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CNOOC opts for Lingshui FPSO and export pipeline The state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is opting for a conventional scheme to develop the offshore gas field Lingshui 17-2, one of its largest discovery in the deepwater of the South China Sea. Located 150 kilometers south of the Hainan Island, the Lingshui 17-2 gas field […]
Talisman Ca Rong Do Tension Leg Platform at design The Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. (Talisman) and its partners the independent companies Pearl Energy, Pan Pacific Petroleum (Pan Pacific) and the national oil company (NOC) PetroVietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) have completed the conceptual study in favor of tension leg platform (TLP) linked to a […]
Chevron validated chemical EOR to maintain Captain The Californian San Ramon-based international oil company (IOC) Chevron Corporation (Chevron) and its partner Dana Petroleum (Dana), a Korean National Oil Company‘s subsidiary, have validated the conclusions of the pilot study to test the performances of the chemical injection as the preferred enhanced oil recovery techniques (EOR) to maintain the production […]
Key Projects and Business Highlights 2014 Over the last months the national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has tried to draw conclusions from the lessons hardly learnt on last years with the consequences to delay projects and see the oil and gas production flattening despite the most massive capital expenditure invested in the world. […]
Noble and Woodside terminated Leviathan MOU In May 2014, the Texas-based independent company Noble Energy Inc. (Noble) and the Australian national oil company (NOC) Woodside terminated their memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding their potential cooperation in the development of the giant non-associated gas field Leviathan offshore Israel in the Mediterranean Sea. This non-binding MOU had been […]
Houston Offshore to complete Sea Lion pre-FEED work The Texas-based Houston Offshore Engineering (Houston Offshore) is currently completing the pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work for the Sea Lion project offshore the Falklands Islands to be developed by the UK companies Premier Oil plc (Premier Oil) and Rockhopper Exploration plc (Rockhopper). The Sea Lion […]
Giant Pao de Acucar in Block BM-C-33 reaches FEED The giant discovery Pao de Acucar and its adjacent fields, Seat and Gavea, are reaching the front end engineering and design (FEED) stage to develop the prolific Block BM-C-33 pre-salt in the ultra deep water of the Campos Basin offshore Macae, in the State of Rio de […]
CNOOC to award Liuhua 11-1 TLP FEED contract The state-owned company China National Oil Offshore Corporation (CNOOC) is finalizing the conceptual design for the expansion of the Liuhua 11-1 offshore oil and gas field within the South China Sea. Immediately after hammering the decision of the concepts to be developed, CNOOC will award the corresponding front […]
