来自/Natural Gas World 10月17日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Rosneft and a consortium of international investors October 15 agreed to buy 98% stake in Indian private sector firm, Essar Oil, for $12.9bn. Of that, $10.9bn are for Essar Oil’s refining and retail assets, and $2bn for Vadinar port and related infrastructure.The first sale and purchase agreement envisages the sale of 49% to Petrol Complex, a subsidiary of Rosneft; the second envisages the sale of the remaining 49% to Kesani Enterprises Company, which is owned by a consortium led by trader Trafigura at an enterprise valuation of $10.9bn.An additional $2bn will be paid for the acquisition of Vadinar Port, which has storage and import/export facilities. The remaining 2% stake will be held by promoters of Essar Oil. The acquisition will enable Rosneft to enter the high-opportunity Indian market.
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来自/Natural Gas World 10月17日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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French major Total has found gas and condensate with a wildcat well drilled in the northeast part of Norway's Martin Linge field in the North Sea.The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic reservoir rocks (Brent group) and it found it in the Tarbert, Ness and Etive formations in the Brent group. Reservoir quality was good, regulator Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said October 17. The preliminary estimate is 2-11mn m³ of recoverable oil equivalents (12.6-69.2mn bbls).The maximum production rate was 2.4mn m³/d of gas.The well has added additional resources to the Martin Linge development and was completed with the objective of putting the well into production at start-up of the field. The produced gas will be exported to the UK terminal at St Fergus. The well was the fourth exploration well in the license.
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澳大利亚上市公司Oilex同合资伙伴Gujarat State Petroleum Corp (GSPC)签订协议于印度进行钻探C-87号竖井,位于古吉拉特邦西部的Cambay油气田。10月17日,Oilex表示签订协议是钻探C-87号竖井的里程碑,并可能发现价值并延期生产共享合同。协议规定,Oilex将通过成功运营钻探、测试、完成钻井工作并开始其商业生产。Oilex将为该井出资并全权负责销售。GSPC可以在商业生产开始后的365天只能选择承担部分业务。Oilex表示C-87号竖井的成功运营是Cambay油气田进行非传统天然气的发展契机。
来自/Natural Gas World 10月17日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Australia listed Oilex has signed an agreement with its joint venture partner in India, Gujarat State Petroleum Corp (GSPC), on the next planned vertical well, C-87, in the Cambay field in the western Indian state of Gujarat.“The signing of the agreement is a key milestone towards the proposed drilling of well C-78, unlocking value and possibly securing an extension to the Cambay field production sharing contract term,” Oilex said October 17.Under the agreement, Oilex will drill, test, complete, commission and, subject to successful operations, begin commercial production from the proposed well. The Australian company will fund the well and can sell all its output from it. GSPC has the option to back in to it within 365 days from the start of commercial production. According to Oilex, successful execution of well C-78 is required to progress towards the potential development of the unconventional gas opportunity at the Cambay field.
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10月17日,英国能源公司SSE以6.21亿欧元(7.75亿美元)现金将斯科舍天然气网络公司(Scotia Gas Networks)16.7%股份出售给主权投资基金-阿布扎比投资局的全资子公司。该交易将于本月末结束。SSE五月时表示将出售股权。SSE保留Scotia Gas Networks33.3%股份。SSE于2005年以5.05亿欧元收购Scotia Gas Networks半数股份。Scotia Gas Networks拥有并运营两处区域天然气分销网络,供应超过600万户苏格兰及英格兰南部家庭。SSE有望通过分红将大多收益回馈给股东。SGN的两个股东均为加拿大养老基金,分别拥有25%股份。
来自/Natural Gas World 10月17日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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UK energy utility SSE announced October 17 it has agreed to sell a 16.7% stake in Scotia Gas Networks (SGN) for £621mn ($757mn) cash to wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia), a sovereign wealth fund. The deal is expected to close by the end of this month. SSE signalled it would sell the stake in May. SSE will retain 33.3% equity in SGN. SSE bought half of SGN in 2005 for a total of £505mn. SGN owns and operates two regional gas distribution networks that serve almost 6mn properties in Scotland and southern England. SSE is expected to return most of the proceeds to shareholders, through dividends. SGN's other shareholders, each with 25%, are two Canadian pension funds.
