Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce its 2014 development, appraisal and exploration budget which totals USD 2.1 billion. The 2014 expenditure on development projects is budgeted at USD 1.4 billion which ...
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Tullow Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 551, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 31/3-4. The well was dry. The well was drilled approx. ten kilometres north of the Troll C facility in the North Sea. ...
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Exploration well 31/3-4 on the Mantra prospect offshore Norway has encountered reservoir quality sands but all intervals were water wet. Det norske is partner in the 551 license with a 20 percent interest. The 31/3-4 wildcat was the first ...
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has issued VNG Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6406/12-3 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Wellbore 6406/12-3 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility in ...
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It was considered the largest oil-related natural disaster in the history of the world, so it only follows that the fine would be historic too. Gargantuan oil company BP has agreed to pay the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history for ...
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) today announced that a subsidiary has awarded contracts to Keppel FELS Limited's shipyard in Singapore for the construction of five Super B 400 Bigfoot Class jackup drilling rigs. The first rig is ...
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Kongsberg wins integrated monitoring and control system contract for four drill ships and six options Thursday, May 23, 2013 KONGSBERG has been awarded a significant offshore Integrated Monitoring and Control System contract with Daewoo ...
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To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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KONGSBERG wins contract for deliveries to four drillships Friday, May 17, 2013 KONGSBERG has been awarded a significant offshore automation contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). The contract covers deliveries to ...
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Karoon Gas has decided against exercising its right to pre-empt PetroChina's purchase of a 20% stake in the Poseidon gas-condensate discovery off Western Australia, the company said Friday. "By not exercising its pre-emptive right under ...
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BP said Tuesday it is ready to defend itself in court over civil liability charges brought against it in the US over the Macondo oil spill after attempts to settle out of court failed. BP late last year agreed with the US Department of ...
A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $4 billion settlement hammered out between BP and the US government over the 2010 Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. US District Court Judge Sarah Vance issued the ruling after hearing ...
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Driller Transocean has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in fines and penalties and to plead guilty to one count of violating the Clean Water Act in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US ...
Chevron has proposed a deal to Brazilian prosecutors to resolve Real 40 billion ($19.17 billion) in outstanding legal actions over the Frade Field oil spill. In the proposal, discussed at a public hearing at federal prosecutors' offices ...
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The unmistakable first-class feeling on the wrist Breitling Transocean Chronograph Unitime watch is the easiest way to travel by instantly adjusting the timezone of the countries you visit. When changing meridians, just adjust all the ...