U.S. Oil Rig Count Rises By The Most Since Tax Day. Baker Hughes reported Friday that the active U.S. oil rig count increased by 10 to 351, the highest count since April 15. This marks the second consecutive week, and the fifth time in the past six weeks, that the weekly number of active U.S. oil rigs has risen. [Oilpro]
Iran Plans to Increase Output, Again. The country is exporting about 2 million barrels of its daily output of 3.8 million, said Mohsen Ghamsari, NIOC’s director of international affairs. It has regained about 80 percent of it's prior market share. [Bloomberg]
Militants are devastating Nigeria’s oil industry. There’s a new group attacking Nigeria’s oil industry — or, at least, claiming responsibility for the attacks: the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA). The NDA started threatening attacks at the start of 2016. [The Washington Post]
Oil falls further under $50. Oil fell on Monday over signs that U.S. shale drillers have adapted to lower prices and on renewed indications of economic weakness in Asia where refiners are already trimming crude runs. [Reuters]
Searcher Acquires 2D Seismic Survey Offshore Mexico. “The survey has been designed to tie key exploration wells and to also establish a regional framework for the entire prospective near-shore Mexican area,” said Rachel Masters, global sales manager for Searcher. [Oilpro]
Total nets Al-Shaheen Stake. France’s Total secured the prized equity stake in Qatar’s largest oilfield in late June, defeating bids from the incumbent operator of 24 years and several other international oil company (IOC) heavyweights. [Newsbase]
Faroe Confims Brasse Discovery. Faroe completed a successful side-track appraisal well on the Brasse discovery in license PL740 in the Norwegian North Sea. [Oilpro]
Mexico's PRI Names New Leaders. Enrique Ochoa, who heads the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and served a key role in development the overhauling energy reform passed in December 2013, will be the next PRI chairman, officials told Reuters. [Oilpro]
Paragon Offshore Bankruptcy Update. The remaining trial issue is whether the settlement with Noble Corp is reasonable. Term-loan lenders objecting to the plan won additional discovery... the saga continues. [Bloomberg]
OSV Market and Cash Situation. The latest round of advisory services to private equity and fund managers looking at investment opportunities in the OSV sector suggests that the headwinds facing the sector have become gale force in nature. [Splash247]
来自/Subsea World News 7月11日消息 编译/张弘引石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Forum Energy Technologies has received an order from New Orient Marine to supply three remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for its multi-purpose ice-class vessel currently under construction in Singapore.
The order includes two Perry XLX 200 horsepower, 4,000 meter work class ROV systems and one Sub-Atlantic Comanche 3,000 meter observation class ROV. Forum will also provide operation and maintenance training for New Orient Marine’s personnel, as well as on board support during the ROV mobilisation, the company informed.
Forum’s ROV systems are scheduled for delivery this year. New Orient Marine’s new build, multi-purpose ice-class vessel has been designed to operate in ambient temperatures as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius. The first project for the new vessel will involve subsea intervention, inspection, maintenance and underwater welding of existing gas pipeline systems.
Cris Gaut, Forum’s chairman and chief executive officer, said, “We are pleased that New Orient Marine has chosen Forum and we look forward to supporting a long-term relationship.”
A spokesperson for New Orient Marine remarked, “Adding the equipment from Forum on-board the vessel, will increase substantially its versatility and operational range, rendering it a very attractive vessel for a broad number of potential clients and projects.”
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Petrofac has announced that Petrofac Energy Developments and its partners, Kencana Energy and Sapura Energy Ventures, have reached mutual agreement with PETRONAS for the cessation of the Berantai Risk Service Contract (RSC).
With the cessation of the RSC, which will be effective on 30 September 2016, PETRONAS will reimburse the balance of outstanding capital and operational expenditures to Petrofac and its partners over the period to June 2017. As part of the arrangement the ownership of the Berantai FPSO will be transferred to PETRONAS.
The Berantai RSC was the first RSC awarded by PETRONAS to Petrofac Energy Developments and its two local partners on 31 January 2011. Since then it has co-invested in the development of the Berantai field and been responsible for its operation and maintenance. Petrofac will use the cash proceeds for general corporate purposes.
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Australian oil and gas exploration company Quadrant Energy started drilling the Roc-2 appraisal well, located within the WA-437-P in the North West Shelf of Western Australia, on Saturday, July 9, 2016. Quadrant is the operator of the WA-437-P exploration permit in the Canning Basin with 80% interest and Carnarvon Petroleum is its partner with the remaining 20% interest.
Carnarvon stated on Monday that the main aims of the Roc-2 well are to appraise the Roc gas-condensate discovery that Carnarvon announced on January 4, 2016, to progress towards proving a volume above the minimum economic field size and to establish potential flow rates for future development planning.
The Roc-2 well will be drilled in around 100m water depth, approximately 160 km north-east of Port Hedland. The well will take approximately 60 days to drill down to a total depth of around 5,250 metres, including the cutting of 120 metres of core, before the evaluation program is undertaken. Carnarvon concluded that the evaluation, including wireline logging and flow testing, is expected to extend over a further 40 days.
Carnarvon also said on Monday that its partner Quadrant and the operator of the WA-155-P(1) exploration permit in the North West Shelf of Australia discovered the presence of hydrocarbons in the Outtrim East-1 well.
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Ithaca Energy has informed that the FPF-1 floating production platform for the Greater Stella Area development, in the UK North Sea, will be ready to leave the yard in two weeks time.
The FPF-1 floating production facility modifications program is being undertaken by Petrofac in the Remontowa shipyard in Poland. Petrofac said in June that the semi-submersible production platform would leave the yard by the end of that month. Also in June, Ithaca secured access to the Norpipe oil pipeline system allowing oil exports from the Greater Stella Area development to transfer from tanker export to pipeline export during 2017.
According to Ithaca’s project update on Monday, the FPF-1 modifications are essentially complete and the vessel will be ready to leave the yard upon completion of approximately two weeks of work that is required to prepare for and perform the planned vessel inclination test and loading of supplies for the transit from the yard. The FPF-1 is expected to leave the yard later this month and will complete the final marine system trials offshore Gdansk prior to being towed to the field, the company said. The anticipated period from sail-away to first hydrocarbons is approximately three months.
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作为专门管理挪威大陆架地区油气资源的政府机构，NPD表示，此次决议正好与065号生产许可的到期时间无缝衔接。 依据早前制定的发展和运营计划（Plan for Development and Operation, PDO），BP公司使用Tambar油田钻井平台的期限为15年，于2016年7月15日到期。
来自/Offshore Energy Today 7月8日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has given the green light to BP to use the platform on the Tambar field in the North Sea offshore Norway until January 1, 2022.
The NPD, a government agency whose task is to manage the oil and gas resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, said that this coincides with the expiry of production licence 065. The lifetime for the BP-operated platform was set at 15 years in the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO), which is up to July 15, 2016.
The Tambar oil field is located in the southern part of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, about 16 kilometres southeast of the Ula field. The field was developed with a remote-controlled wellhead platform without process equipment. BP Norge is the operator of production licence 065, with an ownership interest of 55 per cent. DONG E&P Norge is the licensee with an ownership interest of 45 per cent. Due to BP’s application for extension of operating life for Tambar, the platform was recently audited by the Norwegian offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA).
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