Shell, Chevron seek to renew Nigerian offshore leases Houston Chronicle | Nigeria is continuing talks with Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp. on the renewal of their expired oil licenses in Nigeria's shallow waters, Petroleum Minister of State Odein Ajumogobia said in a statement. | Negotiations haven't been affected by the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who ...
ONGC to develop marginal field in Mumbai offshore The Hindu | Special Correspondent | NEW DELHI: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is projecting a shortfall of one million tonnes in its output, targeted at 25.76 million tonnes this fiscal. | ONGC Chairman and Managing Director R. S. Sharma said the output was declining at much faster rate than antic...
EB opens new facilities to support the offshore sector Offshore Shipping Online | - | Tyneside, UK-based offshore engineering specialist IHC Engineering Business (EB) has opened a new manufacturing and support facility at Riverside Quay, Port of Tyne. It will now form the central hub of the company's manufacturing acti...
Debt-laden Dubai announces discovery of offshore oil field Daily Star Lebanon | Emirate’s ruler orders exploration work to determine size of reserve | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Friday, February 05, 2010 | - Powered by | Ali Khalil | Agence France Press | | DUBAI: The government of Dubai, facing dwind...
Dubai ‘finds new offshore field’ Upstream Online | A new offshore oilfield has been discovered in the emirate of Dubai, the office of the Gulf Arab emirate's ruler said today. | "Mohammed bin Rashid brings the good news to the people of the Emirates and announces the discovery of a new marine ...
Dubai announces discovery of new offshore oil field; no details on output potential Hartford Courant , (AP) — Dubai's government, under pressure to repay billions of dollars in debt, said Thursday it has discovered a new offshore oil field — the first such find by the city-state in decades. | The media office of the sheikdom's ruler did ...
Anadarko signs on in Kenya Upstream Online | Anadarko Petroleum has reportedly signed an oil and gas exploration agreement for five offshore blocks in the Kenya's Lamu Basin. | The Saturday Nation newspaper said that Anadarko and the government had signed a deal for blocks L5, L7, L11A, L11B ...
'Relook at OVL's Qatar exit plan' The Times Of India NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Secretariat has sought a fresh round of inter-ministerial consultations for seeking Cabinet approval to have a relook at ONGC Videsh Ltd’s earlier decision to relinquish an offshore acreage in Qatar that the company had won i...
SL Navy personnel march to 'Sare Jahan se Achha' Zeenews Port Blair: It was a moment of applause for Sri Lankan Navy personnel as they marched to the tune of Mohammed Iqbal's 'Sare Jahan Se Achha', drawing cheer from the crowd at the grand finale of the 13-nation Milan-2010 naval exercise here on Sunday. |...
Torn apart The Boston Globe | Chris Ferrer has been seasick for two days, and still the seas are building. The 34-year-old molecular biologist from Sterling is on his first extended offshore voyage, sailing from Connecticut to Bermuda. He has signed on as a crew member aboard t...
Kenya: U.S. Firm Wins Oil Hunt Contract Gareowe Online | Nairobi — Kenya and US firm Anardako Petroleum Corporation have signed an agreement for the exploration of five offshore oil and gas blocks in Lamu basin. | The ministry of Energy said the pact for blocks L5, L 7, L11A, L11B and L12 was signed by...
Austria's OMV in talks with UAE for gas projects The Guardian * Talks are "very preliminary" * OMV proposing a number of project ideas ABU DHABI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Austrian oil company OMV is in preliminary talks with state run Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to undertake gas projects in the United Arab Emirates, an OMV executive said on Tuesday. The UAE has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves but has been ...
Obama budget brings worries to Oklahoma, oil industry Plan to eliminate subsidies would affect Oklahoma, ... The Oklahoman | Enid oilman Harold Hamm doesn't hesitate when asked about the potential impact of President Barack Obama's budget proposal. Related content | Links | Ongoing Coverage: Politics | "I think it would be devastating for the industry, and it would be devastating for the country as a whole," he said. | Hamm, president of Enid-based Continental Resource...
