Oil Patch Bits: WesternGeco acquiring dual coil shooting survey 11/14/2010
WesternGeco, a business segment of Schlumberger, said Oct. 14 that it has begun the acquisition of the Revolution multiclient survey. Revolution marks the first time that Dual Coil Shooting multivesse...

Arctic Directory: Schlumberger appoints chief operating officer 03/21/2010
Schlumberger said Feb. 8 that its board of directors has appointed Paal Kibsgaard chief operating officer of Schlumberger Ltd. effective immediately. Reporting to Andrew Gould, chairman and chief exec...

Oil Patch Bits: Schlumberger appoints chief operating officer 02/14/2010
Schlumberger said Feb. 8 that its board of directors has appointed Paal Kibsgaard chief operating officer of Schlumberger Ltd. effective immediately. Reporting to Andrew Gould, chairman and chief exec...

Shell reports progress working offshore Alaska 10/05/2008
Company advances Beaufort, Chukchi programs, but cannot drill before appeals court rules on federal approval of exploration plans
Shell's program for exploration drilling in the Beaufort Sea offshore of Alaska's North Slope remains on hold until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rules on an appeal of U.S. Mineral Man...

Petroleum Directory: Schlumberger, WesternGeco acquire Integrated Exploration Systems 07/20/2008
Schlumberger said June 8 it has acquired Integrated Exploration Systems, the Aachen, Germany-based supplier of advanced petroleum systems modeling software and services for the exploration and product...

Oil Patch Bits 06/15/2008
Marketing Solutions welcomes new account managers
Anchorage-based Marketing Solutions, an award-winning, full-service advertising and public relations agency, recently added three staff members to its client services team. As account managers, Lincol...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: WesternGeco expands wide-azimuth surveys 11/04/2007
In August WesternGeco announced an expansion of its multiclient, wide-azimuth survey in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as a result of underwriter demand for high-quality subsalt imaging and optimized data re...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Schlumberger acquisition expands geophysical solutions 11/04/2007
and#8194;In July, Schlumberger announced the acquisition of Geosystem, a Milan-based provider of land and marine electromagnetics and seismic imaging services. Electromagnetics is a subsurface measureme...

Conoco cancels Chukchi, Beaufort seismic 03/04/2007
Company pulls MMS permit applications for 2007 open water program, will likely buy 3-D seismic data from Shell
ConocoPhillips Alaska has abandoned plans to shoot three-dimensional seismic offshore northern Alaska, the company told federal officials in mid-February when it asked them to discontinue work on seis...

Shell building legacy 02/25/2007
Alaska 2007 program takes shape; environment, communities high priorities
A flurry of government regulatory filings and announcements in February provides the most visible sign that the clock is ticking towards 2007 field activity in Shell's exploration program for offshore...

THE EXPLORERS 2006 - Shell plans four Beaufort wells in '07 11/12/2006
Two wells at Siv Ullig, two at another location north of Camden Bay; seismic planned in Chukchi, Beaufort
Rick Fox, Shell's new asset manager for Alaska, said in late February 2006 that Shell was "ambitious about Alaska." He wasn't jesting. The mega-major returned to Alaska in March 2005 and shortly ther...

Shell plans 4 Beaufort wells in '07 10/29/2006
Two wells at Siv Ullig and two at another location north of Camden Bay; seismic planned for the Chukchi and Beaufort
Shell is moving ahead with its exploration plans for the northern Alaska outer continental shelf. At the National Marine Fisheries Service's annual Arctic Open Water Peer Review Meeting on Oct. 24 She...

MMS issues Chukchi seismic permits 07/02/2006
On June 20, the U.S. Minerals Management Service issued seismic survey permits for the Chukchi Sea to Shell Offshore, ConocoPhillips Alaska and GX Technology. A permit for Shell to shoot seismic in th...

Schlumberger buys rest of WesternGeco 04/30/2006
Acquisition of Baker Hughes' 30 percent interest in $2.4 billion deal puts Schlumberger firmly at top of seismic industry
Schlumberger will be firmly at the head of the world's largest seismic company based on Baker Hughes' agreement to sell its 30 percent minority stake in WesternGeco to the oilfield services giant for...

Setting the stage for Arctic offshore oil, gas exploration 04/30/2006
With oil prices at record levels and companies champing at the bit to find more oil reserves, plans to shoot seismic offshore Alaska's Arctic are picking up speed. Shell, ConocoPhillips and Houston-ba...

Shell on fast forward 03/05/2006
Purchases Arctic drilling platform, doing geotechnical boring at Hammerhead
Rick Fox, Shell's new asset manager for Alaska, wasn't kidding when he told Pac Com attendees in late February that Shell was "ambitious about Alaska." The mega-major returned to Alaska in March 2005...

Busy times for seismic crews in Alaska's Arctic 02/19/2006
Only WesternGeco has vessel availability for Alaska OCS work; PGS and Veritas land crews continue active programs
Interest in shooting seismic offshore Alaska is heating up. ConocoPhillips has announced plans to conduct seismic surveys in the Chukchi Sea and Petroleum News has already reported that Shell will sho...

Shell actively working Hammerhead, aims to drill first Beaufort well in '07 10/23/2005
Shell is actively working the Hammerhead prospect it acquired in the U.S. Minerals Management Services' Beaufort Sea sale earlier this year, geologist Tom Homza, Shell's Anchorage office manager, said...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: WesternGeco to conduct high resolution survey offshore Malaysia 08/21/2005
Sabah Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. has contracted WesternGeco to conduct a high-resolution survey covering approximately 100 square kilometers over Shell's St. Joseph field, offshore Sabah, Malaysia. West...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: Kuwaiti firm upgrades seismic contract with WesternGeco 04/17/2005
Kuwait Oil Co. has upgraded its seismic service contract with WesternGeco to the Q-Land technology. With the change, 3-D seismic will use a 30,000-channel Q-Land system instead of the 6,000-channel co...

Bullish on upstream 01/30/2005
Gould says business climate most favorable for oil industry since 1970s
Schlumberger, first of the major oilfield services companies to weigh in with 2004 fourth-quarter earnings, says the current business climate for the upstream industry is the most favorable the compan...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: People plus technology make winning formula for oilfield services company 01/16/2005
Oilfield services giant Schlumberger will start 2005 with a new general manager in Alaska. Eric Larson returns to his home state, where he was formerly the company's coiled tubing drilling manager. Si...

Pioneer negotiating risky, potentially lucrative deal offshore West Africa 07/18/2004
Company has MOU with Nigeria's Chrome Energy subsidiary for joint evaluation of block in Joint Development Zone between Nigeria and The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
U.S.-based exploration and production independent Pioneer Natural Resources, with a goal of expanding its growing position in West Africa, is tiptoeing into an unexplored area of the Gulf of Guinea wh...

PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: WesternGeco completes first Q-marine survey in Danish sector of North Sea 06/20/2004
WesternGeco said June 8 that it has completed acquisition of a Q-Marine seismic survey for the Danish Oil and Natural Gas Co. over the Siri field in the North Sea. The 128-square-kilometer, high-resol...