News Topics: Field Development

Thursday, June 20, 2013 Chevron faces intense cost pressure in developing its new gas-export projects in Australia.

Thursday, June 20, 2013 Gas2Grid gives a preliminary estimate of oil volume potential within the Malolos Field in Service Contract 44, onshore Cebu.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 GE Oil & Gas announces it has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Statoil.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Ichthys LNG Project cuts first steel for the hull of its FPSO facility at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering's Okpo yard in South Korea.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Otto provides an update of drilling at the Galoc Phase II development.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Tap Oil updates results from its Bianchi-1 gas appraisal well, which is being drilled in Retention Lease WA-49-R offshore Carnarvon Basin.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Technip announces it was awarded a major contract for the supply of flexible pipes for the Iracema Sul field by Petrobras.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Coastal Energy gives an update on the drilling of the Bua Ban North B-17 and Ko Kra A-01 exploration wells off Thailand.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 AusGroup's subsidiary MAS Australasia Ltd. bags a scaffolding services contract from CB&I and Kentz Joint Venture for the Gorgon Project off Australia.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Aker Solutions delivers the steel frame for the world's first subsea gas compression facility to be installed at the Statoil-operated Åsgard field.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Ithaca Energy begins development drilling operations on the Stella field in the North Sea.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Total and China National Petroleum Corporation have agreed a deal with Tethys Petroleum to develop oil and gas assets in Tajikistan.

Monday, June 17, 2013 Black Elk Energy reports a successful flowtest at Ship Shoal Block 198 Well #I-6.

Monday, June 17, 2013 AusGroup wins an insulation contract for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.

Monday, June 17, 2013 Lundin begins its four-well development campaign on the Brynhild field in the North Sea.

Monday, June 17, 2013 Murphy says the Dufresne-1 prospect will be drilled in block WA-408-P after non-commercial gas was found at the Bassett West-1 well.

Friday, June 14, 2013 Noble Energy announces that the second appraisal well at Gunflint encountered 109 feet of net pay within the primary reservoir targets.

Friday, June 14, 2013 Philex Petroleum in still in talks with CNOOC for a possible joint development of natural gas prospects in a contested area in the South China Sea.

Friday, June 14, 2013 SapuraKencana hopes to clinch more contracts for overseas oil and gas projects.

Friday, June 14, 2013 YPF is in talks to participate in Venezuela's Deltana offshore natural gas project and is looking to purchase gas to meet domestic needs, officials from both countries' state energy companies said.

Thursday, June 13, 2013 Nido Petroleum expects to receive an audited reserves report for the West Linapacan Oil Field redevelopment project in the Philippines soon.

Thursday, June 13, 2013 Statoil completes the appraisal wells in the western part of the Johan Sverdrup field, finding additional oil in Jurassic sandstones.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 A solid performance from its field in northern Spain as well as a steadily increase in production in Trinidad sees Leni Oil and Gas hit record production.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 BP revises down its estimates for proved reserves of natural gas in countries in the former Soviet Union by almost a third, BP Chief Economist Christof Ruehl says.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Heritage Oil says that, after resolving problems, its OML 30 concession in Nigeria is back to producing more than 35,000 barrels of oil per day.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Inpex has been awarded exploration permit WA-494-P in Browse Basin, Western Australia by the government.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Norwest Energy will progress plans for the Arrowsmith project in Australia, with the move supported by the release of a reserves estimates report.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Otto begins drilling the Galoc-5H and Galoc-6H wells under the Galoc Phase II development.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 RWE Dea joins forces with Petronas by grabbing a 40 percent stake in a license off the coast of Suriname.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 The country is projecting that production will increase in 2014 under its new Integrated National Energy Strategy report.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Xcite Energy agrees with AMEC to shortly begin a front-end engineering and design programme for its Bentley field in the North Sea.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Buru Energy Limited (Buru) will restart its exploration in the Ungani area in Australia's Canning Basin.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Packers Plus Energy Services successfully completes a high pressure vertical well in the Cooper Basin of South Australia for Senex Energy.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Statoil will acquire an interest in four exploration permits and two exploration permit applications in Australia's Northern Territory.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 The US Energy Information Administration estimates that the UK has enough potential shale gas resources to meet the country's gas needs for almost a decade.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Zeta completes a successful production test on the Dornesti Sud-1 well in the Suceava gas concession in Romania.

Monday, June 10, 2013 Brownstone Energy Inc. will terminate its remaining interest in the Llanos 21 block in the Llanos basin in Colombia.

Monday, June 10, 2013 A couple of disappointments in the pre-salt layer offshore Namibia causes a rethink at Chariot Oil & Gas, but plenty of other firms still see opportunities in West African pre-salt.

Monday, June 10, 2013 Kabe Exploration plans to set up a joint venture with Canada's International Equity Partners Oil & Gas, Inc.

Monday, June 10, 2013 Lundin spuds appraisal well 16/3-6 on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea.

Monday, June 10, 2013 Range says QUN 142 well in Trinidad is now flowing at 75 barrels of oil per day, and issues operations update indicating its production in the country will get over 1,200 bopd.

Monday, June 10, 2013 Subsea 7 wins the contract to supply Anadarko's Heidelberg development in the Gulf of Mexico.

Friday, June 07, 2013 BG Group starts commercial production from a third FPSO vessel on its discoveries in the pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.

Friday, June 07, 2013 Italy-focused Sound Oil spuds Nervesa well after previously saying it would begin drilling by the end of May.

Thursday, June 06, 2013 Venezuela secures $4 billion funds from China to be used for oil field development, Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez says.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013 Brazil's Congress is considering a bill that would reduce the burden placed on Petrobras to develop pre-salt oil fields, potentially opening up the promising offshore region to greater private-sector investment.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013 ExxonMobil awards a "significant" contract to Technip for the development of the Julia field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013 FMC Technologies receives orders from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for subsea equipment for its Heidelberg field.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Bengal Energy announces that the Cuisinier 9 well, the fifth well in the 2013 Cuisinier appraisal drilling campaign, has been cased.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Lundin finds an oil column of 39 feet with its latest appraisal well at the Johan Sverdrup discovery.