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May 2008

ABS evaluating new Teekay floating offshore gas concept
ABS has been selected by Teekay Corporation to provide its technical evaluation to the basic design concept of a floating offshore gas liquefaction unit ...

ATP plans to sell interests in selected assets
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation has engaged Scotia Waterous (USA) Inc. to assist in the sale of a portion of its working interests in certain producing and undeveloped properties in the Gulf of Mexico ...

BENTEK foresees potential Gulf Coast gas storage overbuild
A new BENTEK Energy, LLC analysis of Southeast/Gulf region natural gas storage development reveals that 31 storage projects planned between 2008-2010 could add more withdrawal capacity than there is available pipeline capacity ...

BJ Process and Pipeline Services completes pipeline operation in Australia
BJ Process and Pipeline Services (BJ PPS) has successfully completed a commissioning contract for Technip Oceania Pty Ltd ...

Breaking a world record: CNX Gas drills over 15,000 feet to take top honors
CNX Gas Corporation broke a prior world drilling record and set a new one this week when a contractor rig drilled 15,172 cumulative feet with a single drill bit ...

Countdown to carbon cut date . . .
Ambitious strategies designed to create a 20% reduction in Europe’s carbon emissions by the year 2020 – far from an assured goal – will be more than offset by projected emissions from China and India, the chief economist for the International Energy Agency said yesterday ...

Dockwise subsidiary takes delivery of mv TALISMAN
Following the delivery of mv "Transporter" in May 2007 and mv "Target" in December 2007, the third vessel out of a series of six mv "Talisman", now joins the fleet of Dockwise Transport ...

EV Offshore completes platform wellhead inspection operation for Nexen in North Sea
EV Offshore Ltd. has carried out a downhole inspection operation for Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd in the North Sea ...

Marshall Plan for 'rusty' infrastructure required within a year: Simmons
Some $50-100 trillion will be needed over the next seven years to rebuild the world energy industry’s aging and rusting infrastructure, Matt Simmons, chairman of investment bankers Simmons & Company International, has warned ...

Mustang's LNG Smart Air Vaporization Technology receives DNV endorsement
Mustang Engineering and John Wood Group PLC were presented with an Approval in Principle (AiP) from Det Norske Veritas ("DNV") for the LNG Smart® Air Vaporization (SAV) process ...

New tool with speedy predictions of how heavy weather will affect risers, mooring and umbilicals
In order for offshore operations to cope with more extreme weather conditions, DNV has developed the new Riser Production Line software suite ...

Otto acquires Santa Rosa licence onshore Argentina
Otto Energy has been awarded the Santa Rosa Licence, onshore Argentina for a six-year exploration period ...

Petrobras features tech for Roncador field at Offshore Technology Conference
During OTC, Petrobras will feature technologies it developed for the Roncador field, in the Campos Basin ...

RPSEA announces projects for the ultra-deepwater program
The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) announced that eight proposals have been selected for negotiations leading to an award under the Ultra-Deepwater (UDW) Program ...

Schlumberger introduces ACTive Services
New family of coiled-tubing services uses real-time downhole measurements to interpret and optimize treatments while they are still in progress ...

Subsea 7 inaugurates Seven Seas
Subsea 7 Inc announced the official inauguration today of its new state-of-the-art deepwater Flex / J-lay vessel, the ‘Seven Seas' ...

The Platts pre-report survey estimates suggests 1.5 million barrel build in U.S. oil stocks
Analysts expect US commercial crude oil inventories to show a 1.5 million barrel build when the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and American Petroleum Institute (API) release weekly data on Wednesday ...

Turbulent times ahead for US Gulf's next wave
Delays and skyrocketing costs in several ultradeepwater Gulf of Mexico projects have been offset to a degree by healthy prices for crude oil, a panel of industry leaders said at OTC yesterday ...

Universal Energy announces pipeline construction to tie-in Caviar #1 and Caviar #4 is now underway
Universal Energy Corp. announced that all owners have agreed on a final plan for the pipeline construction and barge installation at the Caviar series of wells in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana ...

Unprotected diesel engines fuel explosion risk offshore
Most oil and gas companies operate safely offshore, or at least that is the intention.  By managing the risk of explosion correctly, it is likely that the oil company will maintain the flow of oil without incident ...

Wave machine creating new swell
With an event as vast as the Offshore Technology Conference, where both exhibition space and technical presentations outpace last year’s count, change and sharing are both on the agenda ...

April 2008

SCAN Geophysical updates delivery of M/V SCAN Stigandi
The vessel M/V SCAN Stigandi has been converted to a 3D seismic acquisition vessel at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax in Canada ...

2nd Annual Pre-OTC Mixer Scheduled
Energy Sector Event for Marketing Professionals Offers Networking for OTC ...

Addax Petroleum awarded new acreage offshore Cameroon
Addax Petroleum Corporation has signed a Production Sharing Contract with the Republic of Cameroon relating to the Iroko exploration license area ...

ATP announces "Home Sweet Home" Employee Challenge
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation has challenged all of its U.S., U.K. and Netherlands employees to achieve ambitious goals by July 1, 2009 ...

Baker Energy receives fourth consecutive MMS SAFE Award
The U.S. Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) New Orleans District has recognized Baker's dedication to safe and responsible operations with a fourth consecutive District Safety Award for Excellence (SAFE) ...

Bollinger delivers third 60,000 barrel double hull tank barge to Hornbeck
Bollinger Marine Fabricators, L.L.C. has delivered the ENERGY 6508, double hull, oil tank barge built to meet the requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA’90), to Hornbeck Offshore Transportation, L.L.C. ...

Chevron cites bias and improper collaboration in rejecting conclusions of report
Chevron Corporation will petition the Superior Court in Lago Agrio to strike from the record a flawed and patently partisan report submitted in the ongoing environmental lawsuit filed by Ecuadorian citizens ...

Class Societies ABS and RS jointly develop rules for Arctic Gas Carriers
ABS and the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) are to jointly develop of classification Rules for Arctic Liquefied Natural Gas Carriers under a wide ranging cooperative agreement between the two IACS members ...

Court Expert Smacks Chevron With Up to $16 Billion in Damages
In a long-awaited court report submitted as part of the final phase of a trial, an independent expert has proposed that Chevron Corp.  pay a minimum of $7 billion and up to $16 billion ...

DMT Emerald heads out for Aker Marine Contractors
Deep Marine Technology, Inc. announces that the 292ft DMT Emerald is headed to work for Aker Marine Contractors on the Blind Faith project ...

DMT Ocean Pioneer heads to Trinidad
Deep Marine Technology, Inc. announced that the 205ft, 4 point dive vessel, the Ocean Pioneer, is headed to work for Capital Signal in Trinidad ...

DMT Sapphire heads to India
Deep Marine Technology, Inc. announces the newest addition to its fleet, the 240ft DMT Sapphire, has been awarded a job in India from Boots and Coots ...

Energy Transfer Partners completes Southeast Bossier 42-inch natural gas pipeline project
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. has reported the completion of its Southeast Bossier 42-inch natural gas pipeline project in East Texas ...

Energy Transfer Partners to expand Texas natural gas pipeline capacity
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. has approved the construction of the Texas Independence Pipeline, a $485 million 42-inch natural gas pipeline ...

From Aker Kvaerner to Aker Solutions - launch of new brand identity
Aker Kvaerner has changed its name to Aker Solutions. At the same time it launched its new logo and visual profile ...

Hughes Christensen uses innovative technique to create additional slot for offshore Congo platform
Hughes Christensen helped a customer in the Congo accomplish a world-first by utilizing an innovative technique to create an additional slot on a platform in the Foukanda offshore field ...

Independence Trail and Hub Operations Suspended
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced that production at the Independence Hub natural gas platform at Mississippi Canyon Block 920 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico has been shut-in ...

Mariner Energy high bidder on 19 blocks at Central OCS Lease Sale 206
Mariner Energy, Inc. is the apparent high bidder on 19 of 30 blocks on which it bid at the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 206 ...

Mexico lawmakers vow to keep up protest
Leftist lawmakers who seized both chambers of Mexico's Congress said Friday they will not move until winning a national debate on an oil reform bill backed by President Felipe Calderon ...

MMS approves development plans for first use of FPSO facility in Gulf of Mexico
Minerals Management Service's Gulf of Mexico Region has approved development plans for the Cascade-Chinook oil and natural gas project located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico ...

MMS reports annual civil penalties collections
The Minerals Management Service has issued a Federal Register Notice announcing the civil penalties that were assessed for calendar year 2007 ...

MMS to evaluate North Aleutian Basin for OCS Lease Sale
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has issued a Call for Information and a Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Lease Sale 214 ...

Oceanteam's converted cable lay barge unveiled
Oceanteam ASA has unveiled its newly converted offshore cable installation barge ...

OPEC pumps 32.22 million barrels of crude oil per day in March, down 110,000 b/d
The 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.22 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in March, a 110,000 b/d decrease from February ...

Open season to be extended at Gulf Coast connector
Gulf Coast Connector LLC has announced the extension of an ongoing open season for service offerings at the company's proposed natural gas storage and transportation hub ...

Planet Resource Recovery expands Enhanced Oil Recovery efforts
Planet Resource Recovery, Inc.  is expanding its Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) efforts due to increasing demand for services after successful well treatments of marginal wells ...

Sensornet installs world’s first distributed fibre optic monitoring system in MRC well
Sensornet has successfully installed the world's first distributed fibre optic monitoring system in a Maximum Reservoir Contact (MRC) well for a major operator in the Middle East ...

Shell Canada optimizes production with WellDynamics’ fiber optic technology
WellDynamics announced that Shell Canada has successfully deployed WellDynamics' OptoLog® DTS HT fiber optic system to profile temperatures in 18 wells ...

Superior Oil and Gas to purchase a 1,600-acre oil and gas lease in Oklahoma’s East El Reno Field
Superior Oil and Gas Co. has executed an agreement with Kepco Oil and Gas Exploration to purchase a 1,600-acre undeveloped oil and gas lease in the East El Reno Field ...