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来自/Oilpro 10月14日 消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.coOPEC m
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Kashagan Starts to Flow from the $50B Field. Andrew Neff of IHS Energy said that restarting production provides some return but the real payoff will be phase two.
Brent and WTI Keep Climbing. Traders and analysts go to war over what the price of oil should be, but traders are winning. Brent over $52 and WTI climbing up and away from $50.
UK Favors Goldman in Libyan Dispute. Goldman Sachs wins $1.2 billion dispute with Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund over nine disputed trades. Traders win again!
Nat Gas Better Have a Cold Winter. Mr. Rapier warns on natural gas prices. Inventories on the high-end of the five year average are just one of the many risks.
Shell Vendors Salivate. The Belinda project is looking hopeful. Once a Sterling Resources asset, Belinda is looking like a development that will require significant capital expenditure.
Russia's Signals Aren't Really Mixed. Putin would only cut if OPEC itself abides and Rosneft's commitment to keep pumping comes from disbelief in the cuts.
Freeport McMorRan Bails on California. $724M has provided Sentinel Peak Resources with all of Freeport McMoRan's Cali onshore sets. FreePort jumped into the U.S. market as quickly as it is jumping out.
Royal IHC Cuts Hard. Hundreds laid off including COO. Dave Vander Heyde and Arie Vergunst are left to manage the downturn in what can only be a culture of depression.
Brazilian Senator Heads to Jail. Nineteen years for corruption, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. Brazil's top prosecutor continues his witch-hunt including sixty-six current and former lawmakers and hundreds of business folk. Somebody wants to be President of Brazil.
UAE Calls U.S. Shale To Cut Production. I am almost did not post this but figured everyone could use a good laugh on Friday. The US is cutting production just not as part of a cartel but as a function of capitalism. This OPEC jibber-jabber is starting to bore me.
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Royal Dutch Shell plans to invest in Iran's energy and petrochemical projects soon, said the head of the investment department at National Petrochemical Company (NPC). NPC and Shell recently inked a letter of intent to start discussions on renewal of petrochemical and energy-related activities in the Islamic Republic, reported Iran Daily. "The deal does not specify any activities so not to limit its range," Hossein Alimorad was quoted as saying in the report. Based on the document, the two sides will indicate their willingness to cooperate in any field they are interested in, he added.
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来自/Offshore Energy Today 10月14日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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International subsea and offshore drilling services company Mermaid Maritime has relieved its chief financial officer (CFO) of his duties. In addition, Mermaid’s executive VP has decided to resign from his position. Mermaid said on Friday that the company’s CFO, Raza Ullah Khan, was relieved of his duties effective immediately due to internal restructuring of the company in line with streamlining cost efficiency, centralization, and consolidation. Ullah Khan, who was appointed as the company’s CFO back in August, is required to resign from his directorship of the company’s subsidiaries, Mermaid Subsea Services and Mermaid Subsea Services Saudi Arabia. The company named Phiboon Buakhunngamcharoen, who has been with the company’s Finance and Accounting Department for the past 11 years, as the interim CFO to provide continuity in the company’s overall financing and accounting until a new CFO is formally appointed. Furthermore, Mermaid said that Jean-Francois Redon, the company’s Executive Vice President of Asset and Administrative Management, has decided to leave the company to pursue personal and other professional interests.
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来自/Offshore Energy Today 10月14日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Italian oil company Eni has informed that the naming ceremony of the Armada Olombendo floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel was held on Friday in Singapore. The FPSO will operate in Block 15/06, offshore Angola, for the East Hub Development Project.The Italian oil company said on Friday that the vessel will soon be ready to sail to its final destination where, once in position, will start mooring and hook-up operations. According to Eni, the first oil from the East Hub Development Project is planned by the first half of 2017.
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UK-based Exova, a global testing, calibration and advisory services provider, said it has been awarded a £500,000 ($655,125) contract by Sepco Arabia Company to support construction on the main gas pipeline across Saudi Arabia. The project will see Exova testing and validating materials and environments throughout Sepco Arabia’s construction of a gas compressor station for the second phase of the kingdom’s master gas system. Once the project gets completed in 2018, it will boost the pipeline capacity to 12.5 billion cu ft of gas a day.
