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2 July 2018
TechnipFMC Awarded a Subsea Contract for the Total Zinia 2 Field
TechnipFMC has been awarded a contract by Total E&P Angola for the Zinia Phase 2 field development, located offshore Angola at a water depth between 800 and 1,000 meters.The contract covers the Engineering, Procurement and Construction of subsea equipment including 9 subsea tree units as well as wellheads, subsea control…
2 July 2018
BP Starts-up Landmark Shah Deniz 2 Development in Azerbaijan
BP and its partners in the Shah Deniz consortium announced the start-up of the landmark Shah Deniz 2 gas development in Azerbaijan, including its first commercial gas delivery to Turkey.The BP-operated $28 billion project is the first subsea development in the Caspian Sea and the largest subsea infrastructure operated by…
2 July 2018
Eni Norge and Point Resources Merge into Vår Energi AS
Italy based energy company Eni and leading private equity investor HitecVision announced an agreement to merge Point Resources AS into Eni Norge AS, and renaming the company Vår Energi AS. The combined entity will be a leading independent Norwegian Exploration & Production company, built on the existing organizations and leveraging…
29 June 2018
Imenco Purchases Kongsberg’s Camera Division
Kongsberg Maritime, a wholly owned subsidiary of KONGSBERG, has entered into an agreement to sell its business within subsea cameras and harsh environment CCTV systems to Imenco.Imenco is a leading technology company within design, development and manufacture of helicopter fuel systems, diving systems, mechanical & electrical engineering, lifting & handling…
29 June 2018
Ocean Power Technologies Signs Contract With Premier Oil For A PowerBuoy™ Deployment in the Central North Sea
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announced that the Company has signed a contract with Premier Oil, to supply a PowerBuoy™ for a deployment in the Huntington Field, one of Premier Oil’s offshore fields in the Central North Sea. The contract calls for a nine-month lease including an initial three-month trial, followed…
29 June 2018
Decommissioning Joint Venture Named Maersk Decom
With the senior management team now in place and interest growing from potential customers, today the decommissioning joint venture reaches a new milestone with the launch of its new name.Following the launch of the new name, the company website has been established at www.maerskdecom.comMarket interest reaffirmedSince its establishment, Maersk Decom…
29 June 2018
Eco Begins a Public Hearing Process Ahead of Drilling Planning of the PEL 30 Osprey Prospect, Offshore Namibia
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd., the oil and gas exploration company with licences in highly prospective regions in South America and Africa, announced the dates for public meetings to discuss the Environmental Clearance Certificate (“ECC”) application required for the grant of a drilling permit for an exploration well within…
29 June 2018
Neptune Energy Group Agrees to Acquire VNG Norge AS
Neptune Energy Group announced that it has entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of VNG Norge AS from VNG AG, the German natural gas wholesaler and energy service provider.Acquisition detail: - The VNG Norge portfolio provides a high-quality bolt-on acquisition in one of…
29 June 2018
PGS Data Reveals New Prospects for Danish Licensing Round
New data provides applicants with the best chance of success in the Danish 8th licensing round. PGS has finalized the processing of 7 600 sq. km of modern, multi-sensor, broadband, towed-streamer seismic data. The data is now available in time for the round.As the industry collectively recovers from a three-year…
29 June 2018
Successful Fogelberg Drill Stem Test
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, announced a successful sidetrack well (6506/9-4 A) and successful production test (‘Drill Stem Test’, ‘DST’) following the drilling of the downdip appraisal well (6506/9-4 S) on Fogelberg located in…
29 June 2018
Equinor Chooses Nexans Umbilical Technology for its Askeladd Development in the Barents Sea
Nexans has been awarded a major contract to provide complex umbilicals with power, fiber-optic and hydraulic elements for the next stage of the multi-phased Snøhvit development.The Snøhvit gas field in the Barents Sea is the largest ever industrial project in North Norway. It is now entering part two of its…
29 June 2018
Seabed Geosolutions Secures 4D Monitorinig Survey Contract in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a series of 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic monitoring surveys over multiple oil and gas fields in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The surveys, with a duration of around two months subject to final scope of work, will commence in the third quarter of…
28 June 2018
Total E&P Norge AS Receives Consent for Exploration Drilling in the Norwegian Sea
