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22 June 2018
Preparatory Work for Offshore Pipeline Installation Starting in the Gulf of Finland
The preparatory work for the installation of the Balticconnector project’s offshore pipeline will start after Midsummer holidays. The work will start with protective measures in the location of cables and the Nord Stream pipelines on the seabed. In July, the project continues with excavation work on the shores of Paldiski…
22 June 2018
SMD's Multi-Mode Pre Lay Plough Completes First Job for Assodivers Ltd
World leading subsea equipment designer and manufacturer Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) announced that their Multi-Mode Pre Lay Plough, delivered to Greek offshore contractors Assodivers Ltd in Spring this year, has successfully completed its first offshore job in the Baltic sea.The Multi-Mode Pre Lay Plough is the newest addition to…
22 June 2018
HydraWell Signs Contract with Chevron for Plug and Abandonment Services
HydraWell has signed a contract with Chevron North Sea Limited for the provision of equipment and personnel for plug and abandonment (P&A) services on the UK continental shelf. The contract is valid for three years, with two additional one-year options (3+1+1).HydraWell will provide support out of its office and operational…
22 June 2018
Sapura Energy Scores Three-fold Jump in Contract Wins To-date
Sapura Energy Berhad, a leading integrated oil and gas services and solutions provider, has scored another nine new contracts valued at approximately RM1.8 billion, bringing the accumulative value in contract wins to-date to RM4.5 billion for the Group.The combined value represents a three-fold jump or an increase of nearly 250…
22 June 2018
Sale of Vessel - Sea Jackal
Deep Sea Supply Shipowning I AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Solstad Farstad ASA, has sold the AHTS Sea Jackal (built 2011, 6.800 BHP). Delivery of the vessel to the new owner took place on Wednesday June 20th, 2018.The sale of the vessel will result in aminor negative accounting effect…
22 June 2018
NHV Awarded Contract by FAR Gambia Limited
FAR Gambia Limited awarded NHV a contract for the Provision of Helicopter Transport Services out of Banjul (Gambia).The operations are expected to start in Q3 of this year. Two H155 aircraft are dedicated to this operation.
22 June 2018
Equinor has Received Consent for Exploration Drilling in the Barents Sea
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have given Equinor Energy consent for exploration drilling of well 7324/3-1 in the Barents Sea.The well is to be drilled to investigate a prospect named "Intrepid Eagle" which is around 172 kilometres south-east of Bjørnøya in production licence 615.The geographical coordinates of the well will be:73°…
22 June 2018
Consent for Removal of Facilities on the Jette Field
Aker BP has received consent from Petroleum Safety Authority Norway for removal of the facilities on the Jette field.The Jette field is in the central North Sea, around six kilometres south of the Jotun field. The water depth is 127 metres. Jette was proven in 2009, and the plan for…
21 June 2018
Study of Field Developments on the NCS
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) is now starting a detailed review to look at challenges and improvement measures involved in field developments on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).Most such projects on the NCS are implemented within the time and cost frameworks provided by the plan for development and operation…
21 June 2018
Still Plenty of Discoveries to be Made on the Norwegian Shelf
On 21st June, 2018, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) will be publishing the 2018 Resource Report for Exploration. The report shows that production of oil and gas will increase going forward – but that new and larger discoveries have to be made in order to maintain the same level after…
21 June 2018
MOL Group's INA Buys ENI's Share in Northern Adriatic Offshore Gas Fields
MOL Group’s Croatian INA agreed to buy Eni Croatia BV, a wholly-owned member of Eni Group, through which Eni participated in the joint project of gas production in Croatia’s offshore areas Northern Adriatic and Marica.INA will become the 100% owner and the sole operator of the Northern Adriatic and Marica…
21 June 2018
JDR to Supply Inter-array, Export and Land Cables to Taiwan's First Offshore Wind Project
JDR Cable Systems (JDR), the leading supplier of subsea umbilicals and power cables to the offshore energy industry owned by the TFKable Group, has been selected by Jan De Nul Group to manufacture and supply inter-array, export and land cables for Taiwan’s Formosa 1 development.Formosa 1 is Taiwan’s first commercial-scale…
21 June 2018
Mubadala Petroleum Completes the Acquisition of a 10 percent Interest in the Shorouk Concession in Egypt
Mubadala Petroleum announced that it has completed the acquisition from Italy’s Eni of a 10 percent participating interest in the offshore Shorouk Concession in Egypt, which contains the supergiant Zohr gas field. Following the completion, Eni, through its subsidiary IEOC, holds a 50 percent interest in the concession. The other…
21 June 2018
Chevron Australia Extension for Gordon, Wheatstone, Barrow and Thevenard Islands
Chevron Australia Pty Ltd has awarded WorleyParsons a contract extension to provide services to support the assets of Chevron’s Australasian Strategic Business Unit.Under the extension, WorleyParsons will continue to provide brownfield engineering services to support the onshore and offshore Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG assets and the Barrow and Thevenard Islands…
21 June 2018
Shell to Sell Draugen and Gjøa Interests to OKEA AS
