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11 January 2018
Exploration Well Completed on the Hurri Prospect in the Southern Barents Sea
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the drilling of the Hurri exploration well 7219/12-3S located in PL533 in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.The main objectives of the well were to test the reservoir properties and…
11 January 2018
CSA Ocean Sciences Expands Trinidad and Tobago Operations
CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) is pleased to announce the expansion of its operations in Trinidad and Tobago. CSA Ocean Sciences (Trinidad) Limited, will be led by Ms. Candice Leung Chee, Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Carlyle Kalloo, Director, and Mr. Rameez Persad, Operations Manager. The expanded executive team brings decades…
10 January 2018
C-Innovation Forms Subsea Projects Group to Offer Fully Integrated Subsea Solutions
David Sheetz, manager of C-I’s Subsea Division, said, “This represents a significant milestone for C-I, and it helps solidify our reputation as a true turnkey provider of subsea services with the backing and support of the diverse family of companies within the ECO group. The vertical integration amongst the vast…
10 January 2018
Kreuz Subsea Wins Major Contract to Support L&T and ONGC in India
“The waters of Daman field are known for experiencing very high tidal currents and near zero visibility. Being awarded this work to ultimately support ONGC in the region reaffirms our reputation for providing flexible, safe operations, dedicated and experienced personnel, as well as the ability to pass on great value…
10 January 2018
BMT and MSI in Joint Alexandroupolis FSRU Terminal Project Award
The Alexandroupolis FSRU will be located offshore Greece in the northern Aegean Sea in approximately 40m water depth and will connect to shore via a 24km subsea pipeline. The FSRU is part of the Alexandroupolis Independent Natural Gas System which aims to create a new natural gas gateway to central…
10 January 2018
£1.3 Million Invested in Transformational Well P&A Ideas
10 January 2018
ADNOC's Sour Gas Hail, Ghasha and Dalma Project
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) awarded the two Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contracts for ADNOC’s planned offshore ultra-sour gas mega project, which consists of the Hail, Ghasha and Dalma fields. Bechtel (UK) was awarded Hail & Ghasha FEED Contract and TechnipFMC (UAE) was awarded Dalma FEED Contract.In…
10 January 2018
Oceaneering Announces Statoil Umbilical Contract
10 January 2018
Signature of an Agreement for Acquisition of Rights in Oil Assets in the Gulf of Mexico, USA
The Oil Assets under the agreement are 12 federal oil and gas exploration, development and production Leases in the exclusive economic zone of Mexico, USA, in the shallow waters (less than 150m depth) (“The Leases” and “The Oil Assets”). In the Oil Assets areas, the Transferors identified 9 main prospects…
10 January 2018
Successful Seismic Acquisition on Gardabank High
Gardarbank High is a geological ridge located in the area between the Spitsbergen Bank and Hopen Deep.One of the NPD’s tasks is to map areas that have not yet been opened for petroleum activity. The NPD shall carry out geological mapping projects and interpret the acquired data to enhance the…
10 January 2018
Petrofac Secures Rotating Equipment Contract with Chrysaor
Under the 12-month agreement, Petrofac will provide fully integrated services across Chrysaor’s Armada, North Everest and Lomond assets in the North Sea.The new contract expands Petrofac’s existing role on the assets, which were acquired by Chrysaor in November 2017.
9 January 2018
Gigantic foundations for the Danish offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak leave Port of Ostend
The barge with the two impressive foundations of 10,000 tonnes and 8,000 tonnes, destined for the Danish offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak, has left the port of Ostend in Belgium – an important milestone of this project.more
9 January 2018
OOS International sends third vessel to Brazil
OOS International is filled with pride to introduce a new semi-submersible accommodation vessel (SSAV), the OOS Tiradentes (previously named CR-600), destined to enter the OOS International fleet. This vessel, named after a famous independence hero in Brazil, will departure from Yantai to Brazil in February 2018 and be stationed in…
9 January 2018
MODEC, Mitsui, MOL, Marubeni and MES to Proceed with the Ultra-Deepwater FPSO Charter Project for Sepia Area of Brazilian Offshore Pre-Salt Oil Field
MODEC, Inc. (“MODEC,” head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Toshiro Miyazaki), Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui,” head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Tatsuo Yasunaga), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (“MOL,” head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Junichiro Ikeda), Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni,” head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO:…
9 January 2018
ArcLight Capital Acquires Interest in Deepwater Perdido Platform from BP
ArcLight Capital Partners announced today that one of its affiliates has acquired a 26.5% non-operated interest in the Perdido Regional Host from BP Exploration & Production Inc. The Perdido Regional Host is the only deepwater production facility serving the Gulf of Mexico’s Perdido Foldbelt Trend, one of the most prolific…
9 January 2018
Consent to use Songa Enabler
The Goliat field is in production licence 229 in blocks 7122/7 and 7122/10, around 85 kilometres northwest of Hammerfest.Drilling is scheduled to begin in late January 2018. The activity is expected to last for 116 days.Songa Enabler is a semi-submersible drilling facility of the CAT D type. It was delivered…
9 January 2018
Agreement with Aker Solutions for Dutyholder Services
Marginal Field Development Company (MFDevCo) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Aker Solutions Limited for the provision of dutyholder (or ‘installation operator’) services on MFDevCo’s projects. The addition of dutyholder capability is imperative in the final phases of project due diligence and provides the…
8 January 2018
