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4 September 2019
Saga Subsea Awarded Contract by Nexans Norway
August 2019, Saga Subsea with their subsea cable department, was awarded a contract by Nexans Norway. Saga Subsea have with this contract been given the site manager role for the work to be conducted in the Suldal area for the North Sea Link project (NSL).North Sea Link (NSL) project is…
4 September 2019
Nexans Wins Umbilical Contract from McDermott for BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Project
McDermott Marine Construction Limited has awarded a contract to Nexans for the supply of approximately 100 km subsea umbilicals and accessories for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project offshore Mauritania and Senegal.Under the terms of the contract, Nexans will provide management, procurement, engineering, manufacturing and testing activities for the…
4 September 2019
Panoro Encounters Hydrocarbons at Hibiscus Updip Prospect
Panoro Energy ASA announced that the Hibiscus Updip well (“DHIBM-1”), currently being drilled on the Dussafu Marin Permit offshore Gabon, has encountered hydrocarbons. Logging operations and evaluation of the oil discovery are currently underway, following which Panoro expects a side-track of DHIBM-1 to be drilled. Further updates will be provided…
4 September 2019
BW Offshore: Half-year and Second Quarter Results 2019
HIGHLIGHTS - EBITDA of USD 378.4 million in the first half-year and USD 191.6 million in Q2 - Approved as operator by ANP in Brazil - Gross production from Tortue of 1.1 million bbls in Q2 - One lifting completed in Q2, 615k bbls net to BW Energy - Full-year…
4 September 2019
C-NLOPB Issues Calls for Nominations for Offshore Land Parcels
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) is issuing, under its scheduled land tenure system, a Call for Nominations (Parcels) NL19-CFN01 in the Eastern Newfoundland Region (Sector NL04-EN) and a Call for Nominations (Parcels) NL19-CFN02 in the Jeanne d’Arc Region. These Calls for Nominations will assist the C-NLOPB in…
4 September 2019
Hess Announces Arrival of Liza Destiny Offshore Guyana
Hess Corporation announced that the Liza Destiny, Guyana’s first oil production vessel, has arrived at the Stabroek Block.The Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel arrived following a 42 day journey from Singapore. This FPSO is a significant component of the Liza Phase 1 development, which involves four undersea drill…
4 September 2019
OKEA Supply Vessel for Neptune Energy Norway’s Drilling on Fenja
In competition with other providers, OKEA has won a tender for supply to the rig West Phoenix in connection with Neptune Energy Norway's drilling on the Fenja field (formerly Pil & Bue) at Haltenbanken.The contract has a duration of 12 months fixed + 4 x 3 months option, ie up…
4 September 2019
NHV Awarded Offshore Contract by Petrofac
The NHV Group announced a new long-term contract to provide helicopter services for Petrofac. Initially, under the new four year agreement, four crew change flights per week will depart from NHV’s base in Aberdeen to the FPF1 floating production facility using H175 helicopters.The state-of-the-art H175 aircraft, an Airbus Helicopter’s Super…
4 September 2019
Fugro's Targeted Approach Secures Second Seep Hunting Success Offshore Malaysia
Fugro has successfully completed the second of three Malaysian seep hunting and geochemical campaigns for the Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Malaysia’s fully integrated oil and gas company.The second campaign was located offshore Sarawak, Malaysia and began 8 May 2019 onboard the Fugro Equator. Acquired geophysical data included over 15 000…
4 September 2019
Siccar Point Energy Announces Cambo FEED Contract to Sembcorp Marine
Operator Siccar Point Energy E&P Ltd has awarded an exclusive Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) contract to Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters Pte Ltd for the design of a Sevan cylindrical FPSO for its Cambo field development on the UK Continental Shelf.The Cambo field, located 125km northwest of the Shetland…
28 August 2019
Nova Subsea Pipelines Installed in Norway
Wintershall Dea has completed the installation of the subsea pipelines and umbilicals for the operated Nova project in the Norwegian North Sea. The successful installation of the flowlines completes a summer of significant subsea activity for Nova which began in May with two templates being installed on the seabed at…
28 August 2019
Benthic to Open a New Technology Center in Rio de Janeiro