Teton Energy permits 10 locations for 2008 Frenchman Drilling Program
Teton Energy Corporation has received approval for permits from the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission for the Company's first operated wells in the Teton Frenchman Creek prospect ...

TGS acquires multi-client seismic and aeromagnetic programs in Somaliland
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company has completed acquisition of two new multi-client programs in Somaliland ...

TGS announces major expansion of well log underwriter program
TGS Geological Products and Services secured another multi-million dollar underwriting commitment to its U.S. LAS program on Friday, April 4th ...

Total acquires new offshore blocks in the Gulf of Mexico
Total E&P USA Inc. was the highest bidder in the lease sale 206 on 13 blocks in the Central Gulf of Mexico ...

Wireless world first for offshore workers
Schlumberger and BT have announced the launch of the world's first public wireless broadband service for offshore and remote oil and gas drilling rigs and production platforms ...

March 2008

Aker Kvaerner streamlines operations
Aker Kvaerner has launched an internal process that will lead to the creation of one, new business area that integrates the operations of its current Maintenance, Modifications and Operations business area (MMO) and Field Development business area (FD) ...

Anadarko apparent winner on 20 tracts in Gulf of Mexico Lease Sales
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation was the apparent high bidder on 20 deepwater tracts in the Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sales 206 and 224 ...

Baker Oil Tools installs industry’s first RAM™ Multilateral System on Alaska’s North Slope
Baker Oil Tools has achieved the first successful installation of a new rotating, self-aligning multilateral (RAM) system on Alaska's North Slope ...

BENTEK foresees huge shift in natural gas flows
A new report released by BENTEK Energy, LLC, details the impact of anticipated changes in natural gas markets when 40 capital infrastructure projects go into service ...

Bisso Marine announces new vessels

Carnegie Mellon Economist says oil prices aren't high enough
Renowned Tepper School Economics Professor Lester Lave Says Gas Should Cost $7 a Gallon To Reduce Demand ...

Contango affiliate apparent high bidder on Gulf of Mexico Lease Block
Contango Oil & Gas Company announced that its affiliated company, Republic Exploration LLC, was the apparent high bidder on one lease block at the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale No. 206 ...

Dominion seeds artificial reef with oysters, shell
Dominion and other supporters of the Maryland Artificial Reef Initiative (MARI) have christened what will be its largest project, the Dominion Reef at the Gooses, by placing oyster shell and oysters on the reef ...

Falcon’s MoBay Storage Hub holds open season for Phase I storage service
MoBay Storage Hub is holding an open season for Phase I storage service beginning October 1, 2009 ...

Far East releases independent engineering report
Far East Energy Corporation has released the results of an independent coalbed methane reservoir simulation study conducted over the past four months ...

Large number of bids received for Gulf of Mexico Lease Sales
The bids are in for two Gulf of Mexico Federal oil and gas lease sales to be held March 19, 2008, in New Orleans ...

Matra Petroleum awarded exploration license in Hungary
Matra Petroleum plc announced the award of the Mezocsokonya Exploration License in Hungary ...

MMS honors corporate leadership
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has announced the recipients of the agency's Corporate Leadership Award (CORLA) ...

MMS honors finalists in annual competition
Only the best of the best become national finalists in the much-anticipated Safety Awards for Excellence (SAFE) annual competition sponsored by the Minerals Management Service ...

New Global Floating Production Forecast Available
Infield forecasts that capital expenditure for the floating production market will exceed $34bn over the next five years, an increase of 25% over the previous five years ...

Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Gulf of Mexico attract $3.7 billion
Two federal sales of offshore oil and natural gas leases in the Eastern and Central Gulf of Mexico attracted more than $3.7 billion in high bids ...

OPEC Pumps 32.33 million b/d in February, up 80,000 b/d
The 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pumped an average 32.33 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil in February, an 80,000 b/d increase on January levels ...

RIK gas sales expected to gross $1 billion
The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) sold more than 124.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas in three Royalty in Kind (RIK) gas sales conducted this month ...

TDW Offshore Services achieves record high pipeline pressure
TDW Offshore Services AS announced that two new gas production platforms on Shamrock and Caravel fields in the North Sea were tied in to an existing pipeline system ...

Well Renewal rescinds sale of NE OK leases to DVFI
Well Renewal, Inc. rescinded the sale of 74 wells and 6 leases in Northeast Oklahoma to Diversified Oil and Gas Holdings, Ltd. as previously announced on October 25, 2007 ...

November 2006

Baker Hughes PMG inspects high profile pipeline in deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Baker Hughes Pipeline Management Group (PMG) has successfully inspected a high profile deepwater offshore pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Baker Oil Tools successfully installs first two intelligent well systems in the Eastern GOM
Baker Oil Tools recently installed the first two Intelligent Well Systems (IWS) in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico ...

BP to build Gulf of Mexico fiber optic network
BP America Inc. has announced plans for the construction of an 800 mile undersea fiber optic system in the Gulf of Mexico ...

BPZ Energy announces change in management and provides drilling update
BPZ Energy, Inc. has announced the promotion of Ed Caminos to the position of Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer ...

INTEQ and Hughes Christensen Technologies reduce drilling costs for North Sea well
Combined drilling technology from Hughes Christensen and INTEQ recently reduced costs by delivering performance excellence in the UK sector of the North Sea ...

Morgan Creek Energy initiates permitting of twin well
Morgan Creek Energy Corp. has initiated the process of permitting a twin well for drilling on a key lease in central Texas ...

October 2006

Acergy completes Langeled ahead of schedule
Acergy has successfully and safely completed its work on the Langeled gas pipeline project one month ahead of schedule ...

Addax Petroleum completes FPSO replacement ahead of schedule
Addax Petroleum Corporation has successfully replaced the floating production storage and offloading vessel on the OML123 property offshore Nigeria ...

Avondale Resources to stabilize production on Cottonwood Unit
Avondale Resources Corporation announced that extensive repair work has been performed on its Cottonwood unit ...

Brighton Oil obtains final approval on South Liberty Oil Field Lease
Brighton Oil has received final approval for the development plan associated with the project and operations in the South Liberty County Oil Lease ...

Canada, the New Frontier in Non-OPEC Oil and Gas
Canada has suddenly become the new frontier in non-OPEC oil and gas developments and for good reason ...

Cedar Strat makes further geological recommendations on Texola Energy’s Maverick Springs Project
Cedar Strat has completed its preliminary geological report on Texola Energy Corp's Maverick Springs Project, Nevada USA ...

DTN Fuel Buyer expands price analysis tools to help marketers
DTN has announced important enhancements to DTN Fuel Buyer™ ...

Duke Energy Field Services announces new name
Duke Energy Field Services has announced its name will change to DCP Midstream, effective Jan. 1, 2007 ...

Enventure successfully completes SET® install for Shell UK
Enventure Global Technology has announced the successful installation of a 7-5/8 x 9-5/8 in. cased-hole Solid Expandable Tubular (SET®) for Shell UK ...

ExxonMobil contributes $1 million to Society of Women Engineers

Gulfport Energy reports fire in West Cote Field
A fire has been reported north of Gulfport Energy Corp.'s production facilities in the West Cote Blanche Bay field ...

Husky Energy successfully implements Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) flood technology
Husky Energy Inc. has successfully implemented Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) flood technology in Canada to extend the production life of the Taber South Mannville B Pool ...

JED Oil Inc. updates company activities
JED Oil Inc. has signed a Letter of Intent to sell its working interests in the East Ferrier area of Alberta to an arms length party ...

Jewell Ridge pipeline placed into service
East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC has placed into service its Jewell Ridge pipeline that will transport up to 235,000 dekatherms a day ...

Landmark to Introduce affordable and scalable volume visualization and interpretation solution
Landmark is introducing a new high-performance team-room visualization and interpretation solution at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) trade show ...

Norwegian American Trade Award to DNV
DNV will today receive the Norwegian American Trade Award for 2006 ...

Paradigm announces availability of Earth Decision Suite on Windows 64-bit platform
Paradigm announced at SEG that its Earth Decision(TM) Suite(TM) is now available for Microsoft(R) Windows 64-bit architecture ...

PHI reports aircraft incident
PHI, Inc. reported the loss of a Sikorsky S76 aircraft in the Gulf of Mexico at approximately 7:40 a.m. Sunday, October 22 ...

Polar Tankers christens fifth Endeavour Class double-hulled tanker
Polar Tankers, Inc. has christened the Polar Enterprise, the company’s newest double-hulled crude oil tanker ...

RIK gas sale nets 13 contracts
More than 114 billion cubic feet of natural gas has been successfully sold in an unrestricted Royalty in Kind (RIK) gas sale ...

Second pilot of Roxar oil-in-water monitor goes live in Eni SpA's Cavone oil field
Roxar announced that its second pilot for the Roxar Oil-in-water monitor for enhanced water characterization has gone live with Eni SpA ...

Tesoro Hawaii’s Kapolei refinery experiences emergency shutdown due to earthquake
Tesoro Hawaii announced that its Kapolei Refinery shut down early Sunday morning when it experienced a loss of power ...

TGC Industries fields eighth seismic acquisition crew
TGC Industries, Inc. has announced its eighth seismic field acquisition crew is now in the field and operational ...

Weatherford performs first EM-LWD operation in Saudi Arabia
Weatherford International Ltd. has successfully installed the first ever Electromagnetic Logging While Drilling (EM-LWD) triple combo operation with extended range set-up for Saudi Aramco ...

Where It Oil Began
Worldwide Petroleum Anniversary Plans Announced

X-Change Corporation licenses six RFID patents related to oilfield use
X-Change Corporation's wholly owned subsidiary, AirGATE Technologies, Inc., has licensed six key US patents and ten international patents relating to the utilization of RFID technologies ...

September 2006

A2SEA complete turbine erection work at Egmond aan Zee
A2SEA has successfully installed the last of 36 Vestas V90 offshore wind turbines at Egmond aan Zee, off the coast of the Netherlands ...

A2SEA first out at Horns Reef II - Soil Investigations for DONG Energy/GEO
A2SEA, usually associated with the towering heights of offshore wind turbine construction, is now also helping to explore the depths of the ocean floor ...

