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10 October 2017
Siemens Gamesa Awarded Service Agreement For UK’s 504 Megawatt Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm
Newly-formed Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has announced that it has been awarded an extension to its service agreement for the 504 megawatt Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm in the UK.Service agreements may not be the sexiest renewable energy story when you can instead point to Tesla battery storage stories and…
10 October 2017
DiveSource Help Those Affected by Oil and Gas Downturn
International diving consultancy, DiveSource have been accepted as a training provider on the Transition Fund scheme. The Transition Training Fund was set up by the Scottish Government and is managed by Skills Development Scotland, the project aims to support those affected by the oil and gas downturn. Now approved, DiveSource…
10 October 2017
Pipelay Award for Ardmore Craig
Ardmore Craig, the North East of England based design and consultancy business is pleased to announce receipt of a contract award for concept and detail design of a modular pipe-lay spread for an un-named customer.The new system, deemed a disruptive technology, will be designed in co-operation with its client and…
10 October 2017
Corvus Energy ESS Selected by Rolls-Royce for New Multipurpose Hybrid Vessel
Corvus Energy is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Rolls-Royce as the supplier of a lithium ion based energy storage system (ESS) for the Norwegian Coastal Administration’s new multipurpose vessel OV Ryvingen. The Orca Energy ESS from Corvus will supply electrical power for all-electric propulsion and for…
10 October 2017
KONGSBERG Completes Installation of Cutting-Edge Marine Ecosystem Assessment Solution on New Argentinian Research Ship
Kongsberg Maritime has successfully completed the installation of an extensive suite of Simrad marine ecosystem assessment technology aboard the Victor Angelescu, the Argentinian National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development’s (INIDEP) new oceanographic and fishing research vessel. Built at Spanish yard Astilleros Armon Vigo SA, the new 52m research ship…
10 October 2017
Total Reinforces its Exploration in West Africa
Total and the National Office of Petroleum of Guinea (ONAP) signed a Technical Evaluation Agreement to study deep and ultra deep offshore areas located off the coast of Guinea Conakry, covering approximately 55,000 square kilometers. “By taking this position on a new under-explored area, Total pursues its exploration strategy targeting…
9 October 2017
Osbit MaXccess T12 System Reaches China’s Binhai OWFs
Osbit has secured a contract for the delivery of its MaXccess T12 crew-transfer ‘walk-to-work’ access system for a vessel that will be deployed at Binhai offshore wind farms in China, developed by State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC).The UK company informed that it had produced an improved MaXccess T12 system to…
9 October 2017
Nexans Trenching First Beatrice Export Cable
Nexans has started jetting/trenching of the installed section of the first Beatrice offshore wind farm export cable (EC1.1) from around 2km North of the beach at Portgordon.The work had been set to commence around 6 October, according to the project’s Notice to Mariners.Nexans will trench the first section of an…
9 October 2017
Rosneft Closes the Deal to Acquire a 30% Stake in Zohr Gas Field
Rosneft closed the deal to acquire a 30% stake in the concessions agreement for the development of Zohr field, the largest gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, from Italian company Eni S.p.A.The cost of Rosneft stake acquisition is USD 1.125 bln. The Company also refunded its share in past project…
9 October 2017
Gazprom Neft Discovers New Offshore Field in Okhotsk Sea
Gazpromneft-Sakhalin, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft (the “Company”), has completed drilling of a prospecting and appraisal well at its Ayashsky licence block, located on the continental shelf of the Okhotsk Sea. As a result, a new hydrocarbon field has been discovered, with initial in-place reserves estimated at 255 million tonnes…
9 October 2017
Chevron Achieves First LNG Production at Wheatstone
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today announced it has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. The first cargo is on track to be shipped in the coming weeks."First LNG production is a significant milestone and is a credit to our partners, contractors and the…
9 October 2017
Statoil Oil Discovery in Verbier Sidetrack on UK Continental Shelf
Statoil and partners have made an oil discovery in the Verbier sidetrack well in the outer Moray Firth on the UK Continental Shelf, proving a minimum of 25 million recoverable barrels of oil in the immediate vicinity of the wellbore.The preliminary results suggest the discovery could range anywhere between 25…
9 October 2017
Statoil Awards Long-Term Insulation, Scaffolding and Surface Treatment Contracts
Statoil is awarding renegotiated framework agreements to Bilfinger Industrier Norge AS and Kaefer Energy AS for ISO services (insulation, scaffolding and surface treatment). Valued at a total of more than NOK 7 billion, the contracts will run until the end of 2030.“We aim at predictability in our interaction with the…
