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29 March 2018
Hurricane Energy plc: Boulder Relocation Works
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, provided an update on the requirement for boulder relocation works for the Lancaster Early Production System ("EPS") development.In order to reduce 2018 installation and execution risk, Hurricane took the opportunity provided…
29 March 2018
Siccar Point Energy Announces Sale of Minority Interest in Greater Cambo Area Licences to Shell UK Limited
Siccar Point Energy announced that on 28 March 2018, a Sale and Purchase Agreement was signed with Shell UK Limited under which Shell will acquire a 30% non-operated working interest in UKCS licences P1028 and P1189 (incorporating the Cambo discovery) and a 22.5% non-operated working interest in P1830 (including the…
28 March 2018
Neptune Awarded Kreuz Subsea’s Stabilisation Contract for Daman Field
Neptune announced the award of subsea stabilisation services for the Daman field development project in Mumbai High, India.Neptune shall provide a number of concrete mattresses and offshore grouting services to Kreuz Subsea and has established a project supply base to deliver services locally.
28 March 2018
MMA Offshore Limited: New Contract Awards
MMA Offshore Limited announced two new term awards to the Company.ConocoPhillips has awarded MMA a number of vessel contracts of up to 10 months duration for a multivessel marine spread to support drilling and shutdown operations at Bayu-Undan in the Timor Sea. The award is for two platform supply vessels…
28 March 2018
Total Becomes a Founding Partner of the Cathay Smart Energy Fund to Invest in the New Energy Sector in China
Total Energy Ventures, Hubei High Technology Investment Guiding Fund Management Co., Ltd., and Cathay Capital have signed a Heads of Agreement to launch the Cathay Smart Energy Fund, an investment fund dedicated to energy sector in China.The fund will focus its investments on emerging technologies and new business models of…
28 March 2018
Providence Resources P.l.c.: Farm-Out Agreement Signed
Providence Resources P.l.c. announced that the Barryroe Partners have signed a Farm-Out Agreement (“FOA”) with APEC in relation to SEL 1/11. APEC is a privately owned Chinese company which has a strategic partnership with China Oilfield Services Co., Ltd and JIC Capital Management Limited for the investment and development of…
28 March 2018
Sembcorp Marine wins TechnipFMC Contract for Engineering, Procurement and Construction of Newbuild FPSO’s Hull and Living Quarters as well as Topsides Fabrication and Integration
Sembcorp Marine Ltd announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters Pte. Ltd., has secured a contract from TechnipFMC to undertake the Engineering, Procurement and Construction of Hull and Living Quarters for a newbuild Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO). The contract includes fabrication and integration of…
28 March 2018
INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project Announces Production Startup Preparation Status for Key Facilities, Updates Schedule
INPEX CORPORATION announced that the necessary commissioning of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s first train (natural gas liquefaction facility) at the onshore gas liquefaction plant, Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility (Ichthys Venturer) and subsea production systems has been completed in view of readiness for production startup. The Project…
28 March 2018
Sapura Exploration and Production Makes Inroads into New Zealand
Sapura Exploration and Production (NZ) Sdn. Bhd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sapura Energy Berhad, has made inroads into New Zealand with a series of farm-in agreements to five offshore exploration permits within the Taranaki Basin, a prolific oil and gas region.The farm-in agreements, which has secured the New Zealand government…
28 March 2018
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre: Centre of Excellence Aims to Transform Decommissioning
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre and the University of Aberdeen will create a new multi-million-pound Decommissioning Centre of Excellence to tackle current and future challenges with world-class research and development in partnership with industry.Over the next decade, around 100 platforms and 7,500 kilometres of pipeline on the UK Continental…
28 March 2018
SeaBird Exploration: Source Work in Asia Pacific region
SeaBird Exploration announced that it has signed an agreement to provide a source vessel for an upcoming undershoot project in the Asia Pacific region. The project is anticipated to commence during Q2 and will have a duration of approximately one month. SeaBird will be using the Voyager Explorer for the…
28 March 2018
Minor Oil Discovery and Dry Well Northwest of the Gjøa Field in the North Sea
Spirit Energy Norge AS, operator of production licence 682, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 35/9-13 and 35/9-14 and appraisal well 35/9-14 A on the Måløy slope in the North Sea. The wells were drilled about 6 kilometres northwest of the Gjøa field, 19 kilometres…
28 March 2018
Steel Cut Ceremony for Cutting-Edge Fast4Ward Project
