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Dana Contracts Maersk Rig for Two Wells
Dana Petroleum Netherlands B.V. has awarded Maersk Drilling a two-well contract. PHOTO SOURCE: Maersk Drilling
8:00 PM EST | October 01, 2020
Independents Go Big in North Sea
While some majors are still involved in the North Sea, notably Statoil, the age of the independents is clearly on the ascendancy.
7:00 PM EST | January 02, 2018
Dana Petroleum Raises Concerns Over EnQuest North Sea Discovery
Dana Petroleum Limited has raised concerns over EnQuest's recently drilled Eagle exploration well in the central North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | July 04, 2016
SDX Energy Quits Cameroon Concession In 'Sensible' Move
SDX Energy announces its withdrawal from the Bakassi West concession in Cameroon, following the completion of drilling activities on the Manatee-1X well.
8:00 PM EST | June 15, 2016
Denmark Issues 16 Oil, Gas Licenses
Denmark issues 16 oil and gas exploration licenses in the North Sea, just days after A.P. Moller-Maersk threatens to shut down the country's main gas field.
8:00 PM EST | April 05, 2016
Hyperdyamics Reveals Impasse in Plans to Drill Exploration Block Off Guinea
Hypernamics Corp. reveals an impasse in plans to resume exploration drilling in a block offshore Guinea.
7:00 PM EST | January 05, 2016
Premier Oil Comes Up Dry in North Sea Well
Premier Oil Norge, the operator of production license 539, has come up dry in exploration well 3/7-10 S in the southern section of the North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | September 02, 2015
Technip Wins Subsea Contract for Triton FPSO
Technip wins a brownfield subsea contract from Dana Petroleum for its Triton floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | April 13, 2015
Dana, Crescent Celebrate 5 Years Continuous Production in Kurdistan
Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum celebrate five years of continuous production in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
8:00 PM EST | October 07, 2013
Hansa Farms-In to UK North Sea Licenses
Hansa Hydrocarbons Limited and Dana Petroleum join forces in licenses situated in the UK sector of the North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | September 10, 2013
Dana Petroleum Lays Western Isles Keel
The keel-laying of the FPSO marks a major milestone for Dana's Western Isles project.
8:00 PM EST | May 27, 2013
Dana Gas, Eni Receive Blocks in Mediterranean
Dana Gas and Eni announce successful bids in the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company 2012 International Bid Round.
8:00 PM EST | April 21, 2013
North Sea's Magnolia Prospect Comes Up Dry
UK North Sea-focused Trapoil reports that its Magnolia exploration prospect on license P1610, Block 13/23a has come up dry.
8:00 PM EST | March 19, 2013
Dana Kicks Off Magnolia Ops in North Sea
Trapoil announced that operations have commenced at the Dana-operated Magnolia (Licence P.1610, Block 13/23a) exploration prospect.
7:00 PM EST | February 24, 2013
First Oil Produced from Cormorant East
TAQA achieves first oil production from its North Sea Cormorant East field just 85 days after discovering the field.
7:00 PM EST | January 13, 2013
Subsea 7 Wins EPIC Contract for Western Isles Development
Subsea 7 wins EPIC contract from Dana Petroleum for Dana's Western Isles development project, offshore Scotland.
7:00 PM EST | January 03, 2013
Hyperdyanmics Completes Offshore Guinea Sale
Hyperdynamics' wholly owned subsidiary SCS Corporation Ltd. has completed the previously announced sale of a 40 percent gross interest in the company's oil and gas exploration concession offshore Guinea.
7:00 PM EST | December 30, 2012
Dana Petroleum Gets Go Ahead to Develop Western Isles Project
At an estimated cost of $1.6B, Dana Petroleum receives approval from the Department of Energy and Climate Change to develop two fields in the North Sea.
7:00 PM EST | December 16, 2012
TAQA Bratani's North Sea Contender Well Hits Oil
Contender partners report that the Contender well has found 60 feet of net oil pay.
8:00 PM EST | October 21, 2012
Dana Adds to Stake in Bittern
Dana Petroleum recently announced it has taken over operatorship of the Triton FPSO from Hess.
8:00 PM EST | September 30, 2012
North Sea's Contender Well Spuds
Contender well is being drilled by TAQA and is targeting the Jurassic Brent sequence.
8:00 PM EST | August 23, 2012
Dana Touts Flow Rates from Platypus Appraisal
Dana Petroleum announced strong results from its Platypus gas appraisal well in the Southern North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | August 01, 2012
Dana Charges Ahead with Western Isles Development
Dana Petroleum has entered the detailed engineering design phase on the $1.5 billion Western Isles development project in the UK North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | July 12, 2012
Dana Spuds Platypus Appraisal in North Sea
The Platypus gas field appraisal well has begun drilling in the UK Southern North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | April 16, 2012
Dana Awarded Additional NCS Blocks
Dana Petroleum Norway AS ('Dana') has secured five licenses in the 2011 APA licensing round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
7:00 PM EST | January 19, 2012
Dana Scores N. Sea Blocks in Licensing Round
Dana in a 50/50 partnership with Sorgenia E&P (UK) Ltd has secured blocks 42/27, 47/2b (split) and 47/3g (split) in the UK Southern North Sea.
