GE Oil & Gas Strengthens Drilling & Production Portfolio With Downhole Oilfield Technology

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

GE Energy announced that its Oilfield Technology (OFT) business, a technology innovator in the design and manufacture of wireline and drilling measurement solutions for the oilfield services segment, has been ...


PFC Energy 50 Ranking of World’s Top Energy Companies

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Long Term Trends Reassert Themselves as Combined Value Gains 35% WASHINGTON, DC--(January 26, 2010) – The combined value of the 50 largest publicly traded energy companies increased 35% in 2009 ...


Sakhalin-1 Project Continues Record Setting Drilling

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Completes First Two Extended-Reach Wells at Odoptu ExxonMobil announced today the successful completion of the first two extended-reach wells at the Odoptu field offshore eastern Russia, employing one of the ...


Paradigm to Spotlight Real-time Geosteering at IADC/SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Company to demonstrate contractor-independent unified software solutions Paradigm™ (www.pdgm.com), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the global oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry, will showcase ...


Breitling Oil and Gas Corp. Readies 2009 Drilling Plan For BREITLING-STAR #1 Project

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Breitling Oil and Gas Corp. plans to spud the BREITLING-STAR #1, its first well in its Hardman Basin project, in the fourth quarter of 2009. Breitling presently owns a 25% working ...


Royal Dutch Shell has signed a contract with Saipem SpA

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

US crude for November delivery fell $0.28 to $72.99 London Brent crude lost $0.19 to $71.17. -------------------- Saudi Aramco plans to award an integrated drilling contract in South Ghawar in a bid ...


National Oilwell Varco and Schlumberger Form IntelliServ Joint Venture

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Independent Joint Venture to Provide High-Speed Drill String Telemetry   National Oilwell Varco (NYSE: NOV) and Schlumberger Limited (NYSE: SLB) announced today the creation of a joint venture to provide high-speed drill ...


LUNDIN PETROLEUM RELEASES AUDITED RESERVE REPORT FOR THE LUNO FIELD, OFFSHORE NORWAY

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) is pleased to announce that its independent reserves auditor Gaffney, Cline and Associates (GCA) has assigned 95 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMboe) of gross ...


BJ Services Reports Third Fiscal Quarter Net Loss of $0.11 Per Diluted Share

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

BJ Services Company (NYSE: BJS; CBOE; PCX) today reported a net loss of $32.3 million, or $(0.11) per diluted share, for the third quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended June ...


ExxonMobil Commences Drilling Libya’s First Deepwater Well

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

ExxonMobil Exploration Company announced today that its affiliate, ExxonMobil Libya Limited, has started drilling the first deepwater exploration well in Libya. The A1-20/3 well is being drilled in Contract Area ...


Drilling Completed on Guarani Well

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 7, 2009-- Hess Corporation (NYSE:HES) announced today that the Guarani appraisal well on the BM-S-22 license in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil has been completed and no discovery ...


GE OIL & GAS WINS 2009 OTC AWARD FOR NEXT GENERATION SUBSEA TECHNOLOGY

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

The Offshore Technology Conference recognizes GE Oil & Gas for its Subsea Electronics Module, the VetcoGray SemStar5 HOUSTON, UNITED STATES — April 20, 2009— GE Oil & Gas has been awarded ...


ExxonMobil Mobilizes Rig for Point Thomson Drilling

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil Production Company announced today that it has mobilized the drilling rig for the Point Thomson Project. The rig, owned by Nabors Alaska, has been upgraded to drill the ...


Noble Energy Announces Flow Test Results From Dalit Natural Gas Discovery

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) announced today flow test results from the Dalit natural gas discovery in the Michal license offshore Israel. Of the previously reported 110 feet of net ...


Tullow Oil plc - Drilling Update

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the deeper section of the Tweneboa-1 exploration well offshore Ghana and the Karuka-2 exploration well drilling the Vundu prospect in Block 2 Uganda have ...


GNPC announces another “significant” new oil and gas discovery

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on Monday, announced that a significant new oil and gas discovery has been made in the offshore Tano Basin. GNPC and its partners, Tullow Oil, ...


Kosmos Energy’s Tweneboa-1 Well Makes Significant Discovery Offshore Republic of Ghana

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Company Marks Fourth Consecutive Find on Ghanaian Acreage DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kosmos Energy announces today that the Tweneboa-1 well has discovered a light hydrocarbon accumulation in the Tano Basin offshore the Republic of ...


