Jumbo announced that it has been awarded a contract by Malaysian pipelay contractor Sigur Ros. Under the contract, Jumbo will oversee transportation and installation of 126 gravity anchor spreads in water depths up to 1400m (4593ft), using the heavy-lift vessel…
Rosneft began seismic acquisition over license blocks Lisyansky, Kashevarovsky, and Magadan-1 in the Sea of Okhotsk off eastern Russia. The company is gathering 2D seismic along with a gravity and magnetic survey, using the Academik Fersman seismic vessel…
Rosneft has announced it has started seismic acquisition activity in the Sea of Okhotsk license blocks Lisyansky, Kashevarovsky and Magadan-1. The Russian firm said 2D seismic and gravity magnetic survey, from the Academik Fersman vessel…
Andrew McBarnet picks up on the growing enthusiasm for modern gravity gradiometry surveys to assist E&P oil and gas operations There’s definitely something stirring in the full-tensor gravity gradiometry (FTG) market for airborne and vessel surveys over onshore and offshore targets…
Ivanhoe Energy and SBM Offshore formed a global strategic alliance to create floating, production, upgrading, storage and offloading vessels (FPUSO). The design, the companies say, will economically produce and upgrade heavy oil from…
A full tensor gradiometry and magnetic airborne survey revealed a new oil prospect off the coast of Northern Ireland for Providence Resources. The Polaris prospect, located in the Rathlin Sound, lays structurally ontrend with the onshore 2008 Ballinlea1 well…
ExxonMobil Canada Properties has released the option for Kvaerner's joint venture company Kiewit-Kvaerner Contractors to provide the full scope of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the Hebron Project gravity based structure (GBS)…
Survey reveals new oil prospect off Ireland Click to view largerProvidence Resources P.l.c. has provided an update on its 100% owned and operated licences P1885 and PL 5/10 in the Rathlin Basin, offshore Northern Ireland. In 2012, Providence…
Hebron estimated to hold 700 million barrelsThe Hebron Gravity Based Structure (GBS), is the 4th offshore development offshore Newfoundland. The project is to be sanctioned in 2012, and start-up is expected in 2017.On December 31st, 2012…
Four independent testing rooms, an integrated command and control center, a core preparation laboratory, and an extensive perforated core analysis laboratory for post-test evaluation are among the facilities at Halliburton’s new state-of…
Schlumberger’s Saturn 3D radial probe is the newest module for its MDT modular formation dynamics tester. The Saturn probe provides pressure measurements and fluid samples where they were not previously possible due to reservoir conditions.The…
The newly released Roxar Tempest 7.0 integrated reservoir engineering software suite from Emerson Process Management is said to provide a single, consistent interface to E&P reservoir engineers. Operating alongside Emerson Roxar’s RMS, the system…
The concrete gravity-base structure for Russia's Arkutun-Dagi field, part of the Exxon Neftegas-operated Sakhalin-1 development, was installed offshore northeast Sakhalin last month. Water depths in the area are around 35m. Construction of the…
Dr Nancy Bowers (pictured) has joined Fugro Gravity & Magnetic Services as senior geophysicist, based in Houston and responsible for gravity and magnetic data sales. Bowers previously owned and operated Subsurface Interpretation Services.
Conventional solids control methods are inadequate to manage low-gravity solids smaller than 8-10 microns. M-I Swaco’s Rich Cook discusses a new solution, recently successfully employed in West Africa, that helps manage these solids while keeping excess rig space to a minimum…
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