
AMSTERDAM – Weatherford International has announced the availability of its xQuartzPT gauge for extreme-service subsea and downhole applications.
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October 28, 2014
MADRID, Spain -- Repsol has discovered high quality oil in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The uncovering was made in an ultra deepwater well named Leon, which is situated at 352 km from the Louisiana coast, located in the Keathley Canyon 642 block.
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October 27, 2014
The Libra consortium announces that the drilling of the first extension well in the Libra area, known as 3-BRSA-1255-RJS (3-RJS-731), has proven the discovery of high-quality oil in the northwest portion of the structure.
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October 24, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras has announced the discovery of a hydrocarbon accumulation in the deep waters of the Espírito Santo basin. The discovery was made by well 4-GLF-42-ESS no, informally known as Lontra, at a water depth of 1,319 m.
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October 24, 2014
NEW ORLEANS (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc’s bid for a new trial over causes of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill should be rejected because the judge didn’t rely on excluded testimony, Halliburton Co. said in court papers. BP’s own lawyers are responsible for trial testimony that the London-based oil company complains led to an unfair gross- negligence finding against it, according to Halliburton, the cementing subcontractor on the blown-out well.
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October 23, 2014
SAN RAMON, California -- Chevron Corporation has made a new oil discovery at the Guadalupe prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Keathley Canyon Block 10 Well No. 1 encountered significant oil pay in the Lower Tertiary Wilcox Sands. The well is located approximately 180 miles off the Louisiana coast in 3,992 ft of water and was drilled to a depth of 30,173 ft.
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October 22, 2014
LONDON -- Shell reported a frontier exploration discovery offshore Gabon, West Africa. The well Leopard-1, encountered a substantial gas column with around 200 m net gas pay in a pre-salt reservoir.
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October 17, 2014
HOUSTON -- KBR has reported that the KD consortium, consisting of KBR and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), has been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by Eni East Africa for FLNG facility for the Coral South Development Project located in Mozambique.
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October 16, 2014
SAN RAMON, California (Bloomberg) -- Chevron Corp. is delaying developing a second phase of a deepsea natural gas project off Indonesia’s Borneo island due to start in 2019. The final investment decision for Gendalo-Gehem won’t be taken this year, a Chevron spokesman said in an emailed statement Oct. 15. The San Ramon, California-based company has yet to submit a revised development plan for it, Zudaldi Rafdi, a spokesman at SKK Migas, Indonesia’s upstream oil regulator, said in a phone interview Oct. 15.
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October 15, 2014
READING, United Kingdom -- BG Group has announced the early start of production from the Iracema area in block BM-S-11, one of the Group’s and its partners’ significant discoveries in the Santos basin, offshore Brazil. Petrobras is the operator. The Cidade de Mangaratiba FPSO is the first unit deployed on the Iracema development and the fourth FPSO to date to have started up across the partners’ interests in blocks BM-S-9 and BM-S-11 in the first phase of development of the pre-salt Santos basin.
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October 13, 2014
HOUSTON -- OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, has been awarded a subsea production systems contract totaling more than $290 million for the Lakach deepwater project offshore Mexico. This is the first deepwater subsea field to be developed by Pemex.
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October 12, 2014
MEXICO (Bloomberg) -- Pemex is optimistic of a crude discovery at the Vasto-1 ultra-deep water exploratory well by year-end, said Exploration and Production Director Gustavo Hernandez.
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October 10, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO – The Libra consortium has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Odebrecht/Teekay (OOG-Teekay), winner of a tender process, for the charter of a FPSO-type platform designed for the extended well test campaign at the Libra area, in the Santos basin pre-salt. The delivery of the FPSO and the start-up of the first extended well test are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016. The plan is to conduct tests in several areas of the block, in order to evaluate the production performance and acquire information about the Libra area. Based on these data, future definitive production systems will be later designed.
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October 10, 2014
SINGAPORE -- EMAS AMC, Ezra Holdings Group’s subsea services division, has finalized three contracts with Noble Energy valued collectively at over $300 million. The scope of work includes engineering, procurement, construction and installation of subsea tie-backs for the Big Bend, Dantzler and Gunflint field developments in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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October 09, 2014
LONDON -- Xodus Group launched a global subsea engineering company in partnership with major oil and gas contractor Saipem and mid and downstream oil and gas giant Chiyoda Corporation.
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October 09, 2014
Marine Contracting has towed LLOG Exploration’s Delta House floating production semi-submersible to its operating site in the Gulf of Mexico’s Mississippi Canyon block 254 field.
