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13 July 2017
Aker BP Receives Consent for Exploration Drilling
Aker BP has received consent to drill two exploration wells in the North Sea.We have given Aker BP consent to drill exploration wells 25/4-11 and 25/4-12, in a prospect named Hyrokkin, which is north of Alvheim in the North Sea.The two wells' geographical coordinates will be:59o 44' 33.36" N and…
13 July 2017
NOPSEMA Releases Offshore Project Proposal for Public Comment
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has released the first Offshore Project Proposal (OPP) for public comment. The Barossa Area Development OPP, submitted by ConocoPhillips Australia Exploration Pty Ltd, is available on NOPSEMA’s website (www.nopsema.gov.au) and open for public comment for a period of eight weeks…
13 July 2017
TWI Commence ‘SubSeaLase’ Decommissioning Project
TWI has commenced a new project to advance the decommissioning of offshore structures.As a result of the Energy Act of 2008, there is a need to decommission a large number of the North Sea’s oil and gas infrastructure over the next 30 years, including some 600 fixed steel structures and…
13 July 2017
Boskalis Joint Venture Awarded Nord Stream 2 Rock Placement LOI
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded a LoI (Letter of Intent) in joint venture with Van Oord for rock placement services for the Nord Stream 2 project. The award was made by the project developer Nord Stream 2 AG and is a part of the construction of the…
13 July 2017
ConocoPhillips in Barossa Offshore Project Proposal
ConocoPhillips is proposing to develop the Barossa Area located in Australian Commonwealth waters within the Bonaparte Basin, approximately 300 kilometres north of Darwin, Northern Territory (NT).The development concept includes a permanently moored FPSO facility, subsea production system, supporting in-field subsea infrastructure in the Barossa field and a subsea gas export…
13 July 2017
Bibby Offshore Finalizes Decom Contract with Maersk Oil UK
Bibby Offshore has completed a contract awarded by Maersk Oil UK to provide both late life production enhancement and decommissioning support in the North Sea.The contract saw Bibby Offshore’s diving support vessel Bibby Polaris operate at two separate locations, undertaking production system isolations and critical component replacements to facilitate late…
13 July 2017
Statoil Secures Drillship for Exploration Drilling in Brazil
Statoil Brasil Oleo e Gas Ltda has awarded Seadrill rig contracts for exploration drilling in the BM-S-8 license in the Santos basin.The agreement includes two contracts: Seadrill Offshore AS will provide the drillship West Saturn and Seadrill Serviços de Petroleo Limitada will provide services on board. The fixed contract scope…
13 July 2017
Norweigan Shelf Summary – First Six Months of 2017
The activity level on the Norwegian shelf is high. During the first six months of the year, six discoveries were made, six development plans have been submitted and three new fields have started producing.Petroleum productionTotal petroleum production so far in 2017 is about 119.9 million standard cubic metres of oil…
13 July 2017
SeaRenergy to Provide QHSE Services for ZTT
SeaRenergy has secured a contract from cable manufacturer ZTT to provide QHSE services for the HVAC export cable connection between BorWin Gamma platform and Hohe See offshore wind farm.The scope for QHSE management and support includes the cable load-out, cable transport and installation phase of the project as well as…
12 July 2017
TechnipFMC Sends Umbilicals to Total and Shell
TechnipFMC has shipped water injection umbilicals from its Newcastle manufacturing facility to Total in Africa for the Egina project.The long length umbilicals will be installed at a water depth of 1,600 meters some 130 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria.The ultra-deep offshore development plan includes 44 wells connected using umbilicals…
12 July 2017
STX France Starts Building Arkona Offshore Substation
STX France AS has held a ceremony at the Saint Nazaire shipyard to mark the start of the construction works on the Arkona offshore substation. STX France won the contract to design, build and install a HVAC offshore substation for the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in April 2016.The company…
12 July 2017
DONG Energy Powers Welsh Water
DONG Energy has powered up a five-year contract to supply green energy to supply Welsh Water across more than 4,000 operational sites.The competitive tender win comes as part of DONG Energy’s premium free green electricity offering launched last year which offers renewable energy at no premium to traditional brown energy…
