Gas
An appraisal well drilled by the West Alfa semi-subersible rig has proven more gas for Shell at the Onyx Soervest discovery of a year ago, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said at the weekend. 
Supermajor BP has sent Norwegian officialdom its plan to develop the 30-billion-kroner ($5-billion) Skarv gas field using a “large production vessel”, subsea wells and an 80-kilometre, gas-export pipeline. 
The Cacouna Energy Project, a joint project of Petro-Canada and TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) learned today that the Quebec government has granted a decree approving the proposal to construct the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) re-gasification terminal in Quebec. 
A consortium of oil companies lead by Nippon Oil Exploration Ltd. has hired the Songa Saturn drill ship for work offshore Libya, in a $91 million work order for the rig contractor. 
Ireland-based North Africa explorer Circle Oil has posted a near 60-percent greater loss for 2006 than the year before, a $2.78 million deficit incurred for the gain of “lower risk” exploration acreage. 
Italian oil company ENI has a dry well in the tough geology of the Norwegian Sea, where the promising Voering basin south of the Barents Sea keeps its sandstone secrets. 
Revus Energy has agreed to buy from Statoil a stake in the Murchison field and the Delta discovery via new stakeholdings, it was understood Monday. 
U.K. independent oil company Circle Oil and Tunisian explorer EXXOIL have hired Oil Field Services Co. to drill two onshore wells in the southern African country. 
TNK-BP will invest $1 billion every year for five years as the joint venture takes the lever of production for 2008, it was understood Thursday. 
A consortium of oilfield infrastructure builders J. Ray McDermott and Fluor has been awarded a contract to engineer, build, install and procure for BG’s offshore Poinsettia project in Trinidad & Tobago. 
Aker Kvaerner will deliver NOK610 million in topsides equipment to sister outfit Aker Floating Production after penning a deal to equip the floating production, storage and offloading vessel, the FPSO SMART 1. 
Statoil has granted a NOK600 million ($100 million) contract extension for light-well intervention, or LWI, to Island Offshore Management and partners FMC Technologies and Aker Kvaerner Well Services. 
Silver Star Energy, Inc. reports on the progress of pipeline construction and ultimate tie-in of gas wells at the MB Gas Project, located in the Manyberries area of Alberta, Canada. 
Norway-based Ability Drilling has executed an option and ordered an onshore drill rig and a workover rig from southwest Norwegian TTS Marine Drilling equipment, a business of Sense EDM of Kristiansand. 
The Norwegian parliament has approved oil company Talisman’s development plan for the Rev gas field at the North Sea meridian line between Norway and the United Kingdom. |
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