Max Petroleum: Successful Well Result at Uytas, Spudding of Wells at Eskene North and Uytas Fields
Max Petroleum Plc, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Kazakhstan, is pleased to announce positive drilling results at Uytas, and the spudding of appraisal wells at the Eskene North and Uytas fields. In the Uytas field, the UTS-15 appraisal well successfully reached a total depth of 200 …
Urals Energy: Requisition of an Extraordinary General Meeting Called As Board Battle Hots Up
Urals Energy PCL, the independent exploration and production company with operations in Russia, announces that it has received a notice requisitioning an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders to consider the removal of Andrew Shrager, Alexei Maximov, Leonid Y Dyachenko, Aleksey V Ogarev, Ingeborg Srenger and Stephen Buscher from the board …
CGG: Improvements in Full Waveform Inversion
CGG case study demonstrates the benefits of full azimuths and long offsets for determining the velocities of a complex overburden in a deep-water region of the Gulf of Mexico. Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) aims to estimate high-resolution velocity models by minimizing the difference between observed and modeled seismic waveforms. It …
TCO: The World’s First Disappearing Tubing Hanger Plug
On the 18th July 2013 TCO AS run the world’s first Disappearing Tubing Hanger Plug for our major client in Nigeria/West Africa. TCO received confirmation from our client that the first planned DTHP plug was successfully cycled open as planned from the FPSO vessel on the 29th August 2013. The …
National Oilwell Varco Announces Plan to Pursue Spin-Off of Distribution Business into Separate Publicly Traded Company
National Oilwell Varco, Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized Company management to move forward with exploration of a plan to spin-off NOV’s distribution business from the remainder of the Company, creating two stand-alone, publicly traded corporations. The Company believes that the separation of the distribution business …
Rosneft Acquires Enel Stake in SeverEnergia
Rosneft agreed to acquire a 40% stake in Arctic Russia B.V. from Enel, which will lead to Rosneft’s indirect ownership of a 19.6% stake in SeverEnergia. The stake will be acquired by NGK Itera, a subsidiary of Rosneft, which is a center consolidating gas assets within Rosneft group. The transaction …
ROGTEC Interviews Andrew Vincenti, Branch Director Kuehne + Nagel Sakhalin
Please describe your position and role within the company I am the Branch Director of Kuehne + Nagel Sakhalin and as such am ultimately responsible for the whole office incl. setups in Nogliki, Korsakov and Vladivostok. It’s a position I have held now for some 11 years and one that …
International Well Control Forum: Post Macondo Well Control Training and Assessment Syllabus
The forum which sets international training standards for well control unveils new syllabus and programmes to deliver a step-change in competence International Well Control Forum (IWCF) is rolling out a raft of new measures that will improve the competence of people involved in well operations to prevent future major oilspill …
Boskalis acquires EUR 130 million port dredging project in St Petersburg, Russia
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded a contract by CJSC Baltstroy for the dredging and construction of the Bronka Port shipping channel in St Petersburg, Russian Federation. The total value of the contract amounts to approximately EUR 130 million. The project involves the construction of a 6 kilometer …
Sercel launches 508XT land acquisition system
Sercel announces today the launch of its new 508XT system, which heralds a new paradigm in land seismic acquisition by offering MegaCrews the ability to record up to one million channels in real time, resulting in unparalleled image resolution. The 508XT is the first member of Sercel’s new generation of …