Royal Dutch Shell plc, through its affiliate A/S Norske Shell, has reached an agreement with OKEA AS to sell its entire 44.56% interest in Draugen and 12.00% interest in Gjøa in Norway for $556* million (NOK 4,520 million).The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to complete in…
21 June 2018
Shell Completes Sale of Stake in Thailand's Bongkot Field to PTTEP
Shell announced that its affiliates, Shell Integrated Gas Thailand Pte Ltd and Thai Energy Company Ltd, have completed the sale of their 22.2222% interest in the Bongkot field and adjoining acreage offshore Thailand to PTT Exploration & Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) and PTTEP International Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of…
21 June 2018
ExxonMobil Announces Eighth Discovery Offshore Guyana
Exxon Mobil Corporation said it made its eighth oil discovery offshore Guyana at the Longtail-1 well, creating the potential for additional resource development in the southeast area of the Stabroek Block.ExxonMobil encountered approximately 256 feet (78 meters) of high-quality, oil-bearing sandstone reservoir. The well was safely drilled to 18,057 feet…
21 June 2018
Drilling Permit for Well 7322/7-1 in Production Licence 852
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Spirit Energy Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7322/7-1, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.Well 7322/7-1 will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility, at position 73°24'48.4" north and 22°02'22.09" east after completing the drilling of appraisal well 6506/9-4 A…
20 June 2018
Drilling Permit for Wells 25/10-16 S, 25/10-16 A and 25/10-16 B in Production Licence 028 B
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for wells 25/10-16 S, 25/10-16 A and 25/10-16 B, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.The wells will be drilled from the Maersk Intrepid drilling facility, at position 59°02'12.88" North and 2°13'41.63" East after drilling production wells…
20 June 2018
Tap Oil Limited Provides Update on Drilling Activities at the Manora Oil Field
MNA-20 Development WellTap Oil Limited provided the following update on drilling activities at the Manora Oil Field in the G1/48 concession, located in the Gulf of Thailand (Tap Oil 30% interest). Mubadala Petroleum (Thailand) Ltd is the operator of the G1/48 concession.Development Drilling ResultsThe well was drilled from the Manora…
20 June 2018
LOC Renewables Acquires 70% of INNOSEA
LOC Renewables, a part of LOC Group, the leading international marine and engineering consultancy, has announced it has acquired a 70% stake in INNOSEA, the French marine energy engineering company. The acquisition will see LOC Group build out its planning and design services to the offshore wind industry.INNOSEA was founded…
20 June 2018
Successful Field Trial for OGTC Co-funded Decommissioning Technology
A new decommissioning technology which could cut hundreds of millions from the decommissioning bill for both the taxpayer and the oil and gas industry has been successfully tested by Spirit Energy.The new technique to plug and abandon oil and gas wells, developed by Interwell, has been tested for the first…
20 June 2018
Alfa Laval Wins SEK 60 million Offshore Order
Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to an oil platform in the North Sea. The order has a value of approximately SEK 60 million. It is booked in the Pumping Systems unit…
20 June 2018
VAALCO Energy, Inc. Provides Operational and Financial Update
VAALCO Energy, Inc. announced that the workover operations on the Avouma 2H well are complete and replacement of the Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) system was conducted safely and efficiently with no injuries or environmental incidents. The well is online producing at rates in excess of pre-shutdown levels and is expected…
20 June 2018
GATE Energy Awarded Commissioning for Vito in the Gulf of Mexico
GATE Energy announced that it has been selected by Shell Offshore Inc (Shell) as the provider for facility commissioning of the Vito development. The associated scope includes commissioning planning, onshore commissioning execution and offshore commissioning / ready-for-startup services.The Vito development is owned by Shell Offshore Inc. (63.11%, operator) and Statoil…
20 June 2018
Curlew B&D and Curlew C Decommissioning Programmes
The Curlew cluster is located in Block 29/7 of the United Kingdom Continental Shelf (UKCS) in the central North Sea. It is situated 197 km SE of Aberdeen. The Curlew is a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) located over the Curlew reservoir. The FPSO has equipment for oil…
20 June 2018
Equinor Partners with Microsoft for Cloud Services Delivered from New Cloud Data Centers in Norway
Equinor and Microsoft have entered into a strategic partnership agreement. As part of the agreement, Equinor will provide industry knowledge and business needs to support Microsoft in developing new solutions for the energy industry. Microsoft will provide expertise to accelerate Equinor’s IT development and establish new data center regions in…
19 June 2018
Equinor Awards Light Well Intervention Contract to Akofs
Akofs Offshore has been awarded a contract for light well intervention services using the Akofs Seafarer vessel for all Equinor-operated licences in the period 2020 to 2025.Equinor is the operator of about 560 subsea wells on stream on the Norwegian continental shelf. The wells require maintenance, repairs and new production…
19 June 2018
Letter of Awards in SE Asia
Magseis ASA announced that it has received Letter of Awards ("LOA") for an operation in South East Asia using proprietary MASS nodes. The project includes several major oil companies who has jointly designed the survey.The contract will commence in Q3 2018 and last for approximately 3 months.
