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Brazil's state-run oil producer Petrobras ended a drill ship contract with rig contractor Ensco Plc because of corruption allegations, Ensco said, as fallout from the country's largest-ever graft investigation spreads.
Ensco received a notice from Petrobras on Monday saying the oil company believed the contract was void, Ensco said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing dated Jan. 5.
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as Petrobras is formally known, chartered the DS-5 drill ship in 2008, when it was owned by Pride International, a company Ensco bought in 2011.
The Petrobras notice said Pride had knowledge the rig's shipbuilder made "improper payments" to a marketing consultant who then shared the money with former employees of Petrobras, Ensco said.
Ensco's shares were down 9.6 percent at $13.46 on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning after the filing was made public.
As the world's most indebted oil company, Petrobras has been looking to cut back spending and sell assets to recover from a scandal that has already forced it to write off $2.1 billion in corruption losses.
Dozens of Brazilian engineering firms accused of price fixing and overcharging Petrobras for work, in order to pass on excess funds as bribes to executives and politicians, have been blacklisted from signing new contracts but have not had existing contracts voided by Petrobras.
Brazilian federal prosecutors said in August that criminal charges related to the DS-5 charter were coming "in due course" but have not yet presented them.
Ensco reiterated on Wednesday it had found no evidence that Pride, the company, or any current or former employees were aware of or involved in any wrongdoing.
The rig contractor said it planned to assert its legal rights under the contract.Ensco's other rigs leased to Petrobras will continue to work under their contracts, the filing said.London-based Ensco said it has not been contacted by other Brazil government authorities regarding alleged wrongdoing.
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马来西亚当地媒体The Edge报道称：Malaysian Bulk Carriers (Maybulk)公司决定出售两艘散货船。
被售船只为Alam Padu号（87,000载重吨）和Alam Muni号（53,000载重吨），而Maybulk不久前刚以680万美元的价格将旗下Alam Pesona号（87,000载重吨）出售给希腊船东Navitas Compania Maritima公司。
目前，Maybulk拥有24艘船，其中有21艘散货船和3艘油轮。2015年，Maybulk首次遭遇亏损，年亏损11.8亿吉特（2.8214亿美元）。石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
Maybulk表示：中国将进一步减少进口海运煤炭，对于散货航运商而言，2016年将会充满挑战。
来自/Splash247 5月23日消息 编译/赵宁
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Malaysian Bulk Carriers (Maybulk) has put two bulk carriers for sale, Malaysian local mediaThe Edge has reported.
According to industry sources, Maybulk is now in talks to sell 87,000dwt Alam Padu and 53,000dwt Alam Muni, hot on the heels of the reported sale of 87,000dwt bulker Alam Pesona for $6.8m to Greek shipowner Navitas Compania Maritima.
In March, Maybulk suffered its first ever annual loss, reporting a loss of MYR1.18bn ($282.14m) for the year of 2015.
“2016 is expected to be yet another challenging year for dry bulk shipping. Looking forward, China’s seaborne coal imports are expected to decline further in 2016. The increase in demolition activity, reduced dry bulk deliveries and increasing lay-ups should help to reduce tonnage overcapacity,” the company said.
Maybulk currently has a fleet of 24 vessels, made up of 21 bulk carriers and three tankers.
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土耳其打算从伊朗购买更多的天然气，因为双方已经以在对土耳其有利的情况下解决了价格争端。去年，伊朗已经同意向土耳其出口更多天然气，条件是土耳其同意支付更高的价格。土耳其是伊朗唯一的天然气出口市场。但是，如今该条件丧失有效性。8月19日，伊朗国家天然气公司(National Iranian Gas Company)总经理Hamidreza Araqi表示：如今，在现有的管道和产量条件下，伊朗对土耳其的平均出口量为3000万立方米/天。但是，该出口量可以提高1/5至3600万立方米/天。
来自/Natural Gas World 8月19日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Turkey is keen to buy more gas from Iran, now that the dispute over price has been resolved in Turkey's favour. Iran had agreed last year to export more, as long as Turkey – its only export market – agreed to pay a high price. But now that condition has lost validity.It is now exporting 30mn m³/d on average but it could raise this by a fifth to 36mn m³/d, the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company, Hamidreza Araqi said August 19, using existing pipelines and production capacity.
At a press conference in Ankara August 12 with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Turkey's foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuoglu said that Turkey wanted to buy more gas from Iran. In 2012, Turkey sued Iran in the International Court of Arbitration for overpricing gas purchases between 2011 and 2015. The court decided in favour of Turkey in February 2016, and ordered that both parties agree to a reduction in prices of between 10% and 15%.
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来自/Natural Gas World 9月12日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Australian state of South Australia will commit A$24mn (US$18.8mn) towards a program to incentivise companies to extract more gas and supply it to the local market with an aim to increase energy market competition, drive down costs for businesses and consumers and reduce carbon emissions.“The small number of energy suppliers in South Australia have too much power – if we increase competition, we will put the power back into the hands of consumers. Increasing competition in the energy market is the best way to drive down power prices for South Australian households and businesses,” premier Jay Weatherill said on September 8.Mineral resources and energy minister Tom Koutsantonis said there is a lack of available gas in the national market, a situation made worse by the decision in Victoria to ban onshore conventional and unconventional gas exploration and development.