SBM Offshore announced that the first steel cut for the hull of its standardized Fast4Ward FPSO took place at the SWS yard in Shanghai, China on Friday March 23, 2018.Having delivered 34 FPSOs to date, combined with over 300 years cumulative experience in operating its lease fleet, SBM Offshore is…
26 March 2018
Lundin Petroleum AB: Successful Appraisal Well on Luno ll
Lundin Petroleum AB announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has successfully completed the Luno II appraisal well 16/4-11 in PL359 on the Utsira High in the Norwegian North Sea.The appraisal well was located approximately 2.5 km south of the original Luno II discovery well and is the…
26 March 2018
Gas Discovery Southwest of the Aasta Hansteen Field in the Norwegian Sea – 6604/5-1
Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 894, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6604/5-1. The well has been drilled about 115 kilometres southwest of the Aasta Hansteen field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea.The objective of the well was to prove petroleum…
26 March 2018
Chrysaor Farms‐in to Grevling Discovery in Norwegian North Sea
OKEA announced that Chrysaor, the leading oil & gas independent, has through its Norwegian subsidiary Chrysaor Norge A.S. entered into an agreement with OKEA to acquire a 15% interest in the PL038D license, covering the Grevling oil discovery in the Norwegian North Sea.Once the deal is complete, the partners in…
26 March 2018
Apache Corporation Announces Significant New Discovery at Garten Prospect in U.K. North Sea
Apache Corporation announced a significant oil discovery on Block 9/18a Area-W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea. Garten is located 6 kilometers south of the Beryl Alpha Platform.The Garten discovery well targeted a downthrown structural closure and encountered more than 700 feet of net oil pay in…
26 March 2018
Rosneft has Completed the Drilling of the First Appraisal Well Offshore the Black Sea
Rosneft has completed the drilling of the first super deep exploration and appraisal well Maria-1 on the Zapadno-Chernomorskaya license area offshore the Black sea. The water depth at the drilling site reaches 2109 meters. The actual well depth is 5265 meters. Drilling this well discovered a unique carbonate structure with…
26 March 2018
TechnipFMC Awarded Integrated EPCI (iEPCI™) Contract for the Energean Karish Field
TechnipFMC has been awarded an iEPCI™ (integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract by Energean Oil & Gas for the Karish full field development, located offshore Israel at a water depth of 1,750 meters. This award extends our iEPCI™ offering from seabed to offshore producing facility.The execution of this iEPCI™…
26 March 2018
TechnipFMC Awarded Integrated EPCI (iEPCI™) Contract for LLOG Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico
TechnipFMC has been awarded an integrated Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (iEPCITM) contract by LLOG Exploration. This award for the Who Dat field in the Gulf of Mexico includes the delivery and installation of a Multiphase Pumping System, including a manifold, umbilical termination assembly, power umbilical, jumper and topside control…
26 March 2018
TechnipFMC Awarded Contract Offshore Malaysia by Sabah Shell Petroleum
TechnipFMC has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation contract by Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Ltd.This award covers the delivery and installation of subsea equipment including umbilicals, flowlines and the subsea production system for the Gumusut-Kakap Phase 2 Project.
26 March 2018
PKN ORLEN Considers Construction of Wind Farm Project
PKN ORLEN has announced a tender for the development of a preliminary technical concept to determine the options for preparing and implementing a project involving the construction of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea. Under the licence held by PKN ORLEN, maximum capacity of the wind farms may be…
26 March 2018
Alfa Laval Wins SEK 170 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 and emergency generators to an oil platform in the North Sea. The order has a value of approximately SEK 170 million. It is booked in the…
26 March 2018
Energean Takes FID on Karish & Tanin Gas Project
Energean Oil & Gas PLC announced that its Board of Directors has approved the Final Investment Decision (“FID”) to proceed with the $1.6 billion Karish & Tanin Development Project, offshore Israel.$405 million of the $460 million raised from the recent IPO of Energean will be used to fund the Company’s…
26 March 2018
Sapura Exploration and Production Commences Production at Block SK310 B15 Gas Field
Sapura Exploration and Production (Sarawak) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sapura Energy Berhad, announced that it has commenced production at the B15 field. The B15 gas field development is a maiden gas development project for Sapura E&P and the first gas milestone was achieved within 2 years of the sanction…
26 March 2018
TechnipFMC and Magma Global to Enter into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement for Hybrid Flexible Pipe