9 October 2017
Teekay Offshore Partners Announces Contract Start-up for the Randgrid FSO on the Gina Krog Field with Statoil
Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. announced today the Randgrid FSO, which was converted from one of the Partnership’s shuttle tankers at Sembcorp’s Sembawang shipyard in Singapore, has commenced its charter contract with Statoil ASA on the Gina Krog oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.“Today marks…
9 October 2017
DeepOcean Delivers Race Bank Inter-Array Link
DeepOcean said it has installed all 91 inter-array cables and completed the base scope trenching operations at DONG Energy’s (Ørsted) Race Bank offshore wind farm site.Once fully operational, Race Bank will have a capacity of 573MW which should provide sufficient green energy to power over half a million UK homes…
9 October 2017
Wood Group Takes Over Amec Foster Wheeler
Wood Group has completed the acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler.Robin Watson, chief executive of Wood Group, said: “This transformational acquisition creates a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets.“We become a business of significant scale and enhanced capability delivering services across…
9 October 2017
WorleyParsons Scoops Up AmecFW UK Assets for £182M
WorleyParsons said it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Amec Foster Wheeler (AFW) for an enterprise value of £182 million (A$303 million), pre-adjustments for surplus working capital and cash in the AFW UK business.The combination of the acquisition and the entitlement offer is expected to be EPS accretive…
6 October 2017
STL Nets £3.8M in Deals
Subsea Technologies Limited (STL) has announced the win of two new global contracts worth £3.8 million.The Aberdenn-based subsea technologies specialist was awarded the first contract, worth £2.4 million, by a undisclosed international service company. STL will supply a number of proprietary STL connectors over an 18-month period including SLIC connectors,…
6 October 2017
Borr Drilling and Schlumberger Sign Enhanced Collaboration Agreement
Borr Drilling Management DMCC and Schlumberger signed today an agreement to offer integrated, performance-based drilling contracts in the offshore jack-up market by leveraging the Schlumberger global foot print, infrastructure and technical expertise and Borr Drilling’s modern jack-up fleet.The combination of the Borr rigs with the Schlumberger integrated offering is the…
6 October 2017
Chevron Australia Acquires New Exploration Acreage and Strengthens Position Offshore Western Australia
Chevron Australia today announced its affiliate has successfully acquired exploration interests in three offshore blocks located in the Northern Carnarvon Basin off the Western Australia coast.Chevron Australia Managing Director Nigel Hearne said this new acreage strengthens Chevron’s position in Australia’s premier hydrocarbon basin where there is an established network of…
6 October 2017
Maersk Drilling Reactivates Semi-Submersible for Southeast Asian Market
Semi-submersible Maersk Deliverer has been awarded a new contract by JX Nippon with an estimated duration of 30 days.The contract covers the drilling of one well and represents a promising continuation of Maersk Drilling’s activities in Southeast Asia by introducing one of Maersk Drilling’s deepwater assets to the region.“We see…
6 October 2017
ExxonMobil Announces Fifth Discovery Offshore Guyana
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) today announced it made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana.Turbot is ExxonMobil’s latest discovery to date in the country, adding to previous discoveries at Liza, Payara, Snoek and Liza Deep. Following completion of the Turbot-1 well, the Stena Carron drillship…
6 October 2017
CH2M Wins Marine Engineering Support Contract on BP Project Developing Offshore Gas Fields
CH2M has been awarded a new marine engineering support contract on BP's innovative Tortue development offshore Mauritania and Senegal. The new energy development project involves subsea gas production, a floating gas treatment facility, a pipeline with domestic gas connection points and a nearshore hub facility where the gas is converted…
6 October 2017
Petrofac Secures North Sea Contract Extension
Petrofac has secured a contract extension from Chevron North Sea Limited (Chevron) for the provision of engineering services; an agreement it has held since 2014. The 12-month agreement, which comes into effect this month, will involve the continued provision of engineering support to Chevron’s key North Sea assets.In line with…
6 October 2017
Reliance Industries Ltd Awards Schlumberger Contract for Subsea Production System for Deepwater Gas Project in India
OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company, today announced an award by Reliance Industries Ltd of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for supply of the subsea production system for the R Cluster (Block KG-D6) Project, offshore the east coast of India.The scope of this project includes trees, subsea manifolds, control system,…
5 October 2017
