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Deepwater Oil Drilling: Asia

Supply and demand in the Asia/Pacific region try to reach equilibrium

With growing energy demands in China and India, and huge LNG export projects under way off Australia, the Asia/Pacific region is a tale of two complementary ends of oil and gas exploration and development continuum.

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Infield Systems expects 1,546 new fields to enter production worldwide in the next five years.

EMAS contracts subsea work in GoM, West Africa, the Philippines

EMAS (SGX: 5DN) has won four contracts totaling $120 million spread among the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, and the Philippines.

Petrobras moves FPSO conversion work to China

Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) is moving to China the work of converting four tankers into FPSOs.

Transocean reports new offshore water depth drilling record

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) reports that its ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 has set a new world record for the deepest water depth by an offshore drilling rig of 10,385 ft (3,165 m) while working for ONGC offshore India.

Statoil issues main Norwegian Sea trunkline contracts

Statoil (OSE:STL) has awarded three contracts for the long-distance Polarled gas pipeline in the Norwegian Sea.

Technip to install offshore Sabah, Sarawak pipelines

Shell has awarded Technip (Paris:TEC) pipelay contracts for two projects offshore Malaysia.

Deepwater Malaysia Malikai field gets development go-ahead

Shell Malaysia, PETRONAS Carigali, and ConocoPhillips Sabah Ltd. have made the final investment decision to develop the deepwater Malikai oil field, some 100 km (62 mi) offshore Sabah, Malaysia.

3D BroadSeis surveys address South China Sea imaging issues

CGGVeritas (NYSE:CGV) has completed the first 3D BroadSeis marine surveys recorded offshore China.

Shell contracts Keppel for Malampaya compression platform

Keppel Subic Shipyard has a contract from Shell Philippines Exploration to build a depletion compression platform (DCP) for the Malampaya gas field development.

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