Hess Announces Results of Africa Exploration Drilling

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

NEW YORK, Dec 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) announced today the outcome of its recent exploratory drilling program in Africa. In Libya, well A1-54/01 in the Arous ...


Talisman Energy Announces First Oil From the Song Doc Field in Vietnam

Friday, December 5th, 2008

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 4, 2008) - Talisman (Vietnam 46/02) Ltd. ("Talisman"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM) (NYSE:TLM), has announced first oil production from the Song ...


GSP S.A. announces modernization plan for jack-up drilling rig GSP Saturn

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Grup Servicii Petroliere S.A. (GSP S.A.) announces modernization plan for jack-up drilling rig GSP Saturn. The four legged self elevating jack-up drilling rig has reached Constanta Port, berth 34, where a ...


Aker Solutions wins drilling riser contract

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

22 September 2008 - Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract for the delivery of a complete deepwater marine drilling riser system with buoyancy package and associated equipment from offshore ...


Tullow Oil plc; India campaign - drilling update

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Tullow Oil plc announces that the G1 well, located in Block CB-ON/1 onshore India, has failed to encounter hydrocarbons and has been plugged and abandoned. Drilling operations at G1 commenced on ...


BG Group announces completion of drilling on Iara well in Santos Basin, offshore Brazil

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

BG Group today announced the completion of drilling on the Iara well (1-BRSA-618-RJS) in the BM-S-11 concession in the deep water, pre-salt Santos Basin. The exploration well discovered 26-30 API ...


Volgograd-Antiterror-2008 International Exercises

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

VOLGOGRAD REFINERY HOSTED INTERNATIONAL ANTI-TERRORISM EXERCISES       The main stage of Volgograd-Antiterror-2008 International Exercises was held at the premises of LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka today.   At the river port of the refinery, an armed hijacking of ...


Vanco and Lukoil Secure Drilling Unit for Ghana Deepwater Drilling

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vanco Ghana Ltd, together with partner Lukoil Overseas Ghana Ltd, has completed contractual arrangements for the Aban Abraham drillship to drill the Dzata-1 well, which will be the first ...


Heritage Oil provides Uganda drilling update

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

 /THIS PRESS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES/      CALGARY, Aug. 6 /CNW/ - Heritage Oil Limited (LSE: HOIL), an ...


Saipem awarded new onshore drilling contracts

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

worth approximately USD 1.1 billion San Donato Milanese (Milan), 26 June 2008 – Saipem has been awarded new onshore drilling contracts worth a total value of approximately USD 1.1 billion. The contracts ...


Aker Solutions awarded drilling equipment contract

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract with Jurong Shipyard Pte. Ltd in Singapore for delivery of a complete drilling system for an ultra deepwater drilling semi-submersible platform. The ...


Aker Solutions gets DSME drilling riser contract

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

5 June 2008 - Aker Solutions has been awarded another contract for a deepwater marine drilling riser by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). Contract value is approximately USD 35 ...


Noble Energy Announces Updated Guidance

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Global Resource Estimates and Continued West Africa Drilling Success HOUSTON, May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL), at its annual analyst meeting today, will provide updated guidance, global resource ...


Eni announces new hydrocarbon discovery in the Norwegian North Sea

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

The well is located in the offshore licence PL293, at a water depth of 373 metres in the Norwegian North Sea, some 165 km West of Bergen. San Donato Milanese (Milan), ...


Ukraine Well Nears Total Depth with Gas and Oil Shows

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Vancouver, Canada: - Transeuro Energy Corp. ("Transeuro", or the "Company") announces an update on its drilling operations in Ukraine on the Karlavskoye 101 well and provides details on the related ...


Five-year drilling contract for Aker

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

StatoilHydro has awarded a five-year contract to Aker Drilling for drilling operations in the Norwegian Sea. The total contract value is about NOK 5 billion. The contract was awarded in December ...


Egypt Drilling Update - Circle Oil plc

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

18 March 2008, Circle Oil plc (AIM: COP), the oil and gas exploration and development group, is today pleased to announce the commencement of drilling operations on its Al-Amir SE-1 ...


Commencement of Drilling Operations on Barbarossa Gas Appraisal Well

Friday, February 29th, 2008

EnCore Oil plc (LSE: EO.) is pleased to announce that drilling operations on the Barbarossa appraisal well on Southern North Sea block 47/9c have commenced.   Barbarossa was last drilled by the ...