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Oando Energy Services Limited (OESL) has been awarded a two year drilling contract for its swamp rig OES Passion for operations in the Niger...
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OGX starts oil production at Waimea field in Brazil
Brazilian oil and gas company OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes has started the first production at the Waimea field in the Campos Basin, off the coast of...
Nido Petroleum to start 2D seismic survey offshore Philippines
Nido Petroleum is to acquire a new 2D seismic survey in service contract 58 (SC 58), offshore Philippines, on behalf of block operator Philippine National Oil Corporation-Exploration...
E.ON Ruhrgas encounters dry wells at Skarv field
E.ON Ruhrgas Norge has encountered dry wells at the Skarv field in production licence 350, in the Norwegian...
OMV to develop offshore New Zealand oilfields
Austrian oil and gas company OMV has unveiled plans for the development of the Maari and Manaia oilfields in New Zealand's offshore Taranaki...
Lundin Petroleum finds oil in Bertam-2 well
Swedish oil and gas explorer and producer Lundin Petroleum has discovered oil in the Bertam-2 appraisal well in the PM307 production sharing contract (PSC) area, offshore Peninsular...
Anadarko strikes light oil offshore Ghana
US oil and gas explorer Anadarko Petroleum has discovered light oil at the Ntomme-2A exploration well on the Deepwater Tano block, offshore...
TGS to start 3D multi-client survey offshore Angola
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company has entered a final agreement with Angolan oil company Sonangol to start the acquisition of a 3D multi-client survey covering 12,500km2, offshore...
Anadarko finds natural gas offshore Mozambique
US oil and gas explorer Anadarko Petroleum has made its seventh natural gas discovery in the Rovuma Basin, offshore...
Spectrum begins 2D seismic survey offshore Namibia
Spectra Energy has started a new 2D multi-client seismic survey offshore Namibia in partnership with CGGVeritas and the National Petroleum Corporation of...
Lundin Petroleum completes drilling Avaldsnes appraisal well
Sweden-based Lundin Petroleum has completed drilling the 16/5-2S appraisal well on the Avaldsnes discovery, offshore...
Rialto Energy secures funding for Gazelle field
Australia-based independent oil and gas company Rialto Energy has entered a principle agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for a proposed investment of $20m in an...
Santos completes Wortel wells drilling
Australian oil and gas exploration and production company Santos has completed the drilling of two development wells on the Wortel gas discovery, within the Sempang production sharing...
Woodside uses AGR drilling technique to set world record
Oil and gas company Woodside has set a new world record for drilling the deepest well on the Tidepole East-1 exploration well, offshore Western...
Statoil discovers oil at Havis prospect in Barents Sea
Statoil ASA, in collaboration with its project partners Eni Norge AS and Petoro, has made a new oil discovery in the Havis prospect in the Barents...
Statoil completes Skinfaks South well drilling
Norway-based oil company Statoil has finished drilling the Skinfaks South well in the Gullfaks field, North...
Maersk Oil confirms discovery offshore Angola
Denmark-based Maersk Oil, in partnership with Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola Empresa Pública (Sonangol), has confirmed an oil discovery at the Azul-1 deepwater exploration...
Serica Energy wins offshore UK licences
Serica Energy has won production licences for two projects located offshore...
Iran’s South Pars gas field development nears completion
The five phases of the South Pars gas field development located in the Persian Gulf are nearing...
Ophir Energy starts drilling programme offshore Tanzania
Ophir Energy has begun its 2012 drilling programme in Tanzania with the drillship Odfjell...
Oil output increases at Afren Nigerian block
UK-based oil and gas firm Afren has confirmed that production has reached 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) at its Ebok field, offshore...