Benthic, a global geosciences company in subsea services group Acteon, has announced plans to open its first Brazilian technology center and geotechnical laboratory in Rio de Janeiro. The state-of-the-art facility will open later this year in the Technological Park of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Benthic aims to…
28 August 2019
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd.: Eco Spuds Joe-1 Well, Offshore Guyana
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd., the oil and gas exploration company with licences in highly prospective regions in Guyana and Namibia, announced that drilling of the Joe prospect has commenced offshore Guyana, the Company's second exploration well on the Orinduik Block. Joe-1 was spud at 14.45hrs (Local Guyana time)…
28 August 2019
JFD Acquires Closed Bell Diving System to Re-establish Leading Global Saturation Diving Training Capability
JFD, the world leading underwater capability provider serving the commercial and defence diving markets, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has announced that it has acquired the closed bell saturation diving system and associated assets formally owned by The Underwater Centre.The acquisition will enable JFD to re-establish the…
28 August 2019
Three Quarters of Nord Stream 2 Completed
Nord Stream 2 has laid 1,855 kilometres of the pipeline in the Baltic Sea in Russian, Finnish, Swedish and German waters. This corresponds to 75 percent of the overall length of the twin pipeline. Nord Stream 2 AG proceeds with implementing the remaining quarter of the project. Both strings have…
28 August 2019
Tower Resources plc: Cameroon Operational and Financing Update
Tower Resources plc, the oil and gas company with a focus on Africa, provided an update on operations on the Thali block in Cameroon and on well financing.As disclosed in the Company's operational update in May, the Company received additional data from the original Total wells at NJOM1 and NJOM2,…
28 August 2019
BP to Sell Alaska Business to Hilcorp
BP announced that it has agreed to sell its entire business in Alaska to Hilcorp Alaska, based in Anchorage, Alaska. Under the terms of the agreement, Hilcorp will purchase all of BP's interests in the state for a total consideration of $5.6 billion.The sale will include BP's entire upstream and…
28 August 2019
CGG Begins New 3D Broadband Survey in Deepwater Brazil
CGG has commenced acquisition of Nebula 3D, a new, large, long-offset BroadSeis™ survey located in the Campos and Santos Basins, offshore Brazil.With an initial focus on Brazil’s 15th License Round blocks, the data is being acquired by the Geo Caribbean and a portion of the survey will provide 3D data…
28 August 2019
Petrofac Awarded Central North Sea Decommissioning Contract
Petrofac has been awarded a well plugging and abandonment contract with leading independent energy company, Hess Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hess Corporation. The agreement includes provision of Well Operator and Well Engineering Project Management services for four wells within the Rubie and Renee fields, 200 km north east…
27 August 2019
PGNiG Upstream Norway AS – Consent for Exploration Drilling in the Norwegian Sea
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have given PGNiG Upstream Norway AS (PUN) consent to drill exploration well 6507/5-9 S in production licence 838.The drilling location is around 9 kilometres south of Skarv and 24 kilometres northeast of Heidrun.Well 6507/5-9 S, named “Shrek”, has the following geographical coordinates:65º 39’ 35.87 N07º 38’…
27 August 2019
Polarcus Awarded XArray Project in South East Asia
Polarcus Limited announced that an award has been received for an XArray™ marine seismic acquisition project in South East Asia. The project will commence in Q4 with an approximate duration of 40 days.
27 August 2019
AGS Enters the Brazilian OBN Market on a USD 4 million Contract
AGS has signed a contract for source work in Brazil with minimum value of USD 4 million with SAExploration. The initial contract is minimum three vessel months including mobilization and demobilization which is compensated for.The source vessel, Neptune Naiad, is owned by AGS and will be transferred from the North…
27 August 2019
Valaris Announces Several New Contract Awards
Valaris plc announced new contracts and contract extensions, with associated revenue backlog of $84 million , awarded subsequent to filing the Company’s most recent fleet status report on July 25, 2019 . - VALARIS 8505 (ENSCO 8505) contract with Eni offshore Mexico extended by three wells, with an estimated duration…
27 August 2019
TechnipFMC Intends to Create Two Industry-Leading, Independent, Publicly Traded Companies