New Industry Collaboration Leads the Way with Vessel Sharing Scheme in the Central and Northern Sea Region
Operating out of Peterson’s Waterloo Quay facility in Aberdeen the vessel pool, which launched on 7 July, currently has two weekly sailings serving four assets; Maersk Oil’s Gryphon and Global Producer III (GPIII) FPSOs, Dana’s Triton FPSO and the FPF-1 of which Petrofac is Duty Holder.This collaborative approach to supplying…
8 January 2018
UTEC Secures Major Survey Contract in Australia
The work scope includes pre-lay surveys; onshore dimensional control; survey and positioning associated with installation of rigid and flexible flowlines, umbilicals, jumpers, flying leads and subsea structures; as-laid surveys, as-built surveys and final reporting.Simon Hird, UTEC’s Asia Pacific Business Unit Director, said, “This is a significant survey contract award in…
8 January 2018
Keppel FELS Delivers First Rig of 2018 to Borr Drilling
The KFELS Super B Class rigs are designed to operate in 400 feet water depth and drill to 35,000 feet. With a two million pound drilling system and a maximum combined cantilever load of 3,700 kips, the KFELS Super B Class is equipped with tremendous horsepower during drilling operations.
8 January 2018
Polarcus extends multi-client collaboration and vessel agreement with TGS
Reference is made to the stock exchange release published by Polarcus Limited ("Polarcus" or the "Company") (OSE: PLCS) on 17 October 2016 regarding a multi-client collaboration and vessel agreement with TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA ("TGS").Polarcus has extended the agreement with TGS for an additional year. Under the agreement, the companies…
8 January 2018
Ashtead Technology and Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. complete joint venture
Ashtead Technology is pleased to announce that it has completed its joint venture with Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. with effect from 3 January 2018.As part of the transaction, Forum Energy Technologies contributed its subsea rentals business, which traded as Forum Subsea Rentals, creating the industry’s leading, independent provider of subsea…
8 January 2018
Drilling Permit for Well 16/4-11 in Production Licence 359
The drilling programme for well 16/4-11 relates to the drilling of an appraisal well in production licence 359, where Lundin is the operator with an ownership interest of 50 per cent. The other licensees are OMV (Norge) AS (20 per cent), Statoil Petroleum AS (15 per cent) and Wintershall Norge…
8 January 2018
Rowan Announces Purchase of Two Modern Jack-up Rigs
8 January 2018
ExxonMobil Announces Sixth Oil Discovery Offshore Guyana
Following completion of the Ranger-1 well, the Stena Carron drillship will move to the Pacora prospect, 4 miles from the Payara discovery. Additional exploration drilling is planned on the Stabroek Block for 2018, including potential appraisal drilling at the Ranger discovery.The Stabroek Block is 6.6 million acres (26,800 square kilometers).…
8 January 2018
DeepOcean Awarded Contract by Statoil for Marine Operations on the Snorre Expansion Project
DeepOcean AS, as subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), has been awarded a significant contract for performing marine operation scope on the Snorre Expansion Project in the North Sea.The award covers project management, engineering, procurement of anchors for risers and umbilicals and offshore installation activities. The offshore work includes…
8 January 2018
New guidance aids decommissioning planning
An industry workgroup has issued new guidance that will help companies plan decommissioning more efficiently.Common Data Access (CDA) – the Oil & Gas UK subsidiary that provides shared services for the management of UKCS well and seismic data – has worked with the Shell Brent Decommissioning Project and the School…
8 January 2018
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 029 C, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 15/6-14 S.
The well was drilled on behalf of the Gina Krog Unit in production licence 029 C just north of the Gina Krog field in the central part of the North Sea, about 250 kilometres west of Stavanger.more
8 January 2018
Global exploration: 5 things to look for in 2018
2018's mantra will be to keep the focus on simpler wells. With investment down and competition up, companies will focus on newly proven plays and frontiers, and capturing new acreage for the longer term.more
8 January 2018
Consent for manned underwater operations for Statoil, Gassco and Point Resources
Statoil has signed framework agreements with Technip Norge AS (Technip) and Subsea 7 Norway AS (Subsea 7) on the performance of manned underwater operations in 2018. Through a Pool Agreement, Point Resources and Gassco AS also wish to make use of the framework agreements.more
8 January 2018
Secretary Zinke Announces Plan For Unleashing America's Offshore Oil and Gas Potential
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced the next step for responsibly developing the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program) for 2019-2024, which proposes to make over 90 percent of the total OCS acreage and more than 98 percent of undiscovered, technically…
5 January 2018
SEAIOCMA Extends Cable Maintenance Contract with Global Marine
Under the terms of the extended contract, which came into effect on 1 January 2018, and expires on 31 December 2022, Global Marine will provide a newly constructed depot in Subic Bay, Philippines. The new depot will continue to serve as the base of Global Marine’s vessel the Cable Retriever,…
5 January 2018
Royal IHC Acquires KCI from Oceanteam
IHC plans to maintain KCI as an independent brand and operating company which will continue to serve external clients whilst also working on IHC projects. Oceanteam will continue to have access to all intellectual property built up over the years in relation to Oceanteam’s vessels, carousels and other assets. Furthermore,…
5 January 2018
ROV Contracts in Brazil
Further, Petrobras has extended two ROV contracts for the ROVs on board SkandiIguacu and Skandi Urca until end of 2018.The new contracts and contract extensions give 1 630 days of ROV services forDOF Subsea and increase the backlog by approximately NOK 200 million.