19 June 2018
Teekay Offshore Awards FPSO Contract to Bilfinger
Bilfinger Salamis UK has been awarded a significant contract from Teekay Offshore, building on a positive first quarter for the industrial services firm. The new three-year contract, with the option of two one-year extensions, continues a successful relationship between the companies, which began in 2014.Leading maintenance, modifications and operations specialist…
19 June 2018
LUKOIL Commissions Third Well at Filanovsky Field Second Stage
LUKOIL completed the construction and commissioned the third well at the second development stage of the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea.This is a bilateral horizontal oil producing well. The length of the main wellbore is 3,795 meters while the lateral is 3,762 meters long. Well's initial flow rate…
19 June 2018
Award of the Pre-FEED Contract for INPEX SURF & GEP Project in Indonesia
Chiyoda Corporation and PT Synergy Engineering jointly announced that a consortium of Chiyoda's subsidiary Chiyoda International Indonesia (CII) and Synergy has been awarded a Pre-FEED contract by INPEX CORPORATION through it's subsidiary INPEX Masela, Ltd. for the SURF (Subsea Umbilicals Risers and Flowlines) and GEP (Gas Export Pipeline) facilities of…
19 June 2018
Drilling Permit for Well 6304/3-1 in Production Licence 832
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted A/S Norske Shell a drilling permit for well 6304/3-1, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.Well 6304/3-1 will be drilled from the Scarabeo 8 drilling facility at position 63°48'5.90" North and 4°52'18.41" East after completing the drilling of wildcat well 34/5-2 S for…
19 June 2018
Empyrean Energy's Oil Migration Study Completed - Block 29/11 Offshore China
Empyrean Energy, the oil and gas development company with interests in China, Indonesia and the United States, announced that a comprehensive oil migration study encompassing China Block 29/11, for which it holds 100% exploraon rights, has now been completed and has established potential oil migration pathways into the Jade, Topaz…
19 June 2018
Rowan Jack-up Bob Palmer Leased by ARO Drilling for Three-year Contract with Saudi Aramco
Rowan Companies plc announced that the Bob Palmer, a Super Gorilla XL Class jack-up rig, has been leased to ARO Drilling, the Company's joint venture with Saudi Aramco, to fulfill a three-year contract that ARO Drilling has been awarded by Saudi Aramco. The Bob Palmer was operating for Saudi Aramco…
19 June 2018
12 Production Licences Offered to 11 Companies in the 24th Licensing Round
On 18th June, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy offered 12 new production licences to 11 companies in the 24th licensing round. Three licences are in the Norwegian Sea and nine licences are offered in the Barents Sea.Nine production licences are being offered in the Barents Sea. These are in…
18 June 2018
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway Publish New Memorandum on Risk Management
A memorandum on integrated and unified risk management in the petroleum industry aims to help companies in this sector to continue developing their own activities in this area.Published by the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), this document covers the following main points. - Risk management can only function as intended…
18 June 2018
Equinor Offered Interesting Licences in 24th Licensing Round
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered Equinor 7 licences in the 24th licensing round – 5 operatorships and 2 partner positions.The award includes a commitment well in the southwestern part of the Barents Sea. Equinor has also been offered an interesting licence in deep waters in a…
18 June 2018
Aker Solutions Teams Up with SAP for Next Steps in Digitalizing its Business
Aker Solutions accelerates its digitalization efforts by moving its internal SAP applications to SAP's cloud, aiming to improve operations and drive efficiency.Cloud-based systems are typically cheaper to run than physical systems as they require less expenditure on computer hardware, monitoring and software licenses. The move will save Aker Solutions about…
18 June 2018
Seatools Successfully Completes Delivery of Bravenes FP-ROV
Subsea technology company Seatools completed the delivery of a highly automated fall pipe ROV on behalf of its client Van Oord. The ROV will serve Van Oord’s new subsea rock installation vessel “Bravenes.” The 450-kW rock installation ROV successfully underwent extensive sea trials and is ready to be deployed for…