TechnipFMC plc announced its Board of Directors has unanimously approved its plan to separate into two industry-leading, independent, publicly traded companies: RemainCo, a fully-integrated technology and services provider, continuing to drive energy development; and SpinCo, a leading engineering and construction (E&C) player, poised to capitalize on the global energy transition.…
27 August 2019
Magseis Fairfield Signs Letter of Intent for Lease of Node Crew
Magseis Fairfield has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the lease of a Z700 node crew, which includes nodes, auxiliary equipment and service personnel for a six-month period in the Caspian Sea. The contract will commence in the first quarter 2020 when the nodes have been released from an…
27 August 2019
First Oil from Greater Enfield
Woodside advised that on 25 August 2019 the Greater Enfield Project produced first oil through the Ngujima-Yin floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO).The Greater Enfield Project was approved in 2016, to develop the Laverda Canyon, Norton over Laverda and Cimatti oil accumulations through a subsea tie-back to the Ngujima-Yin…
26 August 2019
Cable Solutions Worldwide: In Excess of 50km of Bespoke Subsea Cable Manufactered in Last Quarter
During the last quarter Cable Solutions Worldwide has manufactured in excess of 50km of bespoke subsea cable of various configurations and sizes for a variety of clients throughout the world.The oil and gas, marine, shipbuilding and renewable energy industries have specific bespoke cabling and connectivity requirements to ensure high levels…
26 August 2019
Saab Seaeye Falcon for Ocean Research
A Saab Seaeye Falcon electric underwater robotic vehicle is to help support a network of oceanographic and atmospheric sensors that are part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) transforming ocean research.Funded by the National Science Foundation, the overall OOI program is managed by Massachusetts based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The…
26 August 2019
MacArtney Milestone Reached with Fifth Ocean Research Vessel LARS Delivered to Asia Pacific Operations
MacArtney has provided a third, fourth and fifth Launch and Recovery System in the Asia Pacific market this year for academic Ocean Research Vessels, the R/V New Ocean Researcher 1, 2 and 3.MacArtney Asia Pacific accepted a full LARS order for two 500 GT (Gross Tonnage) Ocean Research Vessels and…
26 August 2019
Shearwater GeoServices Strengthens Brazil Presence and Opens Office in Rio de Janeiro
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS announced it has established a new Brazilian subsidiary ‘Shearwater GeoServices do Brasil Ltda’ and opened a new office in Rio de Janeiro.The strengthened presence in Brazil follows Shearwater’s continued growth over the past 12 months, including extensive marine seismic acquisition offshore Brazil for a major multiclient…
26 August 2019
Financial Report 2nd quarter for DOF Subsea
The Group’s operating income for 2nd quarter (management reporting) was NOK 1,257 million (NOK 1,203 million) and the operating profit before depreciation and impairment (EBITDA) was NOK 445 million (NOK 372 million). The average utilisation of the Group's fleet during the 2nd quarter was 70%; 67% for the Subsea/IMR Project…
23 August 2019
Bibby HydroMap Commences Second UXO Survey for Vattenfall
Vattenfall awards Bibby HydroMap second UXO survey on the Hollandse Kust Zuid Wind Farm Zone.The UK-based seabed survey company have commenced operations on the 760MW Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) Wind Farm Zone Sites III & IV on behalf of their client Vattenfall.The news comes after Vattenfall was announced as the…
23 August 2019
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd: Unaudited Results for the Three months ended June 30 2019 and Business Update
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd , the oil and gas exploration company with licences in highly prospective regions in Guyana, where the Company recently announced a major oil discovery, and Namibia announced its results for the three months ended 30 June 2019 and to provide a corporate and operational…
23 August 2019
Ocean Power Technologies Announces The Successful North Sea Deployment Of The PB3 PowerBuoy® For Premier Oil
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (“OPT”), a leader in innovative and cost-effective ocean energy solutions, announced the successful deployment of a PB3 PowerBuoy® in the North Sea for its customer Premier Oil. This latest deployment of a PB3 PowerBuoy® will serve Premier as an autonomous intelligent platform to provide communications and…
23 August 2019
Geo Connection at Ras Laffan.
