Humber Gathering System, a Kellas Midstream company, and Dana Petroleum have appointed ODE Asset Management as installation operator of the Tolmount platform, a normally unattended installation in the southern UK North Sea.
Noble Energy Inc. and partners in deepwater Leviathan and Tamar natural gas fields offshore Israel have amended their agreements with an Egyptian gas buyer to more than double firm volume commitments.
The start-up of the Valhall West Flank facility in the North Sea has been approved by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The facility is a further development of Valhall field in the southern part of the Norwegian Continental Shelf, 290 km offshore.
Production is resuming at Hibernia oil field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador after a second shutdown forced by an oil release, reports Hibernia Management & Development Co. Ltd., the operator.
Alberta is raising allowable oil production in the province by 10,000 b/d in November and December from the October level. It imposed output cuts totaling 325,000 b/d in response to pipeline congestion lowering oil values at points of production.
Var Energi let a contract to Baker Hughes and Norwegian contractor Ocean Installer for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of subsea systems and associated services for the Balder X project on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The ConocoPhillips-operated joint venture in the Timor Sea off the Northern Territory has let a contract for the construction of an export pipeline in Barossa natural gas field development to Swiss company Allseas Group SA.
Despite a wave of financial adversity that has tormented US onshore E&P companies lately, Rystad Energy does not view this as a harbinger of doom for the shale industry’s future.
Posco International Corp. (formerly Posco Daewoo) has let a front-end engineering and design contract to McDermott International Inc. for Shwe Phase 3 gas field development offshore Myanmar.
Despite weaker leading economic indicators in August, the American Petroleum Institute’s Monthly Statistical Report recorded remarkably strong US oil production, demand, and trade activities for the month.
Northern Oil & Gas Australia, operator of the Northern Endeavour FPSO in the Timor Sea, along with its associate companies TOGA Services and Timor Sea Oil & Gas Australia, have gone into voluntary administration.
Eni SPA and 50-50 partner BP PLC have started production from Baltim South West natural gas field in the Great Nooros area offshore Egypt and plan more drilling.
Chevron Corp. sanctioned a waterflood project to extend the life of St. Malo field, which lies 280 miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. The project is Chevron’s first waterflood in the deepwater Wilcox trend.
Saudi Arabia’s oil production will recover faster than initially feared from damage inflicted by unmanned aircraft Sept. 14 to the Abqaiq crude oil processing complex and Khurais oil field, Saudi officials say.
