The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the oil companies in the Diskos group have awarded contracts for software and operation of the Diskos databases to CGG. The contracts apply for the period 2015 to 2020. The contract award is ...
Preliminary production figures for October 2013 indicate an average daily production of about 1 751 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate. This is 175 000 barrels per day (about 11 percent) more than in September 2013. Total gas sales ...
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Seismic streamers were installed on the Snorre field this past summer. When the streamers are lying exposed on the seabed, before they are covered, they are extremely vulnerable to trawling activity and other outside influences. Work to ...
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Cape plc is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary Cape Australia Onshore has entered into an agreement with Bechtel, one of the world’s most respected engineering, project management, and construction companies, for the ...
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Hot tapping is also known as a form of pressure tapping and it is a way of connecting the present pipeline or containers, without the requirement to empty any connected part of the pipe or the container. This means that the work can be done ...
Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Do Van Hau, President and CEO of Petrovietnam National Oil and Gas Group signed today in Hanoi the Agreement on setting up a natural gas for vehicles joint venture. The ...
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West Africa is experiencing a surge in piracy, with well-organised hijackers targeting the region's growing oil and gas industries, writes national security expert Dr James Jay Carafano in World Review. Although efforts to combat crime at ...
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Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) announces the TRITON GeoStreamer® Full Azimuth survey, a new solution to complex imaging problems in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. PGS offer this survey as the next important advance in tailored ...
China National Petroleum Corporation will pay $2.6 billion for oil and gas assets in Peru, according to a press release from its listed unit PetroChina on Wednesday. CNPC, the country's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, will buy ...
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BG Group plc (BG Group) today announced that Martin Houston, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Executive Director, has stepped down from the Board and Group Executive Committee (GEC) with immediate effect, and will retire from the Group by ...
Northern Petroleum Plc (AIM:NOP) announces that GM-ES-5, the final well of the 2012 -2013 four well exploration programme in the Guyane Maritime Permit (offshore French Guiana) has been drilled to a total depth of 6,460 metres and the well ...
Heritage Oil Plc ("Heritage" or the "Company") (TSX:HOC)(LSE:HOIL), an independent upstream exploration and production company announces that a wholly owned subsidiary has entered into a joint venture agreement with Bayelsa Oil Company ...
Well has penetrated a continuous section of oil-bearing Barney Creek Shale source rock. Oil bearing Barney Creek Shale intersected from 260 metres to 780 metres. Results indicate oil window exists to a depth of 780 meters which is ...
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Petrobras announces it has completed drilling the fifth exploratory well in the Santos Basin pre-salt Iara area, block BM-S-11. Well 3-RJS-715D (3-BRSA-1181D-RJS), informally known as Iara Alto Ângulo ('Iara steep angle'), is ...
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (NYSE: ANW) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the U.S. East Coast bunkering business of Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES). This transaction, for a purchase price of $30 ...
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