TechnipFMC has agreed the terms of a collaboration agreement with Magma Global Ltd. to develop a new generation of hybrid flexible pipe (HFP) for use in offshore applications. HFP is expected to provide increased strength and fatigue performance, while also achieving dramatic weight and cost reductions, for subsea fluid transport…
26 March 2018
Chrysaor Announces Acquisition of Spirit Energy’s Interests in the UK’s Armada Area
Chrysaor, the UK oil & gas independent, announced it has entered into an agreement with Spirit Energy to acquire its entire interests in the Armada, Maria and Seymour fields. As part of the transaction, Spirit Energy will retain associated liability for decommissioning subject to a cap.As a result of the…
26 March 2018
Sapura Gets Mubadala Job
Sapura Energy Bhd has won a job, with an estimated value of RM2bil, from Mubadala Petroleum.The integrated oil and gas services company said in a statement that the contract awarded to its wholly-owned subsidiary Sapura Fabrication Sdn Bhd is to undertake engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) works for…
26 March 2018
Acta Marine’s Newbuild Successfully Completed Sea Trials
The SOV W2W vessel Acta Auriga, currently under construction at Ulstein Verft, Norway, has successfully completed her sea trials last week. The walk-to-work vessel is custom-designed for the offshore energy industry.Together with a 3D crane, SMST gangway and elevator tower, and the X-BOW and X-STERN design solutions, the vessel will…
26 March 2018
U.S. Department of the Interior Announces Results of Gulf of Mexico Region-Wide Oil and Gas Lease
In support of President Donald J. Trump's America-First Offshore Energy Strategy, Interior Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Joe Balash today announced that region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 250 generated $124,763,581 in high bids for 148 tracts covering 815,403 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.…
26 March 2018
Bilfinger Wins Major Contract with Shell U.K. Limited and NAM
Leading asset lifecycle services specialist Bilfinger Salamis UK has been awarded a multimillion pound contract for technical manpower services on Shell U.K. Limited southern North Sea (SNS) assets.The three-year contract covers the execution of maintenance operations services onshore at Bacton Gas Plant, and offshore on the Leman Alpha Platform, Clipper…
26 March 2018
PetroChina and ADNOC Sign Offshore Concessions
PetroChina Company Limited has been awarded stakes in Abu Dhabi’s two offshore oilfield concessions following the signing of agreements with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).Under the terms of the agreements, PetroChina Company Limited has been granted a 10% interest in the Umm Shaif and Nasr concession and a…
26 March 2018
Trio of Major Topsides Decommissioning Awards Worth £10M Sees PD&MS as UKCS Market Leader
PD&MS Group has secured a trio of contracts worth more than £10 million across three major North Sea late-life projects in the last six months, making the firm the UKCS market leader in the area of engineering and construction of topside modifications for the decommissioning sector.The latest award for the…
23 March 2018
Statoil is Awarding a Contract for Pipelaying to Subsea 7 and for Marine Operations to Ocean Installer in the Askeladd Field Development
Statoil is awarding a contract for pipelaying to Subsea 7 and for marine operations to Ocean Installer in the Askeladd field development.Subsea 7 will lay a 44-kilometre-long and 20-inch-wide pipeline that will tie Askeladd to the Snøhvit field.Support activities for the operations will be based in Hammerfest and other locations.…
21 March 2018
Barossa Area Development Offshore Project Proposal
ConocoPhillips Australia Exploration Proprietary Limited, as proponent on behalf of the current co-venturers SK E&S Australia Pty Ltd and Santos Offshore Pty Ltd, is proposing to develop hydrocarbon resources in the Timor Sea into high quality products in a safe, reliable and environmentally responsible manner.The Barossa Area Development is located…
21 March 2018
Pegaga Gas Development in Malaysia Approved
Mubadala Petroleum and its partners PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd and Sarawak Shell Berhad have reached the Final Investment Decision for the Pegaga gas field development in Block SK 320, offshore Malaysia. The project will now proceed to the construction and installation stage.Mubadala Petroleum is Operator of Block SK 320 with…
21 March 2018
BSEE Increases Safety Inspection Time Offshore and Saves American Taxpayers $20 million
Beginning April 1, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is increasing physical inspection time offshore, while reducing taxpayer burden by nearly $20 million over 3.5 years, providing significant cost-savings to the American public. Exploring ways to make inspections more efficient and reduce helicopter operating expenses, a team of…
21 March 2018
Odfjell Drilling - Statoil Exercises One Well in the Third Option in Deepsea Bergen’s Drilling Contract
Odfjell Drilling is pleased to inform that Statoil has exercised one well in the third option which consists of three wells in total. The estimated duration of the well is expected to be 25 days. The well will be drilled back to back with the previously announced program.
