Bashneft: 2014 Review – Production up 10.8%
Bashneft has released its preliminary operating results for the fourth quarter and the 12 months of 2014. In 2014: – Oil production increased by 10.8% to 17,808 thousand tonnes – Production in Bashkiria added 3.9% – New assets in Timan-Pechora and Western Siberia accounted for 8.4% of production – By …
RN-Nyaganneftegaz: 35 Years of Commercial Operations at the Krasnoleninsk Field
RN-Nyaganneftegaz, subsidiary of Rosneft, celebrates 35 years of commercial operation of the Krasnoleninsk field. During this period over 180 million tons of oil were produced, more than 120 million of them were produced on Talinskiy block of the Krasnoleninsk field. According to its features the produced oil refers to Urals …
KMG EP: Christopher Hopkinson Elected Chairman of the Board
On 20 January 2015, the JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production (“KMG EP” or the “Company”) Board of Directors held a meeting and elected Christopher Hopkinson, the First Deputy Chair of the Management Board of National Company KazMunaiGas (“NC KMG”), as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of KMG EP and …
Roxi Petroleum: Takes $2m From Equity Facility
Roxi, the Central Asian oil and gas company with a focus on Kazakhstan, is pleased to update the market with news it has called down a further $2.0 million from the $40 million equity facility announced in January 2013 with Mr. Satylganov, a Director of the Company. This brings the …
Dragon Oil: 2014 Review – Production Up 6.8%
Dragon Oil plc, an international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, today issues the following trading statement, which includes an operational update, financial highlights for 2014 and results of the latest reserves assessment for the Cheleken Contract Area, Turkmenistan. All information referred to in this update is unaudited …
Russian Direct Investment Fund Comments on Eurasia Drilling and Schlumberger Merger
Following this morning’s announcement of Eurasia Drilling’s take private and Schlumberger’s US$1.7 billion investment in the Company post transaction, Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, commented, “This is a real vote of confidence by a major global company in Russian growth opportunities and the fundamentals of the oil …
UPDATED 25/9/15 – Eurasia Drilling Company To Merge With Schlumberger – Schlumberger Will Not Extend Log Stop Date Past the 30th September 2015
Update 25/9/15 Eurasia Drilling Company Limited announces that Schlumberger B.V. has advised the Company that SLB will not extend the long-stop date for completion of the proposed merger between the Company and EDC Acquisition Company Limited (“EACL”) and the related transaction with SLB (the “Transaction”) after 30 September 2015. The …
Rosneft Started Production at the Sakhalin-1 Arkutun-Dagi Field
The participant companies of the Sakhalin-1 consortium are pleased to note that all the works for the start of the commercial oil production at the Arkutun-Dagi field were conducted in strict compliance with the approved schedule, determined technological specifications and subject to all the industrial and ecological safety legislations. Berkut …
Rosneft: East Messoyakha Reserves Up 32%
Recoverable oil and condensate reserves of C1 category of the East Messoyakha field increased by 49.7 mln t (32% growth) in 2014 , reaching 204 mln tons. The net recoverable oil and condensate reserves of C1+C2 categories of West Messoyakha and East Messoyakha fields totals about 480 mln tons. The …
BP Macondo: Court Rules Less Spilt Than Claimed, Fine to be Cut, BP Not Grossly Negligent
Today the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on the issues raised in the Phase 2 trial of the Deepwater Horizon case: the quantification of oil spilled and BP’s source control efforts following the accident. The Court found that 3.19 million barrels of oil were …