Acergy expands ROV fleet with third ultraheavy-duty Schilling UHD™ system
Schilling Robotics recently completed the sale of its ultraheavy-duty ROV system, the UHD™ 09, to Acergy ...

AlphaPRIME heads East
The first working AlphaPRIME System Module has been shipped to Malaysia ...

Anadarko provides update on hedge position
In connection with its acquisitions of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources in August, Anadarko has sought to hedge approximately 75 percent of the acquired oil and natural gas volumes ...

Anadarko updates progress on post-acquisition activity
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has provided an update on its financing and divestiture activities following the August 2006 acquisitions of Kerr-McGee Corporation and Western Gas Resources, Inc ...

Baker Oil Tools StimFORCE™ System takes mobile stimulation in a new direction
Alternative to dedicated vessels makes well stimulation accessible and affordable in remote areas ...

Black Dragon announces record sales of 10,000 barrels of oil
Black Dragon Resource Companies has achieved record monthly oil and oil equivalent sales in the month of August ...

BP Alaska gets DOT clearance to re-start Prudhoe Bay Eastern Operating Area
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. will re-start a portion of the Eastern Operating Area of Prudhoe Bay in order to run cleaning pigs and conduct an in-line inspection ...

BP America announces three-phase Houston expansion
BP America has announced plans for a major expansion of its Houston-based operations on the city's west side energy corridor ...

BP says that repair of subsea equipment will delay Thunder Horse until 2008
BP announced that it plans to retrieve and rebuild all the sea-bed production equipment from its Thunder Horse field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico ...

C- Surveyor III AUV scheduled for Gulf of Mexico delivery
C & C Technologies, Inc. has announced announced delivery of its third AUV, C-Surveyor III, scheduled for October of 2007 ...

Catlin workover continues
Ambient Wells Services, Inc. has directed Rockey Well Service to initiate work on its ninth well and Landmark 4, LLC. continues to complete the repair of roads, flow lines and transmission systems ...

Chevron and Los Alamos National Laboratory launch research project
Chevron Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory have announced the creation of a joint research project to improve the recovery of hydrocarbons trapped in oil shales ...

Energy Transfer Partners completes first phase of 42-inch pipeline expansion project
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. has completed the first phase of its previously announced 42-inch pipeline construction project ...

EV Offshore inspects five wells for Shell on Corrib Gas Field
EV Offshore has successfully completed a series of downhole inspections for Shell E & P Ireland Ltd on the Corrib Gas Field offshore Ireland ...

First CNG carrier ready for construction to ABS Class
ABS has given full design approval for the class of the compressed natural gas (CNG) carrier designed and developed by Canadian-based Sea NG Corporation ...

Greater Sooner Holdings selects team to drill Webb County Sidetrack well
Greater Sooner Holdings, Inc. has announced the team of operational experts selected to drill and log of the LOMT #1 Sidetrack well in Webb County, Texas ...

Hannon Westwood to assess Ireland's undrilled resource
Hannon Westwood has been invited by the Petroleum Affairs Division (PAD) of Ireland’s Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to define the distribution of undiscovered hydrocarbon resources ...

Inergy receives regulatory approval for Stagecoach Phase II expansion
Inergy, L.P. has been granted its Section 7(c) Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the FERC for the expansion of the Stagecoach natural gas storage facility ...

JED Oil obtains approval to drill on 20 acre spacing in Wyoming
JED Oil Inc. and JMG Exploration, Inc. have received approval from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to increase the well density from one well per 40 acres to one well per 20 acres ...

Liberia well log data now available online
NOCAL has entered into a strategic arrangement with A2D Technologies to make its well log data assets available online ...

Murphy Oil announces agreement to settle Hurricane Katrina oil spill class action litigation
Murphy Oil USA, Inc. has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee to settle the consolidated class action litigation pending in Louisiana ...

Natural gas pipeline construction continues at Catlin Field
Ambient Wells Services, Inc. has turned additional wells to production as natural gas pipeline construction continues at the Catlin Oil and Gas field ...

NPRA supports EPA's new proposal on New Source Review
NPRA has issued comments on the EPA's proposed improvements in the New Source Review (NSR) program ...

OPEC crude output rises 220,000 b/d in August to 29.91 million b/d
OPEC crude production climbed by 220,000 barrels per day (b/d) in August to average 29.91 million b/d in the month ...

Petrofac Brownfield delivers Goosander tie-back ahead of schedule
Petrofac Brownfield has successfully delivered the subsea tie-back from the Goosander field to the Venture Production-owned Kittiwake installation ...

Petrol Oil and Gas receives operational permits for two new salt water disposal wells
Petrol’s Water Disposal Capacity in Coal Creek Project has Doubled in the Past Two Days of Operation ...

Petrosearch Energy announces settlement in Southwest Garwood field dispute
Petrosearch Energy Corporation entered into an Agreement with respect to the recently drilled Kallina 46 #1 and Pintail Flats #1 wells ...

PGS re-enters the Gulf of Mexico
Petroleum Geo-Services will acquire a new Multi-Client 3D seismic survey in the areas of Garden Banks, Keathley Canyon, Green Canyon and Walker Ridge ...

Pragma unleashes its DRAGON on North East businesses
Pragma has launched DRAGON (Disaster Recovery Aberdeen for the Gas and Oil Industry), North East Scotland’s first dedicated disaster recovery suite for businesses ...

Schlumberger, Cisco Systems and Intel team to develop a new first mile wireless service
Schlumberger, Cisco Systems and Intel have announced a collaboration to develop a first mile wireless service for oilfield operations ...

Shunts Can Trigger Tank Fire says API Task Group
Companies from B.P. and Shell to ExxonMobil and Conocco Phillips are adopting a new grounding technology known as Retractable Grounding Assembly (RGA)

Subsea UK initiative to address problems with subsea testing
Subsea UK has launched an international initiative which will ultimately help companies get new technology to market more quickly ...

Talisman to sell Brae assets in North Sea
Talisman Energy (UK) Limited is initiating a process to sell its assets in the Brae area of the UK North Sea ...

TG World Energy provides Central North Slope Alaska joint venture update
TG World Energy Corp. announced that a budget for a 2006/07 exploration drilling program on North Slope joint-venture lands has been agreed to among joint venture participants ...

TGS commences acquisition of new multi-client CSEM surveys in Norway
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company has commenced a series of new multi-client Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) surveys in the Norwegian Sea and Troms III area ...

Transocean reports ruling on patent infringement lawsuit
Transocean Inc. announced that a jury in its patent infringement action against GlobalSantaFe has found in favor of Transocean ...

Trophy Resources receives site approval by TRRC for R&W #1
Trophy Resources, Inc. has announced that The Texas Railroad Commission has overseen the successful H-5 testing on the injection wells for Phase 1 of our Southwest Texas prospect ...

UK subsea sector to create 3,000 jobs
Industry body Subsea UK unveiled a new study which shows that “The subsea oil and gas sector is now one of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy” ...

Worldwide Energy adds $15 million in proven oil reserves
Worldwide Energy Corp. has announced results from an engineering report performed by Scicorp for the two Oil and Gas Leases that were recently acquired ...

August 2006

Aabar announces award of Block 06/94 in Vietnam
PEARL Energy Limited was among three companies who have been jointly awarded the petroleum contract for Block 06/94 in Vietnam ...

Air Liquide announces price increases
Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP has announced a price increase for its U.S. industrial and medical gas products ...

Atlantic Petroleum completes 2D seismic acquisition over Faroes Blocks 013 & 014
Atlantic Petroleum announces the completion of acquiring 1089km of block specific 2D long offset seismic data over Faroes Blocks 013 & 014 ...

BP to shutdown Prudhoe Bay oil field
BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. has begun an orderly and phased shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oil field following the discovery of unexpectedly severe corrosion and a small spill ...

Cabot Oil & Gas agrees to sell Offshore and South Louisiana Portfolio
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation has announced a definitive agreement to sell its offshore portfolio and its south Louisiana properties, which include the once prolific Etouffee field ...

Callon successful bidder on 12 blocks At OCS Lease Sale #200
Callon Petroleum Company was the apparent high bidder on 12 offshore tracts at Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Western GOM Lease Sale #200 ...

CapRock Communications expands presence in Africa
CapRock Communications has expanded its international presence with a support center in Luanda, Angola ...

Condemnation towards Iran on attacking Romanian oil rig
The 20-million-member International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine & General Workers Unions, the Global Union Federation for oil and gas workers, condemned today the hostile actions of Iran toward a Romanian-owned oil rig ...

Dubai offshore oil fields transition to new operator
The Government of Dubai and Dubai Petroleum Company announced a joint agreement that will change the operating arrangements for Dubai offshore oilfields ...

Ecuador Court, in blow to Chevron, eliminates 64 judicial inspections in Rainforest Trial
In a blow to Chevron in its $6 billion class-action pollution trial in Ecuador, a judge this week eliminated almost all of the remaining judicial inspections in a move to speed the case toward a final resolution ...

EPL provides update on operations and Stone Energy acquisition
Energy Partners, Ltd. has provided an operational update and closes acquisition of Stone Energy ...

Escopeta Oil to begin drilling for Alaska's 'Missing Giants'
Escopeta Oil's President Danny Davis is convinced that he knows where two huge, untapped oil and natural gas fields are in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska ...

EV Offshore completes downhole inspection operation for CNR International
EV Offshore Ltd as successfully completed a downhole inspection operation on behalf of CNR International (UK) Ltd in the North Sea ...

Exploration Alaska updates Prudhoe Bay production
Exploration Alaska Inc. continues the phased and orderly shutdown of production of the Prudhoe Bay oilfield ...

First North Sea well drilled with Ability Group’s Riserless Mud Recovery technology
The first North Sea oil well employing Ability Subsea’s advanced Riserless Mud Recovery (RMR) technology has been successfully drilled by Total E&P UK PLC ...

High gas prices cut into oil industry profits, new Phoenix Center Analysis shows
Burden of Record Prices Partially Shouldered by the Industry ...

INTEQ launches CoPilot Real-Time Drilling Optimization service
INTEQ has launched the CoPilot® Real-Time Drilling Optimization service to introduce a step change improvement in oil and gas drilling performance ...

