2011 News and Highlights

The drillship Noble Discoverer will be recalled to Alaska early in the new year to fulfill contract obligations and is now unlikely to be able to complete drilling the Ruru exploration well for Shell Todd Oil Services (STOS).

OMV New Zealand and Shell New Zealand are pleased to announce major milestones for the Great South Basin joint venture, with the addition of Shell into the venture and confirmation that a comprehensive 3D seismic programme will begin later this year on Permits 50119 and 50120. Permit 50121 will be returned to the Crown.

Tamati Coffey, the weather presenter on TV One’s Breakfast, broadcast live from Maui A this morning (Monday) in a first for the offshore gas platform operated by Shell Todd Oil Services (STOS).

The drill ship, Noble Discoverer, has docked at Port Taranaki, after several weeks of being moored just outside the port.

The drill ship, Noble Discoverer, is sitting just outside Port Taranaki following a well-managed operation to steer the vessel to safety during Taranaki’s severe storm on 26 April.

The drill ship, Noble Discoverer, with 114 people on board, is sheltering safely northwest of New Plymouth in moderate winds following the stormy conditions of the previous two days.

Shell NZ will donate $1,000,000 to the Red Cross Appeal to support the Christchurch community, following the devastating earthquake on Tuesday.

Shell Todd Oil Services Limited (STOS) has started drilling the Ruru exploration well, using the Noble Discoverer drill ship. The well will take about two months to complete.

Shell Todd Oil Services Limited (STOS), the operator of the Maui field, will conduct an electromagnetic survey in the Maui Production Mining License (PML 381012) in January 2011 for about a month.

Shell Todd Oil Services Limited (STOS) is drilling an exploration well called Ruru, south of and adjacent to the Maui field. Drilling will start in approximately February 2011 (weather dependant) using the Noble Discoverer drill ship.