Chevron Australia Pty Ltd has awarded a $80-million pipeline precommissioning contract for work on the Gorgon project offshore Western Australia to BJ Services (Australia) Pty Ltd.

Technip has awarded Jubilee pre-commissioning and commissioning services to Weatherford Pipeline & Specialty Services.

BP Norge A/S has ordered additional seabed reservoir characterization equipment from OYO Geospace to augment an existing system installed in 2003.

NZOG (New Zealand Oil & Gas Ltd) advises that the Kan Tan IV drilling rig is on location and is preparing to start drilling the Hoki-1 exploration well.

Shell Development has contracted the semisubmersible Songa Venus for a 156-day exploration drilling campaign in the Browse basin, offshore Australia.

Drilling of the Hoki prospect in New Zealand’s Taranaki basin should start later this month or in March, according to partner New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG).

The Yellowglen-1 discovery well in the Greater Gorgon area in the Carnarvon basin has reached TD of 9,050 ft (2,760 m).

The Noblige-1 exploration well in permit WA-404-P has indications of gas from measurement-while-drilling logs at several levels, including over a gross interval of about 300 m (984 ft) in the intra-Triassic primary target, says Woodside Energy.

MEO Australia is looking for a rig to drill the Artemis gas prospect off Western Australia later this year.

Operator Origin Energy is preparing to sidetrack the Rockhopper 1 well in the Bass basin, offshore Tasmania.