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20 March 2019
Ithaca to be Appointed Operator of Alon D License
Further to the provisions of Section 7.7 of the Partnership’s periodic report for 2017 which was released on March 21, 2018 (ref. no.: 2018-01-022209) (the “Periodic Report”) regarding the 367/Alon D license (the “Alon License” or the “Petroleum Asset”), the Partnership respectfully updates as follows:As of the date of the…
20 March 2019
4Subsea Acquires Astori
4Subsea announced the acquisition of Astori AS, a Norwegian provider of subsea control systems for well intervention operations. Their automation and control technology ties into 4Subsea’s portfolio of decision support solutions for operators.Astori delivers unique subsea control systems for simplified XT installations that can operate all types of XTs from…
20 March 2019
TechnipFMC Awarded a Significant Subsea Contract for the Equinor Johan Sverdrup Phase 2 Development
TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant(1) Subsea contract by Equinor for the Johan Sverdrup Phase 2 development, located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea at a water depth of 120 meters.The contract covers the delivery and installation of the subsea production system including integrated template structures, manifolds, tie-in…
19 March 2019
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway Audit of Equinor – Snorre Expansion Project
The audit was conducted on 5 and 6 February 2019.ObjectiveThe objective of the audit was to ensure that fabrication of the subsea Christmas tree for the Snorre expansion project complied with the company’s own requirements and requirements in the regulations. A sub-goal was to follow up how the project is…
19 March 2019
The Oil and Gas Authority Announce Registration Open to Attend NorEx 2019
Collaboration and Innovation – Stimulating Exploration Activity in Southern North Sea - Venue: Norfolk Showground, Norwich - Date: 16th May 2019 - Cost: Free - To register click hereThe objective of NorEX 2019 is to promote the exploration potential in the SNS and signpost to explorers where these opportunities might…
19 March 2019
Island Wellserver Continues to work for Equinor
Island Offshore and TIOS will continue as supplier of light well intervention services (LWI) for Equinor, with a new agreement signed for the use of Island Wellserver. The vessel has been working for Equinor, former Statoil, since April 2009, and by commencement of the new contract in 2020 Island Wellserver…
19 March 2019
Siccar Point Energy Spuds Blackrock Exploration Well
Siccar Point Energy has commenced its 2019 drilling campaign with the spudding of an exploration well at the Blackrock prospect.The campaign, using Diamond Offshore’s Ocean Great White semi-submersible rig, is expected to take around five months and also includes the Lyon exploration prospect North of Shetland.Located 140 km north-west of…
19 March 2019
Shearwater GeoServices Awarded Acquisition and Processing Contract in Turkey
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS announced the award of a seismic acquisition and depth processing contract by Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO).The survey contract covers an area of 2200 sqkm and includes fast track processing, followed by full time and depth processing. Work will commence in Q2 2019 and will be…
19 March 2019
Oda Field on Stream almost Five Months Ahead of Plan
The Oda field is Spirit Energy’s first development as operator on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. When the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) for the field was submitted to the authorities in November 2016, production start was scheduled for 1 August 2019 and total investment costs were estimated at 5.4*…
19 March 2019
Hook-up of FPSO at the Lancaster Field
Hurricane Energy plc provided an operational update in relation to the Early Production System development of the Lancaster field.The Aoka Mizu FPSO arrived at the Lancaster field on 17 March 2019 and successfully hooked-up to the turret mooring system buoy on the morning of 19 March 2019. The vessel is…
19 March 2019
Gas and Oil Discovery Northwest of the Bøyla Field in the North Sea - 24/9-14 S and 24/9-14 A
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 869, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 24/9-14 S and a horizontal appraisal well, 24/9-14 A.Appraisal well 24/9-14 A was drilled 2650 metres northeast of wildcat well 24/9-14 S.The wells were drilled about 4 kilometres northwest of the Bøyla field and 225…