Total is the operator of production licence 255B. Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have given the company consent to drill exploration well 6406/6-5 S, which aims to investigate a prospect named Jasper.The well is in the Norwegian Sea and the drill site’s coordinates will be:64°35’47.275’’ N06°51’15.269’’ EWater depth at the site…
28 June 2018
Consent to Use Songa Encourage at the Tyrihans Field
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have given Equinor Energy AS (Equinor) consent to use the Songa Encourage mobile drilling facility on the Tyrihans field in the Norwegian Sea.The consent covers drilling, completion, workover, intervention and plugback using Songa Encourage.Songa Encourage is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the GVA 4000 type, operated…
28 June 2018
DOF Subsea Contract Awards in Brazil
Petrobras has awarded DOF Subsea Brasil a contract for utilization of the Brazilian built OSV vessel Skandi Salvador. The 650 days firm contract (plus 650 days extension by mutual agreement) will commence in July. Skandi Salvador is currently working for Shell Brasil.The CEO Mons Aase states that he is very…
28 June 2018
Eni: Gas Transport Interconnection Between Italy and Croatia Under Evaluation with INA
On 26th June, 2018, Eni and INA signed a bilateral cooperation agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) to jointly evaluate the opportunity to realize a gas interconnector between Italy and Croatia.The initiative aims to leverage existing infrastructure, used until now for offshore gas production activities in the upper Adriatic Sea, to additionally…
28 June 2018
Wintershall Awards Rig Contract for Nova Field
Wintershall Norge AS has awarded a rig contract for the Nova development to Seadrill Norway Operations Ltd who will operate the West Mira drilling rig on behalf of Northern Drilling. In addition, Wintershall has entered a long-term frame agreement with Seadrill for potential future rig needs.The West Mira will drill…
28 June 2018
First-rate Results for DEA from Dvalin
DEA celebrates an incident free offshore season for the Dvalin development project.The load out of the subsea template from Egersund in April, marked the start of an extensive offshore program for DEA and Dvalin project. This week, the Far Superior vessel wrapped up the last outstanding work, ending the Dvalin…
28 June 2018
Subsea 7 Awarded Contract Offshore Angola
Subsea 7 announced the award of a substantial* contract by Total E&P Angola for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the subsea flowlines and umbilicals for the Zinia Phase 2 project, 150 kilometres offshore Angola in water depths from 800 to 1,000 metres. The contract scope includes the tie-back…
28 June 2018
Jersey Oil and Gas plc: Completion of 3D Seismic Survey
Jersey Oil & Gas, an independent upstream oil and gas company focused on the UK Continental Shelf ("UKCS") region of the North Sea, announced that, further to the Company's announcement of 24 April 2018, the 3D seismic survey over the P.2170 (Blocks 20/5b & 21/1d) licence area and certain offset…
28 June 2018
UKCS Decommissioning - 2018 Cost Estimate Report
The estimated cost of decommissioning oil and gas infrastructure on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has reduced from last year’s baseline, as detailed in the report 'UKCS Decommissiioning - 2018 Cost Estimate Report'With a shared objective of industry and government to reduce decommissioning costs by at least 35%, the report…
28 June 2018
POSCO DAEWOO Corp. Selects McDermott and BHGE for SURF and Subsea Contract for Myanmar Gas Field Development
McDermott International, Inc. and Baker Hughes, a GE company, announced the award of a contract by POSCO DAEWOO Corp. for phase two of the Shwe gas field development offshore Western Myanmar.The McDermott-led consortium took part in a FEED competition in 2017. The successful execution of the FEED followed by the…
27 June 2018
Drilling Permit for Wells 6608/10-18, 6608/10-18 A and 6608/10-18 B in Production Licence 128 D
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for wells 6608/10-18, 6608/10-18 A and 6608/10-18 B, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.Wells 6608/10-18, 6608/10-18 A and 6608/10-18 B will be drilled from the Songa Encourage drilling facility, at position 66°6'9.52" Noth and 8°4'23.19" East.The…
27 June 2018
Airborne Oil & Gas and Subsea 7 Commence Qualification Programme for TCP Riser in South America
Oilfield technology firm Airborne Oil & Gas has commenced a qualification of a TCP Riser for deepwater and dynamic applications for a major operator in South America in collaboration with Subsea 7, effective 26 June 2018. As a global leader in the manufacturing of Thermoplastic Composite Pipe (TCP), Airborne Oil…
27 June 2018
Spectrum Begin New Seismic Acquisition in Under-Explored Black Sea
Spectrum Geo has commenced acquisition of their latest offshore Multi-Client 2D seismic survey, located in the Eastern Turkish Black Sea. The first phase of this campaign comprises 7,000km of 2D data and is focused on an area identified to have significant hydrocarbon potential. The project is carried out in partnership…
