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17 May 2018
Lancaster EPS Offshore Installation Phase Commences
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, provided an operational update in relation to the Early Production System on the Lancaster Field.The offshore installation phase of the Lancaster EPS development has commenced. The first operation to be carried…
17 May 2018
Wood Launches Next Phase of Industry Collaboration into Subsea Equipment Reliability
Wood announced on the 15th May, 2018, the next phase of a collaborative industry effort to develop a better understanding of the reliability of subsea equipment for use offshore Australia.The company is leading the Subsea Equipment Australian Reliability Joint Industry Project; an initiative supported by a group of operators including…
17 May 2018
WorleyParsons Awarded a Contract Extension by Maersk Oil UK Limited
WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract extension by Maersk Oil UK Limited, part of the Total group.Under the contract, WorleyParsons will provide project and technical support for Maersk Oil UK’s offshore North Sea assets. The term of the contract is two years commencing from September 2018 with options for three…
17 May 2018
BP Awards Vroon Offshore Services Multi-ship Contract
Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen has been awarded a long-term contract with BP Exploration & Production.Under this contract, VOS will provide emergency response and rescue vessels (ERRVs) supporting BP’s on-going and future operations in the North Sea and West of Shetland. The contract is for two years with the option to…
17 May 2018
Nord Stream 2 Starts Offshore Preparatory Pipelay Works in Germany
Nord Stream 2 AG started the offshore preparatory works for the subsequent pipelaying in the Bay of Greifswald. Five dredgers are now working on the trench for the two pipeline strings.All ongoing works are being carried out based on the planning approval for the construction and operation of the Nord…
15 May 2018
Proserv Looks to Future as Company Completes Financial Restructuring
Proserv, an energy services company, announced the completion of a successful financial restructuring, strengthening the long term plans of the company.Through a debt-for-equity exchange and injection of a $50 million investment, the company’s two largest lenders - KKR and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. - will become owners…
15 May 2018
Australian Government’s 2018 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release
The Australian Government’s annual Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release (acreage release) is a key part of the Australian Government's strategy to promote petroleum exploration in Australia’s offshore waters. The acreage release provides explorers with new offshore areas the government has made available for either work program or cash bidding. It…
15 May 2018
EXMAR Announces that it has Executed a Fully Effective Ten Year Charter with Gunvor for the Provision of its FSRU Barge and Related Services in Bangladesh
EXMAR announced that it has executed a fully effective ten year charter with Gunvor for the provision of its FSRU (floating Storage and Regasification Unit) barge and related services in Bangladesh. The EXMAR FSRU barge is currently at Keppel Shipyard undergoing site specific modifications after having been delivered from Wison…
15 May 2018
Nexans Makes Final Cable Delivery to Canada’s Strait of Belle Isle Subsea HVDC Power Link
Nexans has completed a six-year project to design, manufacture, supply and install approximately 100 km of subsea high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable and accessories for Nalcor Energy’s Strait of Belle Isle Marine Cable Crossing in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The project, which now connects Labrador with the island of…
15 May 2018
Edda Frende – PSV Awarded Shell UK Contract
Østensjø Rederi announced that they have secured a contract with Shell UK for Edda Frende – PSV (built 2009).The contract will commence in May 2018. and will run for three years. Their first long-term contract with Shell UK started in 1977 and they will with this contract celebrate more than…
15 May 2018
ALE Completes Another Record Breaking 3,000t lift
ALE has broken another industry record when performing the heaviest ever land based crane lift using a jib whilst working on Total’s Egina FPSO module integration project in Nigeria.The FPSO module ‘S2’ weighed a total load of 2,810t and was lifted using ALE’s unique AL.SK350 crane and heavy duty jib…
15 May 2018
Oceaneering Wins Monitoring and Inspection Scope of Work in Carbon Trust-Led Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Oceaneering International Services Limited, has been selected as a contributor to the Carbon Trust-led Floating Wind Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) study supporting the monitoring and inspection requirements for commercial floating wind power projects.Oceaneering will deliver a study to investigate…
15 May 2018
Dvalin Module Installed on the Heidrun Platform
Six days after leaving the yard in Haugesund, the Dvalin H25 module is now installed on the Heidrun platform.The actual lift from the heavy lift vessel S 7000, was performed in the early morning on 14th May, 2018.The H25 module is a MEG and Methanol utility module to the main…
