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Cuu Long Joint Operating Co.'s Su Tu Vang oil exploration project has been successfully completed despite the tough construction environment. The field was completed 14 days ahead of schedule. The company's concept selection study has determined the optimum field development plan.

Geologists and engineers are provided with several new options, which allows for more accurate subsurface models that can lead to better predictions of reservoir performance through the combination of new software techniques and advances in high-performance computing. The various models that more accurately reflect the static and dynamic properties of a reservoir are presented in the light of high performance computing.

If there is one field that highlights the renaissance of Qatar's oil sector, it is Al-Shaheen, in offshore block 5. Discovered in the mid-1970s by operators drilling appraisal wells for [...]

World of oil and gas Vol. 235 No. 7WORLD OF OIL AND GAS MELANIE CRUTHIRDS, NEWS EDITOR PRODUCTIONMaersk Oil UK gets approval to develop Flyndre, Cawdor Maersk Oil UK has [...]

Byline: Jeroen Van The P-63 Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, developed specifically to work in Brazilas offshore Papa Terra oil field, is unique in that it will be [...]

ExxonMobil, BP and Eni will invest around $100 billion on the upgrade of the Traq's southern West Qurna Phase 1, Rumaila and Zubair oilfields. Thamer Ghadhban, energy advisor to the [...]

Byline: Nell Lukosavich Keith Mosing: Building an oilfield empire the old-fashioned way Vol. 232 No. 5 NELL LUKOSAVICH, SENIOR EDITOR Keith Mosing: Building an oilfield empire the old-fashioned way Keith [...]

Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh China is racing to secure Middle East oil deals, putting it on a possible collision course with U.S. interests in the world's most volatile region. China is [...]

Tall Oak Midstream, LLC is constructing an oil gathering, storage and transportation system to serve producers in Oklahoma's Sooner Trend (STACK) play. Tall Oak is already gathering and processing natural [...]

The development of south Azadegan field has been delayed as a number of foreign companies involved in the project are pulling out due to the pressure from US government over financial terms. Japanese consortium Inpex and Iran's National Iranian Oil Co. have signed a contract to jointly develop the field.

A CHINESE company is planning to construct a major new terminal in the country, a move that could destabilise the profitable Singapore oil-storage business. China Aviation Oil (CAO) said in [...]

An Aberdeen-based company has developed a solution to enable oily drilled cuttings and slops to be processed and re-cycled offshore at up to seven toils per hour. Designed and manufactured [...]

Iraq's Oil Ministry has set out the prequalification process for international oil companies (IOCs) preparing to participate in the country's fourth oil and gas field bid round. Baghdad hopes to [...]

* Big four are first in line for Iraq oil fileds Prospects look good for only oil services firms that are eligible to bid for work on Iraq's oil fields. [...]

Prospects look good for the only oil services companies eligible to bid for work on Iraq's oil fields The Adipec oil and gas conference took place between 1-4 November in [...]

Saudi Aramco is to split its 500,000-barrel-a-day (b/d) Khursaniyah oil field development into two separate phases in an effort to reach a fresh deadline of the end of August. The [...]

OceanWorks has been awarded a contract by Newfoundland-based PanGeo Subsea Inc., acoustic technology development company, to design and build their first Acoustic Corer. This subsea tool, the first in a [...]

Three companies have submitted technical and commercial bids for the engineering contract on the estimated $1,000 million development of the offshore Bouri field. Competitors for the front-end engineering and design [...]

Buzzard, the largest new UK oilfield development of recent years, is due to start up by the end of this year. Operator Nexen Petroleum and its partners Petro-Canada, BG Group, [...]

Petro-Canada and ExxonMobil said they would complete by year-end a provisional development plan for the La Ceiba oilfield. The companies, which each hold a 50% stake in the field, declared [...]

Kuwait is considering a new draft law for development of its northern oil fields, reported local newspaper Gulf News. Foreign firms would be able to tender for contracts without local [...]

Late September saw the official sanction for the third and final stage in developing the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) oil field in the Caspian Sea. The ACG production-sharing agreement was the first [...]

China National Petroleum and state-owned Syria Petroleum have formed a 50:50 joint-venture (Sine-Syrian Kawkab Oil) to develop the Kebibe field in the country's [...]