5 January 2018
INEOS Forties Pipeline System Media Update
All restrictions on the flow of oil and gas from platforms feeding into the pipeline system have been lifted and virtually all platforms are now on line.The INEOS facility at Kinneil has restarted and all products are in specification.INEOS has completed work on the pipeline as quickly as possible with…
21 December 2017
Drydocks World awarded Turret Mooring System Construction contract from SBM Offshore
Drydocks World the leading marine, onshore and offshore service provider to the oil, gas and renewable energy sectors has signed a contract agreement with SBM Offshore to carry-out the Construction of the Turret Mooring System (TMS) for Statoil’s Johan Castberg Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel.The Johan Castberg FPSO…
21 December 2017
Statoil exercises first option in Deepsea Bergen’s drilling contract
Reference is made to the stock exchange notice from 31 May 2017 whereby Statoil awarded Deepsea Bergen a new drilling contract. The contract originally included one firm well plus 4 x 3 optional wells.Odfjell Drilling is pleased to inform that Statoil today has exercised the first of four options. The…
21 December 2017
Rosneft has spudded the first ultra-deepwater exploration well in
Rosneft has spudded the Maria-1 exploration well offshore in the Black Sea. Forecasted oil in place for Zapadno-Chernomorskaya licence area is estimated to exceed 570 million tons.Drilling preparations included acquisition of more than 4,000 kilometers of 2D seismic and over 3,000 square kilometers of 3D seismic data together with integrated…
21 December 2017
New £56m funding boost helps ROVOP bolster ROV fleet by 50%
ROVOP increases its fleet by 50% to meet ongoing customer demand following a funding boost of £56m. Blue Water Energy and BGF have jointly committed to the funding which underpins ROVOP’s ambitious future growth plans including the creation of potentially up to 80 jobs.Rovop, which has bases in Aberdeen and…
21 December 2017
Aibel wins Snorre contract
Today Statoil has awarded Aibel the contract for the implementation of extensive modifications to the Snorre A platform as a part of Statoil’s “Snorre Expansion Project” - SEP.The contract is a so-called EPCIC contract, which means that Aibel will have an overall responsibility for engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning…
21 December 2017
TechnipFMC Awarded Contract for the Statoil Snorre Expansion Project in the North Sea
TechnipFMC has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) contract by Statoil for the Snorre Expansion Project.The Snorre Expansion contract covers the delivery of subsea production systems and includes 6 subsea templates and subsea production equipment. Snorre is located in the Tampen area of the North Sea and has…
21 December 2017
Investing in 25 more years on the Snorre field
Statoil is today, on behalf of the Snorre Unit partners, submitting the plan for development and operation (PDO) of the Snorre Expansion Project to the authorities. At the same time, contracts worth up to NOK 9 billion will be awarded.The investment will increase recovery from the Snorre field by close…
20 December 2017
Wood secures two new contracts supporting Woodside in Australia
Wood has been awarded two new contracts by Woodside to deliver engineering and rig modification services offshore Australia and a concept definition study for the Julimar Phase 2 project.The engineering and rig modification services will be executed under a three-year non-exclusive outline agreement, which has two one-year extension options and…
20 December 2017
Maersk Drilling is awarded contract extension by Total
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract extension for the jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid by Total E&P Norge AS.The rig has been on contract for Total on the Martin Linge field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea since 2014 and this contract has now been extended for another…
20 December 2017
JX Nippon to develop and produce oil and gas from Beryl Gas Field, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia
Mr. Shunsaku Miyake, President and CEO of JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation is pleased to announce that PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD (“PETRONAS”), the national oil company of Malaysia, has agreed for JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration (Malaysia) Limited (President and CEO, Hironori Wasada, “NOMA”) to be entitled to…
20 December 2017
Seabed Geosolutions Secures 3D and 4D Ocean Bottom Node Contracts Offshore Trinidad and West Africa
Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic acquisition project over the greater Angostura field in shallow waters, offshore Trinidad for BHP, and a 4D OBN project for Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company. The combined awards are valued at around US $60 million.The 225 km2…
20 December 2017
SBM Offshore Completes US$720 Million Financing of Liza
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce that on December 19, 2017 it completed the project financing of FPSO Liza for a total of US$720 million.The project financing was secured by a consortium of twelve international banks. The Company expects to draw the loan in full, phased over the construction period…