15 May 2018
Reabold Resources: Update on Colter and Wick Projects
Reabold Resources announced that Corallian Energy has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) with UK based drilling contractor Ensco U.K. Ltd for the provision of a jack-up drilling unit to drill its Colter and Wick wells. Within the LOI the parties have agreed, subject to approvals and consents, headline…
15 May 2018
BW Offshore: Successful Completion of Appraisal Well at the Tortue Field
BW Offshore announced the successful drilling and completion of the DTM-3 appraisal well located at the Tortue field, within the Dussafu License, offshore Gabon. The operation followed the previously announced drilling and completion of the DTM-2H horizontal production well which targeted the Dentale D6 reservoir. Future planned operations include an…
15 May 2018
ION Announces Seventh 3D Multi-client Reimaging Program Offshore Mexico
ION Geophysical Corporation announced its seventh 3D multi-client reimaging program offshore Mexico. Based on the success of both the Campeche and Mexican Ridges 3D reimaging programs, now totalling over 130,000 sq km, ION is extending its data in a lesser explored area further to the north. The Perdido South 3D…
15 May 2018
Farm-out of EG-24 Exploration Licence
Ophir announced that it has entered into a farm-out agreement with Kosmos Energy covering the EG-24 exploration licence in Equatorial Guinea.Under the terms of the agreement, Kosmos will acquire a 40% non-operated interest in Block EG-24. In consideration Kosmos will fully carry Ophir for the cost of a block-wide 3D…
15 May 2018
Statoil Name Change is Expected to be Adopted 15th May 2018
On 15th May 2018, the annual general meeting (AGM) in Statoil ASA will vote on the proposal to change the company’s name, from Statoil ASA to Equinor ASA.The Company expects to implement the name change from (and including) 16th May 2018. This entails that 15th May 2018 is expected to…
15 May 2018
Shearwater GeoServices Awarded Two 4D Surveys, Bringing Recent Awards to 15 Vessel Months
Shearwater GeoServices has been awarded two 4D surveys for the North Sea market. The 4D surveys will commence in the second quarter of 2018 and will be conducted back-to-back over a period of approximately two months. Shearwater has during the first months of 2018 succeeded in strengthening its market position…
15 May 2018
Power Cable Being Installed at Johan Sverdrup Makes Field Best in Class for CO2 Emissions
On Wednesday 9th May, 2018, the cable-laying vessel NKT Victoria began laying the cables that will supply the Johan Sverdrup field with power from shore.The starting point was the Johan Sverdrup converter station at Haugsneset near Kårstø, and by the end of May the vessel will have laid nearly 200…
11 May 2018
Crondall Energy Expansion
The firm, which has a base in Aberdeen, is planning an expansion with a new office in London.Source (Energy Voice).
11 May 2018
Reach Subsea Awarded a Frame Agreement for Inspection, Maintenance and Repair Services to Statoil Petroleum
Reach Subsea has been awarded a Frame Agreement for Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (IMR) services to Statoil Petroleum. The frame agreement has a duration of 5 years, and commences in 2019. Commercial terms under the agreement are confidential between the parties. However, the frame agreement is call-off based, which means…
11 May 2018
Van Oord’s Dig-It Adds Cable Burial to Service Package
Van Oord’s new trencher, the Dig-It, has expanded the company’s cable laying and burial capabilities. This remote-controlled trench jetting and cutting system means that Van Oord can offer its clients in offshore wind construction a complete service package. Van Oord used the Dig-It for the first time this week on…
11 May 2018
MODEC, Mitsui, MOL, Marubeni and Mitsui E&S to Proceed with the Ultra-Deepwater FPSO Charter Project for Mero field of Brazilian Offshore Pre-Salt Oil Field
MODEC, Mitsui, MOL, Marubeni and Mitsui E&S Holdings have agreed to invest in a long-term charter business currently promoted by MODEC for the purpose of providing a floating production, storage, and offloading system for use in the Mero field off the coast of Brazil. The five companies entered into related…
11 May 2018
Noble Energy Announces Agreement to Progress Development of Alen Natural Gas, Offshore Equatorial Guinea
Noble Energy, Inc. announced that it has executed, along with the Government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and necessary third-parties, a Heads of Agreement establishing the framework for development of natural gas from the Alen field located offshore Equatorial Guinea. The agreement outlines the high-level commercial terms for Alen…
11 May 2018
Capital Raise Secures Funds for Buffalo-10 Drilling
Carnarvon Petroleum Limited confirmed it has successfully raised $16 million (before costs) which will be used to fund drilling of its Buffalo-10 well. Additional funds are expected to be secured through a share purchase offer to existing shareholders to raise up to $4 million.The share purchase plan is being offered…
11 May 2018
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway Have Granted Statoil Consent to use a Replacement Pipeline on the Heidrun Field
