Jasper Drilling announces that its drillship, the “Jasper Explorer” has commenced drilling operations at CNOOC Congo SA’s first well offshore Republic of Congo. Under the contract with CNOOC Congo SA, the “Jasper Explorer” is to drill two firm wells plus one option well. All wells are to be drilled in direct continuation of one another. [...]
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WesternGeco announced that it has begun acquisition of a major multiclient seismic survey offshore Mozambique using the ObliQ sliding-notch broadband acquisition and imaging technique. The technique optimizes the recorded bandwidth of the seismic signal enabling more detailed imaging of the subsurface and more reliable extraction of rock properties. “This seismic survey is optimally located to [...]
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The Alu Marine shipyard has completed the construction of two survey launches for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This order was attributed to Alu Marine in spring 2012 following a public tender from the “Congolaise des Voies Maritimes” (CVM). These survey boats will make hydrographic surveys in the maritime bief of the Congo River [...]
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Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein officially launched a new 100 megawatts marine cable line from the national grid (Tanzania mainland) on April 10, a sign of energy progress which is expected to lead Zanzibar towards its own “reliable power”. At the celebration of this move, some members of the Zanzibar House of Representatives urged the [...]
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A specialist North-east oil and gas industry support and training facility has launched new subsea related courses in the Middle East and South Africa as part of the company’s global expansion plans to meet growing demand from clients. The Aberdeen-based National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC), which already delivers training in Baku, Brazil, and Spain, has joined [...]
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Alcatel-Lucent and the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium have signed a contract for the maintenance of more than 9,000km of the WACS system linking South Africa to Portugal. In commercial service since May 2012, WACS interconnects 13 African countries, unleashing a new wave of broadband capacity on the continent and enhancing international connectivity. Under [...]
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Total announces that the Ivoire-1X exploration well, located in the western portion of Block CI-100 in 2,280 meters of water, encountered 28 meters of net oil pay in a series of about 100 meters of Cretaceous reservoirs. The oil in the abrupt margin geological play is light 35 API oil. Operated by Total E&P Côte [...]
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Dana Gas, the Middle East’s leading regional private sector natural gas company, has announced it was a successful bidder in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2012 International Bid Round that took place on 18th April 2013. The Company was awarded 100% working interest in the North El Arish Offshore (Block 6) concession area. The [...]
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Eni was awarded a deepwater exploration block (Block 9) in the Eastern Mediterranean of Egypt within the EGAS 2012 International bid round in Cairo (Egypt). Through its fully owned affiliate, IEOC, Eni will act as Operator of Block 9 with 100% equity. Block 9, also named Shorouk Offshore, which covers an area of 3,765 square [...]
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SeaBird Exploration Plc (“SeaBird”) will, in partnership with GeoPartners Ltd (“GeoPartners”), commence a project offshore Namibia. The 2D acquisition program is of approximately 4,700km and will be acquired using the survey vessel Osprey Explorer currently in transit to Walvis Bay. Commencement is within the next few days, with an expected project duration of 45 days. [...]
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