Island Oil & Gas awarded Frontier Exploration Licences
Island Oil & Gas plc has been granted two new licences by the Petroleum Affairs Division of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources ...

Marathon establishes scholarship program with Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Five-Year, $3 Million Program Designed to Attract, Retain and Graduate Minority Students ...

Mariner Energy announces 6 high bids at MMS Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 200
Mariner Energy, Inc. is the apparent high bidder on six blocks at the August 16th Minerals Management Service OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 200 ...

Mariner Energy announces 6 high bids at MMS Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 200
Mariner Energy, Inc. was the apparent high bidder on six blocks at the August 16th Minerals Management Service (MMS) OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 200 ...

MedcoEnergi US announces three high bids at the Western Gulf Sale
MedcoEnergi US LLC announced that it is the apparent high bidder on all three of the blocks it bid for ...

Mexico's first-ever liquefied natural gas cargo arrives at Altamira's Regasification Terminal
Terminal de LNG de Altamira has announced the arrival of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo ever to be delivered to Mexico ...

MMS issues proposed 5-year plan and draft environmental impact statement
The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) is releasing for comment in tomorrow’s Federal Register, a proposed plan for the 2007-2012 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing program ...

New Elizabethtown gas program to improve reliability
Elizabethtown Gas announced the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has approved the company's $37 million pipeline replacement program ...

Oil drops below $70 a barrel
Crude oil is trading near a one-week low due to Tropical Storm Ernesto

Oil inventories have the price of crude lower today ahead of the weekly data

Oil poised to climb 20%
The price of oil is rising a second day 1% higher after Iran has refused to meet U.B. demands to end uranium enrichment ...

OPEC crude output falls 260,000 b/d in July
OPEC crude production fell by 260,000 barrels per day (b/d) to 29.69 million b/d in July from 29.95 million b/d in June ...

Pilgrim Petroleum Corporation achieves new record in production
Pilgrim Petroleum Corporation has achieved a new record in production for the month of July, an increase of over 20% from the previous month ...

Red Spider Technology brings home best stand award from oil show’s Innovation Park
Red Spider Technology has been awarded best stand in the Innovation Park at the Offshore North Seas Exhibition ...

REpower 5M: successful offshore premiere
For the first time, a REpower type 5M wind turbine has been set up on the open sea ...

Saxon Oil actively pursuing several upstream oil and gas projects
Saxon Oil Company Ltd. is currently pursuing a number of diversified oil and natural gas projects and prospects ...

Sercel invests in new 4D seismic company
Sercel has purchased a minority stake in Reservoir Imaging Ltd ...

Smith International reports hostage incident in Nigeria
Smith International, Inc. has confirmed that one of its expatriate workers was taken hostage in Port Harcourt, Nigeria ...

Terax Energy reports Barnett Shale initial oil and gas revenues
Terax Energy Inc. has announced oil and gas net revenues of approximately $133,000 for the month of June 2006 ...

Tesoro crude supply not impacted over near term
Tesoro has stated that its current operations are not impacted by the BP pipeline shutdown since only 10 percent of its total crude supply comes from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay ...

TGS charters additional 3D capacity for 2007
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA has signed a charter agreement with BGP to utilize the newly converted R/V BGP Pioneer 3D seismic vessel ...

Tidewater to christen new vessel M/V PAT TAYLOR
Tidewater Inc. has announced the M/V PAT TAYLOR will be christened on Monday, August 21, 2006 ...

Two anticlines discovered on Texola Energy's Maverick Springs property in Nevada
Texola Energy Corp. has received preliminary results from internationally renowned Cedar Strat Corp. on its 2006 field exploration program ...

Western Gulf of Mexico Sale 200 attracts $462.8 million in bids
Near record oil and gas prices and increased industry interest in deepwater production led to robust bidding in yesterday's offshore federal lease sale ...

Woodside Natural Gas submits deepwater port application
Woodside Natural Gas Inc. has submitted permit applications to Federal and City agencies for approval to build and operate its proposed OceanWay project ...

Yes On 87: Secretary of State Albright Backs Initiative
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has endorsed Proposition 87 because it will reduce the nation's use of foreign oil ...

Zauralneftegaz releases results of seismic surveys
Siberian Energy Group, Inc. has released the initial results of its gas seismotomography program launched May 2006 through Zauralneftegaz ...

July 2006

ATP named to NASDAQ Global Select Market
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation has been included in the new NASDAQ Global Select Market, a segment of the NASDAQ Global Market ...

Blast Energy Services confirms rig's large bore perforation capabilities
Blast Energy Services has returned to the location of its first field test using its new abrasive fluid jetting (AFJ) technology on a well for Oracle Operating ...

Browning Oil Company to offer East Texas Field assets for sale
Browning Oil Company, Inc. has exclusively engaged Energy Spectrum Advisors Inc. to divest certain non-operated oil and gas interests in the East Texas field in Gregg County and Rusk County ...

C & C Technologies announces AUV upgrade
C & C Technologies has announced recent upgrades to its C-Surveyor I AUV on July 11, 2006 ...

Cano Petroleum named in fire-related litigation
Cano Petroleum, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries have been named as defendants in a lawsuit by the heirs of two individuals who died in the recent grass fires ...

Enron founder Ken Lay dies
Enron founder Kenneth Lay died early Wednesday in Aspen, Colo., a family spokeswoman said ...

ExxonMobil announces third major Nigeria startup for year
ExxonMobil announced today that its affiliate, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), has started up the East Area Additional Oil Recovery project ...

Hemi Energy Group aggressively acquiring additional oil properties
Hemi Energy Group Inc. is continuing its aggressive acquisition program to acquire additional oil properties in Montgomery County, KS ...

Imperial Petroleum ompletes Hurricane Katrina repairs
Imperial Petroleum, Inc. has completed its major equipment repairs to damage caused by Hurricane Katrina and is ready to return its wells to production ...

Joint Owners confirm accident at Grand Isle platform
Joint owners of the offshore facility at Grand Isle 9A confirm an accident at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 8th ...

Louis Dreyfus Pipeline building two pipelines in Texas
Louis Dreyfus Pipeline L.P. has started construction of a 33-mile extension of its natural gas liquids pipeline into the Barnett Shale producing region ...

McMoRan Exploration provides update on Main Pass Energy Hub Offshore LNG Project
McMoRan Exploration Co. has received correspondence from the U.S. Coast Guard regarding the remaining steps to be completed to obtain a Deepwater Port License for its Main Pass Energy Hub ...

Minnesota Pipe Line resumes operations of second pipeline
With repairs now complete, the Minnesota Pipeline System resumed limited operations on the affected pipeline involved in a crude oil leak that occurred earlier this week ...

MMS issues final notice of Western Gulf Lease Sale 200
The Minerals Management Service has announced the Final Notice of Lease Sale 200 for offshore oil and gas in the Western Gulf of Mexico ...

Mobilestream Oil announces dramatic results of tests on Estonian Oil Shale
Mobilestream Oil, Inc. announced that in preliminary lab tests on oil shale, Mobilestream gasified the oil out of the shale, thereby reducing the weight of the shale by 45% ...

Northrop Grumman previews next-generation ship navigation technology
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Sperry Marine business unit unveiled its next-generation marine navigation technology ...

OPEC pumps 29.95 million barrels per day in June
OPEC boosted its overall production in June by 200,000 barrels per day (b/d) to 29.95 million b/d from 29.75 million b/d in May ...

Operations resume at Ivanhoe Energy's Heavy-to-Light oil facility
Ivanhoe Energy Inc. has successfully resumed test runs at its heavy oil upgrading Commercial Demonstration Facility (CDF) in California ...

Shell issues formal proposal to expand the Athabasca Oil Sands Project
Shell Canada Limited has issued a formal proposal to proceed with Expansion 1 to the other Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) joint venture owners ...

Signet Energy to drill three additional wells at Sawn Lake
Signet Energy, Inc. has announced the Government of Alberta has issued the required licenses to drill the next three vertical and horizontal wells ...

Southern Union completes Phase II expansion of LNG Terminal
Southern Union Company has completed the Phase II expansion of its Trunkline LNG Company terminal, which is the largest liquefied natural gas terminal in North America ...

Ultra Petroleum successful in obtaining additional 10-acre density drilling
Ultra Petroleum Corp. has successfully obtained approval from the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (WOGCC) for additional 10-acre down-spacing ...

June 2006

AlMansoori team celebrates Safety Award
AlMansoori Specialized Engineering has been awarded a momentous safety achievement trophy from RasGas Company Ltd ...

Anadarko to divest Canadian subsidiary
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has announced its intent to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, Anadarko Canada Corporation ...

Bollinger delivers first of four tank barges to K-Sea
Bollinger Marine Fabricators, LLC , has delivered the DBL 28 to K-Sea Transportation Partners ...

BTC Pipeline delivers first cargo of Azerbaijani crude oil to world markets
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline achieved a historic milestone with the delivery of its first cargo of crude oil to world markets ...

C & C Geomar completes Pemex multichannel survey
C & C Geomar recently completed a large multichannel high-resolution seismic survey for Pemex Exploration Y Production ...

Chevron awards Lima Transportes Ltda as 2005 Global Carrier of the Year
Chevron Global Marketing announced Lima Transportes Ltda as the winner of its 2005 Carrier of the Year Award ...

Chevron commits $18 million to Gulf Coast education
Chevron has launched Energy for Learning, an $18 million program to support public school education in 23 Louisiana and Mississippi school districts ...

Cirrus Energy Corporation applies for exploration license in The Netherlands
Cirrus Energy Corporation has applied for an exploration licence for offshore block Q11 ...

ConocoPhillips withdraws application for Compass Port LNG Project
ConocoPhillips has withdrawn the application for a license for its Compass Port liquefied natural gas (LNG) project ...

Crosco expands service activities in Egypt
Crosco Integrated Drilling & Well Services Co., Ltd. announces the award of the following contracts in Egypt ...

DTN Hurricane SupplyCast predicts impact of hurricanes on oil and natural gas production and supply
With experts predicting another active hurricane and tropical storm season, DTN Hurricane SupplyCast helps traders take advantage of the impact on oil and natural gas markets ...