18 March 2019
Aker Solutions becomes Airborne Oil & Gas Shareholder
Aker Solutions has been added to strategic shareholder base of Airborne Oil & Gas as the company aims to further strengthen, integrate and diversify its range of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) solutions for the international subsea sector.The Norway-based company joins Airborne Oil & Gas’ shareholder base of Chevron Technology Ventures,…
18 March 2019
UGL (CIMIC Group) Secures $190M Karratha Gas Plant Contract
UGL, as part of a joint venture, has been awarded a new contract for services on the Woodside Energy Limited operated Karratha Gas Plant (KGP).The new contract works will generate additional revenue to UGL of approximately $190 million, and includes two further multi-year extension options. UGL has provided services at…
18 March 2019
SeaRobotics Corporation launches the SR-ENDURANCE 7.0
SeaRobotics Corporation, announced the successful completion of its factory acceptance testing of its new entry into the Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) Workboat market with the SR-Endurance 7.0 meter system. The system is optimized for sonar research through the utilization of an optionally manned helm configuration and a serial diesel electric…
18 March 2019
Incat Crowther: MH-O & Co 39m Multipurpose Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) Delivered
Incat Crowther announced the delivery of the 39m Multipurpose Crew Transfer Vessels MHO Gurli and MHO Esbjerg. The vessels were built by PT Bintang Timur Samudera in Indonesia and delivered to MH-O & Co to be operated for Orsted in their Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.The vessels, designed by…
18 March 2019
Jumbo Wins Offshore Subsea Decommissioning Project in North Sea
Jumbo has been awarded an offshore decommissioning project in the North Sea by TAQA Energy BV, involving the removal, transportation and disposal of three subsea protection domes and piles.The removal operation will take place in the offshore series of fields located in the P15 block 35km North West of Hoek…
18 March 2019
Equinor Given Consent for use of the Facilities at Trestakk
The Trestakk field is in the Norwegian Sea, 20 kilometres south of Åsgard. The field is under development and production is scheduled to start in 2019.The development solution is a subsea template with four well slots and a satellite well, tied to the Åsgard A facility for processing and gas…
18 March 2019
Cooper Energy: Sole Gas Project Update
Cooper Energy advised installation and testing of the 67 km control umbilical connecting the Sole gas field with the Orbost Gas Plant has been completed. This milestone marks completion of the offshore construction phase of the Sole Gas Project, free of lost time injuries and within budget.The only work remaining…
15 March 2019
Apache Submits Nevis NL Wellhead Structure Decommissioning Plan
Apache's Decommissioning Programme can be found here.
15 March 2019
DEME Offshore Announces Moray East Wind Farm Tier One Suppliers
DEME Offshore, formerly GeoSea, has announced the selection of Tier One suppliers for its Moray East offshore windfarm foundation contract, many of which are based in the UK.The 950 MW wind farm is being developed by Moray Offshore Windfarm East Ltd (MOWEL) which is a joint venture company owned by…
15 March 2019
PETRONAS Relocates Its Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Facility, PFLNG Satu, To Kebabangan Cluster Field
PETRONAS relocates its Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, PETRONAS FLNG (PFLNG) Satu, from the Kumang cluster field, offshore Sarawak, to the Kebabangan (KBB) cluster field, offshore Sabah, on 12 March. The PFLNG Satu will be moored at a water depth of 120 metres in the KBB cluster field, located…
15 March 2019
Magseis Fairfield Announces Letter of Award for a Gulf of Mexico Program
Magseis Fairfield announced that it has received a contingent Letter of Award (LOA) for a three months data acquisition program in the Gulf of Mexico. The survey is due to commence in the third quarter of 2019. “The program in the Gulf of Mexico further strengthens our order backlog for…
15 March 2019
Borr Drilling Limited (BDRILL) – Contract Award for Two Premium Jack-up Rigs in Mexico