12 July 2017
Forum VisualSoft for NKT Victoria
Forum Energy Technologies has won a new contract which includes provision of its pipeline and cable survey software to the newbuild cable laying support vessel, the NKT Victoria.Two VisualSoft Four Channel High Definition Digital Video Systems (VisualDVR MCHD) will be supplied to iSURVEY. The first vessel installation for the newest…
12 July 2017
VBMS Selects Tekmar to Protect East Anglia ONE Cables
Tekmar has been awarded a contract by VBMS to supply TekLink cable protection systems (CPS), bellmouths and cover disks for ScottishPower renewables’ East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm.VBMS has awarded contracts on the project to both Tekmar and JDR Cables, both based in the North East of England, who will…
12 July 2017
Shell Sells Out of Corrib
Shell has struck a $1.23 billion deal to sell its upstream interests in Ireland to a unit of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) that will mark the Anglo-Dutch supermajor’s exit from the controversial Corrib gas field.Corrib co-venturer Vermilion Energy will now take over from Shell as operator of the…
12 July 2017
Eni Amoca Hit Makes Mexico Double
Eni announced a successful appraisal well at the Amoca field off Mexico on Wednesday, prompting the Italian major to increase its in-place resource estimate for the field to 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent and an "acceleration" of its development plans.The company said the Amoca-3 well came across 410 metres…
12 July 2017
Murchison Platform Removal Successfully Completed
Murchison Platform Removal Successfully Completed by Heerema - AF (HAF) Offshore Decom ConsortiumOn September 12th 2014, CNR International (CNRI) contracted the HAF Consortium, consisting of Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) and AF Offshore Decom (AFOD), for the full Engineering, Preparation, Removal, and Disposal (EPRD) of the Murchison platform, comprising of a…
12 July 2017
Borr Drilling Receives Letter of Commitment for Employment in Nigeria
Recently established offshore drilling company Borr Drilling has been given a letter of commitment from Total E&P Nigeria for work in the country.The commitment covers the use of its Frigg jack-up rig, and the project will be executed with the Nigerian partner.Borr’s chief executive Rune Magnus Lundetrae said: “We are…
12 July 2017
Talos Finds Oil Offshore Mexico
Talos Energy as operator, together with its joint venture partners Sierra Oil and Gas and Premier Oil, has made an oil discovery in Zama-1 exploration well, offshore Mexico.Talos holds a 35% participation interest with Sierra and Premier holding 40% and 25% participation interests, respectively.The Zama-1 well is the first offshore…
12 July 2017
Veolia and Peterson Facility at Great Yarmouth Receives the First Offshore Structure for Decommissioning
Veolia and Peterson have accepted the first offshore structure into their Great Yarmouth decommissioning facility. The Shell Leman BH platform accommodation block, known as the ‘topside’, arrived into the harbour on 11th July and the 50m-high steel jacket structure that supported the topside is due to follow later in July.…
12 July 2017
Total Celebrates the Start of Operations on the Giant Al-Shaheen Oil Field Alongside Qatar Petroleum
Total and Qatar Petroleum will take over the operatorship of the giant Al-Shaheen offshore oil field for a period of 25 years beginning July 14, 2017. The field produces 300 thousand barrels of oil per day. The concession will be operated by the North Oil Company (NOC), which was established…
12 July 2017
Ensco plc Announces Three Drillship Contracts
Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) announced today that it has been awarded three drillship contracts offshore West Africa, representing an aggregate three years of contracted term and more than six additional years of options.Chief Executive Officer and President Carl Trowell said, “Our recent contract awards demonstrate our ability to win work…
12 July 2017
Shell Purchases Deep-water Production and Storage Vessel
Shell Offshore, Inc. announces today that its affiliate, Shell E and P Offshore Services B.V., will exercise a contractual right to purchase the Turritella floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel from SBM Offshore. The vessel is contracted for the Stones deep-water development in the Gulf of Mexico, which began…
11 July 2017
BAM Preps Blyth Foundations for Setup
BAM has floated out the first of the five concrete gravity base foundations being constructed for EDF Blyth wind farm project off the Northumberland coast, UK.The gravity base left the dry dock in Newcastle and was floated down the River Tyne to Port of Tyne. The base will have additional…
