Offshore Drilling News
| Nigeria >> 3/8/2007 - Equator Exploration Limited announce that Sinopec, as operator on behalf of the participants in Block 2 of the Nigeria and Sao Tome & Principe Joint Development Zone, has entered into an agreement wit... |
| Guinea >> 3/6/2007 - Addax Petroleum Corporation has entered into an agreement with Aban Abraham Pte Ltd , a wholly owned subsidiary of Aban Offshore Limited for the provision of the Aban Abraham deep water drillship to s... |
| Tunisia >> 3/1/2007 - Candax Energy Inc. announced the termination of the Offshore Drilling Contract for the re-development of the El Bibane field. The decision follows a year of successive delays and missed deadlines desp... |
| Mauritania >> 1/23/2007 - Further to its Stock Exchange Release on 9 January 2006 regarding the Woodside-operated Chinguetti-18 development well in PSC B, ROC advises that as of 14 January 2007, the well has been drilled to a ... |
| Iran >> 1/22/2007 - Petrobras is in talks with Iran to become a service provider in Caspian Sea deep offshore drilling, a company press official said Monday. State-run National Iranian Oil Co. had shown interest in a coo... |
| Mauritania >> 12/5/2006 - Dana Petroleum reports that its deep-water drilling operations have now been completed at the Aigrette-1 exploration well, in Block 7 offshore Mauritania. Aigrette-1 has discovered oil in the targeted... |
| Angola >> 11/2/2006 - Maersk Oil Angola (Maersk Oil) and partners have entered Production Sharing Agreements with SONANGOL covering Blocks 8 and 23 offshore Angola. Maersk Oil is designated operator and holds a 50% working... |
| South Africa >> 10/23/2006 - BHP Billiton (BHP) next year will begin drilling for oil and gas off South Africa's west coast, corporate media relations director Illtud Harri told DJN. Harri said Billiton owns two offshore licenses... |
| Nigeria >> 10/18/2006 - AMNI International Petroleum Development Company Limited and Afren plc announce that drilling of the Okoro-3 appraisal well on OML 112, offshore Nigeria, has commenced. An appraisal well was spudded o... |
| Mauritania >> 10/17/2006 - Hardman Resources Limited announced that since the last report on the Aigrette-1 exploration well in Block 7 offshore Mauritania, West Africa, the well has been drilled to a depth of 2,014 metres, 20 ... |
| Angola >> 10/17/2006 - An appraisal well on the Orquidea field in block 17 on the Angolan continental shelf has strengthened hopes for a combined stand-alone development of the Cravo, Lirio, Orquidea and Violeta fields in t... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 10/16/2006 - Sky Petroleum, Inc. announced that as of September 30, 2006, the Mubarek H2 well has produced 24,998 barrels of oil since it went into production on May 16, 2006. The proceeds represent the sale of 15... |
| Nigeria >> 10/6/2006 - Challenger Minerals Inc., Providence Resources PLC, Energy Equity Resources Ltd, Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Co. Ltd. ("YFP") and Syntroleum, have agreed to pursue the drilling of an additional appraisal... |
| Nigeria >> 10/2/2006 - Peak Petroleum Industries Nigeria Limited and Equator Exploration Limited update shareholders on the Bilabri Development D2 well. The Bilabri D2 well was drilled to a deviated depth of 2,912 metres (2... |
| Kenya >> 8/24/2006 - Global Petroleum reports that Repsol Exploracion (a wholly owned subsidiary of Spanish based company Repsol YPF) has joined the Joint Venture which will drill two wells offshore Kenya in the last quar... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 8/6/2006 - The Government of Dubai and Dubai Petroleum Company (DPC) today announced a joint agreement that will change the operating arrangements for Dubai offshore oilfields. Effective April 2007, DPC will end... |
| Mauritania >> 8/1/2006 - Dana petroleum will use the Atwood Hunter rig for two wells offshore Mauritania beginning in August. The first is targeting the Flamant prospect in Block 8, which is a very large carbonate structure i... |
| Tunisia >> 6/12/2006 - Plectrum Petroleum has agreed, subject to the approval of the Tunisian authorities, to purchase 90 per cent of REAP Tunisia GmbH (“REAP Tunisia”) and thereby acquire a 50% interest and operatorship of... |
| Mauritania >> 6/7/2006 - Woodside Mauritania Pty. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Woodside Petroleum Ltd., and its joint venture participants in Mauritania have signed revised production sharing contracts (PSCs) for offsho... |
| Indonesia >> 6/2/2006 - Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) today announced that its subsidiary, Marathon International Petroleum Indonesia Limited, has been awarded a 70 percent interest and operatorship in the Pasangkayu ... |
