Talisman reaches financial settlement on Yme project
Mar 12, 2013
Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, reached an agreement with Dutch maritime services group SBM Offshore NV to scrap the above-surface structure on the Yme oil platform in the Norwegian North Sea. |
Statoil starts Vigdis North-East oil flow
Mar 11, 2013
Statoil has started production at an undisclosed rate from Vigdis North-East oil field, a four-well subsea development in the North Sea offshore Norway (OGJ Online, Sept. 16, 2011). |
Total restarts Elgin-Franklin gas, condensate in UK North Sea
Mar 11, 2013
Total SA restarted production of natural gas and condensate on the Elgin-Franklin complex in the UK North Sea following approval by the UK Health and Safety Executive. |
Telok natural gas flow starts offshore Malaysia
Mar 11, 2013
ExxonMobil Corp. reported the start-up of Telok natural gas field offshore Malaysia, production from which will peak at 370 MMcfd, according to earlier disclosures by the company. |
US drilling rig count slides to 1,752, down 5 units
Mar 8, 2013
The US drilling rig count slipped by 5 units during the week ended Mar. 8 reaching a total 1,752 rotary rigs working, Baker Hughes Inc. reported. That compares with 1,973 rigs working in the comparable week last year. |
DNV to evaluate, support development of two dry-tree semis
Mar 7, 2013
Det Norske Veritas (DNV) was selected to evaluate and support development of two cost-competitive dry-tree semisubmersible rig concepts for the Gulf of Mexico. |
Saratoga sees more liquids potential at Grand Bay
Mar 7, 2013
Saratoga Resources Inc., Houston, has dually completed its QQ-25 Roux Toux well in Main Pass Block 47 field on State Lease 195 in the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana and tied it back to the company’s Grand Bay production facility. |
Talisman's shale strategy emphasizes Eagle Ford liquids
Mar 6, 2013
Talisman Energy Inc. is setting its short-term priority on developing liquids in the South Texas Eagle Ford liquids shale play and also on drilling to hold strategic land positions in some of its dry gas plays, Talisman Pres. and Chief Executive Officer Hal Kvisle said in a Mar. 6 webcast with investors. |
Johan Sverdrup Jurassic oil test 'best in North Sea'
Mar 6, 2013
The result from the latest appraisal well in the Johan Sverdrup area offshore Norway “in terms of reservoir quality of the Volgian reservoir represents one of the best tests ever seen in the North Sea,” said Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm. |
Colombia: Petrominerales eyes Llanos basin commerciality
Mar 6, 2013
Petrominerales Ltd., Calgary, said it resumed production testing in January 2013 at its Tatama horizontal well in Colombia’s Llanos basin, where the company operates the Rio Ariari, Chiguiro Oeste, and Chiguiro Este blocks. |
CRS finds US production grew outside federally controlled areas
Mar 5, 2013
While US oil and gas production has climbed to its highest level in 2 decades, all of the growth since 2007 has occurred outside federally controlled areas where production actually declined, a recent report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found. |
North Sea Cormorant platform incident shuts down Brent pipeline system
Mar 4, 2013
Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. (TAQA) confirmed a hydrocarbon release was detected in one of the Cormorant Alpha platform legs in the northern UK North Sea, adding there was no hydrocarbon release into the sea or air. |
Apache gauges Egypt Khalda, Abu Gharadig oil, gas
Mar 4, 2013
Apache Corp. has completed an oil and gas-condensate discovery on the north flank of the Khalda Ridge producing complex in the Western Desert of Egypt, a country in which the company plans to drill 270 wells in 2013, including more than 60 exploratory wells. |
Watching Government: Dalrymple's different problems
Mar 4, 2013
Governors descended on Washington, DC, Feb. 23-25 eager to exchange ideas and share experiences at the National Governors Association's 2013 Winter Meeting. |
Governor wants Ohio to 'modernize' severance tax
Mar 4, 2013
It's time for Ohio to "modernize" its severance tax so the state can more fully benefit from oil and gas discoveries there, Gov. John Kasich (R) said in his 2013 State of the State address. |
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