Borr Drilling Limited announced that one of its subsidiaries, in partnership with OPEX Perforadora S.A. de C.V., has received an official award from Petroleos Mexicanos (“PEMEX”) for the delivery of offshore wells in Mexico Under this award, Borr will deliver a total of 9 offshore development wells to their customer…
15 March 2019
Eni Announces a New Gas Discovery in the Nour Prospect, Offshore Egypt
Eni announces a new gas discovery under evaluation in the Nour exploration prospect located in the Nour North Sinai Concession, in the Eastern Egyptian Mediterranean, about 50 km North of the Sinai peninsula.The Nour-1 New Field Wildcat (NFW), which has led to the discovery, was drilled by the Scarabeo-9 semi-sub…
15 March 2019
Johan Sverdrup Living Quarters Topside Ready for Sail-away
With 560 beds the Johan Sverdrup living quarters topside is the largest of its kind in Norway. The fourth and last platform for the first phase of the giant project is now ready for sail-away from Kværner’s yard on Stord to the Johan Sverdrup field, where it will be installed…
15 March 2019
Extending Life of Eight Installations
Equinor has received the authorities’ approval for extending the life of eight installations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) during the last three years.Several of these installations were originally scheduled for shutdown already, or in only a few years. Instead, the extensions will give many more years of operation on…
14 March 2019
Africa Energy Announces 3D Seismic Program Offshore South Africa
Africa Energy Corp., an oil and gas company with exploration assets offshore South Africa and Namibia, announced the start of a new 3D marine seismic acquisition program over the Paddavissie Fairway on Block 11B/12B offshore South Africa. View PDF version.Jan Maier, Africa Energy's VP Exploration, commented, "We are pleased to…
14 March 2019
U.S. Interior Proposes Region-Wide Oil and Gas Lease Sale 253 for Gulf of Mexico
In support of President Donald J. Trump’s America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Joe Balash and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Acting Director Walter Cruickshank announced that BOEM proposes to offer 78 million acres for a region-wide lease sale scheduled for August 2019. The…
14 March 2019
Exceed Energy Announces First Contract Offshore Guinea Bissau
Aberdeen-headquartered Exceed, a well management and performance improvement specialist, continues to consolidate its West African presence, by announcing the company’s first contract to be undertaken offshore Guinea Bissau.Awarded by Swedish E&P company, Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB, the project will comprise full well project management services to deliver a deep water…
14 March 2019
Rowan Announces Contract with Repsol for the Rowan EXL II
Rowan Companies plc announced that Repsol Exploracion Guyana, S.A. has signed a contract for the EXL II, a high-specification Super 116E Jack-up rig, for work in Guyana. The contract is for one well beginning in the third quarter of 2019 with a duration of approximately 45 days. The EXL II…
14 March 2019
Eni Farms out to Qatar Petroleum a 30% Participating Interest in Tarfaya Offshore Petroleum Agreement, Offshore Morocco
Eni and Qatar Petroleum signed a farm out agreement to enable Qatar Petroleum to acquire a 30% participating interest in Tarfaya Offshore Shallow Petroleum Agreement, comprising 12 exploration blocks in the offshore of Morocco.The agreement is subject to the authorization by the Moroccan authorities.The Tarfaya Area is located in the…
14 March 2019
Eni Announces a Major Oil Discovery Offshore Angola
Eni announced a major oil discovery in Block 15/06, in the Agogo exploration prospect, in Angola’s deep water. The new discovery is estimated to contain between 450 and 650 million barrels of light oil in place with further upside.The Agogo-1 NFW well, which has led to the discovery, is located…
14 March 2019
Oceaneering Secures Integrity Services Contract Extension from Equinor
Oceaneering International, Inc. has secured a contract renewal from Equinor, which covers the provision of maintenance, reliability and integrity management.The contract, which was originally awarded to Oceaneering’s integrity business in 2005 and competitively tendered again in December 2013, is extended until December 2020. Under the agreement, Oceaneering will provide support…
13 March 2019
Curlew Decommissioning Programmes have now been Approved
Curlew B&D and Curlew C Decommissioning ProgrammesFor more information the Shell report can be found here.