ONGC Videsh Completes Acquisition of 30% Participating Interest in Petroleum Exploration License 0037 Offshore Namibia
ONGC Videsh Limited (ONGC Videsh), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) has completed the acquisition of 30% Participating Interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0037 for Blocks 2112A, 2012B and 2113B and related agreements (License), Offshore Namibia from Tullow Namibia Limited (Tullow), a wholly…
5 October 2017
Exceed to Support Alpha’s Drilling Campaign in the North Sea
Alpha PetrolEum has contracted well management specialist Exceed to support the Cheviot field development in the UK North Sea.The program includes drilling and completion of 18 subsea wells, and the project’s operational phase should start next spring, pending a positive investment decision later this year.Exceed will provide drilling engineering and…
5 October 2017
Sparrows Group and Hydra Group Ltd launch Joint Venture in Ghana
Sparrows Group has formed Sparrows Offshore Ghana Ltd, a Joint Venture (JV) with local partner Hydra Group Limited, to deliver crane, lifting and inspection services in Ghana.The agreement will service strong demand for an experienced lifting and mechanical handling specialist to support reliability and operational safety in the country.Accra-based Hydra…
5 October 2017
Keppel secures major FPSO conversion project from SBM Offshore
Keppel Shipyard Ltd (Keppel Shipyard), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has secured a Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) conversion contract from long-standing customer, SBM Offshore N.V. (SBM Offshore).The contract is for the conversion of a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) into an FPSO,…
5 October 2017
Oyo 9 Well Successfully Drilled
Erin Energy Corporation (“Erin Energy” or the “Company”) (NYSE American:ERN) (JSE:ERN), today announced that funding commitment has been obtained to drill our high-impact Miocene exploration well. Site survey of drilling location has been completed and the well is planned to be spudded during this quarter.Following the commitment to fund the…
5 October 2017
Installation of 6 Manifold Modules for Total’s Egina Project in Nigeria
The six (6) manifold modules built by TechnipFMC for Total’s Egina project have been successfully installed in the field located offshore Nigeria within OML 130. They have been manufactured at the Aveon yard in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. TechnipFMC provides project management, engineering, procurement, and construction for Egina’s entire Subsea Production…
4 October 2017
Oleg Strashnov Leaves Beatrice Site, Stanislav Yudin to Pick Up Jacket Installation
The installation of jacket foundations at the Beatrice offshore wind farm is now suspended as Seaway Heavy Lifting’s vessel Oleg Strashnov left the site on 2 October and Stanislav Yudin’s re-mobilisation for the work is awaited.The heavy lift vessel Stanislav Yudin has installed 78 sets of piles so far and…
4 October 2017
SMD to Build Deck Equipment for Kokusai Cable Ship
Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) have signed a contract with Kokusai Cable Ship (KCS) for the design and manufacture of cable lay equipment and a plough A-frame, to be installed on KCS’s new purpose-built cable laying vessel.SMD will produce two self-fleeting drum cable engines, complete with an integrated control system, at…
4 October 2017
Ark Shipping Takes Delivery of OSD-Designed AHTS for Caspian Operations
A new shallow-draft anchor-handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel designed by Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) has been delivered to Russian inland waterways operator and offshore logistics service provider, Ark Shipping. The AHTS Antarctic, designed in close co-operation with the owner, is partly based on the design of another OSD-designed ship, the…
4 October 2017
IMCA Revises Subsea Metrology Guidance
Subsea metrology procedures are expanding rapidly to provide ever higher accuracy solutions, so the publication by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) of a revised version of ‘Guidance on Subsea Metrology’ (IMCA S 019 Rev. 1) is both highly relevant and timely.The objective of subsea metrology is to determine accurately…
4 October 2017
Petrofac and Danos to Form US Alliance
Petrofac and Danos, a US-based family-owned and managed integrated oilfield services provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU is structured to progress discussions towards the formation a Joint Venture (JV) Agreement for the pursuit of opportunities to deliver services across the oil and gas asset life cycle,…
4 October 2017
Bureau Veritas Joins the RECOMMS* Drones Project Developing Capability for the Survey and Inspection of Steel Structures in Enclosed Spaces
The potential for drones to be used for inspections is not new but to date trials have not focused on specific survey requirements for ship structures in enclosed spaces – the RECOMMS project will do just that. *RECOMMS: Remote Evaluation of Coatings / Corrosion on Offshore Machinery and Marine Structures…
4 October 2017
Shell and KUFPEC Cancel Share Sale for two Shell Subsidiaries in Thailand
