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Chissonga FPSO and TLP to be tendered separately Maersk Oil and Gas A/S (Maersk) from Denmark, the national oil company Sonangol from Angola and Odebrecht from Brazil are proceeding to the selection of the contractors to be invited to bid on a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel and a tension leg wellhead platform […]
Grupo R orders four jack-up rigs to Keppel for Pemex The Mexican construction and oil field service company Grupo R ordered four jack-up drilling rigs to Keppel Fels in Singapore to support the exploration and production program planned by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to stop the Mexican production to decline and to increase it again. In October […]
Total-Chevron-SNPC to invest $7 billion in Moho-Nord Total from France, and its partners, Chevron from USA and the local Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC) are willing to move on fast track with the Moho-Nord Floating Production Unit (FPU) project offshore Congo-Brazzaville. Located 20 kilometers northwest of the actual Moho Bilongo FPU and 77 […]
Leading North American energy producer Born in 2002 in Calgary, Alberta, from the merger between PanCanadian Energy Corporation (PanCanadian Energy) and Alberta Energy Company Ltd (Alberta Energy), Encana is operating in oil and gas exploration and production in North America. Headquartered in Calgary, Encana is listed in Toronto and New York Stock exchanges. Created in the 1880s […]
BP and CNPC ramped up oil production 10% per year In June 2009, the international oil company BP and the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC or PetroChina) were awarded the technical services contract (TSC) for the giant Rumaila oil field in the south of Iraq, closed to the Kuwait border. BP discovered the Rumaila oil field […]
Definition Drilling charter refers to the decision of an operator to lease or hire the drilling rigs instead of using its own ones. The service company renting its drilling rig to an operator is called the charterer. Comments In the past each operating company used to have their own drilling rig for oil and gas […]