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RSP Permian已签订最终协议以总共24亿美元收购Silver Hill Energy Partners(SHEP I)与Silver Hill E&P II (SHEP II)。两项收购的生效日期均为2016年11月1日。SHEP I将在2016年第四季度完成收购,借此Silver Hill将获得大约6.04亿美元现金与1.5千万股RSP股份。SHEP II将在2017年第一季度完成,借此Silver Hill将获得大约6.46亿美元现金与1.6千万股RSP股份。两个收购均有交易条件,并需获得第三方许可。Gray先生表示:“我们很高兴同Silver Hill进行战略合作。Silver Hill的资产位于Delaware盆地最棒的部分,是我们现有资产基础的完美补充。”
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RSP Permian has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Silver Hill Energy Partners (SHEP I) and Silver Hill E&P II (SHEP II), implying a total purchase price of approx. $2.4 billion.While both transactions will have an effective date of November 1, 2016, the two transactions will close separately. SHEP I is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2016, with Silver Hill receiving approximately $604 million of cash and 15.0 million RSP Shares.SHEP II is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017, with Silver Hill receiving approximately $646 million of cash and 16.0 million RSP Shares.Both transactions are subject to certain closing conditions and third party approvals. 'We are extremely pleased to announce a strategic combination with Silver Hill. ' Mr. Gray continued, 'We believe the assets of Silver Hill are located in the best part of the Delaware Basin and will be a perfect complement to our existing asset base. '
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Statoil has informed the New Zealand Government of its decision to stop looking for oil and gas in the Reinga Basin. In 2013 and 2014, the company was awarded two exploration permits (PEP55781 and PEP57057) for the Reinga Basin, about 85 kms off the West Coast of Northland.'After studying 2D seismic data of the search area for the past three years, we think the chance of making a large oil or gas discovery is small, so we have decided to conclude our exploration work in Northland and return those exploration permits to the Crown,' Statoil New Zealand Country Manager Brynjulv Kløve says. 'Some may speculate we are surrendering the permits for various reasons but the only reason is that we see the probability too low to justify continuing our search.'Our focus will now shift to our four exploration permits off the South East Coast of the North Island, and to exploration projects elsewhere in the world.'
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Israel and Turkey agreed to deepen cooperation in the energy sector on Thursday, taking a further step towards normalizing ties with the first Israeli ministerial visit to Turkey since a breakdown six years ago.Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said he would welcome more involvement by Turkish firms in the Israeli energy sector, particularly in gas exploration, and said 'detailed dialogue' between the two governments would begin in the coming months.After meeting in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Berat Albayrak, who is President Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law, Steinitz said the two had discussed the possibility of building a natural gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey.'I was a great proponent of the normalization of ties between Israel and Turkey, and the meeting today is the beginning,' Steinitz said. 'The result, the economic results, should be to the benefit of people of Turkey and Israel.'
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来自/Natural Gas World 10月14日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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European Union (EU) member states facing an emergency gas shortage could call on other member states to supply them with gas under a draft law enshrining a “regional solidarity mechanism”.A meeting of the EU parliamentary industry, research and energy, chaired by Jerzy Buzek, amended and approved a draft law October 13. It envisages a European Union comprising seven regions.Every country is supposed to have back-up in place – such as storage, fuel switching– in order to be able to manage for a certain period after the failure of gas supplies from its chief source of gas, under the EU N-1 rule. Security has been high on the EU's list of priorities following interruptions in Russian gas supplies across Ukraine. At the moment though there is an abundance of cheap gas, there is a lot of idle LNG import capacity, and interconnecting pipelines are being built.
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来自/Offshore Energy Today 10月14日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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After years of delays and tens of billions U.S. dollars invested, Kashagan, a giant offshore oil field in the Caspian Sea, has shipped the first batch of oil. The field has been reopened this month after the replacement of offshore pipelines. To remind, Kashagan had started production in September 2013. However, the output had to be stopped weeks later after offshore gas leaks were detected. After several studies into the causes of the leak the operator of the project decided to fully replace the affected offshore pipelines.