21 March 2018
CNOOC Limited Announces Weizhou 6-13 Oilfield Commences Production
CNOOC Limited announced that Weizhou 6-13 oilfield has commenced production ahead of schedule.Weizhou 6-13 oilfield is located in Beibu Gulf in the South China Sea with an average water depth of approximately 35 meters. In addition to fully utilizing the existing facilities of Weizhou 12-1 oilfield, the project has also…
21 March 2018
FAR Limited: Senegal Resources Update
FAR has completed detailed geotechnical studies and reviewed the contingent resources attributed to the FAN discovery and prospective hydrocarbon resource potential in its Rufisque, Sangomar and Sangomar Deep (RSSD) Permits, offshore Senegal.The RSSD blocks cover an area of approximately 7,500kms2 and are home to the giant SNE oil field, discovered…
21 March 2018
OEG Delivers Module for the Lancaster Early Production System (EPS) Under a 7-Figure Contract
OEG Offshore’s module design & manufacturing facility in Dyce, Aberdeen completed the project within a tight timeframe to deliver a high specification, single lift 15m x 5m x 4m J30 fire rated/blast-rated Zone 2 VSD Module.The module, weighing 85 tonnes, will be installed on the ‘Aoka Mizu’ Floating Production, Storage…
20 March 2018
Ocean Power Technologies Signs Agreement With Eni S.P.A. To Provide PB3 PowerBuoy™ For Subsea Oil And Gas Operations
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announced that the Company has signed an agreement with Eni S.p.A., one of the world’s largest multinational oil and gas companies, to supply a PB3 PowerBuoy™ for a demonstration of one of Eni’s subsea oil and gas operations. The agreement provides for a minimum 24-month contract…
20 March 2018
Petroleum Safety Authority Norway: Consent to Use Aasta Hansteen
The Petroleum Safety Authority has given Statoil consent to use the Aasta Hansteen facility (Spar FPSO), subsea systems and infield pipelines.Aasta Hansteen is in the northern sector of the Norwegian Sea, 120 kilometres northwest of Norne and around 300 kilometres off the Nordland county coast. Water depth in the area…
20 March 2018
Statoil Becomes Operator of the Martin Linge Field and Garantiana Discovery
Statoil and Total have completed their previously announced transaction whereby Statoil has acquired Total’s equity stakes in, and taken over the operatorships of, the Martin Linge field and the Garantiana discovery on the Norwegian continental shelf.Statoil now has a 70% interest in Martin Linge and 40% in Garantiana. 121 employees…
20 March 2018
Hurricane Energy plc: Delivery of Xmas Trees & Other Key Subsea Components for Lancaster EPS
The horizontal Xmas tree systems for the Lancaster EPS, including fishing friendly protective structures, have now been delivered ex-works by TechnipFMC from its facility in Dunfermline. Proserv UK Ltd will now carry out integration and testing with its Intervention Workover Control Systems (IWOCS). Once this and other testing has taken…
20 March 2018
Vattenfall Wins Tender Hollandse Kust Zuid
Vattenfall was awarded the permit for the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind farm. In December, Vattenfall submitted a bid for this first non-subsidised wind farm in the Netherlands. Vattenfall plans to continue developing the wind farm of 700 – 750 MW which could produce renewable electricity for 1 to 1.5…
20 March 2018
INPEX Awarded Exploration Block WA-533-P Offshore Western Australia
INPEX CORPORATION announced that through INPEX Browse E&P Pty Ltd, a subsidiary, it was individually awarded an explorationpermit for Release Area WA-533-P (the Block) as Operator in Australia’s 2017 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. INPEX Browse will hold a 100% participating interest in the Block where it will henceforth pursue…
20 March 2018
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc: Operational Update for TLP-103 Well
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, announced that Petro Kouilou, its 100% owned subsidiary in the Republic of the Congo, has finalised a contract with leading oil services company Schlumberger Limited to supply support services for the drilling of the new TLP-103 well on…
20 March 2018
BP Charters Safe Caledonia for West of Shetland
Prosafe has signed a contract with BP Exploration Operating Company Limited for the provision of the Safe Caledonia semi-submersible accommodation vessel at the Clair Ridge platform West of Shetland in the UK sector of the North Sea.The five-month contract will commence end-May 2018 providing gangway connected operations to support hook…
19 March 2018
New Contracts Secure Growth for Dräger Safety UK in Energy and Marine
Dräger Safety UK has secured new contracts worth in excess of £3 million after successfully diversifying into new technology and training service areas focused on upstream and downstream operations in the North Sea.The market-leading marine and offshore safety equipment supplier, which has supported operations in the UKCS from its base…