ExxonMobil commits $1.5 million for Yogyakarta reconstruction efforts
Exxon Mobil Corporation, through its affiliates in Indonesia, has announced a commitment of $1.5 million to assist the people affected by the massive earthquake ...

ExxonMobil confirms successful bid in Indonesia Exploration Licensing Round
Exxon Mobil Corporation has confirmed its subsidiary, Esso Exploration International Limited, was high bidder on Surumana block located in the Makassar Straits ...

First dinosaur remains discovered in Norway by RWE Dea geologist
The first dinosaur remains to be discovered in Norway have been found by RWE Dea geologist, Morten Bergan, in a well located on the Snorre field ...

Founder and Chairman of Swift Energy passes away
Swift Energy Company regretfully announces the passing of A. Earl Swift on May 30, 2006 following a brief illness ...

Fred. Olson confirms attack on Bulford Dolphin
The drilling rig Bulford Dolphin was attacked and eight of the personell on the rig were kidnapped ...

Fugro GEOS ensures Stella SPM leads the world
Fugro GEOS has successfully implemented new technology on Stella, the Bonga SPM (Single Point Mooring) Buoy ...

Greater Sooner Holdings, Inc. receives operator designation from the Texas Railroad Commission
Greater Sooner Holdings, Inc. has been authorized by the Texas Railroad Commission as a registered oil and gas Operator in the state of Texas ...

Gyrodata introduces new rotary steerable drilling system
Gyrodata Inc. has introduced its new Well-Guide RSS(TM) 7-100 rotary steerable drilling system ...

House passes Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4761, the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006, by a strong bipartisan vote of 232 to 187 ...

IHS and Texas A&M University forge agreement
IHS Inc. and Texas A&M Engineering have reached an agreement under which IHS will provide access to specific well and production data and more of its software ...

Intergraph selected by Nanjing Gas
Intergraph Corporation has announced the successful phase one implementation of its G/Technology geofacilities management application at Nanjing Gas ...

J. Ray McDermott withdraws recognition from Operating Engineers Union
J. Ray McDermott, Inc. announced that on June, 5, 2006 it was presented with a petition signed by a majority of bargaining unit employees at its Morgan City, Louisiana Fabrication Facility ...

Kinder Morgan's $210 million East Line expansion complete and in service
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. has completed and placed into service the $210 million East Line expansion that increases pipeline capacity from El Paso, Texas, to Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz ...

LukOil demonstrates resources at LatAm oil exhibition
The Russian LukOil Company is figuring markedly at the Latin American oil exhibition that opened in Venezuela on Tuesday ...

Marathon awarded Indonesian offshore exploration block
Marathon International Petroleum Indonesia Limited has been awarded a 70 percent interest and operatorship in the Pasangkayu Block offshore Indonesia ...

Mariner Energy high bidder in 9 blocks
Mariner Energy, Inc. has been awarded nine blocks on which it was the high bidder at the March 15th Minerals Management Service (MMS) OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 198 ...

Matra’s Hungarian concession extended
Matra has received formal notification that the exploration period in Hungary has been extended by two years ...

Minnesota Pipeline System resumed operations
Limited operations of the Minnesota Pipeline System resumed Thursday according to company officials ...

Ness Energy receives funding for the development of oil and gas properties
Ness Energy International, Inc. has entered into a funding agreement with four institutional investors ...

Newpark consolidates Matting Operations
Newpark Resources, Inc. has consolidated its worldwide mat operations into a single entity, Newpark Mats and Integrated Services ...

NPRA commends House Resources Committee on passage of Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act
NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, has released the following statement on the House Resources Committee approval of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act ...

NPRA publishes Hurricane Security Operations White Paper
NPRA has published the "NPRA White Paper: Hurricane Security Operations," a planning and crisis response guide ...

PA Resources installs first deck on new oil platform in Didon
PA Resources AB has completed the offshore installation of the jacket and the first deck on the new oil platform in the Didon field in Tunisia ...

Perry Slingsby Systems/Geoconsult complete Triton® XLS 11 & 12 sea trials
Perry Slingsby Systems is pleased to announce the completion of sea trials of Triton XLS 11 and 12 ...

Qserv scoops top safety award for third year running
Qserv, has won the prestigious International Safety Award 2005 from the British Safety Council for the third year in a row as a result of its zero accident rates ...

RIK sale yields 8.4 million barrels of crude
The Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service has sold a total of 8.4 million barrels of Gulf of Mexico crude oil ...

Talisman announces Lynx Pipeline startup
Talisman Energy Inc. has announced the commissioning of the Lynx natural gas pipeline ...

Vroon Offshore Services takes delivery MV Power Express
Vroon Offshore Services has taken delivery on MV Power Express, an advanced Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) ...

May 2006

Aquaterra recommended for ISO9001
Aquaterra Energy has been recommended for award of an ISO9001:2000 certificate following an audit by NQA ...

Atmos Energy subsidiary to file with FERC to build new Kentucky Gas Gathering System
Atmos Pipeline and Storage, LLC will seek exemption from regulatory oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a natural gas gathering system ...

Bollinger delivers first of two OPA'90 tank barges to Bouchard
Bollinger Gretna, LLC, has delivered, B. No. 280, a double hull, 80,000 BBL oil tank barge to Bouchard Coastwise Management ...

BPI Energy updates Illinois Basin activity
BPI Energy, an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and commercial sale of coalbed methane (CBM) in the Illinois Basin, provided an update for its fiscal third quarter ending April 30 ...

CapRock expands disaster recovery satellite services in preparation for 2006 Hurricane Season
Building on the success of its DR-250 disaster recovery service launched last year, CapRock Communications significantly expanding its disaster recovery product line for 2006 ...

Cavendish platform load out in The Netherlands
RWE Dea UK has completed a major milestone in the Cavendish gas field development, with the load out to barge of the newly constructed production platform ...

CTBG deploys World's only fully Rotating Well Fishing Tools
Coil Tubing Technology, Inc. has announced the delivery of the first group of 8 Rotating Tools to oil and gas well service companies operating in Mexico and Oklahoma ...

EGPI/Firecreek, Inc. Executive Committee approves five well drilling program for 2006
EGPI/Firecreek, Inc. announced the company's Executive Committee has completed its feasibility study of certain reserves located in Wyoming and has approved a drilling program for five more wells ...

Energas Resources adds 361 Acres in Parkway
Energas Resources, Inc. has announced that 361 acres containing 3 existing wells are now in the process of being recorded ...

Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. approves expansion of 42'' pipeline
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. has approved an expansion of its 42" pipeline construction project ...

Eni acquires exploration rights in the Timor Sea
Eni has been awarded petroleum exploration rights on five new exploration blocks (named A, B, C, E and H) in the Timor Sea ...

Europa Oil & Gas completes 300 km seismic acquisition programme
Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc have announced the completion of the planned 300 km seismic acquisition programme on Brodina, Cuejdui and Bacau Blocks in Romania ...

EV Offshore introduces downhole inspection camera system
EV Offshore has announced that a new camera system for real-time downhole inspection that can be deployed on wireline or coiled tubing (CT) is about to debut ...

ExxonMobil awards four $5,000 Mobil 1 scholarships
ExxonMobil has awarded four Mobil 1(R) Scholarships to students at the prestigious NASCAR Technical Institute (NTI) ...

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Issues Environmental Assessment for terminal expansion
Cheniere Energy, Inc. has reported that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has issued an Environmental Assessment for the expansion of Cheniere's Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal ...

Fugro expands AUV capabilities with small full-function Echo Mapper
Fugro has expanded its AUV fleet to include a small, deep ocean, vehicle based on a Bluefin 21 ...

Halliburton Drilling and Formation Evalution Technology takes spotlight at OTC
Sperry Drilling Services’ unique Slimhole Reservoir Drilling and Formation Evaluation Solution is receiving recognition from the 2006 Offshore Technology Conference Spotlight on New Technologies Program ...

Huntsman Port Arthur, Texas Olefins Facility sustains fire damage
Huntsman Corporation's Port Arthur, Texas olefins manufacturing plant experienced a major fire on Saturday, April 29th ...

IMCA - continuing to promote fair contracting
Contracting conditions around the world are complex and numerous. Service contracting is a high-risk activity and risk exposure can be very large and bear no relationship to contract value ...

INTEC Engineering completes design of Pioneer Natural Resources' Oooguruk Pipeline Project
The Oooguruk development project in the Beaufort Sea offshore Alaska will deliver the first application of pipe-in-pipe production flowline technology in the offshore Alaskan arctic ...

Iraq export boost takes OPEC above 30 million barrels per day in April
Higher volumes from Iraq and Nigeria pushed total OPEC crude production in April back above 30 million barrels per day ...

Labour Agreement in place at Hibernia’s Offshore Platform
North American’s offshore oil and gas industry now has its second collective agreement in place after a Newfoundland-Labrador provincial arbitrator issued a 38-month labour contract ...

Labtech builds world's first fully automated H2S package for M-I Swaco
Labtech Modular Engineering has enhanced its engineering capability with the construction of the world’s first automated hydrogen sulphide gas separation unit for the oil and gas industry ...

Lloyd’s Register appoints J Rod King as Global Business Manager for Floating Offshore Installations

McMoRan Exploration updates status of Main Pass Energy Hub Offshore LNG Project
McMoRan Exploration Co. has provided an update on the status of its Deepwater Port license application for its Main Pass Energy Hub(TM) ...

New Product from Draka Cableteq wins OTC Technology Award
Fire Resistant Flex-Flame HCF Cables Withstand High Temperatures, Protecting the Offshore Drilling Market’s Critical Systems During Fires ...

No casualties or spills due to Typhoon Pearl
CNOOC Limited has announced that Typhoon Pearl did not cause any casualties or oil spills thanks to the Company's continuous focus on health safety and environment ...

Noble Corporation honored for Outstanding Problem-solving Design at Monday Evening Reception
he American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ International Petroleum Technology Institute has named Noble Technology Services Division winner of the 23rd annual prestigious “Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award” ...

NPRA comments on passage of OCS Amendment by House Appropriations Committee
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association has released the following statement on the House Appropriations Committee approval today of an amendment to the FY07 Interior spending bill ...