27 June 2018
Equinor has Installed Batwind - the World’s First Battery for Offshore Wind
Equinor has installed Batwind - the world’s first battery for offshore wind. With Batwind in operation, it will for the first time be possible to store energy produced from an offshore wind farm.The battery storage solution was presented in Peterhead, Scotland by Batwind partners Equinor and Masdar. Electricity produced at…
27 June 2018
Maersk Drilling Extends Contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum by 2.5 years
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract extension for the jack-up rig Maersk Convincer by Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP).Maersk Drilling has been working with BSP continuously since 2007 with the Maersk Completer and the Maersk Convincer respectively. The current contract for the Maersk Convincer has now been extended for another…
27 June 2018
i3 Energy plc: Joint Venture Negotiations
i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK, updated the market on the status of its discussions with potential joint venture partners. As announced on 23 May 2018, i3 Energy respectively holds and has been awarded a 100% working interest in UK…
27 June 2018
Pioneering Spirit Vessel Resumes Pipelaying for TurkStream
The Pioneering Spirit vessel resumed the pipelaying operations for the second string of the TurkStream offshore gas pipeline, moving towards the Kiyikoy settlement in Turkey. After entering the Black Sea on June 20, the vessel conducted a set of preparatory works, including stinger deployment and pipelay equipment check-ups. The pipeline…
27 June 2018
Serica Energy (UK) Limited Provides Columbus Field Development Environmental Statement
Serica Energy (UK) Limited is the operator of United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) Licences P1314 and P101, which contains the Columbus field, located in Block 23/16f and 23/21a in the central North Sea.The Columbus field was originally discovered in 2006 and was subsequently appraised by Serica. Serica is now proposing…
27 June 2018
Aquaterra Energy Announces Equinor Work for Johan Sverdrup
Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore engineering solutions, has been selected by Equinor to deliver early well construction operations, via its Well Start solution, for the Johan Sverdrup field.Johan Sverdrup is one of the largest offshore oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf, with estimated reserves of up to…
26 June 2018
Atkins Awarded New Global Framework Agreement by BP Global Wells Organization
Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been awarded a 5-year framework contract by BP global wells organization for global riser analysis services. SNC-Lavalin acquired WS Atkins plc on July 3, 2017.The framework covers four main scopes of work; marine riser and wellhead systems analysis, analysis for wellhead fatigue…
26 June 2018
Kosmos Energy Provides Update on Exploration Drilling Program Offshore Suriname
Kosmos Energy announced that it has completed drilling the Anapai-1A exploration well located in Block 45 offshore Suriname.Anapai-1A was drilled to a total depth of 4,556 meters and was designed to test lower Cretaceous reservoirs in a structural trap on the flank of the basin. The prospect was fully tested,…
26 June 2018
DOF Subsea Awarded Several Contracts in the Atlantic Region
DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts in the Atlantic region, securing utilisation for the vessels Geosund and Skandi Skansen throughout Q2 and Q3.The awarded works are all within the Subsea IMR Projects segment. The scopes include seabed mapping, surveys, pipeline and structure inspection, light construction and repair work. One…
26 June 2018
Tartaruga Verde Field in Campos Basin Starts Production
Petrobras informs that on 22nd June, 2018, it started production of Tartaruga Verde field, in deep waters of Campos Basin, by means of FPSO Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes.The FPSO is located about 127 km off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, in water depth of 765…
26 June 2018
Lloyd's Register Supports Coral South FLNG Project in Mozambique
The scope of work that Lloyd's Register is undertaking covers design, procurement, certification, construction, integration and commissioning, as well as providing classification services under a risk based inspection regime when the FLNG enters service in 2022.The Coral South field is being developed by Eni in Area Four of the Rovuma…
26 June 2018
Eni Announces a New Oil Discovery Offshore Angola
Eni announced a new oil discovery in Block 15/06, in the Kalimba exploration prospect, in Angola’s deep offshore. The new discovery is estimated to contain between 230 and 300 million barrels of light oil in place.The Kalimba-1 NFW well, which has led to the discovery, is located at approximately 150…