13 March 2019
ASCO Awarded Contract Extension by Aker BP
ASCO announced it has secured a contract extension with the leading oil exploration and development company, Aker BP ASA, as it continues to strengthen its partnerships in Norway.The contract extension will see ASCO continue to deliver integrated supply base management, transport and freight management, and logistics services for Aker BP…
13 March 2019
i3 Energy plc: Proposed Placing to Raise Minimum c.£16 million
i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK, announced its intention to issue new ordinary shares of £0.0001 each in the Company via an accelerated bookbuild to raise in aggregate gross proceeds of not less than £16 million at a price of…
13 March 2019
Hydrocarbon Discovery for Murphy at Cholula-1 Offshore Mexico
US independent Murphy Oil has encountered oil and gas in its Cholula-1 well in the Salina del Istmo Basin offshore Mexico, though further drilling will be required to confirm commerciality. Murphy was targeting gross mean resources of 220mmboe in the Upper and Lower Miocene and partner Ophir Energy has indicated…
13 March 2019
Okeanus Provides Equipment for Terrasond's High Resolution Geophysical Survey Project
Okeanus Science & Technology, LLC (Okeanus), an established marine equipment and engineering service provider, announced that it provided equipment to marine survey leader TerraSond in support of its recent Wind Farm survey work off of the East Coast of the United States.“Okeanus is proud to provide TerraSond the tools necessary…
13 March 2019
Fugro Strengthens Integrated UXO Services for Offshore Renewables in Europe
Fugro is further strengthening its leading position as an unexploded ordnance (UXO) service provider with a recent multimillion-Euro contract award from TenneT. The Geo-data specialist is now set to commence integrated UXO services at an offshore wind farm development in Dutch coastal waters; the contract follows previous involvement in route…
13 March 2019
Dry Well North of the Vilje Field in the North Sea – 25/1-13
Wellesley Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 871, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 25/1-13.The well was drilled about 20 kilometres north of the Vilje field and 220 kilometres northwest of Stavanger.The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in reservoir rocks in the…
13 March 2019
Aker Solutions Wins FEED Contract for Subsea Compression System
Aker Solutions has been awarded a master contract to support the delivery of a subsea compression system for the Chevron Australia-operated Jansz-Io field offshore Australia.The first service order under the master contract will be for front-end engineering and design of a subsea compression station that will boost the recovery of…
13 March 2019
E.ON’s Blyth Offshore Wind Farm to be Decommissioned, Bringing to a Close its Pioneering Contribution to the Development of Renewable Technology
The UK’s first offshore wind farm, built off the Northumberland coast by a consortium including E.ON in 2000, is to be taken down, with work beginning in April and expected to last around four to six weeks. When in operation, the two 2MW turbines generated enough power to supply over…
12 March 2019
BP Awards Contracts to BHGE & McDermott for Greater Tortue Ahmeyim Natural Gas Project
McDermott International, Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company have announced that they have been awarded subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) and subsea production system (SPS) equipment contracts by BP for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project, located offshore Mauritania and Senegal. BP, BHGE and McDermott are working…
12 March 2019
SeaBird Exploration: Contract Extension
Reference is made to the stock exchange notice dated 13 November 2018. SeaBird announced that the contract for the Eagle Explorer with CGG has been extended by approximately 80 days. The contract is now firm until 15 August 2019, with further options for CGG to extend with up to 60…
12 March 2019
2H Offshore Installs Fast-Track Conductor-Supported Platform Offshore Malaysia
2H Offshore, a riser and conductor specialist in subsea services group Acteon, has completed the installation of a lightweight, conductor-supported, minimum facility wellhead platform offshore Sarawak, Malaysia.The company was responsible for the concept, detailed design, transportation and installation of the platform in 35m water depth for the D28 oilfield Phase…
12 March 2019
Mermaid's Associate Asia Offshore Drilling Limited Secures Contract Extension for Jack-up Rig 'AOD I'
Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited announced that its associate Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (“AOD”) has secured a three (3) year contract extension for the jack-up drilling rig ‘AOD I’ serving a reputable client in the Middle East until June 2022. This extension shall be in direct continuation to the current…
12 March 2019
Qatar Petroleum Signs Agreement to Enter a new Exploration Block in Mozambique
Qatar Petroleum entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 25.5% participating interest in block A5A, located in the Angoche basin, offshore the Republic of Mozambique.The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approvals by the government of Mozambique. Following such approvals, the partners holding participating interest in the block…
12 March 2019
EMGS: Update on Survey in South-East Asia
Reference is made to the stock exchange notification published by Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) on 20 February 2019, wherein the Company announced that it had received a letter of award from an undisclosed customer for a proprietary data acquisition survey in south-east Asia. The Company has now received a purchase…
12 March 2019
Egypt's Offshore Red Sea International Bid Round /2019 For Oil and Gas Exploration and Exploitation
The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Egypt (M.O.P) invite international qualified and interested companies having the technical and financial capabilities for an International Bid Round to explore and exploit oil and gas in offshore Egyptian Red Sea based on PRODUCTION SHARING AGREEMENT (P.S.A).South Valley Egyptian Petroleum Holding Company…
12 March 2019
SeaBird Exploration: Sale of Seismic Data License
SeaBird Exploration announced a license sale of seismic data over Rio Grande Rise in Brazil. SeaBird's share of the sale is approximately $0.8 million. The license sale relates to assets which previously have been written down to $0.2 million on the balance sheet. The company will therefore report a gain…