NPRA comments on Proposed E-85 Ethanol Incentives: 'Enough is Enough'
NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, released the following comments on E-85 incentives ...

Offshore Industry faces potential shortage of helicopter resources
The continuing upsurge in oil and gas activity is leading to increasing difficulty in supplying helicopter services for the offshore industry, and a potential shortage of aircraft ...

Petrosearch reaches agreement defining terms of participation in the Barnett Shale Project
Petrosearch Energy Corporation has entered into a Heads of Agreement with Exxon Mobil Corporation, Harding Company, Eagle Oil & Gas Co., PS Gas, LLC, and PS Gas Partners ...

Production of crude oil in Canada is set to nearly double by 2020
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) said in its annual Crude Oil Forecast that significantly increases the projections from last year ...

Roxar unveils Hyperbaric Test Facility in Stavanger
Roxar officially unveiled its new multi-million US dollar, high-pressure, hyperbaric test facility in Stavanger ...

RWE Dea completes €42 million Dieksand land station upgrade
RWE Dea has announced the completion of work to upgrade the crude oil processing facilities of its Dieksand land station in Friedrichskoog, Germany ...

Schlumberger redefines Formation Sampling and Evaluation with new Fluid Sampling Technology
Schlumberger has announced the commercial availability of its new Quicksilver Probe* wireline sampling technology ...

State of Alaska releases draft agreement on Alaska Gas Pipeline Fiscal Contract
The State of Alaska released the draft Alaska Gas Pipeline Project fiscal contract between the State and the North Slope producers ...

Summit/Asah Terra begin environmental clean-up in Nigeria
Summit Environmental Corporation has reported that its remediation efforts of a severely contaminated former oil drilling site called Elelenwa #1 began two weeks ago ...

TGS announces extension to Gulf of Mexico Multi-Client 3D Survey
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company has reached an agreement to extend its multi-client 3D seismic survey in the Main Pass and Viosca Knoll areas ...

UK Technology Co set to open $5 million Coatings Facility in Houston, Texas
Hardide plc is to open its first US coatings facility in Houston, Texas in autumn 2006 ...

April 2006

Aircrews airlift 6 people to local hospitals after platform explosion
Coast Guard aircrews airlifted six injured construction workers to local hospitals along the Gulf Coast today after an explosion occurred ...

Angola’s Sonangol holds public opening of proposals for Blocks 1, 5, 6, 26
Sonangol conducted a public opening of sealed tenders from international and domestic oil companies seeking to participate in the exploration and potential exploitation of five offshore blocks ...

ATP awarded Green Canyon Block 37 in the Gulf of Mexico
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation announced its apparent high bid for Green Canyon Block 37 has been accepted by the Minerals Management Service ...

BHP Billiton acquires exploration licenses offshore Colombia
BHP Billiton has acquired exploration and production rights offshore Colombia, South America ...

BHP Billiton signs Caroona Exploration Licence
BHP Billiton has signed its Caroona Exploration Licence at a ceremony held in Sydney ...

Blast Energy Services achieves shakedown of rig with initial field deployment
Blast Energy Services is completing its first field test using its new abrasive fluid jetting (AFJ) technology on a well located in Many, Louisiana ...

Calls for improvements in transfer safety at major event
Calls were made for improvements in the safety of offshore personnel transfers, the adoption of a common best practice and a co-ordinated approach to incident information at a major seminar held in Lafayette in March ...

Chevron awarded exploration rights in Norwegian Barents Sea
Chevron Norge AS has successfully bid for the exploration rights in six blocks awarded in the 19th Norwegian Licensing Round ...

Colorado Wyoming Reserve Company acquires Additional 6,000 Acres
Colorado Wyoming Reserve Company has acquired a 42 1/2% interest in an additional 6,000 acres underneath and bordering its 3D Seismic Shoot in Southeast Utah ...

Crosstex Energy completes $115 million North Texas Pipeline
Crosstex Energy, L.P. has completed the construction on the 24-inch diameter North Texas Pipeline (NTPL) facilities, covering more than 140 miles ...

Dril-Quip to start-up second Multiplex Subsea Control System
Dril-Quip, Inc. has announced the successful installation and start-up of its second subsea control system ...

DTI approves acquisition and operatorship of North Sea blocks
EnCore Oil plc is pleased to announce that the DTI has formally approved its acquisition of six North Sea blocks from Petro-Canada UK Limited ...

Eni's operating service contract in the Dacion Area terminated by PDVSA
Venezuela's national oil company PDVSA has informed Eni that as from 1 April 2006 Eni's operating service contract has been unilaterally terminated ...

Ex-Proof "Stainless Steel" Valves
The peculiar design of Atos original ex-proof valves – widely-used throughout and much appreciated for their reliability and performance - is now available also in stainless steel execution for hazardous and corrosive environments ...

Exxon Mobil Corp announces estimated first quarter 2006 results
Exxon Mobil Corporation reported first quarter 2006 results net income of $8,400 million ...

ExxonMobil Pipeline Company delivers Canadian Crude to Gulf Coast Refineries
Mobil Pipe Line Company has started delivering Canadian crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast through an 858-mile crude oil pipeline that runs from Patoka, Illinois to Nederland, Texas ...

ExxonMobil sponsorship of Masters draws shareholder action
ExxonMobil shareholders announced today that they have filed a resolution that would require management to report all expenditures at or in conjunction with venues that discriminate against women ...

Fugro-Jason announces RPM(TM) for PowerLog
Fugro-Jason has announced RPM(TM), a new module for PowerLog that adds rock physics elastic modeling to the widely used log analysis product ...

Geostar to transfer restricted common shares of Gastar Exploration
Geostar Corporation announced that a portion of the common shares in Gastar Exploration have been, and will be, transferred to certain of its investors and clients ...

Halliburton develops industry's first combined slurrification and cement batch mixer package
Halliburton's Fluid Systems Division has developed the world’s first combined cutting slurrification and cement batch mixer package ...

IDEAS® delivers superior performance. The first time, every time
Smith Bits’ IDEAS (Integrated Dynamic Engineering Analysis System) introduces revolutionary new technology to the design of roller cone and fixed cutter bits ...

Increased use of encapsulated line fuels demand for strippers and splitters
AnTech’s Stripping and Splitting Solution for Multiple Lines Offers Safety Benefits ...

InterMoor's mooring of GOM production unit is first of its kind
InterMoor Inc. has successfully installed the world’s first permanent SEPLA mooring system for a floating production unit (FPU) in the Gulf of Mexico ...

JED Oil Inc. announces first quarter production rate
JED Oil Inc. announced it exited the first quarter of 2006 at a production rate of 3,000 boe/d with wells in the Desan and Ferrier capable of over 600 boe/d to be tied in by the end of this week ...

Knowledge Systems announces new software releases
Two Knowledge Systems software systems used in oil and gas exploration and production operations have been released in enhanced versions ...

Landmark & EMC to provide Information Lifecycle Management Solutions to Upstream Oil & Gas customers
Landmark and EMC Corporation have signed a global agreement to jointly develop exploration and production (E&P) information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions ...

Leading Marine Engineers' Association will support BHP Billiton's Cabrillo Port Project
Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association (MEBA) announced its endorsement of a proposal by BHP Billiton to construct a liquefied natural gas facility ...

Lloyd's Register to class world's largest LNG ships
Lloyd’s Register is to class all six of the next series of large liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships ordered by Qatar Gas Transport Co Ltd (NALIKAT) for the fifth train of the Qatargas II project ...

Lloyd's Register unveils plans to move Marine Operations to Southampton
The Lloyd’s Register Group has unveiled outline plans to move its London marine operations to a specially developed site at the University of Southampton ...

Maverick Oil & Gas sets sights on Midcontinent Gas Reserves
Maverick Oil & Gas has set its sights on the Midcontinent -- that's where the future of natural gas is ...

MMS honors ExxonMobil with major operations excellence and revenues stewardship awards
The U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service has selected Exxon Mobil Corporation to receive two of its highest honors for 2005 ...

MMS recognizes four companies for performance
The U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) has named four recipients of its prestigious Mineral Revenues Stewardship Award ...

Newfield wins Minerals Management Service SAFE Award
Newfield Exploration Company has won the National 2005 Safety Award for Excellence (SAFE) "High Activity Category" recognizing safe operations in the Outer Continental Shelf ...

NPRA comments on Senate vote on Gasoline Amendment Supplemental Spending Bill
NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, has issued the following statement commenting on the proposed Senate amendment to the supplemental appropriations bill ...

OceanWorks completes VENUS Project Phase 1
OceanWorks International has announced that on February 25, 2006 Phase I of project VENUS officially became Canada’smost advanced interactive seafloor observatory to go “on-line” ...

OGIA challenges UK oil & gas production decline assumption
A leading group of 31 independent oil companies has challenged the Government assumption that by 2020 the UK is likely to be importing about 75 per cent of its primary energy ..

Oilfield services provider ISS merits BP President's Award for Shah Deniz
International Snubbing Services (ISS) has won the BP President’s Award for its work on the Shah Deniz gas export project in the Caspian Sea ...

OPEC pumps 29.76 million barrels per day in March, down 160,000 barrels per day
OPEC's eleven members, including Iraq, pumped an average 29.76 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude in March, down 160,000 b/d from February's 29.92 million b/d ...

Pacific Energy Partners to build crude oil pipeline to Cheyenne, Wyoming
Pacific Energy Partners, L.P. announced that Rocky Mountain Pipeline System LLC has signed a transportation agreement with Frontier Oil and Refining Company ...

Patch adds three leases to Alberta Oil Sands portfolio
Patch International Inc. has acquired three oil sands leases in the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada ...

Perry Slingsby Systems wins Top Safety Award
Perry Slingsby Systems Ltd has been awarded a prestigious safety award from one of the world’s leading training and advisory bodies ...

Petrol Oil and Gas begins next phase in Coal Creek development
Petrol Oil and Gas, Inc has closed escrow on an additional $5 million to support its expanded drilling program on its Coal Creek Project ...