Kashagan has been described as one of the largest oil fields discovered in the last 40 years, with estimated reserves of 35 billion barrels of oil in place. The giant oil field, which swallowed a reported sum of more than $53 billion in investments, earning a nickname Cash-All-Gone/Kashagan, is expected to gradually increase up to the first level of 180,000 barrels per day. According to Eni, a partner in the project, Kashagan partners are targeting production of 370,000 barrels per day by the end of 2017.
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来自/Offshore Energy Today 10月14日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Sea Trucks Group has been awarded a contract from Tullow for the provision of a Construction Support Vessel (CSV) providing accommodation and heavy lift services to the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah. The FPSO is located in the Jubilee Unit Area, 60 kilometers offshore Ghana. According to the company, the scope of work covers accommodation for up to 120 company pax. The scope also includes the heavy lift of two 50 Ton fairlead chain stopper foundation block structures, a 34-ton mooring pull-in winch and other smaller lifts. Jascon 28, one of the group’s DP3 accommodation hook-up vessels, has been nominated for both scopes. Offshore activities are scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2016 for a duration of 2 months firm. Graeme Pennycook, Sea Trucks Group’s Managing Director, commented:“This is our first contract award from Tullow; we look forward to demonstrating our strong project management and operational capabilities with them in what we hope will be the start of a long working relationship between the two companies.”
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英国钻井承包商Ensco获得了多份自升式钻井平台续约合同,同时准备闲置未获得合同的平台。Ensco最新发布的船队状态报告显示:从2016年10月底开始,1981年建造的Ensco 84平台与沙特阿美续约至2021年8月;1982年建造的Ensco 88平台与沙特阿美续约三年,合同于2019年12月到期;2010年建造的半潜式钻井平台Ensco 8503与Talos的租约将于本月底到期;2012年建造的半潜式平台Ensco 8505 与LLOG的租约将于本月中旬到期,随后该平台将代替半潜式平台Ensco 8506为 Deep Gulf Energy服务,合同期从2016年11月到2017年1月。
来自/Offshore Energy Today 10月14日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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UK-based offshore driller Ensco has been awarded several new drilling contracts for its jack-up rigs while also preparing to stack other rigs that remained unemployed. According to Ensco’s latest fleet status report on Thursday, the 1981-built jack-up rig drilling rig Ensco 84 has been awarded a contract extension with Saudi Aramco from late December 2016 until August 2021. In addition, the 1982-built jack-up rig Ensco 88 has had its contract extended by Saudi Aramco for three years until December 2019. According to the fleet report, the 2010-built semi-submersible Ensco 8503 was contracted to Talos from late September until late October 2016. The 2012-built semi-sub Ensco 8505 was contracted to LLOG from late September until mid-October 2016. Once the Ensco 8505 completes the contract with LLOG, the semi-sub will work for Deep Gulf Energy from November 2016 until January 2017, replacing the 2012-built semi-sub Ensco 8506.
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来自/Offshore Energy Today 10月14日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Maersk Drilling’s fourth and final XL Enhanced ultra harsh environment jack-up was named Friday morning at a ceremony held at the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea. And the rig was named Maersk Invincible. The four jack-up rigs represent a total investment of $2.6bn. The first three jack-up rigs have been delivered from the Keppel FELS shipyard, while the Maersk Invincible will be delivered from DSME later in 2016. After delivery from the yard, Maersk Invincible will mobilize to the North Sea and start a five-year firm contract with BP Norge for plug and abandonment work on the Valhall field in the Norwegian North Sea.
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据Oman Observer报道称,阿曼国营石油发展公司(Petroleum Development Oman) 同多家阿曼公司签订三份总价值达3.3亿美元合同。当地社区承包商Najed Al Ahliya将建设Petroleum Development Oman位于Fahud、 Lekhwair 及 Yibal地区的土方工程,Sarooj Construction Company则将建设Qarn Alam 及Saih Rawl地区的工程。另外,Rukun Al Yaqeen国际公司将建设整片区域的电气工程。
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Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has awarded three contracts valued at $330 million to Omani firms, a report said.Earthworks will be carried out by Local Community Contractor (LCC) Najed Al Ahliya at PDO fields at Fahud, Lekhwair and Yibal and by Sarooj Construction Company at Qarn Alam and Saih Rawl. Additionally, Rukun Al Yaqeen (RAY) International will conduct electrical work across the entire north of the PDO concession area, added the Oman Observer report.
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