18 June 2018
ECA Develops Sampler System for ROVs
ECA Group has developed a core sampler recovery system for light duty ROVs depth rated at 1000m.The core sampling system is mounted on a compact skid composed of a lightweight five function electric manipulator arm and a six compartment telescopic receiver protected under a polycarbonate cover, and buoyancy blocks.The 800…
18 June 2018
MacArtney Enhance their Market Position in China
Dedicated to extending their business relations and activities in the growing Chinese market, MacArtney enter into a business partnership agreement with OSILNewly established strategy and business plans applying to the Asian markets, among others, have led MacArtney Singapore to enter into an exclusive sales agreement with Ocean Scientific International Ltd…
18 June 2018
Wave Energy Converter Installation in Heraklion: First Preparation Phase Successfully Completed
This summer SINN Power will install five wave energy converter (WEC) modules with the revised SINN Power technology in Greece. After four weeks of construction, the preparations for the installation of the first two modules on the port wall were completed today.The two WEC modules, which are funded by the…
18 June 2018
Operational Update: Frontier Exploration Licence 6/14 - Newgrange
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish based Oil & Gas Exploration Company, provided an update on Frontier Exploration Licence (“FEL”) 6/14 that contains the Newgrange Prospect. FEL 6/14 is operated by Providence Resources P.l.c., on behalf of its partner Sosina Exploration Limited (20%), collectively referred to as the Newgrange Partners, and…
18 June 2018
ConocoPhillips Awards Major FEED Contracts for Barossa Offshore Project
ConocoPhillips Australia, as operator of the Barossa joint venture, has awarded three major engineering contracts for the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase on the Barossa offshore project.Barossa is an offshore gas and light condensate project that proposes to provide a new source of gas to the existing Darwin LNG (DLNG)…
18 June 2018
Equinor Awarding Drilling and Well Service Contracts Worth NOK 30 billion
Equinor is awarding new service contracts to Baker Hughes Norge, Halliburton AS and Schlumberger Norge AS for integrated drilling and well services on most of the Equinor-operated fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. Initially awarded for four years, the contracts have a total estimated value of some NOK 30 billion.…
15 June 2018
Rovco Completes Amazon Reef Survey for Greenpeace
UK subsea services company, Rovco has announced the successful completion of an underwater survey of the Amazon Reef, off the northern coast of Brazil, for leading environmental organisation, Greenpeace. The Bristol-based firm carried out a full 3D seabed survey, deploying its SubAtlantic Mojave and Seaeye Cougar ROVs while using its…
15 June 2018
Wind Turbine Jack-up 'Sea Installer' Completes Eight-day Stopover at Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque
Damen Shiprepair Dunkerque (DSDu) has completed an eight-day refurbishment project for the 132-metre DP2, self-propelled, jack-up vessel Sea Installer. Operated by A2SEA, which was purchased in 2017 by DEME’s subsidiary GeoSea, Sea Installer was purpose-built in 2012 for installing the next generation of large wind turbines off the coast of…
15 June 2018
Equinor extends existing contract with KONGSBERG
Equinor Energy AS has contracted Kongsberg Maritime to deliver the Safety and Automation Systems (SAS) for the recently announced phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup development in the Norwegian North Sea.Kongsberg Maritime’s selection for Johan Sverdrup phase 2 confirms its existing position as a key technology partner for the project…
15 June 2018
Fugro Secures Two ROV Services Contracts with Petrobras
Fugro is providing remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services to support Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras in its exploration and production activities following two new contract wins.With its large fleet of work-class ROV systems, Fugro’s strong track record in services for offshore asset integrity includes successful and efficient projects in the…