11 July 2017
New Charters – Voyager Explorer - SeaBird Exploration
Miclyn Express Offshore is pleased to announce that Voyager Explorer has mobilised for a 5-7 month project in Indonesia, providing seismic source services to an oil major in the region. The vessel has been reflagged to Indonesian flag and chartered to long-time client SeaBird Exploration, who will be executing the…
11 July 2017
DeepOcean Bags Johan Sverdrup Deal from Statoil
DeepOcean has been awarded an EPCI contract for performing remote hyperbaric tie-in of the oil export pipeline on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea.The award covers project management, engineering, procurement and installation of the 36 inch oil export spool and remote hyperbaric tie-in of the oil export pipeline…
11 July 2017
BOURBON Joins Automated Ships Ltd and KONGSBERG to Deliver Groundbreaking Autonomous Offshore Support Vessel Prototype
Leading marine Offshore services company, BOURBON has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Automated Ships Ltd to support the building of the world’s first autonomous, fully-automated and cost-efficient prototype vessel for offshore operations, in collaboration with the project’s primary technology partner, KONGSBERG.BOURBON will leverage its expertise in building…
11 July 2017
Project Sanctions on the Rise
The number of projects reaching a final investment decision is on the rise this year, according to research by consultancy group Wood Mackenzie.Wood Mackenzie claims the number of projects reaching FID in 2017 could more than double to 25, compared to just 12 last year.The number of projects progressing to…
11 July 2017
FAN South-1 Well Result
Cairn announces the results of the FAN South-1 well in the South Fan prospect offshore Senegal. The Stena DrillMAX drill ship performance continues to be excellent and operations have been safely and successfully completed ahead of schedule and under budget following drilling and wire line logging operations.The well encountered hydrocarbon…
11 July 2017
GATE Energy Strikes Subsea Alliance with Canyon Offshore
Gibson Applied Technology & Engineering (GATE Energy) has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Canyon Offshore.The two companies will work together on jointly offering subsea blockage prevention, detection and remediation solutions to the offshore oil and gas industry.Both parties anticipate that this alliance would offer effective and integrated blockage…
11 July 2017
Statoil Receives Consent for Exploration Drilling
Statoil is the operator for production licence 718 in the Barents Sea and has received our consent to drill exploration well 7317/9-1 in a prospect named Koigen Central.The well's geographical coordinates will be:73° 27' 50.45" N17° 48' 10.64" EDrilling will begin in August 2017 at the earliest and is scheduled…
11 July 2017
Maersk Oil Hires Simmons Edeco for Wellhead & Valve Maintenance
Simmons Edeco has been awarded a contract to provide scheduled and unscheduled wellhead maintenance services for all Maersk Oil offshore wells in the Danish North Sea.In addition, Simmons Edeco is to refurbish valves and wellhead maintenance equipment, and manage major and consignment stock.The five-year contract, which started on June 1,…
10 July 2017
Anadarko Spins the Bit at Phobos
US independent Anadarko Petroleum is drilling ahead on its latest appraisal of the Phobos discovery in the southern depths of the ultra-deep Gulf of Mexico.Anadarko started spinning the bit on Phobos-3 in mid-June. The appraisal well is permitted to a depth of about 28,000 feet. The rig is Diamond offshore…
10 July 2017
Statoil Completes Two-well Exploration Drilling Campaign Offshore Newfoundland
Statoil, along with its partner, Husky Energy, has finalized a two-well exploration drilling program in the Flemish Pass Basin offshore Newfoundland.Both wells were drilled safely and efficiently by the Seadrill West Aquarius in the Flemish Pass Basin, located approximately 500 kilometres east of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. The two…
10 July 2017
JDR Opens European Hub in Newcastle, Nets Contract with Tideway
JDR, a supplier of subsea power cables and umbilicals to the global offshore energy industry, has officially opened its European service centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.The opening ceremony held on Friday, 7 July, also coincided with a contract signing with Tideway who selected JDR to provide termination and testing…
10 July 2017
North Energy ASA - North E&P Discontinues Petroleum Activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