26 June 2018
Shell Invests in the Fram Field in the North Sea
Royal Dutch Shell plc announced a final investment decision (FID) for the Fram gas and condensate field in the UK North Sea.This FID adds momentum to Shell’s North Sea production growth, following the decision to redevelop the Penguins field in the northern North Sea.At peak production, the Fram field is…
26 June 2018
Successful Drilling and Completion of Second Production Well at Dussafu
Panoro Energy announced the successful drilling and completion of the second development well, DTM-3H, located in the Tortue field, within the Dussafu PSC, offshore Gabon.The drilling of DTM-3H oil production well commenced in May 2018 and has now been successfully completed with no safety-related incidents, on schedule and within budget.…
26 June 2018
Gardline Conduct Survey Operations at Empire Wind Site
Gardline Limited, under contract to Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc (Alpine), is conducting geophysical survey operations at the proposed Empire Wind site, Equinor’s first significant offshore wind investment in the US.The Empire Wind site is located approximately 20 miles south of Long Island, New York, covering 80,000 acres (321km2). The…
26 June 2018
Dry Well Near the Visund Field in the North Sea – 34/8-19 S
Equinor Energy AS, operator of production licence 120, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 34/8-19 S.The well was drilled on the northern side of the Visund field in the northern part of the North Sea.The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Lower Jurassic reservoir rocks in…
26 June 2018
BHGE Awarded Subsea and Well Completions Equipment Contracts
Baker Hughes, a GE company has been awarded a substantial contract from Chevron Australia Pty Ltd. for the supply of subsea production equipment, under a 15-year Master Service Order (MSO), with a second contract for well completion equipment. These technology solutions will enable a second development phase within the Greater…
25 June 2018
Vattenfall and AREG to Share Renewables Opportunities at Subsea Seminar
UK subsea companies are set to be given an insight into supply chain opportunities for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) ahead of the project going live later this summer.Those attending the lunch and learn at The Village Hotel in Kingswells on Tuesday (June 26), will also hear how…
25 June 2018
Cellula Awarded NOC Contract for STEMM-CCS Program
Cellula Robotics has been awarded a contract from the National Oceanography Center (NOC) in the UK. The contract covers the design, build, testing and offshore support of a tool to place a seven meter curved pipe into the seabed. This tool will be used to enable the controlled injection of…
25 June 2018
Energean to Drill Karish North Exploration Well
Energean Oil and Gas plc, the independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Eastern Mediterranean, announced that the Board has made the decision to drill an exploration well in the Karish North prospect, offshore Israel, with a planned spud date before end-March 2019, subject to necessary…
25 June 2018
Sale of Congo (Brazzaville) Interests
SOCO is pleased to announce that it has signed and completed a sale and purchase agreement (the SPA) with Coastal Energy Congo Limited (Coastal Energy), to sell its entire shareholding in SOCO Congo Limited (SOCO Congo), which holds the Group’s interests in Congo (Brazzaville), for a cash consideration of up…
25 June 2018
Chevalier Floatels Fixes Floatel Rossini to Deme
Dutch vessel owner Chevalier Floatels, owner of walk to work vessels and accommodation barges, has fixed hotel vessel Rossini to Deme. The vessel with 110 cabins and accommodation for 220 persons is being used to accommodate the persons installing the cable lay equipment on board the new build vessel Living…
25 June 2018
SeaBird Exploration: Source Work in US Gulf of Mexico
SeaBird Exploration announced that it has signed an agreement to provide a source vessel for an upcoming seismic survey in the US Gulf of Mexico. The project is anticipated to commence during Q3 and will have a minimum firm duration of approximately 60 days. SeaBird will be using the Osprey…
25 June 2018
Ørsted Wins 920MW Offshore Wind Projects in Taiwan
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced the outcome of its first offshore wind auction. Ørsted was awarded 920MW capacity for its offshore wind sites in the Changhua region. Subject to Ørsted obtaining relevant permits and taking final investment decision, the projects are to be built in 2025. Ørsted’s winning…
25 June 2018
EDF Group Inaugurates Two Ground Breaking Energy Transition Projects
On Friday 22 June 2018, Jean-Bernard Lévy, the EDF Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bruno Bensasson, the Group Executive Vice-President in charge of Renewable Energies and Simone Rossi, EDF Energy Chief Executive Officer officially opened two ground breaking projects in the United Kingdom: the Blyth off-shore wind farm and…