Gas Find

Major Shallow Water Oil and Gas Find

Sperry-Sun, a Division of Dresser Industries, Inc., participated in drilling a significant crude oil and natural gas discovery in Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s subsalt exploration program. This discovery - called Tanzanite - is located in the Gulf of Mexico at Eugene Island South Addition Block 346 in 314 feet of water about 75 miles offshore Louisiana. Anadarko believes the Tanzanite field contains at least 140 million boe. Sperry-Sun provided pressure-while-drilling (PWD) services from 11,000 ft. MD to TVD of 14,350 ft. in drilling the exploration well (the OCS-G 14482 No. 1) and provided full "triple combo" services from 11,800 ft. MD to 13,643 MD. In this latter portion of the well, 450 ft. of continuous hydrocarbon pay were encountered; three additional pay zones totaling approximately 70 ft. of net pay are also present in the wellbore. Sperry-Sun's triple combo services provided the log of record for the hole.

ONGC to Invest Over $5B in Offshore Gas Finds

Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) plans to invest over $5b to produce 25 million standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd) of gas from its eastern offshore Krishna Godavari fields by 2013. The state-run firm submitted to the regulator Director General of Hydrocarbons an appraisal program of the discoveries it had made in KG offshore basin, putting the in-place reserves at 6.37 Trillion cubic feet (Tcf), industry sources said.

Elf Makes Second Gulf Of Mexico Discovery

French oil company Elf Aquitaine has announced its U.S. oil and gas subsidiary Elf Exploration Inc. made its second deep offshore oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico this year. Elf officials said workers made the find at the Matterhorn well in the Mississippi Canyon Block 243, in which Elf Exploration Inc. has a 100 percent working interest. A Global Marine Celtic Sea semi-submersible vessel had drilled the well to a depth of 8,165 ft. and found 370 gross ft

Texaco Replaces 166 Percent of Production

Texaco replaced 166 percent of its 1998 worldwide combined oil and gas production, excluding purchases and sales. Texaco's proved oil and gas reserves increased eight percent during 1998 to nearly 4.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE), the largest proved reserve base for the company since 1985. These reserves are comprised of 3.6 billion barrels of liquids and 6.5 trillion cubic ft. of natural gas. Worldwide finding and development costs in 1998 were $3

Oil & Gas Auction Set for November

India will announce the auctioning of 80-85 oil and gas blocks for exploration and production in the seventh licensing round under New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) in the first week of November. Oil regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) has carved out 80-85 blocks to be offered for bidding under NELP-VII. The total acreage of the blocks on offer is about 0.4 million square kilometers. Offshore blocks on both east and west coast would be offered

CNOOC: A Deepwater Gas Finding in Qiongdongnan Basin

China's CNOOC Limited (NYSE: CEO, SEHK: 0883) announced a deepwater gas discovery on Block 64/11 offshore China after the Lingshui 22-1-1 exploration well drilled by its partner, BG Group (BG) , encountered gas-bearing sands.The exploration well is located in Qiongdongnan Basin in the South China Sea, approximately 130 kilometres offshore and in a water depth of 1,338 metres. BG will conduct further analysis of the well results to evaluate the hydrocarbon potential in the Block.  Mr

Demand for Gas to Grow 3%

World demand for natural gas could grow by 3% a year over the next 15 years, with demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) growing much faster, Executive Director Gas & Power of Shell Linda Cook reported at the SPE Technical Conference in Dallas. This will require massive investment. Innovative technology will be needed to maximise recovery from existing resources and lower the cost of developing new ones. Gaining access to resources will require adding real value for resource holders

Drilling Industry Stretched By High Demand

The lure of higher oil and gas prices has pushed the number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States to a 10-year high, stretching the drilling industry close to its limits. The domestic rig count reached 1,163 during the week ending March 23 - the highest number since December 10, 1990 - when 1,179 rigs were in use, according to oil services firm Baker Hughes Inc. Spurred by record gas prices and the biggest oil market boom for two decades, independent U.S

ABS Provides Guidance For Gas Fuelled Ships

Guide Taps Into ABS, DSME, APMM Joint Industry Project Findings With rising fuel costs and today’s global interest on emission reduction, liquefied natural gas (LNG) is considered a promising alternative fuel for all type of ships.  In response to industry’s need for technical guidance for new construction and existing vessel conversion, leading class society ABS announced today the release of its Guide for Propulsion and Auxiliary Systems for Gas Fuelled Ships.

ABS Provides Guidance For Gas Fuelled Ships

With rising fuel costs and today’s global interest on emission reduction, liquefied natural gas (LNG) is considered a promising alternative fuel for all type of ships.  In response to industry’s need for technical guidance for new construction and existing vessel conversion, leading class society ABS announced today the release of its Guide for Propulsion and Auxiliary Systems for Gas Fuelled Ships.