Petroleum Consultants engaged to commence evaluation on Athabasca Oil Sands Prospect
Habanero Resources Inc. has engaged a Calgary based independent Petroleum Consultant company to initiate activities on the Athabasca Oil Sands Prospect ...

President Gorbachev marks 20th Anniversary of Chernobyl
On the 20th Anniversary of the world's largest nuclear power plant disaster, President Gorbachev, Founder and Chairman of Green Cross International, called for the leaders of the G8 make stronger commitments to a truly secure and sustainable energy future ...

Rains damage pipelines in Bolivia
Petrobras announced that intense rainfall in the Chaco region of Bolívia has damaged a stretch of the oil pipeline ...

Record sales spur global expansion for Paradigm
Paradigm™ is enacting a global expansion plan inspired by record sales of its software in the last quarter of 2005 and first quarter of 2006 ...

Remarks by President Bush on Energy
The following is a transcript of remarks by President Bush on energy ...

Schilling delivers Acergy extended-tether TMS
Schilling Robotics has shipped its first XE™ extended-tether TMS unit to Acergy ...

Seismic operations now complete on Peace River Oil Sands Prospect
Habanero Resources Inc. has announced that the seismic operations on the Peace River Oil Sands Prospect are now complete ...

Shell, Petrobras and ONGC Announce Changes in BC-10 Holdings and the entry of ONGC Videsh Ltd
Shell Brasil Exploration & Production and Petrobras confirm that Shell has exercised its pre-emption option for an additional 30% participating interest in the Shell operated BC-10 block ...

Smith Services sets world record for deepest completion system installation
Smith Services has set a world record for the deepest completion system ever installed, setting a packer and tail pipe at a total depth of 29,165 feet ...

Sondex gains Queen’s Award for International Trade
Sondex, the UK-based oilfield technology group, has gained the Queen’s Award for International Trade in recognition of its export achievement ...

Successful first day at Intelligent Energy 2006

The Exploration Company names Marfa Basin partner
The Exploration Company has entered into an agreement with Continental Resources for drilling and development of TXCO's West Texas shale prospect ...

The Peak Group provides impetus to North Sea operations
The Peak Group is supporting a significant UK drilling programme by independent oil companies in spite of the tough rig market conditions ...

User survey by Flow Research finds shift to new-technology flowmeters
A survey of flowmeter users shows a shift away from traditional flowmeters and towards new-technology flowmeters ...

Vanco International & JNR Eastern Investments win tender for Ukraine's Black Sea
A Ukrainian Intergovernmental Committee on Production Sharing Agreements (PSA) recommended to the country's Cabinet of Ministers that it award the right to conclude a PSA with the Government of Ukraine to Vanco International Ltd. ...

Veritas to deploy first Orca System
Concept Systems Ltd. has announced that Veritas DGC Inc. has purchased the first commercial application of its Orca(TM) integrated command and control software package for marine seismic acquisition ...

March 2006

Anadarko apparent winner on 13 blocks in Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 198
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation was the apparent high bidder on 13 blocks in yesterday's Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 198 ...

Anadarko updates Bear Head LNG Terminal status
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is rescheduling the onsite construction work of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal at Bear Head, Nova Scotia ...

Angola’s Sonangol announces alteration of terms for relinquished areas in Blocks 17 and 18
Sonangol has altered the terms for the relinquished areas of blocks 17 and 18, which were included in Angola’s E&P licensing round launched in late 2005 ...

AnTech eliminates need for wireline when running chemical cutter
AnTech Ltd has introduced its new Chemical Cutter Firing Head, which is designed to activate a chemical cutting tool without electrical cable ...

ATP apparent high bidder on Gulf of Mexico Lease Block
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation was the apparent high bidder out of three bids submitted to the Minerals Management Service (MMS) on Green Canyon Block 37 ...

ATP Oil & Gas announces record proved reserves
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation has announced at December 31, 2005, ATP achieved a record reserve replacement ratio of 1,367% for 2005 ...

Basic Earth comments on Northern Rockies oil prices
Basic Earth Science Systems, Inc. has responded to inquires concerning rumors of elevated oil price differentials relative to West Texas Intermediate benchmark crude oil prices ...

BJ Process and Pipeline completes gas injection compression spread in North Africa
BJ Process and Pipeline Services has designed, built and commissioned a self-contained, temporary gas injection compression spread in the El Gassi Field, North Africa ...

BJ Tubular Services completes challenging conductor pre-installation operation
BJ Tubular Services has successfully completed a rigless conductor installation operation using the Rigless Intervention System (RIS) offshore Cote d’Ivoire, Africa ...

Bronco Drilling prices common stock offering
Bronco Drilling Company, Inc. announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 3,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $22.75 per share ...

C & C’s AUV transiting to Brasil
C & C Technologies’ C-Surveyor I AUV, aboard the R/V Rig Supporter, began a 13-day transit from the coast of Angola to Rio de Janeiro, Brasil ...

Cano Petroleum further updates Panhandle Field status due to fires
Cano Petroleum, Inc. has provided additional information regarding production from its Panhandle Field located in the Texas panhandle counties of Hutchinson, Gray and Carson ...

Cano Petroleum updates Panhandle Field status due to fires
Cano Petroleum has announced that production from its Panhandle Field as down due to significant grass fires in the area ...

Canyon Offshore’s Quest WROV completes working dive at over 9,000 feet
Using its Quest WROV, Canyon Offshore has recorded a working dive to 9,024 fsw in Lloyd Ridge block 399 in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico ...

Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale receives 707 bids on 405 tracts
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) Gulf of Mexico Region has received 707 bids from 77 companies on 405 tracts ...

CEO Alliance calls on Congress to take immediate action to increase natural gas supplies
A unique alliance of five CEOs representing U.S. industrial natural gas consumers and U.S. natural gas producers today called on the United States Congress and Administration to take immediate action to help increase U.S. natural gas supply ...

ConocoPhillips to shut down Ekofisk for equipment modifications and maintenance
ConocoPhillips will shut down production within the next week from the Greater Ekofisk Area in the Norwegian North Sea for unscheduled equipment modifications and maintenance ...

Contango Oil & Gas affiliates apparent high bidders on 16 Gulf of Mexico Lease Blocks
Contango Oil & Gas Company and two of its affiliates, Republic Exploration LLC and Contango Offshore Exploration, bid on 22 lease blocks offered at the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale #198 ...

Enbridge's Spearhead Pipeline delivers Canadian crude oil to Cushing, Oklahoma
Enbridge Inc. has announced that the first Western Canadian crude oil will officially be delivered through its Spearhead Pipeline to Cushing, Oklahoma on March 2 ...

Energas removes obstacle to pipeline completion
Energas Resources, Inc. is once again moving forward on the construction of the pipeline to facilitate production of natural gas from their Parkway Project ...

Energas Resources completes Parkway Project Pipeline
Energas Resources, Inc. has announced the completion of the pipeline that will carry gas from the wells in the Parkway Project ...

Energas Resources connects two additional new wells to pipeline
Energas Resources, Inc. has announced that two additional wells have been connected to their recently completed Parkway Project transmission pipeline ...

Enterra reports record levels of production and revenues
Enterra Energy Trust has announced its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2005 ...

EPL high bidder on 11 leases at Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale
Energy Partners, Ltd. was the high bidder on 11 leases at the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 198 held yesterday in New Orleans, LA ...

Fairmount Tugs commence Dalia FPSO tow to offshore Angola
Fairmount Marine’s new 205 tonnes bollard pull tugs have commenced the prestigious tow of the 312 m FPSO Dalia from the Korean build yard to offshore Angola ...

First power generated by Barrow offshore wind farm
The North West’s first offshore wind farm has begun generation from its first row of turbines, 7km off Walney Island near Barrow, off the Cumbrian coast ...

Four licenses in Danish sector to Hydro
Hydro has been awarded four partnership licenses in the sixth concession round in the Danish offshore sector of the North Sea ...

Growing oil prices propel demand for prime movers in the EMEA and FSU oil and gas markets
Higher oil prices, new investments in expansion of oil and gas production at existing fields and continuous emphasis on discoveries are some key factors driving the prime movers markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa ..

InterMoor completes mooring installation offshore Malaysia
InterMoor Inc. has completed the engineering, procurement, and installation of suction piles and drag embedment anchors in the Kikeh Field offshore Sabah, East Malaysia ...

Ivanhoe Energy performs successful run on heaviest fraction of California heavy oil
Ivanhoe Energy Inc.'s heavy oil upgrading commercial demonstration facility (CDF) in California has completed a product run in which the CDF successfully upgraded vacuum tower bottoms ...

Kerr-McGee high bidder on four deepwater leases
Kerr-McGee Corp. and partners were high bidders on four deepwater leases in the Central Planning Area Gulf of Mexico lease sale 198 ...

Largo Vista completes LPG Pipeline ``Project 5'' in China
Largo Vista Group, Ltd. has completed construction of "Project 5," a pipeline project which will supply 994 residential homes in a master planned community in Zunyi, China ...

Lloyd's Register awards Green Passports to Shell's LNG fleet
Shell International Trading and Shipping Company has obtained Green Passports for all 25 of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers ...

Lockheed Martin launches first of two Slice(R) Crew Vessels
Lockheed Martin launched Lider, the first of two SLICE(R) Crew Transport Vessels (SCTV) the company is building for Hoteleria y Servicios Petroleros, S. A. de C.V. ...

Mariner Energy announces results of March 15 Lease Sale
Mariner Energy, Inc.was the apparent high bidder on ten blocks in the Minerals Management Service Lease Sale 198 ...

MTS Journal Focuses on Education
A peer-reviewed publication of the Marine Technology Society addresses one of the key elements of the American Competitiveness Initiative that President George W. Bush laid out in his State of the Union Address in January ...

Nautronix Height Differential Monitoring System utilised during topside installation
Nautronix plc were recently contracted by Sime Darby Engineering of Malaysia to provide a Height Differential Monitoring System for use onboard the dynamically positioned heavy lift vessel 'Kang Sheng Kou' ...

Noble Energy apparent high bidder on eight Deepwater Blocks in Central Gulf of Mexico Sale 198
Noble Energy, Inc. was the apparent high bidder on eight deepwater lease blocks on which the company bid at the Central Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Sale 198 ...

