Moscow, January 19, 2011 – TNK-BP announced today that the Group has commenced its first offshore drilling operations on the Lan Do field development project offshore Vietnam.
The aim is to serve the oil and gas industry in the whole Asia Pacific region and to become a sizeable and complete competence centre for deepwater oil and gas developments.
CHEVRON is planning to shoot both 2D and 3D seismic over two permits recently awarded in the Barrow sub-basin of the Northern Carnarvon Basin early next year.
Fairmount Marine’s powerful tug Fairmount Expedition has safely delivered a 18,000 ton topside for process, utilities and living quarters for the Castor project offshore Spain.
BP has reported that oil and gas production was down for the first half of 2011 year-on-year on the back of weaker gas demand and a disruptive infrastructure improvement program.
A group led by Total E&P Norge AS has drilled a discovery in the Barents Sea off Norway with 350 bcf-1.7 tcf of recoverable gas by preliminary estimate, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said.