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• Oil & Gas

  09/03/2010 - Statoil Gets Green Light to Use Asgard B Facility

  Statoil has been granted consent to use the new pipeline L-103 from subsea template L to Åsgard B. The consent also entails changes to the process equipment on Åsgard B as a result of the new pipeline. There will be no changes to the process equipment on Åsgard A.

• Gas Industry

  09/03/2010 - Gazprom and SOCAR Sign Addendum to Boost Azerbaijani Gas

  Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee attended in Baku an extended meeting with Ilkham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan within the official visit of the Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev to the Republic of Azerbaijan.

• North Sea

  09/03/2010 - Aquaterra Clinches Contract for 'World First' Riser

  Aquaterra has secured a major contract for a High Pressure Marine Riser System from Apache North Sea Limited. The high pressure, 10,000 psi rated, full-bore drilling riser system, complete with H4 compatible subsea connector is a 'world first' in terms of the connections and its operation. The Riser System will be used during Apache's 2011 drilling program as they develop the Bacchus field in the North Sea, drilling three subsea wells from the Rowan Gorilla VII jack-up rig.

• DeepWater Horizon Incident

  09/03/2010 - BP Spent $8B on Oil Spill

  Oil major BP said Friday it has spent around $8 billion to date in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief well drilling shortly.

• Gulf of Mexico

  09/03/2010 - BOEM to Investigate Mariner Platform Fire

  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Director Michael R. Bromwich announced that BOEM has launched a full investigation into the September 2, incident on Mariner Energy Resources' Vermilion 380 platform.

• Campos Basin

  09/02/2010 - VWS Westgarth Awarded FPSO Installation Contract Offshore Brazil

  VWS Westgarth, part of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by SBM Atlantia for their FPSO to be installed in the Baleia Azul field, Campos Basin, offshore Espirito Santo state, Brazil.

• Petroleum

  09/02/2010 - Platform Explodes Offshore Louisiana

  An explosion occurred this morning at a fixed platform operated by Mariner Energy in Vermilion Block 380, located 102 miles offshore the central Louisiana coast. Thirteen workers involved in the incident have been accounted for, including one who sustained injuries, according to media reports. All workers evacuated into the water following the explosion.

• Capitalization

  09/02/2010 - Barrel of oil to capitalize Petrobras will cost US$ 8.51

  A barrel of oil that will be used for the capitalization of Petrobras will cost on average US$ 8.51. The value was reported yesterday (1) by the minister Guido Mantega. The value of the onerous assignment of five billion barrels will be US$ 42.533 billion.

• Companies

  09/02/2010 - Lion Energy Amends Farmout Agreement with Africa Oil

  Lion Energy has come to an agreement with Africa Oil regarding certain amendments to the existing farmout agreement on all its east Africa assets. The amendment of the Lion farmout agreement with Africa Oil provides that Lion will reduce its interest in Block 10BB to 10% (originally 20%) and will not retain any interest in Block 10A (originally 25%).

• Oil

  09/02/2010 - Tullow Acquires 6 Licenses and Expands Footprint in East Africa

  Tullow announced the acquisition of a 50% operated interest in six adjacent licenses covering the East African Rift Basins of Kenya and Ethiopia, an area of 97,000 sq km. Tullow has signed agreements with Africa Oil Corp to gain a 50% interest in five licenses; Blocks 10BB, 10A, 12A and 13T in Kenya and the South Omo Block in Ethiopia. This acquisition expands on the farm-in to Block 10BA from Centric announced in August.