Statoil has acquired a 12% working interest in the Block 6 licence offshore Tanzania from operator Petrobras Tanzania Ltd. Block 6 covers 5,549 square kilometres in the Mafia basin offshore Tanzania, with a water depth of 1,800 metres. Block 6 is located approx.170 kilometres north of the Statoil-operated Block 2, where the company in 2012 [...]
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BGP has signed a three year Cooperative Agreement with TGS to acquire, process and market multi-client 2D and 3D seismic data in East Africa. The agreement includes the 2D 13,135 km seismic survey in west Morondava, offshore Madagascar, which was acquired by BGP from January to May. BGP and TGS will extend their long term [...]
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Wärtsilä is the market leader in topside direct electrical heating systems being involved in 85 per cent of all contracted systems to date. This latest valuable order for Wärtsilä DEH technology provides further evidence of the benefits of the proven technology for West African installations. On the Norwegian continental shelf it has been used already [...]
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Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, the Atlantic margins focused oil and gas exploration company, today announces that the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Namibia has granted a one year extension for the First Renewal Phase on the Central Area Blocks, (Licence 19, covering Blocks 2312 A & B and Northern halves of 2412 A [...]
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Global oil services provider AGR Petroleum Services has signed an £18million/ NOK 160 million contract with Genel Energy. The company is to deliver Well Management services for Genel Energy’s North/West Africa offshore drilling campaign. The contract, secured by AGR’s Aberdeen-based team, involves provision of full Well Management and associated services, including drilling engineering and planning [...]
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Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that it has secured a contract from Saipem to supply umbilicals for the Burullus West Delta Deep Marine Phase IXa development located offshore Egypt. The order consists of ten subsea production control umbilicals totaling approximately 84 kilometers (52.2 miles) in length and two electrical power cables totaling approximately 55 kilometers (34.2 [...]
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Market-leading energy services company Proserv has won a multi-million dollar contract in Angola, underpinning the company’s fast-evolving subsea status and increasing demand for its sampling system innovations. Proserv is to design and manufacture a subsea sampling system for BP’s PSVM field development which, with a water depth of 2,000 metres, is believed to be the [...]
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Nexans, a worldwide expert in the cable industry, has been awarded a 25 million Euro contract by Subsea 7, a global leader in seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services to the offshore energy industry, to design and manufacture the direct electrical heating (DEH) system for the subsea pipelines serving the Lianzi oil field development located in [...]
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Ophir Energy plc (“Ophir” or “the Company”) announces that it has secured a drilling rig and executed a letter of agreement for Rig Share Assignment with BG Group for the continuation of its 2013-2014 East African offshore drilling programme. Odjfell Drilling is the contract counterpart and drilling service contractor. The Deepsea Metro I (DSM-1) drillship [...]
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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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