7:00 PM EST | January 05, 2012
Hyperdynamics Resumes Drilling Sabu-1 Exploration Well
Hyperdynamics resumes drilling operations on the Sabu-1 exploration well in its concession offshore the Republic of Guinea in West Africa.
7:00 PM EST | December 27, 2011
Aker Solutions Clinches Subsea Contract
Aker Solutions is to manufacture and deliver a number of subsea control modules and topside power units as part of a contract with Dana Petroleum.
7:00 PM EST | November 16, 2011
Dana Discovers Gas Offshore Mauritania
Stabilized gas flow rates of between 22 and 24 MMscfpd were obtained during a test of one of the four separate gas columns encountered by the Cormoran-1 well.
7:00 PM EST | January 09, 2011
Nefertiti Bestows Bounty to Dana
Dana encounters oil at its Nefertiti prospect in the South October production sharing area offshore Egypt.
7:00 PM EST | December 02, 2010
Dana CEO to Step Down following KNOC Acquisition
Dana reported that Mr. Tom Cross, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, has tendered his resignation.
8:00 PM EST | October 19, 2010
Dana Shuffles Management
Dana reported the following resignations and appointments of directors of the Company.
8:00 PM EST | October 11, 2010
KNOC Declares Dana Offer Unconditional
KNOC said it controls a majority stake in Dana and declared its 1800 pence-a-share takeover offer for the co. wholly unconditional.
8:00 PM EST | September 23, 2010
Dana Gets Go-Ahead for Offshore Netherlands Project
Dana announced that the Medway integrated oil and gas development, operated by Dana Petroleum Netherlands, has received project sanction.D
8:00 PM EST | September 21, 2010
Dana Commences Drilling Offshore Mauritania
Dana started drilling at the Cormoran-1 exploration well at 2000 hours (Mauritania time) on September 18 using semisub Maersk Deliverer.
8:00 PM EST | September 19, 2010
Dana Says KNOC Offer Undervalues Company
Shares in Dana held their position marginally above a hostile bid by KNOC after Dana said the offer significantly undervalues the company.
8:00 PM EST | September 07, 2010
Dana Acquires UK Assets from Petro-Canada
Dana has entered into an agreement to acquire Petro-Canada UK's interests in certain UK assets for approximately $372 million.
8:00 PM EST | September 07, 2010
Dana Finishes Strong in 1H10
"Dana performed very strongly in the first half. We have delivered interim profits which are in excess of full year 2009, we have also grown reserves by 54MM barrels of oil equivalent through new discoveries and via acquisition," said Tom Cross.
8:00 PM EST | August 26, 2010
KNOC Makes $2.9B Hostile Bid for Dana
Korea National Oil has secured support from investors for 48.62% of Dana's shares and is taking its bid directly to Dana shareholders.
8:00 PM EST | August 19, 2010
Dana's Blackbird Flow Rates Soar in UK North Sea
Dana Petroleum reported the successful flow testing of the recently drilled appraisal well at the Blackbird oil field, in the North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | August 09, 2010
Dana Discovers New Oil Field in Egypt
Dana announced that the Fin-1X exploration well has discovered a new oil field, in the Gulf of Suez, in Egypt.
8:00 PM EST | July 29, 2010
Dana Increases Stakes Offshore Egypt
Dana Petroleum has signed an agreement with BG to acquire a 50% interest in the El Manzala Offshore Area Concession.
8:00 PM EST | July 20, 2010
Dana Anticipates 'Busy' Exploration Schedule
The Blackbird well will be completed and flow tested shortly, and is the first of 10 exploration and appraisal wells Dana has scheduled for the second half of 2010.
8:00 PM EST | July 15, 2010
Oil Struck at Blackbird Oil Field
Dana Petroleum announced the successful appraisal of the Blackbird oil field in the UK Central North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | July 13, 2010
Dana: Double Oil Discoveries in Egypt
Dana Petroleum makes two oil discoveries onshore Egypt at its Lorcan-1x and Fayoum-2x wells. Lorcan's proximity to Dana's East Zeit oil production base makes this find an extremely attractive development opportunity.
8:00 PM EST | June 23, 2010
Dana to Take Stakes in Suncor
Dana has entered into an agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Petro Canada Netherlands BV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Suncor.
8:00 PM EST | June 13, 2010
Dana Spotlights 1Q10 Ops
Dana issued its Interim Management Statement for the period to May 18, 2010.
8:00 PM EST | May 17, 2010
Dana Updates on International Exploration
Dana is currently well advanced in the drilling of both the Bamboo prospect offshore in the Nile delta, Egypt (Dana 50% interest) and the Lorcan exploration well in the North Zeit Bay concession in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt (Dana 100%).
8:00 PM EST | May 09, 2010
Dana Hits Paydirt at Platypus Prospect
Dana has made a significant gas discovery at the Platypus prospect in the UK Southern North Sea.
8:00 PM EST | April 14, 2010
Sea Dragon Fires Up Financing for Egyptian Acquisition
Sea Dragon will increase the size of its share offering for gross proceeds of approximately $57 million.
8:00 PM EST | March 25, 2010