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway have granted Statoil consent to use a replacement pipeline between Heidrun and subsea structure E on the Heidrun field.The replacement of the Heidrun P-E pipeline is part of a project to develop and extend the life of Heidrun Nordflanken by 20 years.The new pipeline will be…
10 May 2018
New Ownership Secures Sustainable Future for The Underwater Centre
Leading subsea training and trials centre, The Underwater Centre, located in the Scottish Highlands, has turned a corner after receiving industry support to secure its future.Industry and public bodies including Oil & Gas UK, Subsea 7, TechnipFMC, Premier Oil and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) have collaborated to support The…
10 May 2018
Forum ROV to Support University of Limerick’s Renewables Research
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. has delivered a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to the University of Limerick to support its research into subsea inspection and intervention campaigns on renewable energy sector infrastructure.Designed and manufactured in-house at Forum’s Kirkbymoorside Yorkshire facility, the Comanche 2,000 metre observation class ROV was officially launched at…
10 May 2018
Deltares Updates the Scour Protection Design for the Borssele Alpha & Beta Substations
Deltares has worked with HSM Offshore on the updating of the scour protection design for the Borssele Alpha & Beta offshore high-voltage substation (OHVS) platforms that connect the wind farms in the Borssele Wind Farm Zone (Netherlands) to the grid.Deltares performed model tests in 2016 to investigate scour development and…
10 May 2018
Rolls-Royce and Siem Offshore Formalise Long-term Cooperation with Five Year Deck Machinery Maintenance Agreement
Rolls-Royce has signed a long-term service agreement with offshore vessel owner Siem Offshore for the maintenance of its deck machinery installations aboard 12 state-of-the art anchor handling vessels.The five-year Maintenance Inspection Programme (MIP) is the formalisation of a cooperation agreement between the two companies following the delivery of ten new…
10 May 2018
McDermott Awarded Subsea Umbilical and Flowline Installation Contract for the Lucius Field
McDermott International, Inc. announced a contract award from Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for subsea umbilical and flowline installation in support of a tieback to Anadarko-operated Lucius field located 275 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.McDermott will provide engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of subsea infield flowlines,…
10 May 2018
AW-Energy to Continue Collaboration with Queen's University Belfast Under MaRINET2
AW-Energy has secured additional funding from the MaRINET2 program to continue tank tests with a second collaboration project with Queen’s University Belfast.The 6-month project spans from April to October in 2018. The project is continuation to the investigation of both the operational and extreme loads the WaveRoller solution is subjected…
10 May 2018
Transocean Acquires Interest in Harsh Environment Newbuild Semisubmersible
Transocean Ltd. announced that, through a joint venture with funds managed and/or advised by Hayfin Capital Management LLP, it has purchased a 33.3% interest in the West Rigel, a newbuild harsh environment semisubmersible. The total purchase price for the rig, built by Sembcorp Marine Ltd.’s Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd, is…
10 May 2018
Fulfilment of Conditions Precedent in the Agreement for Sale of Semi-submersible Rig
Further to Sembcorp Marine’s announcement made on 26 December 2017 in relation to the sale by Sembcorp Marine’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd (“JSPL”), of a semi-submersible rig, named West Rigel, to a buyer at a price of US$500 million, Sembcorp Marine Limited announced that the conditions precedent for…
10 May 2018
Statoil Award Contract in Excess of One Billion NOK for IMR Services
Statoil is awarding Subsea 7 Norway AS a five-year contract for IMR services to be carried out by the Seven Viking vessel for subsea operations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).Subsea 7 will provide inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services for Statoil’s 560 subsea wells on the NCS. The service…
10 May 2018
Aker BP Receives Consent for Exploration Drilling in the North Sea
Aker BP is the operator for production licence 203 and has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to drill exploration well 25/4-12 S and A in the North Sea.The well is part of a prospect called Gekko, in block 25/4 in the Alvheim field.Drilling will begin in mid-May…
10 May 2018
Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy Announcement of Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2018
On 9th May, 2018, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy is announcing this year’s licensing round in mature areas on the Norwegian continental shelf – Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2018.In the APA 2018, the predefined area has been expanded by a total of 103 blocks - 47 blocks…
9 May 2018
Jumbo Awarded Installation Contract in the Gulf of Mexico
Jumbo has been awarded the installation contract for the Shell deep-water Vito development in the US Gulf of Mexico.The Vito development is located in the Mississippi Canyon, approximately 150 miles south of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, in water depth of more than 4,000 feet.
