ultra deep water
ONGC to award pre-FEED on KG-DWN-98/2 deepwater The India state-owned company Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is on the way to award the contract to perform the pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) work for the development of the KG-DWN-98/2 project in the deep water of the Krishna Gadavari (KG) Basin offshore the Andhra […]
Shell and Nexen to take experience from Olympus In order to develop the challenging Appomattox oil field in the US Gulf of Mexico, the Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) and its partner Nexen, a wholly owned subsidiary of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), intends to take the lessons learnt from the Olympus Tension Leg […]
Petrobras to prepare FEED tender for first GTL FPSO After years of feasibility studies and tests, Petrobras is readying to move on the first gas-to-liquid (GTL) floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel ever made in the world to stop flaring the associated gas released from the production of the pre-salt crude oil offshore Brazil. […]
QGEP gauges two FPSO sizes for Atlanta heavy crude The first Brazilian independent oil company Queiroz Galvao Exploration & Production (QGEP) and its partners, OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A (OGX) and Barra Energia do Brasil Petróleo e Gás Ltda (Barra Energia), are currently evaluating two different schemes to develop the offshore Block BS-4 and select the […]
Julia phase-1 tied-back to Chevron Jack & St Malo The super major ExxonMobil from USA and Statoil from Norway, made the final investment decision (FID) in April 2013 to start the development of the Julia oil and gas field in the US part of the Gulf of Mexico. Drilled in 2007, 285 kilometers southwest of […]
Rosneft’s Neftegaz signed farm-in agreement with ExxonMobil in Gulf of Mexico deepwater The first week of March gave the opportunity to Rosneft to unveil its objective to go global in multiplying strategic partnerships with leading companies such as ExxonMobil. On March 6th 2013, Rosneft‘s subsidiary Neftegaz America Shelf LP (Nefetgaz) signed with ExxonMobil a Farm-in Agreement […]
Setting the standard in drilling The actual Seadrill assets results from the consolidation of several companies operating in the offshore drilling sector. Registered in Hamilton, Bermuda Islands, in 2005, Seadrill Limited (Seadrill) is listed in Oslo and New York Stock Exchanges. One of the major Seadrill’s acquisition relies on the Norwegian Smedvig asa in 2006. […]
GE to power pre-salt semisubmersible drilling vessels The Brazilian national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Sete Brazil Participaçoes SA (Sete) and its contractor Keppel Fels do Brazil SA (Keppel) have selected GE’s Power Conversion electrical solutions to power and propel the first series of six semisubmersible drilling rigs. Petrobras is the operator imposing the key requirements […]
