Exxon’s Kipper Tuna Turrum Produces First Gas (Australia)
ExxonMobil announced today the startup of the Kipper Tuna Turrum project in Bass Strait. Natural gas production has started from the Tuna field via two new pipelines and oil is being produced from the...
View ArticleExxon Profit Down on Weak Refining Margins
ExxonMobil today announced that for the third quarter of 2013 its earnings of $7,870 million decreased $1,700 million or 18% from the third quarter of 2012. Earnings per share (assuming dilution) were...
View ArticleRosneft, Exxon Award Foster Wheeler with FEED Deal for Russian Far East LNG...
Foster Wheeler AG announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been selected by Rosneft and ExxonMobil to undertake the initial phase of the front-end...
View ArticleExxon, BHP Billiton Get Approval for Scarborough FLNG
The Australian Federal Government has granted environmental approval for the Scarborough field development via what will be the world’s largest FLNG facility. The Scarborough field, located off the...
View ArticleHibernia Leak Stopped. 6.000 Liters Spilled (Canada)
Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) has informed Canadian authorities that they have stopped the oil leak from its Hibernia platform. According to the C-NLOPB, HMDC estimates the...
View ArticleExxon Extends Accommodation Barge Lease in Malaysia
Malaysia’s supplier of offshore vessels Alam Maritim has been awarded an extension of its contract with ExxonMobil for the provision of one accommodation barge. The extension of the contract will be...
View ArticleHibernia: Casing thread protector falls on deck. Misses worker by 3 meters
Hibernia Management and Development Company has reported a high potential near miss on the Hibernia Platform, offshore Canada.
View ArticleSapuraKencana nets several contracts worth $312M
Malaysian oilfield services provider SapuraKencana has secured several new contracts through its subsidiaries. The total value of the contracts is $312 million.
View ArticleThree leases granted in Gulf of Mexico boundary area
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank have announced the award of the first three oil and gas leases in the Gulf of...
View ArticleEnQuest buys Exxon’s interest in offshore Malaysia fields
EnQuest PLC, through its wholly owned subsidiary EQ Petroleum Production Malaysia Ltd, has entered into the agreement to acquire ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc.’s interest in the...
View ArticleExxon 2Q profit jumps 28% to $8.8 billion
Exxon Mobil today reported its 2Q 2014 earnings of $8,780 million, an increase of $1,920 million or 28 percent from the second quarter of 2013. Earnings per share (assuming dilution) were $2.05, an...
View ArticleExxon VP set for retirement
Patrick T. Mulva, vice president and controller of Exxon Mobil Corporation, has announced his intention to retire on Sept. 1, 2014, after more than 38 years of service. Mulva, 63, joined Exxon Company...
View ArticleExxon hires Seadrill’s drillship for project offshore Nigeria
Seadrill in cooperation with indigenous partner Field Offshore Design Engineering Nigeria Limited has secured a contract with Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, an ExxonMobil subsidiary,...
View ArticleRosneft, Exxon spud Russia’s northernmost offshore well
The start of the drilling was launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a teleconference with head of Rosneft Igor Sechin and head of ExxonMobil Russia Glenn Waller
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Death on FSO, Jobs slashed in Norway, Oil discovery in Angola, Scotland votes No, No crocs on choppers, NCS rig overcapacity, Exxon drilling halt in Russia, Qataris swoop for Keppel rig...
View ArticleSanctions freeze ExxonMobil’s Arctic drilling operations
ExxonMobil has confirmed it will stop its drilling operations in the Kara Sea, offshore Russia, to comply with the sanctions imposed against Russia by the U.S. Treasury Department.
View ArticleReport: Exxon, Rosneft to stop Kara Sea drilling on October 10
ExxonMobil and Rosneft are still drilling at the University-1 well in the Kara Sea, off the Russian northern coast, contrary to the reports that the operations have been halted amid the U.S. sanctions...
View ArticleRosneft, Exxon strike oil at world’s northernmost well
ExxonMobil and Rosneft have discovered oil at their controversial arctic well – the Universitetskaya-1.
View ArticleEbola hampers Exxon’s offshore drilling plans in Liberia
Ebola virus that has been sowing death throughout west Africa for months is affecting ExxonMobil’s offshore Liberia drilling plans. As Reuters reports, Rex W. Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO yesterday...
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You can’t wear these when flying to UK offshore rigs Offshore clothing policy, created to guide workers flying to offshore rigs in the UK on what to wear under the survival suit while in a helicopter,...
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