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来自/Offshore Energy Today 8月19日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has completed its first operated appraisal well on the Skipper oil discovery which lies in the UK sector of the North Sea. IOG, the 100% owner and operator of the Skipper well located in Block 9/21a in license P1609, started drilling the well in July with the Sedco 704 semi-submersible drilling rig.
The company said on Friday that the well was successfully drilled to a total vertical depth of 5,578ft with no safety incidents and achieved its primary objective of retrieving good quality reservoir condition oil samples from the Skipper reservoir in order to optimize the Skipper field development plan. The oil viscosity of the samples appears likely to be within the 50cP – 150cP range expected by the IOG management, much better than Competent Persons Report (CPR) estimates. The samples are now being analyzed in Aberdeen, with initial results expected in September 2016. Should these properties be confirmed, the development of the Skipper field will require fewer development wells thereby improving the development economics. IOG said that the well’s secondary objective, drilling of two mapped reservoir structures beneath the Skipper oil field in the Lower Dornoch and Maureen formations, is now complete. The well did not encounter hydrocarbons there so they will now be plugged and abandoned.
Mark Routh, CEO of IOG, said: “We are extremely pleased to have achieved drilling success at the Skipper well. We are encouraged by the good quality oil samples retrieved. Whilst the exploration prospects did not encounter hydrocarbons, We are increasingly confident that the commerciality of the Skipper field has been confirmed now that we have the data we need to progress to the field development planning.
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来自/Offshore Energy Today 10月31日消息 编译/赵美园石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Ireland-based oil and gas exploration company Providence Resources is finalizing an agreement for the provision of a drilling rig to be used for drilling the Druid prospect, offshore Ireland. The company issued a tender for a rig contract for the Druid exploration well, in Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14 in the southern Porcupine Basin, in September this year.FEL 2/14 is located 220 km off the south-west coast of Ireland and is situated in 2,250 meter water depth. The license is operated by Providence, with 80% stake, on behalf of its partner Sosina Exploration Limited, that holds the remaining 20% stake, and contains the Paleocene Druid and Lower Cretaceous Drombeg exploration prospects.
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来自/Subsea World News 7月6日消息 编译/张弘引石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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The 15-day project, due to begin in August 2016, will see diving support vessel Bibby Topaz, working on four BP operations across three of its North Sea assets.
The platforms involved include Central North Sea-based asset Bruce, east of Shetland-based Magnus, and the Mirren field, which is part of the Eastern Trough Area Project (ETAP).
The project, managed by the Bibby Offshore team, involves the supply of air and saturation diving support to perform operations including spool and flowline disconnection, evaluation and installation of conductor clamp guides, alignment clamp installation and modifications to a gas lift system.
Fraser Moonie, chief operating officer at Bibby Offshore, said: “Encouraging innovation is one of our core values and it was through our team’s innovative approach that we were successful in being awarded this contract from BP. Through our innovative engineering solution we managed to reduce offshore operations which in turn provided efficiencies and cost savings.
“We are pleased to continue our strong relationship with BP, built up internationally over the last ten years and more recently in the UK North Sea. Client satisfaction and confidence is imperative to Bibby Offshore and we are pleased that BP has trusted us with this important piece of repeat business.”
Royal Dutch Shell is interested to take part in developing Russia's Yuzhno-Kirinskoye field, Chief Executive Ben van Beurden told Russia's Vedomosti daily newspaper in an interview.
He added that expansion of the Sakhalin-2 LNG project in Russia's Pacific Island of Sakhalin may need gas both from that field and from the Sakhalin-1 project.
It was reported last September that Shell was in talks to join Russia's state-controlled Gazprom in tapping the Yuzhno-Kirinskoye gas field offshore Russia's Sakhalin island.
周五，马来西亚物流与海运服务供应商MISC Berhad公司在一份提交给Bursa Malaysia证券交易所的文件中表示：MISC Berhad已经成功以4.45亿美元的价格从E&P Venture Solutions Co. Sdn Bhd公司 (EPV)收购了Gumusut-Kakap Semi-Floating Production System公司余下50%的股份。
此次股份购买协议于2016年2月24日签订，目前MISC已经成功完成收购，而GKL成为MISC旗下的全资子公司。
GKL拥有Gumusut-Kakap号半潜式浮式生产系统(FPS)。目前，Gumusut-Kakap号由Sabah Shell Petroleum租赁，租期为25年，开始于2014年10月。Gumusut-Kakap号正在Sabah海域的Gumusut-Kakap油田作业，日产油量可达150,000桶。石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
来自/Rig Zone 5月16日消息 编译/赵宁
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Malaysian energy-based logistics and maritime solutions provider MISC Berhad announced Friday in a filing with local stock exchange Bursa Malaysia that the firm has completed the proposed acquisition of the remaining 50 percent equity stake in Gumusut-Kakap Semi-Floating Production System (L) Ltd. (GKL) that it does not own for $445 million from E&P Venture Solutions Co. Sdn Bhd (EPV).