Online collaboration leveling playing field
Sophisticated computers, high-speed broadband connections and corporate networks have become so integral to conducting business, and ever-newer technology rollouts so increasingly common, some perspective may be helpful in deciding which direction upstream oil and gas organizations should take next and why. Just remember the words “online collaboration.”

Record water depth extended for subsea production facilities
Delmar Systems, Inc. continues to meet the challenges of the offshore ultra-deepwater projects ...

Shell secures heavy oil leases in Alberta
Shell EP Americas has established SURE Northern Energy to evaluate and potentially develop heavy oil resources secured in the February 8, 2006 Alberta Department of Energy Oil Sands Public Offering ...

Shell takes decision to retain its LPG Business
Royal Dutch Shell plc had completed the review of its global LPG marketing and distribution business and had taken the decision to retain this business ...

Technology leveling the playing field in energy business
Overflowing the pages in the oil industry’s history are countless stories of huge successes, failures just as big, and new challenges constantly replacing older ones ...

TGS completes Gulf of Mexico Depth Imaging Program
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company has completed the pre-stack depth migration of over 750 OCS blocks of deepwater Gulf of Mexico 3-D seismic data ...

W&T Offshore apparent high bidder on four Gulf of Mexico Blocks
W&T Offshore, Inc. was the apparent high bidder on four Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) blocks in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 198 ...

Wentworth Oil Sands CEO announces expert team
Wentworth Oil Sands CEO Roger Williams has announced the management team who will join him in the commercialization of the Petromax Oil Sands technology ...

Women's Energy Network of Houston to host its charity event on April 6
The Women's Energy Network of Houston (WEN) will host its charity fundraising lunch event on Thursday, April 6, at 11:00 a.m. ...

World's largest AUV-survey successfully completed
Fugro was contracted by BP Exploration (Egypt) Ltd. to undertake a regional site investigation at Raven ...

World's largest heavy lift hover barge launched in the swamps of Suriname
Hovertrans Inc. has the World's largest hover barge (air-cushion barge) in the 1st qtr, 2006 ...

February 2006

Africa to supply 30% of world’s liquids increase and 25% of global LNG capacity by 2010
Ron Mobed, Energy President and COO, IHS, Addresses Global Energy Challenges at IP Week in London ...

Babcock & Wilcox Company exits Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The Babcock & Wilcox Company and certain of its subsidiaries have now exited from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and entered into its previously announced settlement ...

BJ Tubular reduces cost of abandoning wells in Gulf of Mexico
BJ Tubular Services' environmentally friendly hydraulic Rigless Intervention System has been performing successfully on behalf of a number of operators in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Bollinger delivers to K-Sea Transportation Corporation
Bollinger Marine Fabricators has delivered an ocean service double hull, oil tank barge to K-Sea Transportation ...

Chevron, U.S. Coast Guard & N.J. Department of Environmental Protection respond to oil spill
Chevron Products Co., the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection are responding to a crude oil spill in the Arthur Kill ...

Comments sought on proposed Indian Oil Rule
Public comments are being sought on a new proposed Indian Oil Valuation Rule that would guide the valuation of crude oil produced from American Indian oil and gas leases ...

Compact ROV for dril support in heavy seas
DNT Offshore has taken delivery of a specially designed compact work ROV that can perform a wide range of drill support tasks in heavy seas ...

Comstock Resources announces Year-End Reserves
Comstock Resources, Inc. announced that Comstock's total proved oil and natural gas reserves as of Dec. 15, 2005 relating to its onshore properties are estimated at 432 BCF of natural gas and 12 million barrels of crude oil or 505 BCFe ...

Devon Energy announces 2005 production rate
Devon Energy announced that its combined oil, gas and natural gas liquids production averaged 619,000 boe/d in 2005. This was 10 percent less than Devon's 2004 average daily production of 685,000 boe/d ...

Exxon Mobil announces 2005 reserves replacement
Exxon Mobil Corporation has announced that additions to its worldwide proved oil and gas reserves totaled 1.7 billion oil-equivalent barrels in 2005 ...

FMC Technologies again ranked no. 1 most admired oil and gas equipment services company
FMC Technologies, Inc. was again rated "Most Admired Oil and Gas Equipment, Services" company, ranking first in its industry in FORTUNE magazine's annual listing of "America's Most Admired Companies" ...

FMC Technologies provides update on the Sonatrach Project
FMC Technologies Inc. has announced that its Floating Systems subsidiary has received final customer acceptance of the Sontrach project ...

Grant Prideco launches the IntelliServ® Network
Grant PridecoTM announced commercial launch of the IntelliServ Network, the industry’s first reliable, high-speed, real-time drill string telemetry system ...

Gulfport Energy updates drilling program and effects of Hurricane Rita
Gulfport Energy Corporation reports update on Drilling Program and Effects of Hurricane Rita ...

Heartland Oil and Gas completes pipeline hookup
Heartland Gas Gathering, LLC has completed construction of a gas gathering, processing, and transmission system ...

High Court judgment favors Ijaws, SPDC appeals
Nigeria's Federal High Court of Port Harcourt recently entered a judgment in favor of Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State ...

Lundin Petroleum and partners achieve key milestone in Alvheim Development Project
Lundin Petroleum AB, together with the Alvheim partners, has announced that hull work has been completed on the FPSO vessel which is a central element of the Alvheim development ...

MMS issues final notice of Central Gulf Lease Sale 198
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has announced the Final Notice of Lease Sale 198 for offshore oil and gas in the Central Gulf of Mexico (GOM) ...

MSEV announces encouraging seismic data on new Alberta Gas Prospect
Micron Enviro Systems, Inc. has been notified by the operator of the Boyne Prospect that the seismic data on the prospect is encouraging and that drilling is expected to commence ...

MSEV enters into the Canadian Oilsands Limited Partnership
Micron Enviro Systems, Inc. has now entered into the Canadian Oilsands Limited Partnership ...

PGC supports efforts to increase offshore natural gas production
The Process Gas Consumers Group supports legislation introduced by the Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to offer portions of the 181 area of the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing ...

Pioneer withdraws from Joint Development Zone
Pioneer Resources Africa Limited is withdrawing from participation in Blocks 2 and 3 of the Joint Development Zone in offshore Nigeria ...

PRODML a shared solution for upstream oil and gas companies to optimize their production
A group of energy companies have launched an initiative to help producers independently optimize their oil and gas production ...

Radio address by President Bush to the Nation
The following is a transcript of the radio address by President Bush to the nation ...

SulphCo completes testing of commercial ultrasound unit
SulphCo, Inc. has announced that in-house testing of its commercial scale 15,000 barrel per day Sonocracking™ ultrasound unit has been completed ...

Talisman option on Petrojarl Varg not exercised
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA announced that Talisman and the other License owners did not exercise their option to change contract terms ...

Tesoro time-chartered vessel struck by ice floe
Tesoro Corporation announced that the time chartered (leased) vessel Seabulk Pride was struck by an ice floe ...

TGS announces major new Gulf of Mexico Deepwater 3D Survey
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) will acquire a new multi-client 3D seismic survey in the areas of Garden Banks, Keathley Canyon ...

Unit Corporation's oil & natural gas subsidiary's reserves reach record 412.1 Bcfe
Unit Petroleum Company replaced 261% of its 2005 oil and natural gas production and increased its proved oil and natural gas reserves 19% to 412.1 Bcfe ...

Update on Arthur Kill oil spill response
A Unified Incident Command continues to respond to a crude oil spill in the Arthur Kill ...

Well location survey on Boyne Lake Project completed
Premium Petroleum, Inc. has engaged a survey firm to survey the access road and drilling pad, which has now been completed and filed with the government ...

Wescorp completes engineering phase of Ellycrack Heavy Oil Upgrader Pilot Plant
Wescorp Energy Inc. has completed the engineering phase of its patented Ellycrack heavy oil upgrader pilot plant ...

Willbros updates incident in Nigeria
Willbros Group, Inc. has demobilized project personnel in the area affected by the hostage-taking incident to secure areas in Nigeria ...

January 2006

3U Technologies supports development of Schilling Ultraheavy-Duty Hydraulic ROV
3U Technologies, LLC has completed a long-term support contract to assist the Schilling Sub-Atlantic Alliance with development of Schilling Robotics’ UHD™ ...

Baker Oil Tools mills world's first 16-inch one-trip casing exit
Baker Oil Tools recently completed the world’s first 16 in. one-trip casing exit using the WindowMaster® whipstock system ...

Bollinger delivers offshore supply vessels to Bordelon Marine
Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. has delivered the Offshore Supply Vessels SARAH BORDELON and the MARCELLE BORDELON to Bordelon Marine, Inc ...

C-Surveyor I completes BP’s Africa AUV surveys
C & C Technologies recently completed several deepwater AUV hazard surveys for BP off of the coast of West Africa ...

Dubai Mercantile Exchange to create new international energy exchange
Dubai Mercantile Exchange announced recent developments in the creation of a new commodity exchange that will initially develop and trade a Middle East Sour Crude Oil Futures ...

Energas Resources Reports 175% Revenue Increase
Energas Resources, Inc. has announced the results of the Company’s fiscal third quarter ended October 31, 2005 ...

EV Offshore completes downhole inspection for Paladin Expro Ltd
EV Offshore Ltd has successfully completed a downhole inspection operation for Paladin Expro Limited in the North Sea ...

FloaTEC achieves key milestones
FloaTEC, LLC, the new “deepwater technology solutions” joint venture company created by J. Ray McDermott, Inc. and Keppel FELS LTD. has achieved several key milestones in its first 4 months of business ...

FMC Technologies provides update to fourth quarter 2005
FMC Technologies has provided an update for fourth quarter 2005 operations ...

Halliburton technology assists customer with economic development of heavy oil reserves
Sperry Drilling Services has installed 100 LatchRite® multilateral junctions for Petrozuata in Venezuela ...

ICE plans to introduce WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil Futures contract
IntercontinentalExchange announced that ICE Futures will launch an electronically traded WTI crude futures contract beginning in February ...

JED Oil exits 2005 with re