The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) has approved Suncor Energy Inc.'s application for developing three additional stages in the in situ Firebag steam-assisted gravity project for recovering bitumen from the oil sands in the Athabasca region of Alberta.
Pakistan Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar said 59 onshore and offshore exploration wells were drilled in Pakistan since January 2008, resulting in 22 oil and gas discoveries.
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS has let a contract to Aker Solutions for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a platform jacket and bridge support jacket for the new Ekofisk 2/4L accommodations platform, to be installed on Block 2/4 off Norway.
The floatover installation of the North Rankin B (NRB) platform topsides on Australia’s North West Shelf will set world weight and water-depth records, says a contractor.
Azerbaijan International Operating Co. (AIOC) has sanctioned the investment of $6 billion for the Chirag oil project.
The government of Alberta recently announced that it will modify its oil and gas royalty scheme.
US drilling activity continued to grow with 1,407 rotary rigs working this week, an increase of 11 units from the previous week and up from 1,126 in operation in the same period a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.
Transocean Ltd. reported the newbuild ultradeepwater drillship Discoverer Inspiration has started operations for Chevron USA Inc. in the Gulf of Mexico under a 5-year drilling contract.
US climate legislation, if enacted, potentially could lead to large volumes of captured carbon dioxide from power plants and other industrial sources, consequently accelerating enhanced oil recovery and boosting oil production, said a report by Advanced Resources International (ARI) of Arlington, Va.
Oil production has restarted from Woollybutt field off Western Australia after being offline for a year, said joint-venture partner Eni SPA.
The new Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 drillship, owned by a joint venture of Transocean Ltd. and Pacific Drilling Ltd., has begun work under a 5-year contract with Reliance Industries Ltd. off India.
US drilling activity continued to increase with 1,396 rotary rigs working in the week ended Mar. 5, 23 more than the previous week and up from 1,170 a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.
Petrofac Ltd. has begun transporting oil by pipeline from West Don and Don Southwest fields in the UK North Sea to the Thistle platform, operated by Lundin Petroleum AB, 12 km south.
Grizzly Oil Sands ULC submitted applications to the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment for developing the 11,300 b/d Algar Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage oil sands project.
A project team has begun to inject carbon dioxide into Alabama’s Citronelle field as part of a $7.9 million pilot project to determine whether the field is ideal for simultaneous enhanced oil recovery and CO2 storage, the US Department of Energy said on Mar. 1.
Nido Petroleum Ltd., Perth, awarded two major equipment contracts for development of Tindalo oil field in the Palawan basin off the Philippines.
The ultradeepwater West Orion semisubmersible has been christened at Jurong Shipyard, Singapore, and is on schedule for delivery early in the second quarter, reports Sembcorp Marine.
The first phase of the BHP Billiton-operated Pyrenees oil field development project off Western Australia has been brought on stream several months ahead of schedule.
Uganda’s oil production target could more than double to 350,000 b/d by 2018 from the current target of 150,000 b/d in 2013 if the right business plan is adopted, according to Tullow Oil PLC.
Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, has resumed drilling at Thistle field in the UK North Sea for the first time in more than 20 years.
