Technology
TransGlobe Energy Corporation announces that An Nagyah #24, which commenced drilling February 25 2007, reached a total measured depth of 2,050 meters and was completed as a producing oil well after flowing at an initial rate of 2,252 barrels of light (43 degree API) oil per day and 0.6 million cubic feet of gas per day at a flowing pressure of 400 psi on a 48/64 inch choke. 
New underwater “radio” technology to tell valves when to shut-off, help divers communicate and otherwise eliminate some connector technology has been given development help. 
Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Corporation will celebrate the completion of RasGas Train 5 in Doha on March 20. RasGas Company Limited is a joint venture owned by Qatar Petroleum (QP) and ExxonMobil RasGas Inc.
GAIL-RIL sign MoU for Joint Co-operation Mar 19, 2007
GAIL (India) Limited and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in gas sector. The MoU was signed on 15th March 2007 by Mr. R K Goel, Director (Finance), GAIL and Mr. P M S Prasad, President and CEO, Petroleum, Reliance Industries Limited, in the presence of GAIL CMD, Dr. U D Choubey. 
Norwegian survey outfit, EMGS, has ordered a sixth oceangoing ship to carry its touted Seabed Logging equipment to oil companies and countries worldwide, the company declared Wednesday. 
London-listed Indpendent Resources has a “significant” source of coal-bed methane at its Italian Fiume Bruna prospect near Grosseto, central Italy. 
Partners in the giant Norwegian gas field Ormen Lange say they will spend NOK2.billion ($402.8 million) developing a sub-sea compression station, citing great savings as opposed to a platform solution. 
Long Beach-, California based Esperanza Energy will ask state and federal regulators this year if it can build a floationg receiving terminal for liquefied natural gas, or LNG, some 30 kilometres offshore. 
Dolphin Energy Limited is currently testing its gas receiving and distribution facilities at Taweelah, Abu Dhabi. 
ConocoPhillips successfully achieved first gas delivery from the newly constructed Suban Phase 2 gas processing plant on December 23, 2006. In the first of a series of planned development wells in support of the Suban Phase 2 Project, the Suban-10 development well was drilled, completed and currently producing at a constrained rate of 150 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). 
The first 700 meters of a planned five-kilometre deep well in the western Crimea has been spudded by Oslo-listed Canadian outfit, Transeuro Energy Corp., as it targets Ukrainian wealth. 
Crews relaxing after dinner Sunday were rocked by a gas alarm on the Heimdal platform, when hot fumes from an oil heater triggered an adjacent heater’s safety system, a statement from the oil company said. 
Aker, Aker Kvaerner and Aker Yards will together sprout Aker Innovation, a new business to target emerging industrial opportunity, a Group press release said Thursday. 
Foster Wheeler Ltd’s UK and Nigerian subsidiaries, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited and Foster Wheeler (Nigeria) Limited, which are both part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, in a joint venture with Chiyoda Corporation have been awarded a contract by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) for the Project Specification, or front-end engineering design, for the SevenPlus project.
Rocksource's production increase from US operations Feb 27, 2007
Rocksource ASA Group has through its US subsidiaries recently completed the Morian 4 well and started to deliver gas to sales. The current flow rate is ca. 1.5 million cubic feet/day, equivalent to ca. 250 barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day, through an 8/64" choke. |
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