The South China province of Hainan, famous for its resorts, has seen a surge in offshore duty-free shopping, with total sales revenue of 6.3 billion yuan ($1.03 billion) between April 2011 and Dec 2013. In that period, Hainan saw over ...
Tags: Duty-Free Sales, resorts
Gulfsands Petroleum plc ("Gulfsands", the "Group" or the "Company" - AIM: GPX), the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Colombia and the U.S.A. is pleased to announce that ...
TGS has announced the acquisition of a 3D multi-client seismic survey, The Nerites 3D, which covers 8,300 km2 in the Great Australian Bight, offshore South Australia. The survey, scheduled to commence in early January 2014, will cover two ...
Statoil, along with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded block 6 in the East Greenland licence round. Statoil will be operator of the block. Block 6 is located offshore north-east Greenland in a frontier area. Statoil ...
The Directors of Armour Energy Limited (ASX: AJQ) (the Company) wish to advise that the Company has exercised a right to farmin to Petroleum Retention Lease 2 in Victoria (PRL2), held by Lakes Oil NL (ASX: LKO). The farmin agreement will ...
Statoil and partners have awarded Aker Solutions the engineering framework agreement for the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea, where the first call off will be the front-end engineering design (FEED) of the field centre. The Johan ...
Tags: offshore developments, oil, energy
Industry experts from Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, have presented the company’s work and subsea operations to support DeepOcean UK’s graduate training programme and new conversion engineering ...
Prosafe has been awarded a contract by Swiber Offshore Construction Pte Ltd (Swiber) for the provision of the Safe Astoria semi-submersible accommodation vessel for operations located in Indonesia’s Natuna Sea offshore gas gathering ...
The latest version of K-Sim DP, a Dynamic Positioning (DP) Manoeuvring simulator from Kongsberg Maritime, has received the prestigious Class A Certification from Det Norske Veritas (DNV). This makes it compliant with the highest DNV ...
Tags: dynamic positioning, HPR
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FX Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FXEN) announced that the Szymanowice-1 well in Poland tested gas during a drill stem test (DST) in a 28 meter section of the Rotliegend sandstone target reservoir. The ...
In the 27th Offshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round, RWE Dea UK received the operatorship in a further three licences in the Southern North Sea In addition to the two 27th Round licences awarded earlier this year, P2018 West of Shetland and ...
API welcomed the passage today of an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico to allow joint energy development projects along our shared maritime border as a part of the final approval of Congress’ budget deal. “The energy ...
Tags: energy development, oil, gas
The Egyptian Ministery of Petroleum has signed the Concession Agreement for the East Ras Budran Offshore area. RWE Dea is the operator, holding a share of 80%. The company plans a 3D seismic survey and one exploration well during the first ...
Tags: exploration, oil
UTEC StarNet has announced that the company is currently performing laser surveys on the Shearwater platform in the North Sea. The survey work follows on from a recently-completed project on the Shell Gannet platform and involves use of ...
BPZ Energy (NYSE: BPZ) (BVL: BPZ), today provided an update on its multi-well development drilling campaign at the offshore Corvina and Albacora fields as well as the three-well exploration program at onshore Block XXIII. Offshore Block ...