Middle East Offshore Oil & Gas Production News

Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Explorations have commented on technical problems at Israel’s sole current offshore gas production complex.

Delek Drilling and its partners in the Tamar lease offshore Israel have signed a gas supply agreement with Dalia Power Energies.

Moving into the new year, economic indicators point to higher offshore spending by oil and gas operators as the price of oil trends steadily upward, a good sign for the oil services sector in general and offshore drillers in particular.

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, has inaugurated the Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) Project, claimed to be the world’s largest GTL plant.

Mellitah Oil & Gas, the joint venture operating company between NOC and Eni, has restarted gas production from the Sabratha platform offshore Libya.

Water and gas injection techniques are being applied to boost oil production from the Salman oil field in the Persian Gulf.

Eni has started gas production from the Guendalina field platform in the Adriatic Sea.

Burullus Gas Co. has started gas production from Phase 8a of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) deepwater project offshore Egypt.

Production from the Reshadat oil field in the Persian Gulf should increase by 10,000 b/d over the next few days.

PA Resources (PAR) is working to sustain production from the Didon field offshore Tunisia.

Production from the Balal oil field in the Persian Gulf is heading toward 40,000 b/d, according to a report by Iranian news service Shana.

Dragon Oil is working on a strategy for plugging, abandonment and decommissioning of old non-producing wells in the Cheleken Contract Area in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea.

Pars Oil and Gas Co. (POGC) has brought onstream six new wells from Phase X of the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf.

Events in Libya hit Eni’s second-quarter liquids and gas production figures.

National Iranian Offshore Oil Co. (NIOOC) is in talks with a foreign oil company about raising oil production from the Soroush field in the Persian Gulf.

Development of the Guendalina gas field offshore eastern Italy is on schedule with first gas expected in September, according to partner Mediterranean Oil & Gas,

Oil production in the Lavan region of southern Iran has risen by 11% over the past three years to a current 98,000 b/d, according to National Iranian Offshore Oil Co. (NIOC).

Saudi Aramco has completed its new Upstream Professional Development Center (UPDC).

Mustang has named Michele McNichol as president of its upstream operations.

Dragon Oil has completed drilling and initial testing of the Dzheitune (Lam) B/150 development well in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea.

ACE Winches’ Hire Equipment division is nearing completion of a $7.7-million contract for Petronas/MMHE offshore Turkmenistan.

Development drilling is progressing at the South Pars Phase XII project in the Persian Gulf, according to Iranian news service Shana.

Iran is looking at ways to lift oil production from various offshore fields in the Persian Gulf.

Dragon Oil has completed a further development well in the Cheleken Contract Area of the Caspian Sea, and commissioned a new 14-in. in-field pipeline