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25 September 2017
Letter of Intent and Consultancy Master Services Agreement Signed with Schlumberger on Southern North Sea Development Project
Letter of Intent and Consultancy Master Services Agreement signed with Schlumberger on Southern North Sea Development ProjectIndependent 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”) and Consultancy Master…
25 September 2017
Lancaster EPS Field Development Plan Approval
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, is pleased to announce that it has received development and production consent for its Lancaster field development plan, the Early Production System ("EPS").Dr Robert Trice, Chief Executive, commented:"I am delighted that…
22 September 2017
Plexus Holdings New Customer and Territory Contract Win with Rosneft in Vietnam
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, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract with new customer Rosneft (TNK Vietnam B.V) (‘Rosneft Vietnam’), a subsidiary of leading Russian oil and…
22 September 2017
Wilhelmsen in Majority Shareholder in NorSea Group
With effect from 26th September 2017, Wilhelmsen increases its shareholding in NorSea Group from 40 % to approximately 72 %. Eidesvik Eiendomsinvest AS and Simon Møkster Eiendom AS will hold approximately 12 % each, while management in NorSea Group controls the remaining 4 %. Following the transaction, Wilhelmsen will buy…
22 September 2017
First Offshore Windfarm Project of India Reports a Busy October
A Fugro vessel will start a geophysical survey at the site of the 200MW First Offshore Windfarm Project of India (FOWPI) located some 25 kilometres off the shore of Gujarat, India, in early October, COWI A/S, the project manager, said.India’s National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) has installed a support…
22 September 2017
Total Signs Agreement with Chevron on Exploration in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
Total announces that its subsidiary, TOTAL E&P USA, INC. (“Total”), has entered into an agreement to capture 7 prospects operated by CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. (“Chevron”) in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The agreement covers 16 blocks.The associated prospects are located in two promising plays and areas of the GoM: Wilcox…
22 September 2017
Hyperdynamics to Seek Two-Year Appraisal Period for Offshore Guinea Program
Hyperdynamics Corporation, today announced that it has notified the government of the Republic of Guinea that it will be seeking a two-year appraisal period under its oil and gas Production Sharing Contract."Based on further analysis of the results of the recently drilled Fatala-1 exploration well regarding the oil saturation calculation…
22 September 2017
Commencement of 'Host' Engineering Studies for the Tie-in of the Liberator Development to the Blake Field and Bleo Holm FPSO
i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK, is pleased to announce that detailed engineering studies to enable i3's 100% operated and owned Liberator field to be tied into the existing Blake field 'host' infrastructure and produced through the Bleo Holm Floating…
22 September 2017
Polarcus Awarded Broadband 3D Project in Asia Pacific
Polarcus Limited ("Polarcus" or the "Company") (OSE: PLCS) is pleased to announce that the Company has received a Letter of Award for a broadband 3D marine seismic project in Asia Pacific. The project is due to commence in Q4 2017 and will run for approximately one month.
21 September 2017
Bibby WaveMaster 1 Gets Its Galloper Groove On
Bibby WaveMaster 1 undertook its first significant charter this week as the vessel departed from Harwich to support the construction of the Galloper offshore wind farm, innogy informed via social media. James Fisher Marine Services, the main offshore marine services contractor for the Galloper offshore wind farm, chartered the Bibby…
21 September 2017
Welltec Wins Petronas Work
Welltec Oilfield Services has been awarded a two-year contract by Petronas for the provision of downhole tractoring equipment and services for its operations offshore East Malaysia.The scope of the work is for rig support and rigless well intervention including tractor conveyance, mechanical services, tubing cutting, clean-out and milling e-line robotic…
21 September 2017
Consent for Exploration Drilling in the Norwegian Sea
Wintershall Norge AS (Wintershall) is the operator for production licence 894 in the Norwegian Sea. We have given the company consent to drill exploration well 6604/5 in a prospect named Balderbrå.Drilling is planned to begin by 1 October 2017, and will last 36 days, depending on whether a discovery is…
21 September 2017
AWDR - Letter of Award Accepted from Alpha Petroleum
Awilco Drilling PLC has accepted a Letter of Award (LOA) from Alpha Petroleum Resources Limited to drill 18 development wells on the Cheviot Field in the Northern North Sea. The firm program has an estimated duration of 1080 days and is scheduled to commence in Q2 2018. The minimum contract…
21 September 2017
Second Shah Deniz 2 Platform Topsides Unit Installed Offshore
The Shah Deniz consortium are pleased to announce the sail away and offshore installation of the second topsides unit built for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project - the topsides of the Production and Risers (PR) platform. This follows the safe and successful sail away and offshore installation of the…
21 September 2017
Joint Venture of Sif and Smulders is going to Engineer and Manufacture all Monopiles and Transition Pieces for the Triton Knoll Wind Farm.
A joint venture of Sif Netherlands B.V. and Smulders Projects N.V. has signed a Preferred Supplier and Early Works Agreement for the design and fabrication of 90 monopiles and transition pieces as well as 2 foundations for substations for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.Triton Knoll is developed by a…
21 September 2017
Atwood Oceanics Announces Contract Extension for the Atwood Orca
Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (NYSE: ATW) announced today that one of its subsidiaries has agreed to a four month extension on the jackup rig Atwood Orca with Mubadala Petroleum for drilling operations offshore Thailand. The new contract is at an undisclosed day rate that is higher than the current day rate,…
21 September 2017
Unique Group Signs Symbolic Cooperation Agreement with INNOVO for Specialised Engineering and Equipment
Unique Group, one of the world’s most prominent integrated subsea and offshore solution providers, has announced that it has entered into a cooperation agreement with UK-based INNOVO. As part of the agreement, the two world-leading engineering and manufacturing companies will collaborate to provide sales & rental equipment and engineering solutions…
21 September 2017
Khankendi Subsea Construction Vessel (SCV), Azerbaijan
Khankendi is a new subsea construction vessel (SCV) built for the Shah Deniz consortium. It was designed by Marine Technology Development, a part of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M).The SCV is being deployed for the Stage 2 development of the Shah Deniz field, operated by BP Exploration (Shah Deniz),…
21 September 2017
Aker Solutions Scoops Troll Job
Aker Solutions has won a contract from Statoil for front end engineering and design of a module that will increase output at Troll, one of Norway’s largest natural gas fields.The order includes an option for engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the module, which will receive and process gas from…
20 September 2017
Tata Steel and thyssenkrupp Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Create a Leading European Steel Enterprise in a 50:50 Joint Venture
Tata Steel Limited and thyssenkrupp AG have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a leading European steel enterprise by combining the flat steel businesses of the two companies in Europe and the steel mill services of the thyssenkrupp group. The proposed 50:50 joint venture – thyssenkrupp Tata Steel –…
20 September 2017
Uruguay Round 3: Promising Road Show in Houston
On September 18th, 2017 at 8.00 am, at Norris Conference Centers - CityCentre, Houston, the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) and the Uruguayan National Oil Company, ANCAP, launched the Uruguay Round 3, a bidding process for awarding areas for hydrocarbon exploration and production offshore Uruguay. This event counted…
20 September 2017
Ecosse Win Seabed Clearance Contract for Hornsea Project One
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has been awarded a major seabed clearance project on the world’s biggest offshore wind farm. The project scope for Hornsea Project One export cables, located 120km off the Yorkshire coast, is the latest in a number of renewable energy sector awards secured by the subsea technology…
20 September 2017
Lebanon Passes Oil Tax Law
Lebanon made progress in its efforts to develop a hydrocarbons industry on Tuesday when lawmakers passed a petroleum tax law, as companies prepare to bid on a first round of offshore exploration licences next month.Earlier this month, Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil extended by four weeks the deadline for companies…
20 September 2017
India ONGC Strikes 'Good' Offshore Oil, Gas Find
The latest discovery of India’s largest oil explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp to the west of its Mumbai High offshore fields is estimated to hold in-place reserves of about 20 million tonnes, sources with knowledge of the matter said.The Mumbai High field annually produces oil and natural gas of…
20 September 2017
Statoil and Techstars Launch Global Accelerator Program for Ambitious Energy Innovators
Statoil is partnering with Techstars to create a global accelerator program for innovators and entrepreneurs who aspire to shape the future of energy.Techstars will reach out through its global network to identify, recruit, and select the world’s ten most promising energy innovators and entrepreneurs to participate in the Techstars Energy…
18 September 2017
SyncHoist Keeps Tahkoluoto Foundations In Line
Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy, a Finnish-based wind power production company, has used a SyncHoist load positioning system from Enerpac Heavy Lifting Technology for the installation of gravity base foundations at the Tahkoluoto offshore wind farm in Pori, Finland.Following the seabed preparations to provide a level surface, the ten hollow gravity base…
18 September 2017
Triton Knoll Opts For MHI Vestas 9.5MW Offshore Wind Turbines
Triton Knoll has unveiled MHI Vestas Offshore Wind as its preferred turbine supplier and its plans to use 90 of its 9.5 MW turbines to generate power on the 860MW wind farm off Lincolnshire, England.Triton Knoll, the innogy and Statkraft joint venture, will be one of the first in the…
18 September 2017
Statoil Testing Hywind Scotland Floating Turbines
Statoil is currently testing the five Siemens wind turbines on the 30MW Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, the world’s first commercial floating wind farm.The testing is being carried out prior to the floating wind farm’s full commissioning, scheduled for October.Last week, Skandi Acergy, Subsea 7’s construction vessel, completed the cable works…
18 September 2017
PSA Inspects Statoil’s Visund A Ops
Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil focused on how it safeguards the planning and execution of drilling and well operations on Visund A.The objective was to verify that Statoil and its contractors in the Visund organisation meet the regulatory requirements, PSA explained.The audit identified…
18 September 2017
Marketex Delivers Aberdeen Bay Foundation Anchors
Marketex Offshore Constructions, an affiliated company of BLRT Grupp, has completed the production and delivery of 21 anchors for the wind turbine foundations to be installed at the 92.4MW Abderdeen Bay wind farm in Scotland.The anchors were commissioned by the Belgium-based Smulders Projects, the company in charge of manufacturing eleven…
18 September 2017
Interocean Rig Services for Azinor
Interocean Marine Services has been awarded a contract by Azinor Catalyst to provide an integrated package of rig move, mooring and positioning servicesThe UK-based company is currently supporting a drilling programme on board Ocean Guardian in the North Sea.Interocean’s Keith Nelson said: “We are delighted with this award, which allows…
15 September 2017
Inpex Buys Norwegian License Stake from Bayerngas
Japanese E&P company Inpex Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire a 40 percent participating interest in exploration license PL767 located in the western Barents Sea offshore Norway from Bayerngas Norge.Inpex said on Friday that the acquisition, arranged between the company’s subsidiary Inpex Norge and Bayerngas, would hand the…
15 September 2017
Xodus Bags Two ESIA Contracts Off Senegal
Xodus Group has been awarded two environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) contracts for projects in the Rufisque Offshore, Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore (RSSD) blocks in Senegal, West Africa.Xodus’ environmental team will undertake the study for drilling activities in the Sangomar and Rufisque blocks for Capricorn Senegal Limited,…
15 September 2017
Smulders Piecing Together EOWDC Suction Bucket Jacket Foundations
Belgian steel foundations specialist Smulders has shared a video showing the construction of the eleven suction bucket jacket foundations for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland.Smulders will carry out the final assembly of the eleven foundations at its manufacturing facility in Newcastle.The company was awarded…
15 September 2017
Ashtead and TSC Ink Collaboration Deal
Subsea equipment specialist, Ashtead Technology has signed a five-year global collaboration agreement with Technical Software Consultants Limited (TSC), part of Eddyfi Technologies, for its Alternating Current Field Measurement (ACFM) instruments.The agreement will see Ashtead Technology combine TSC’s ACFM equipment rental fleet with its own rental fleet and will manage all…
15 September 2017
BP Selects Jupa’s Subsea Cleaning Solution for Taurus-Libra Field
Jupa, a Norway based company, has entered into an agreement with BP to deliver SolidCitric cartridges and associated adapter tooling for the Taurus-Libra field in Egypt.The SolidCitric products are specialised tooling for cleaning of subsea equipment experiencing calcareous scaling.Endre Birkeland, managing director of Jupa said; “This is our first international…
15 September 2017
JFMS Secures Work on EnFAIT Project
James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) will be providing specialist marine engineering and consultancy services for the recently awarded €20-million European tidal energy project consortium, Enabling Future Arrays in Tidal (EnFAIT), The project, led by Nova Innovation, aims to increase the commercial viability of tidal power and highlight its effectiveness as…
15 September 2017
TechnipFMC Clinches Lancaster EPS EPCI Deal from Hurricane
TechnipFMC has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) contract from Hurricane Energy.The contract covers the provision of subsea equipment including umbilicals, risers, flowlines and the subsea production system for the Lancaster Early Production System (EPS) project.In addition, TechnipFMC will also install the subsea equipment, turret buoy and…
14 September 2017
Subsea Awards 'in the Pipeline
Subsea contractors expect a rebound in orders on renewed field development activity amid cost-cutting by operators, with a raft of prospective projects on the tendering radar screen.Major players TechnipFMC and Subsea 7 believe further awards are on the horizon as more subsea projects are sanctioned for investment over the next…
14 September 2017
Mermaid Wins Middle East Cable Survey Contract
Mermaid Maritime has been awarded a long-term cable survey contract in the Middle East.The contract is said to have an estimated value of USD 7 million.The highlighted package of work, due to begin in the third quarter of 2017, will involve use of a Mermaid chartered-in vessel with geophysical survey…
14 September 2017
Kanfa Bags Dvalin Contract
Kanfa Ingenium Process, part of the Kanfa group, received an order from Aibel for the nitrogen generator unit for the DEA Dvalin tie-in to Statoil’s Heidrun platform.The scope of work includes the EPC delivery of the nitrogen generator unit, the company said.The order follows from the TEG Regen skid order…
14 September 2017
Husky to Drill in South China Sea
Husky Energy is limbering up for a four-well oil exploration campaign in the Pearl River Mouth basin in the South China Sea.Jonathan McKenzie, the company's chief financial officer, said the plan is to drill four wells in 2018 in Blocks 15/33 and 16/25.Husky has had a presence offshore China for…
14 September 2017
Hurricane Energy Set to Give Aoka Mizu Update
Hurricane Energy is expected to announce today that the Aoka Mizu floating production, storage and offloading vessel is en route to Dubai for the upgrades required to deploy the unit on the company’s Lancaster fractured basement field off the UK.According to industry sources, the Bluewater Energy Services-owned vessel is expected…
14 September 2017
DOC Inks Subsea Power Cables Framework Deal with Vattenfall
Deutsche Offshore Consult GmbH (DOC) wins the framework agreement for the installation management of subsea power cables for offshore wind farm projects in Germany, UK, the Netherlands and Denmark from Vattenfall.The agreement was concluded for a period of four years.DOC will support the installation, the marine coordination and the offshore…
14 September 2017
Wood Group Bags CNOOC Lingshui 17-2 Contract
Wood Group has been awarded a new contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to support their Lingshui 17-2 gas development in the Qiongdongnan basin of the South China Sea.Subsea and flow assurance services will be provided under the contract, which is effective immediately and will be supported by…
14 September 2017
Altus Intervention and Qinterra Technologies Unite to Form New Global Well Service Company
Qinterra Group’s North Sea well intervention specialist Altus Intervention and its international technology arm, Qinterra Technologies have united to form one global force in well services.With headquarters in Stavanger, Norway, the combined group will be known as ‘Altus Intervention’, bringing together over 1,000 staff across four global regions: UK and…
14 September 2017
The Azerbaijan Government and Co-Venturers Sign Amended and Restated Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli PSA
The Azerbaijan government and the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), together with BP, Chevron, INPEX, Statoil, ExxonMobil, TP, ITOCHU and ONGC Videsh today signed the amended and restated agreement on the joint development and production sharing (PSA) for the Azeri, Chirag fields and the Deep Water…
14 September 2017
Archer Scores More Work with Repsol
Archer has secured a four-year contract to deliver additional plug and abandonment (P&A) and related services on the Norwegian Continental Shelf for Repsol Norge.This is Archer’s second contract win with Repsol Norge in 2017, following the recent announcement of a four-year contract with Repsol Norge for P&A rig operations of…
13 September 2017
U.S. Starts Working on Offshore Wind Standards
An initiative to create offshore wind standards in the U.S. has been launched by key leaders of the American industry, as the country prepares for the imminent development of large scale offshore wind energy projects.The initiative is expected to be a three-year process and collaboration between the U.S. Dept. of…
13 September 2017
Aker 'Eyes Newbuild Rig' at Samsung
Norway’s Aker group appears set to re-enter the rig-owning business as it closes in on a deal to acquire a newbuild harsh-environment unit from Samsung Heavy Industries that was recently cancelled by Stena Drilling, according to sources.The South Korean yard has been engaged in talks with Kristian Rokke, son of…