"The share purchase agreement dated Feb. 24, 2016 entered into between MISC and EPV in relation to the Proposed Acquisition ... has been completed, and GKL has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of MISC," according to the announcement.
GKL owns the Gumusut-Kakap semisubmersible floating production system (FPS), which is now on a 25 year charter with Sabah Shell Petroleum Co. -- a unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc. -- that commences October 2014. The offshore production facility is in operations at the deepwater Gumusut-Kakap field offshore Sabah, Malaysia and can produce 150,000 barrels of crude oil per day from subsea wells, while equipped for 300 million cubic feet per day gas injection and 225,000 barrels of water per day water injection.
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Hague and London Oil Plc (HALO), as part of its portfolio restructuring, is pleased to announce that it has, through its subsidiary Hague and London Oil B.V., signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ENGIE Global Energy Management to co-operate on the acquisition by HALO of natural gas production and reserves within Europe.
Under the MoU, HALO will contribute its upstream and commercial capabilities to target, acquire and manage specific low risk natural gas production assets in Europe.
ENGIE will contribute its substantial footprint in European gas markets and its expertise in energy management to offer an innovatively structured gas off-take, designed to help HALO secure the funding of such assets whilst minimising the dilution to HALO's shareholders.
Both parties have initiated their activities and have already made solid progress. While such an arrangement is not exclusive, the parties have agreed that HALO will provide ENGIE with a first look at all projects it pursues which fit the description of assets sought within this MoU.
PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY, INC. (NASDAQ: PTEN) today reported that for the month of July 2016, the Company had an average of 56 drilling rigs operating in the United States, and two rigs in Canada.
Average drilling rigs operating reported in the Company's monthly announcements represent the average number of the Company's drilling rigs that were operating under a drilling contract. The Company cautioned that numerous factors in addition to average drilling rigs operating can impact the Company's operating results and that a particular trend in the number of drilling rigs operating may or may not indicate a trend in or be indicative of the Company's financial performance. The Company intends to continue providing monthly updates on drilling rigs operating shortly after the end of each month.
来自/Natural Gas World 9月13日消息 编译/孔艳坤 石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
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Repsol and Spanish investment fund Criteria Caixa have reached an agreement September 12 with a subsidiary of New York-based private equity fund Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) to sell it a combined 20% stake in Spanish utility Gas Natural for €3.8bn. GIP holds investments in international energy, airports, transport and water/waste sectors.Repsol and Criteria, the investment holding of mutually-run Catalan savings bank La Caixa, are each selling a 10% share for €1.9bn, based on a price of €19 per share. In their statements late September 12, Repsol said that represented a capital gain on the stake of some €246mn, while Criteria Caixa said it had made a capital gain of about €218mn.
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State-owned Petroleum Development Oman, the country's top oil and gas exploration and production company, has obtained a $4 billion loan from international banks to help finance construction of new facilities, it said on Wednesday.
The five-year loan, known as a pre-export facility, was priced at 160 basis points over the London interbank offered rate.
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South Arne油田位于Danish North Sea海域，距Esbjerg150英里。该油田发现于1991年，自1999年起开始生产石油和天然气。2015年，净产量达到1.3万桶油当量/日。Hess作为运营商持有该油田61.5%的股权，其它两家合作公司DONG和Danoil分别持有36.8%和1.7%的股权。石油圈原创www.oilsns.com
来自/Offshore Energy Today 6月22日消息 编译/赵美园
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Hess Denmark, a subsidiary of US-based Hess Corporation, has awarded a contract to DNV GL, an international certification body, and classification society, for asset integrity inspection management of its South Arne field in the Danish North Sea.
Hess said on Wednesday that the deal includes risk-based inspection (RBI) services and non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection services. The contract has an estimated annual value of 10 MDKK ($1.5 million). This contract further extends the 18-year cooperation between the two companies.
The company said that the asset integrity inspection assessments will address the process systems using pressure-retaining equipment and piping as well as the concrete gravity base and tower. Furthermore, inspection services provided by DNV GL will encompass the topside and subsea steel structures and the oil export pipeline and offloading buoy.
Kjell Eriksson, the regional manager for Norway of DNV GL – Oil & Gas, said: “DNV GL has been contracted to provide integrity inspection on the South Arne field since 1998. The renewal of this partnership demonstrates the importance of high-quality service delivery in a cost-pressured market. Further, the contract shows Hess’s confidence in DNV GL’s ability to deliver efficient solutions which can help manage operation costs for the South Arne field.”
South Arne, located 150 miles west of Esbjerg in the Danish North Sea, was discovered in 1991 and has produced oil and gas since 1999. In 2015 net production was 13,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Hess is the operator of the field with 61.5 percent interest with DONG and Danoil having 36.8 and 1.7 percent interest respectively as partners.
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