Norske Shell and its partners have decided to postpone work on offshore compression for the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea.

North Caspian Operating Co. (NCOC) has issued an update on its program for the shallow-water Kashagan field offshore Kazakhstan.

The GE-GLS Oil & Gas Angola Ltd. joint venture has delivered its first subsea equipment.

Statoil has discovered oil and gas in the Valemon Nord prospect in the Norwegian North Sea.

Petrobras has re-started operations at the P-20 platform on the Marlim field in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.

One partnership is working to develop economic solutions for marginal fields even in the 5-10 MMbbl range. This involves use of what they term "buoyant solutions" which can be unmanned, minimal facility production buoys or self-installing floating towers, both suited to rapid depletion of small fields and easy re-configuration for service elsewhere. Enegi Oil and ABTechnology, via their joint venture ABT Oil and Gas, are working on a first potential application on the 10-MMbbl Fyne field in the UK central North Sea.

This month, Infield Systems examines forecast capex in frontier Africa.

Schlumberger is featuring its new nonconductive-mud geological imaging tool at the Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention & Exhibition in Houston.

Statoil and partners GDF Suez and OMV have started production from the Gudrun oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea.