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2 October 2017
Knot Offshore Partners LP Announces Completion of the Acquisition of Lena Knutsen
KNOT Offshore Partners LP (the “Partnership”) (NYSE:KNOP) announced today that it has completed its acquisition of the ownership interests in the company that owns and operates the shuttle tanker Lena Knutsen (KNOT Shuttle Tankers 26 AS “KNOT 26”) for an aggregate purchase price of $142.0 million less $133.8 million of…
2 October 2017
DONG Energy to Change Company Name
Following its profound strategic transformation from black to green energy, DONG Energy intends to change its company name.At a meeting today for DONG Energy’s employees, CEO Henrik Poulsen will announce the new name. Media is invited to attend, and after the meeting, Henrik Poulsen will be available for interviews. The…
2 October 2017
Statoil, Shell and Total Enter CO2 Storage Partnership
The partners are today signing a partnership agreement to mature the development of carbon storage on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The project is part of the Norwegian authorities’ efforts to develop full-scale carbon capture and storage in Norway.In June, Gassnova awarded Statoil the contract for the first phase of…
2 October 2017
Petrobras and Statoil Advance on a Strategic Partnership to Optimize the Recovery of Mature Offshore Fields
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it signed today the Heads of Agreement (HoA) with the Norwegian company Statoil, in continuity to the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 8/30/2016, through which the companies committed themselves to assessing cooperation opportunities aligned with their business strategies.Under this agreement, the two companies…
2 October 2017
Submission of 'Environmental Statement' and 'Field Development Plan' for the Liberator Field Development
i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK, is pleased to announce that the Environmental Statement ('ES') for the development of i3's 100% operated and owned Liberator field has been submitted to the Department for Business, Environment and Industrial Strategy ('BEIS') for…
2 October 2017
Subsea 7 and OneSubsea Alliance Lands Fortuna FLNG Deal
Subsea Integration Alliance, which is a partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company has been awarded a contract by Ophir Energy for the Fortuna LNG project offshore Equatorial Guinea.The contract has a value between USD 150 million and USD 300 million.The upstream EPCIC (engineering, procurement, construction, installation and…
2 October 2017
Royal IHC and Subsea 7 Finalize New Reel Lay Vessel Order
Royal IHC and Subsea 7 have signed a firm contract for the design and build of a new reel lay vessel, following a letter of intent announced in September this year.The vessel will be capable of installing rigid flowlines including pipe-in-pipe systems from shallow waters to depths of up to…
29 September 2017
IOG to Avoid ‘Significant’ Skipper Spending
Independent Oil & Gas (IOG) is to hold off on ploughing any significant investment into its Skipper heavy oil discovery in the UK’s northern North Sea as it continues talks with creditors over remaining liabilities from the well campaign.Analysis of results from the appraisal well on Skipper, located in Block…
29 September 2017
First EOWDC Jacket Sections En Route to Newcastle
Mandora Logistics has loaded out the first two jacket top sections built at Smulders fabrication yard in Hoboken, Belgium, for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC).Boskalis awarded Smulders Project a contract for manufacturing and assembling suction bucket jacket foundations for the eleven-turbine offshore demonstrator project in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland.The…
29 September 2017
Jan De Nul Completes Turbine Installation at Blyth OWF
Jan De Nul installed the fifth and final MHI Vestas 8.3MW turbine at the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Project site yesterday, 28 September. The company’s jack-up vessel Vole au vent loaded the last two turbines earlier this week at the Port of Esbjerg in Denmark.The first turbine went up on 18…
29 September 2017
Danos Nets Shell Gulf of Mexico Maintenance Deal
Danos has been awarded a contract by Shell Exploration and Production Company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, to provide mechanical and automation maintenance services for three of its production hubs and associated subsea infrastructure located in the Gulf of Mexico.“Danos is committed to providing world-class, competitive project management services…
29 September 2017
RRS Sir David Attenborough Gets Its Engines
Another milestone has been reached on the journey towards the completion of Britain’s new polar research vessel the RRS Sir David Attenborough, designed by Rolls-Royce and being built by Merseyside shipyard Cammell Laird.The last of the vessel’s Bergen B33:45 engines /gensets have been craned into the ship’s hull at Cammell…
29 September 2017
ION Extends New 2D Multi-client Program Offshore Panama
ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) today announced an approximate 50% extension to its previously announced program offshore Panama due to strong client interest and prefunding to evaluate offshore Panama in advance of the anticipated license round. The client-driven survey provides a regional framework typical of BasinSPAN™ programs to evaluate the…
29 September 2017
DONG Energy Receives Regulatory Approvals for the Divestment of its Upstream Oil and Gas Business to INEOS
On 24 May 2017, DONG Energy announced the agreement to divest the entire share capital of DONG E&P A/S to INEOS, including that closing of the transaction was subject to certain regulatory approvals.We are pleased to announce that today the parties have received the regulatory approvals from the Danish and…
29 September 2017
Borselv Exploration Well Completed
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.The main objective of the well was to test…
29 September 2017
Consent to Use Songa Enabler on the Skarv Field
Aker BP ASA has received consent to use Songa Enabler for well intervention on wells 6507/5-A-3, 6507/5-B-6 and 6507/5-B-8 on the Skarv field.The Skarv field is in the Norwegian Sea, around 200 kilometres west of Sandnessjøen, in an area where the water depth is 300-450 metres.The planned start-up is September…
29 September 2017
Pulse Structural Monitoring to Supply Mooring Line Monitoring System for Maersk Oil's Culzean FSO Ailsa
Pulse Structural Monitoring Inc., an Acteon Company, has been awarded a contract by SOFEC, Inc. (SOFEC) for the design and supply of an Anchor Leg Monitoring System (ALMS) to monitor the integrity of the mooring lines on Maersk Oil's upcoming Culzean FSO Ailsa. The design and supply of the Internal…
28 September 2017
DONG Appoints Con4Mare for Hornsea ONE
DONG Energy has appointed Con4Mare as the marine warranty surveyor for the transport and installation of the transition pieces and monopile foundations at the 1.2GW Hornsea Project ONE offshore wind farm.Royal Boskalis Westminister has won a contract for the transport and installation of a part of the foundations with its…
28 September 2017
Drilling Permit for Well 35/9-13 in Production Licence 682
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Bayerngas Norge AS a drilling permit for well 35/9-13, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.Well 35/9-13 will be drilled from the Songa Enabler drilling facility, at position 61°25’20.34ˮ N and 3°49’39.73ˮ E after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7317/9-1 for Statoil…
28 September 2017
ISC Consulting Engineers Win 6-Year Contract with DONG Energy
ISC Consulting Engineers signed a framework agreement for consultancy services with DONG Energy on 1 September. The contract will run for six years.The new agreement, signed after ISC won an EU tender competition, covers engineering consultancy services for offshore wind farm substations, including both foundations and topsides, as well as…
28 September 2017
EU Offshore Wind on Right Track Towards 2020
After a likely record year in 2017 with 14GW, offshore wind energy in Europe continues its growing process with expectations that it will reach 25GW by 2020.According to WindEurope, the central scenario assumes that in 2020 the offshore wind market is expected to grow at a higher pace than the…
28 September 2017
Barryroe Oil Field Operational Update
In July the Barryroe partners (Lansdowne 20%) were granted an extension to the duration of Standard Exploration Licence 1/11 (SEL 1/11) which contains the Barryroe oil field.o Two year extension of the First Phase of Standard Exploration Licence 1/11, to July 2019o Further two year extension of overall terms of…
28 September 2017
Nexans Kicks Off Beatrice Export Cable Campaign
Nexans Norway is starting installation of the first section of Beatrice offshore wind farm export cable.The installation will begin with the pull in and laydown of the first 33km section of the export cable from the nearshore area close to Portgordon.The work will be carried out using the cable laying…
28 September 2017
TechnipFMC Awarded EPCI Contract for the Statoil Peregrino Phase II Project in Brazil
TechnipFMC has been awarded by Statoil an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation contract.It covers the execution of the subsea pipeline connection for the new production platform in Peregrino Phase II Project, located in Campos Basin, offshore Brazil. This new fixed platform will be connected by the in-field lines to the…
27 September 2017
BP Celebrates First North Sea Oil from ‘Stranded’ Arundel, Spends $1.8bn
The production milestone comes just 18 months after the project’s sanction. The Arundel field is located 15km north of BP’s Andrew platform in the central North Sea.BP’s regional president Mark Thomas insisted the fast-track development highlighted the potential of rescuing similar stranded oil pockets located throughout the North Sea.“Bringing such…
27 September 2017
Unique Group to Represent Kongsberg Maritime in Nigeria and Kenya
Unique Group has executed a dealer agreement with Norwegian-based Kongsberg Maritime.As part of the agreement, Unique Group’s Cape Town office will offer KM’s underwater mapping and navigation solutions to customers in Nigeria and Kenya.The Kongsberg range of underwater mapping products includes the EM 712RD, EM 2040C and 2040P, EA440/EA640, the…
27 September 2017
GeoSea Lands Rentel Substation Monopile
STX Europe Offshore Energy, EPCI contractor of the substation and its foundation for Rentel offshore wind farm in Belgium, has installed the foundation last week.After installing first monopiles and transition pieces for the turbines at the Rentel offshore wind farm, GeoSea’s vessel Innovation installed the monopile – 1,050 tons and…
27 September 2017
Navantia Assembles First Jacket Foundation for East Anglia ONE
Navantia has assembled the first of forty-two jacket foundations for the 714MW East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm at its facilities in Fene, Spain.The company further announced that the welding is about to begin and will be finished in two weeks.In January, Navantia and Windar signed a definitive agreement with…
27 September 2017
Eidesvik Secures Contract for the Viking Neptun Through the Winter Season.
Adwen has awarded Eidesvik a contract for the Viking Neptun for support work in the offshore wind market.Contract commencement is mid-October 2017 and the contract is 5 months firm with further options."I am very pleased with our organization's ability to find employment for the Viking Neptunin the renewable market.This is…
27 September 2017
Dry Well Near the Goliat Field in the Barents Sea – 7122/10-1 S
Eni Norge AS, operator of production licence 697, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7122/10-1 S. The well, which was drilled about 10 kilometres southwest of the Goliat field, is dry.The primary exploration target for the well was proving petroleum in Middle Triassic reservoir rocks (Kobbe formation). Secondary exploration…
27 September 2017
Bibby Offshore Completes Apache Contracts
Bibby Offshore has completed three contracts for Apache North Sea, a global oil and gas operator.Bibby utilized its diving support vessels, Bibby Polaris and Bibby Topaz, and its construction support vessel, Olympic Ares, for the projects.Operating across North Sea assets during Q3 2017, the vessels engaged with project activities, which…
27 September 2017
Eni Successfully Drills a New Well in Offshore Mexico and Upgrades the Resource Potential of Area 1 to 1.4 BBOE
Eni successfully drilled the Miztón-2 well, in the shallow waters of Campeche bay, offshore Mexico, boosting the estimates of the resource in place for Contractual Area 1 to over 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE).The well, located in Contractual Area 1, approximately 200 km west of Ciudad del Carmen,…
27 September 2017
Hansa Hydrocarbons Confirms an Important Discovery on its GEms Licences, Offshore Netherlands
Hansa Hydrocarbons Limited (Hansa) is pleased to announce that the N05-1 exploration well drilled offshore Netherlands on its GEms licences, has been confirmed as a significant discovery encountering gas in the target basal Rotliegend sandstones. Hansa and its partners Oranje-Nassau Energie B.V. (ONE) and Energie Beheer Nederland B.V. (EBN, the…
27 September 2017
Sparrows Group Secures Three-year Contract with Total in Angola
Sparrows Group has signed a three-year contract with Total to supply crane maintenance and engineering services at four of the operator’s assets in Angola.The agreement will see the company implement planned maintenance routines as well as delivering all major preventative maintenance, and associated engineering for Total across its Floating Production…
27 September 2017
Jan de Nul Shows Off Adhémar de Saint-Venant
Offshore contractor Jan de Nul has shared a couple of photos on social media to give us a glimpse into its new multipurpose vessel Adhémar de Saint-Venant.The Adhémar de Saint-Venant vessel was launched in February from AVIC shipyard in Weihai, China.Following the launch the vessel completed sea trials in Yellow…
26 September 2017
Beatrice Growing Wind Turbine Legs, 24 Jackets Installed
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s vessels Stanislav Yudin and Oleg Strashnov are working full-steam at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site and have installed 78 pile sets and 24 jacket foundations so far, according to the project’s latest Notice to Mariners.The 588MW offshore wind farm will consist of 84 wind turbines and…
26 September 2017
MHWirth Investing in Electrical Subsea & Drilling
MHWirth becomes an owner and establishes a market and technology partnership with the Norwegian technology company Electrical Subsea & DrillingElectrical Subsea & Drilling (ESD) is working on the development and qualification of two drilling technologies; all electric control of Blow Out Preventers (BOP) and a durable Rotating Control Device (RCD)…
26 September 2017
Report: ROV Demand to Grow as Projects Get Green Light
The results from the latest analysis by Westwood Global Energy shows that the market is starting to emerge from a cyclical downturn that has seen activity fall 36% and expenditure nearly halved.The work-class ROV (WROV) market is driven by drill-support, field construction and IRM activities offshore.Intense competition amid lower activity…
26 September 2017
Total Signs Option Agreement with Eco Atlantic on the Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. (AIM: ECO, TSX-V:EOG), is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Eco Atlantic (Guyana) Inc. (“Eco Guyana”), has entered into an option agreement on its Orinduik Block, offshore Guyana, with Total E&P Activités Pétrolières, a wholly owned subsidiary of Total SA (together “Total” and, the…
26 September 2017
New Offshore Decommissioning Project for AF Gruppen
AF Gruppen ASA (AFG) have received notice that ConocoPhillips (UK) Limited intend to enter into a frame agreement for the future removal and disposal of up to 7 platforms in the Southern North Sea.The frame agreement includes Engineering, Preparation, Removal & Disposal (EPRD) of up to 7 satellite platforms with…
26 September 2017
Helix Energy's New Well Intervention Vessel Starts Sea Trials
The Q7000, Helix Energy Solutions Group newest DP3 well intervention vessel will start sea trials in the South China Sea this week. The Q7000 is an evolution of the Q4000 and Q5000 vessels currently operational in the US Gulf of Mexico. She is designed with harsh environment conditions in mind…
26 September 2017
Oil Recovered to Surface Confirms Xanadu Discovery
Highlights Wireline logs over a 330m section confirm reservoir quality sand intervals throughout the Irwin River Coal Measures (IRCM) with porosities ranging 15% to 16% Three discrete sand intervals (A, B, C) at top of IRCM have log-derived hydrocarbon saturations between 41-66% with 4.6m of net pay in sand “A”…
26 September 2017
Pemex Signs Contracts With DEA and Ecopetrol for the Exploration of Blocks 2 and 8
Today Petróleos Mexicanos, through Pemex Exploración y Producción (PEP), signed Contracts for the Exploration and Extraction (acronym in Spanish: CEE) of Hydrocarbons in shallow waters with the companies Deutsche Erdoel AG (DEA) from Germany and Ecopetrol from Colombia. These areas correspond to the blocks 2 and 8 of Round 2.1,…
25 September 2017
UK Pledges £5m More for Exploration
The UK government has pledged a further £5 million ($6.7 million) of funding to support new North Sea oil and gas exploration.UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond made the announcement during a visit to the Scottish oil capital Aberdeen on Monday.The cash will be used by the Oil &…
25 September 2017
Vattenfall Opens Tender for Foundation Installation on Three Locations
Vattenfall has invited tenders for the installation of foundations for three projects in Denmark: Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea, and Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd in the North Sea.The suppliers will be in charge of installing monopile foundations, as well as transition pieces for Vesterhav Nord and Vesterhav Syd…
25 September 2017
Last Two Turbines En Route to Blyth Offshore Project Site
The load-out of turbine components for the last two turbines to be installed at the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Project construction site took place at the Port of Esbjerg.Two MHI Vestas 8.3MW turbines have been loaded onto Vole au vent, Jan de Nul’s jack-up vessel in charge of the installation.The installation…
25 September 2017
Nord Stream 2 AG Submitted Permit Applications in Finland
Swiss project developer Nord Stream 2 AG has this week submitted to the competent permit authorities applications for two permits to construct the planned twin 1,200-kilometre Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The pipeline will run 374 kilometres across…
25 September 2017
Plexus Holdings PLC - First Production Well Order with Centrica
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering, known for its safety, time and cost saving capabilities, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a contract with Centrica North Sea Limited ('Centrica') to supply…
25 September 2017
VBMS Signs Preferred Supplier Agreement for Triton Knoll OWF
VBMS, a subsidiary of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., has signed a Preferred Supplier and Early Works Agreement for the supply and installation of the export and inter-array cables for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm (OWF), UK. The project will be executed in consortium with NKT Cables.The likely contract value…
25 September 2017
GC Rieber Shipping - Senvion Extends the Charter for CSV Polar Queen
Senvion GmbH has opted to extend the firm period of charter for the Construction Support Vessel (CSV) Polar Queen until 6 December 2017, with options to extend further by up to 3 weeks.The previously agreed firm period was set to end 13 October. The firm extension and new options replace…