Royal Dutch Shell announces today that its subsidiary, BG Asia Pacific Holdings Pte Limited, and KUFPEC Thailand Holdings Pte Limited, a subsidiary of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (KUFPEC), have mutually agreed to cancel the Sale & Purchase Agreement for the share sale of Shell Integrated Gas Thailand Pte. Limited…
4 October 2017
Statoil Enters First Solar Development Project
Statoil has signed an agreement to acquire a 40% share in the construction ready 162MW Apodi solar asset in Brazil from Scatec Solar, a Norwegian independent solar power producer. The project will provide approximately 160.000 households with electricity. Statoil and Scatec Solar have also agreed on an exclusive cooperation to…
4 October 2017
STR Forms Partnership with CDI
Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) has formed a new partnership with CDI, a pipeline pig tracking, signalling and communications equipment company.This agreement will provide STR’s global customer base with access to CDI’s pipeline pig locating, tracking, and passage detection equipment.Coinciding with STR’s recent expansion into Aberdeen, this will allow STR…
3 October 2017
Prospectivity of Pilot Energy's WA-481-P Validated by the Recent Xanadu-1 Discovery
The WA-481-P Joint Venture (Pilot Energy 60%, Key Energy 40%) notes with keen interest the discovery of oil in reservoir quality sands of the Irwin River Coal Measures (IRCM) by the Xanadu-1 well in TP/15 , as announced by Norwest Energy on 25 September.The discovery is significant for Pilot Energy…
3 October 2017
Zbridge W2W System Supports Race Bank Ops
Zbridge BV, a company established by Ztechnologies, informed today (3 October) that its walk-to-work system has been installed on the Construction Support Vessel (CSV) Sun Enabler to support operations at the Race Bank offshore wind farm.The Zbridge W2W system, contracted by Østensjø Rederi for the Sun Enabler, was mobilised mid-august…
3 October 2017
O&M Centre of Excellence to be Launched in the Humber Region
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the University of Hull have established a collaboration which will see the launch of an offshore wind Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Centre of Excellence in the Humber region, UK.The new £2 million, five-year partnership includes a series of research and innovation projects developed to…
3 October 2017
First Minister Opens New Innovation Hub
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP was in Aberdeen today to unveil a new state-of-the-art facility to drive innovation in the oil and gas industry, and accelerate new technologies to help unlock the full potential of the UK North Sea.The First Minister joined industry and civic leaders for the official opening…
3 October 2017
Jan De Nul Group Prepares for NASR 2 Cable Installation
After having been awarded the project last December 2016 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd (HHI), Jan De Nul Group’s preparations for the subsea cable laying work for ADMA-OPCO’s NASR Full Field Development Package 2 Project off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the Arabian Gulf are in full swing.…
3 October 2017
Appraisal and Wildcat Wells Near the 25/2-10 S (Frigg-GammaDelta) Discovery in the North Sea – 25/2-19 S and 25/2-19 A
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 442, has completed the drilling of appraisal well 25/2-19 S and wildcat well 25/2-19 A.The wells were drilled in the central part of the North Sea, about 12 kilometres northeast of the Frøy field and 200 kilometres northwest of Stavanger.The oil and gas…
3 October 2017
Letter of Intent Signed for up to Four Southern North Sea Platforms
Independent Oil and Gas plc ("IOG" or the "Company"), the development and production focused Oil and Gas Company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Heerema Fabrication Group. (“Heerema”) for Front End Engineering and Design (“FEED”) and Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (“EPCI”)…
2 October 2017
Oceanteam Wins Cable Handling and Storage Contract
Oceanteam Solutions has recently signed a contract regarding the supply of a 5300T turntable, a loading tower and auxiliary equipment on a barge for the storage and multiple loadouts of subsea cables in the Netherlands.Furthermore, Oceanteam will accommodate a professional cable handling crew that will assist during the cable loadouts.For…
2 October 2017
Siemens In Charge of Triton Knoll Substations
Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm has selected Siemens Transmission and Distribution as the preferred supplier to engineer, procure, and construct both the onshore and offshore substations.Once finalised, the contract will require construction of two offshore substation platforms and the onshore substation. Siemens will also design and deliver a 400kV electrical…
2 October 2017
Philippines to Explore for Oil and Gas with China Near Disputed Waters
The Philippines said on Thursday it was pursuing a long-delayed oil and gas exploration project with Chinese state-owned entity CNOOC Ltd and a Canada-listed company in an area near disputed waters in the South China Sea.Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi said the Philippine government was also looking for a “win-win solution”…