Archive for the ‘Offshore’ Category
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Chevron Australia's appraisal well confirmed an extension of the Iago gas field located 80 miles (130 km) offshore northwestern Australia in WA-16-R permit.
The Iago-2 well was drilled using Diamond Offshore semisubmersible Ocean Bounty in about 384 feet (117 m) of the water. The well discovered 154 feet (47 m) ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Panhandle Oil & Gas Inc. today announced that it has filed an application to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and expects to begin trading on the NYSE on July 22, 2008 under its current symbol "PHX". Until that time, Panhandle's shares will continue to ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
About 20 county residents gathered in front of the Chevron gas station on the corner of Ocean Street and Soquel Avenue Wednesday to rally against presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and the United States' dependence on oil and natural gas.
"We cannot drill our way out of greenhouse gases and oil ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The sparks are flying over energy policy--and talk of lifting a ban on offshore drilling in Florida will be a key theme of debate between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama.
Florida's chief attraction - the coastline – which has been at center stage in their campaigns.
Sen. Obama's new ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
An Indian oil company, the Essar, will start drilling test well at an inland block in Myanmar's western coastal Rakhine state to explore natural gas in the coming open season later this year, news journal 7-Day reported on Wednesday.
The drilling will take place at block-L covering Sittway and Maungtaw regions ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
The Strib began overhauling its editorial board nine months ago, so it shouldn’t surprise that certain editorial positions have changed. In general, the page has shucked its rep as a lefty lightning rod; on some days, it’s hard to find a call to action at all.
But a Sunday, June 29, ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Hyperdynamics Corporation (AMEX:HDY) announced that a new seismic services contract with Bergen Oilfield Services (BOS), out of Bergen, Norway was signed last Thursday, July 3, 2008. Over the last couple of months the two companies have been in negotiation regarding the details surrounding this extensive 3-D seismic program. This 3-D ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact.
The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom, India’s association of software ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Today’s chasing after new hydrocarbon reserves is more and more actively moving seaward.
In the environment of high oil prices, oil and gas producers do invest more in developing offshore fields all over the world. Leading the universal tendency, Russian companies employ fleet and actively explore northern and southern sees adjacent ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) wants to ally with Angola's national oil company Sonongal to jointly bid for offshore exploration in that country, the government said in New Delhi on Friday.
According to a government statement, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora had made the proposal to his Angolan counterpart on the sidelines of ...
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