The Geo Connection has been chartered by Boskalis Westminster to provide a multi-purpose survey platform supporting their scope of work on the Flow Assurance Expansion Project (FAP-X) in Ras Laffan, Qatar. This includes the dredging, burial and protection measures of pipelines during the shore approach. Mobilised at the beginning of…
23 August 2019
GC Rieber Shipping – Second Quarter Results 2019
GC Rieber Shipping ASA had a fleet utilisation of 100% in the second quarter of 2019. The subsea and ice/support vessels have contract coverage of 44% for the remainder of the year while Shearwater GeoServices Shearwater has confirmed backlog of more than 26 vessel-months in the third and fourth quarter…
23 August 2019
Jersey Oil and Gas plc: 31st Supplementary Offshore Licensing Round - Additional Award of Block 21/2a Containing the Glenn Oil Discovery
Highlights: - JOG awarded, subject to documentation, 100% working interest and operatorship of an additional block (Block 21/2a) in the Oil & Gas Authority's ("OGA") 31st Supplementary Offshore Licensing Round - Additional Greater Buchan Area ("GBA") acreage in Block 21/2a includes the Glenn oil discovery and adds a further 14…
23 August 2019
Vattenfall Inaugurates Scandinavia’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm
On 22 August 2019, HRH Crown Prince of Denmark accompanied by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities Dan Jørgensen officially opened Denmark’s, Scandinavia’s and Vattenfall’s largest offshore wind farm, Horns Rev 3.The 49 wind turbines on Horns Rev 25-40 km off Denmark’s west…
23 August 2019
Enova Supporting Pioneer Project
Enova has approved an application for funding of up to NOK 2.3 billion to support the Hywind Tampen project for developing the world’s first floating offshore wind farm supplying renewable power to offshore oil and gas installations.Equinor and its partners are considering the possibility of supplying electricity from a floating…
22 August 2019
Trelleborg Awarded Fast Track Contract by MODEC for Eni Mexico Area 1 FPSO
Trelleborg’s offshore operation has been awarded a fast track contract to produce over 80 laminated elastomeric bearings for MODEC, the leading specialist for offshore floating solutions. The first delivery was in July 2019 and the bearings will be installed on a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel for use…
22 August 2019
Wild Well Control Adds New 10,000 psi-rated Capping Stack to WellCONTAINED TM Program
Wild Well Control, Inc., a Superior Energy Services company and a global leader in well control and engineering services, has added a new 10,000 psi-rated capping stack to its WellCONTAINEDTM group of subsea containment equipment. The 10,000 psi-rated (10K) stack is rated to water depths of 10,000 ft, and will…
22 August 2019
Eni: Zohr Gas Production Reaches 2.7 bcfd
Eni announced that the production from Zohr field has now reached more than 2.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd), about 5 months ahead of the Plan of Development (PoD).This remarkable result has been achieved following the completion of all eight onshore treatment production units – the last one commissioned…
22 August 2019
i3 Energy plc: i3 Commences Liberator Drilling Operations
i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK, announced that the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig has arrived on location at the Liberator field and that the LPt-02 pilot well has now been spud. The Company will provide LPt-02 drilling results to…
22 August 2019
Successful C-Kore Deployment on GGA Area
C-Kore Systems have completed another successful deployment in the North Sea, on the Greater Guillemot Area field, with the help of the C-Kore subsea testing tools.Faulty elements in the subsea network were diagnosed and replaced within 24 hours of the start of the fault-finding campaign. The GGA area is operated…
22 August 2019
New Industry Tool to Improve Recovery from Existing North Sea Fields
A new tool aimed at providing operators and licensees with a framework to re-evaluate methods to improve recovery from existing North Sea oil and gas assets was launched on Aug 21 on the OGUK website. Developed through industry collaboration, the tool provides a detailed process for identifying opportunities to learn…
22 August 2019
Latest NOC Autosub Completes Loch Ness Trials
The latest Autosub Long Range (ALR) vehicles being developed by the National Oceanography Centre have completed their first round of commissioning trials in the waters of Loch Ness, Scotland, marking a major milestone on their journey to active service.The new autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), ALR1500 - named for the 1500m…
22 August 2019
ADNOC Awards Contracts for Wells and Drilling Materials with Multi-Billion-Dollar Scope as it Drives Value Through Smart Procurement
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced the award of multi-billion-dollar contracts for the procurement of casing and tubing as it drives value through its smart approach to procurement. The combined scope of the three contracts awarded is one of the world’s largest in this category, maximizing value for…
22 August 2019
Drilling Permit for Well 32/4-2 in Production Licence 921
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for well 32/4-2, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.Well 32/4-2 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling facility in position 60°30'37.36"N and 4°9'18.03"E.The drilling programme for the well relates to the drilling of wildcat well…
21 August 2019
Vår Energi – Consent for use of Island Constructor – Goliat Field
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have given Vår Energi consent for the use of Island Constructor for well intervention on the Goliat field.The consent applies to the drilling of wells 7122/7-C-1 AH and 7122/7-C-4 H in production licence 229.Drilling is scheduled to begin in September 2019.The Island Constructor well intervention facility…
21 August 2019
Trendsetter "Cements" its Place in the Intervention Market
Trendsetter announced the completion of another successful hydraulic intervention project utilizing their 15,000-psi Subsea Tree Injection Manifold (STIM) system.A major operator approached Trendsetter to deliver an intervention solution suitable for use in the abandonment of an ‘unconventional’ subsea well. The well, located offshore South America, was in approximately 7,300fsw and…