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Drilling & Completion

Gujarat resumes exploration drilling offshore India

Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. has spudded the appraisal well DDE-A-2 offshore eastern India.

Double gas strike for ONGC offshore India

India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) (NSE: ONGC, BSE: 500312) has notched two shallow water discoveries this year offshore India.

ConocoPhillips, Keppel team up for Arctic jackup

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech) and ConocoPhillips are jointly designing a jackup capable of drilling in Arctic Sea ice regions.

Field Development

Liwan gas facilities taking shape offshore China

Major construction activity is on track for the Liwan Gas Project in the South China Sea according to partner Husky Energy (HSE:Toronto).

Beibu Gulf project on course during operations review

ROC Oil has issued an update on its exploration and production programs offshore China.

Natuna Sea gas compression project sanctioned

An EPCI (engineer, procure, construct, install) contract has been awarded for the Anoa Phase 4 development in the Natuna Sea off Indonesia, according to operator Premier Oil.

Subsea

Liwan gas facilities taking shape offshore China

Major construction activity is on track for the Liwan Gas Project in the South China Sea according to partner Husky Energy (HSE:Toronto).

First Lan Do offshore drilling begins off Vietnam

TNK-BP’s first offshore drilling is now under way at Lan Do field offshore Vietnam.

SapuraAcergy wins subsea construction work offshore Vietnam

SapuraAcergy Sdn Bhd has won a $100-million contract for subsea construction work offshore Vietnam.

Geology & Geophysics

Double gas strike for ONGC offshore India

India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) (NSE: ONGC, BSE: 500312) has notched two shallow water discoveries this year offshore India.

Oilex wins Timor-Leste exploration extension

Oilex continues to mature a drilling candidate for a third commitment well in the JPDA 06-103 concession offshore Timor-Leste, according to partner PanPacific Petroleum (PPP).

Nido contracts added offshore Philippines seismic survey

Nido Petroleum Philippines Pty Ltd plans to acquire 1,000 line km of new 2D seismic over the Bikuda-Bulador area in SC 58 offshore Philippines.

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Pipeline & Transportation

CNOOC reports another Bohai Bay leak

CNOOC Ltd. reports an oil sheen in Bohai Bay near the Jinzhou 9-3 oil field.

Husky contracts Saipem for deepwater Liwan pipelay

Saipem has been awarded offshore construction and installation contracts off China and Brazil valued at more than $1 billion.

Dolphin commissions Qatar pipe purge program

Dolphin Energy has awarded EnerMech Qatar LLC a three year call-off contract to provide nitrogen purging and leak testing on pipeline and related facilities offshore and onshore Qatar.

Production

Santos starts up Wortel gas production offshore Indonesia

Gas production has started from Wortel in Indonesia.

CNOOC forecasts more fields to produce offshore China

CNOOC is targeting net production in 2012 of 330-340 MMboe, slightly up on last year’s level.

ExxonMobil orders Rolls-Royce equipment for Tapis EOR project

ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia has ordered gas turbine and compression equipment for Tapis field from Rolls-Royce.

Rigs/Vessels

ConocoPhillips, Keppel team up for Arctic jackup

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech) and ConocoPhillips are jointly designing a jackup capable of drilling in Arctic Sea ice regions.

Sete Brasil shipyard wins drillship order

Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz has won a $792.5 million contract from Guarapari Drilling BV, the Netherlands, to design and build a drillship, based on Jurong Shipyard’s proprietary Jurong Espadon drills...

Fairstar fixes date for transport vessel delivery

Fairstar Heavy Transport expects to take delivery of the newbuild 50,000 dwt semisubmersible transportation vessel Forte on May 23.

Asia Offshore Oil & Gas News

Gujarat resumes exploration drilling offshore India

Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. has spudded the appraisal well DDE-A-2 offshore eastern India.

OIG appoints CEO, vice chairman

Offshore Installation Group has appointed Steve Preston as CEO, and John Smith as executive vice chairman.

New joint venture to serve Asia’s growing offshore market

A new joint venture in Malaysia aims to support Asia’s upstream sector with a wide range of services. Offshore’s contributing editor Gurdip Singh recently spoke to Maarten Spilker, Managing Directo...