9 May 2018
Aker BP Forms Operations Alliance
The “Asset Integrity Alliance” consists of Aker BP, KAEFER, Prezioso Linjebygg and FORCE Technology.The alliance agreement was signed in Stavanger on 8 May.The four companies will work together to safeguard the technical integrity of Aker BP’s installations. The Alliance will provide services within integrity management, platform services (ISO) and access…
9 May 2018
The EDF Group Acquires a 450 MW Offshore Wind Project in Scotland from Mainstream Renewable Power
The EDF Group, via EDF Renewables in the United Kingdom, a joint subsidiary of EDF Energy and EDF Energies Nouvelles, has bought the Neart na Gaoithe wind farm project from global wind and solar developer Mainstream Renewable Power, following a competitive bidding process.The wind farm will generate up to 450…
9 May 2018
KBR Awarded Pre-FEED Contract for INPEX LNG Project in Indonesia
KBR, Inc. announced it has been awarded a pre-FEED contract by INPEX Corporation through its subsidiary INPEX Masela Ltd for the Abadi onshore LNG Project in the Arafura sea in Indonesia.Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a cost competitive, pre-FEED package utilizing its well proven design and…
9 May 2018
Oil and Gas Authority: Production Efficiency Rises to 74%
Production efficiency (PE) on the UKCS has risen for a fifth consecutive year, increasing to 74% in 2017, showing industry is sustaining production performance.This continuous improvement is estimated to have contributed to an additional 11.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) during 2017.The positive news was announced at a recent…
9 May 2018
Keel-laying Ceremony for Second Bibby Wavemaster Takes Place at Damen Shipyards Galati
The next walk-to-work Damen SOV 9020 now in build.In a ceremony held last Friday, the keel-laying ceremony for Bibby Marine Services’ second Damen SOV (Service Operations Vessel) 9020 WaveMaster vessel took place at Damen Shipyards Galati, in Romania. This event takes place less than a year after Bibby Marine Services…
9 May 2018
Bibby Offshore Secures Spirit Energy Contract
Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has secured a fixed term framework agreement with leading independent oil and gas operator, Spirit Energy.Awarded in April, the two-year agreement, which follows on from a previous five-year agreement, will see Bibby Offshore carry out inspection repair…
9 May 2018
Sembcorp Marine Completes World’s First Floating Storage and Offloading Vessel with a 40-year Hull Lifespan
FSO Ailsa, the world’s first Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) vessel with a 40-year hull lifespan, will set sail next month for the Culzean gas field in the UK North Sea.Newly completed at the Sembcorp Marine Tuas Boulevard Yard for MODEC, a leading specialist of offshore oil and gas floating…
8 May 2018
Maersk Drilling Signs up Aqualis Offshore
Maersk Drilling AS has awarded Aqualis Offshore UK Ltd a global framework agreement for the delivery of offshore consultancy services and specific supplier personnel services.Under the agreement, Aqualis Offshore will provide marine warranty services including location and towage approvals.The service agreement is global, and any of Aqualis Offshore’s 19 offices…
8 May 2018
Providence Resources: Operational Update Frontier Exploration Licence 6/14 Newgrange
Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish based Oil and 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%), referred to as the Newgrange Partners and is…
8 May 2018
IKM Subsea Mobilising ROV to Johan Sverdrup Drilling Platform
Statoil has awarded IKM Subsea a services contract for ROV’s on at the Johan Sverdrup platform commencing Q3 2018.The Contract was won in a competition with other suppliers through an e-auction event that was performed as one of the final stages of the tendering process.The scope of work consists of…
8 May 2018
Consent for Manned Underwater Operations at Goliat
Eni Norge AS has received consent to perform manned underwater operations on the Goliat field.Goliat is an oil field in the Barents Sea, around 50 kilometres south-east of Snøhvit. The field has been developed using a floating production unit (FPSO).Eni Norge AS has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority…