Total has “officially left” Iran under threat of US sanctions, according to the Islamic Republic’s oil minister. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said the minister, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, told state television the French company had withdrawn from its contract for Phase 11 development of South Pars natural gas field. Source: News
North Slope riches
The state of Alaska is offering what officials describe as “a veritable cornucopia of information” for anyone interested in exploring for North Slope oil. Source: News
INGAA’s board affirms methane release minimization commitments
The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America’s board of directors has affirmed its commitments to minimize methane emissions released from member companies’ interstate gas transmission and storage facilities because of continuing concern about climate change, INGAA reported. Source: News
Petrobras lets contract for drill pipe riser systems
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. subsidiary Marine Production Systems do Brasil Ltda. for intervention and completion operations in Brazil. Source: News
Democrats see changes in S. 3303 as threat to cooperative federalism
US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Democrats questioned whether a bill proposed by Republicans, ostensibly to make minor changes in a Clean Water Act (CWA) project permit certification provision, actually would undermine the bedrock cooperative federalism principle that helps federal and state governments work together. Source: News
Midcoast launches open season for East Texas gas pipeline project
Midcoast Energy LLC launched a nonbinding open season for a new pipeline to be incorporated into the existing Midcoast East Texas system to provide natural gas transportation services from the Carthage area to the Houston Ship Channel elsewhere along the Gulf Coast. Source: News
Goodrich provides Haynesville shale well results
Goodrich Petroleum updated completion results on two wells in Louisiana’s Bethany-Longstreet field in DeSoto Parish. Wurtsbaugh 35 No. 1 (71% working interest), which came online in July, achieved a 24-hr peak rate of 22.5 MMcfd. Demmon 34 No. 1 (89% working interest), which came online in August, also achieved a 24-hr peak rate of 22.5 […]
Quadrant touts oil find as one of largest on North West Shelf
Perth-based duo Quadrant Energy Ltd. and Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd.’s multizone Dorado oil discovery in the Bedout subbasin has been assessed as the largest field found on the North West Shelf off Western Australia in the last 30 years. Source: News
GeoPark completes Jauke 1 exploration well in Chile
GeoPark Ltd., Santiago, completed the Jauke 1 well on the Fell block in Chile. The operator drilled the well to 9,592 ft TD. A production test through different chokes in the Springhill formation resulted in an average production rate of 5.8 MMscfd of natural gas (970 boe/d) with a wellhead pressure of 2,738 psi. Source: […]
New Angolan agency due oil, gas licensing
Angola will move oil and gas licensing away from state-owned Sonangol into the new National Agency of Petroleum and Gas in the first half of 2019 in a reorganization due completion the following year. Source: News