Project management contractor EPC Offshore has won a major contract to select the optimum concept for the development of Hurricane’s Lancaster Field, one of the most significant oil discoveries in the West of Shetlands in recent years.
Hurricane has a 100 per cent holding in the field and has a CPR (competent person’s report) indicating 2C […]

Norway based oil and gas professionals are enjoying some of the highest salaries in the world, according to The Oil and Gas Global Salary Guide 2012.
The Guide, produced annually by Hays Oil & Gas and leading jobsite Oil and Gas Job Search, reveals that Norwegians earn the highest worldwide salaries, averaging 1.07 million Norwegian Krone […]

NZOG (New Zealand Oil & Gas Ltd) is pleased to advise that it has today signed a conditional agreement to purchase a 15% stake in the Kaheru permit (Petroleum Exploration Permit 52181) off the south Taranaki coast.
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Borders & Southern provides an update on the drilling of its Darwin prospect.

Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) is in the process of completing the drilling of exploration well Luna-1X in licence 1/11 in Denmark. The well did not encounter hydrocarbons.

CUT BANK, MT, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Mountainview Energy Ltd. /quotes/zigman/280502 CA:MVW 0.00% (”Mountainview” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Zuma 15-22-35-58H well has spudded. This well, which is a horizontal Bakken/Three Forks well located in section 15-T35N-R58E, Sheridan County, Montana operated by Samson Resources Company (”Samson”). The Company […]

Dzheitune (Lam) C/167 well tested at initial rate of 3,396 barrels of oil per day
Dragon Oil plc (Ticker: DGO), an international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, announces the successful completion and initial testing of the Dzheitune (Lam) C/167 development well.
The well was completed as a dual producer to a depth of 2,765 […]