North Energy ASA's ("North Energy") subsidiary North E&P AS ("North E&P") has signed an agreement with Lundin Norway AS ("Lundin Norway") whereby North E&P will sell its 40% working interest in production licence (PL) 805 to Lundin Norway. The transaction is conditional upon the approval by the Norwegian authorities.After the…
10 July 2017
Nexans Bags BP Subsea Framework Agreement
Nexans Norway has signed a five-year global framework agreement with BP covering the engineering, procurement and construction of umbilical and direct electrical heating (DEH) systems and ancillary equipment.The agreement also covers the provision of aftermarket services.The agreement provides Nexans a framework for worldwide supply of umbilical and DEH, and has…
10 July 2017
Total Takes Offshore Wind Vessel for Oil and Gas Ride
Total E&P Netherland, a Dutch subsidiary of the French oil giant Total, will charter the Bibby WaveMaster 1 offshore support vessel.The ‘Walk to Work’(W2W) service operation vessel, owned by Bibby Marine Services , will start its contract with Total in April 2018 through to October 2018 with options to extend…
10 July 2017
Drilling Permit for Wellbore 7219/12-2 S in Production Licence 533
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7219/12-2 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.Wellbore 7219/12-2 S will be drilled from the Leiv Eiriksson drilling facility, at position 72°5' 12.63" north and 19°59' 10.08" east.The drilling program for wellbore 7219/12-2 S…
10 July 2017
Sale of Rights to Maromba Field in Campos Basin: Disclosure of the Teaser
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras informs that it has initiated the disclosure phase of the Teaser for the full sale of its stake in the Maromba Field, in the Campos Basin.In this project, Petrobras, which is the operator with 70% stake, and Chevron Brasil Petróleo Ltda., which holds 30% stake,…
10 July 2017
Start-up of Production on Gjoa
ENGIE E&P's Gjøa-platform in the North Sea is back in production after the gas leak on 21 June. This follows extensive inspection and start-up work.Gjøa will gradually increase production back to its normal level shortly after start-up.The direct cause of the leak was a crack in a weld of a…
10 July 2017
Altrad Investment to Buy UK Oil Services Firm Cape for 332.2 Million Pounds
French construction equipment maker Altrad Investment Authority said on Friday it agreed to buy UK oil services company Cape Plc for about 332.2 million pounds ($430.3 million) in cash.Cape's stock rose as much as 47.8 percent to its highest since May 2015.Altrad's offer for 265 pence per Cape share represents…
10 July 2017
Culzean Jackets on Their Way From HFG to Final Destination
Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) has completed construction of the Culzean jackets for client Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited. At Heerema Vlissingen, one of two production locations of HFG in the Netherlands, the jacket for the central processing facilities platform (CPF) set sail on 28 June and the jacket for…
10 July 2017
Wood Group Wins Maersk Culzean Field Contract
Wood Group has been awarded a new contract by Maersk to deliver mechanical and management services for the hook-up and commissioning of the Culzean gas condensate field in the UK central North Sea.At peak manning, approximately 200 new jobs will be created by the project to support the new three…
7 July 2017
Hydratight Connectors for Maersk Oil Tyra Field
Hydratight has been awarded the supply of the critical tie in components for the 8”, 12” and 26” pipelines within the Maersk Oil Tyra Field.In the initial phase of the redevelopment of the Tyra field, a bypass route needs to be created to enable production flow from other Danish Underground…
7 July 2017
Biggest FEED Players Circle for Caldita-Barossa
World-class contractors are preparing to submit bids for the front-end engineering and design contract related to the floating production, storage and offloading vessel bound for the Caldita-Barossa gas project off northern Australia.However, identifying the exact make-up of the bidding groups is tricky because of the bidding scenarios offered by project…
7 July 2017
Total Breaks Pars Deadlock
FRANCE's Total has signed a long-awaited contract in Iran to develop Phase 11 of the giant South Pars gas field in a $2 billion deal that is expected to open the way for other international oil companies to return to Iran after a decade of sanctions.The contract signing on 3…
7 July 2017
Evaluating Conversion of Natural Gas to Hydrogen
Statoil, Vattenfall and Gasunie have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to evaluate the possibilities of converting Vattenfall’s gas power plant Magnum in the Netherlands into a hydrogen-powered plant. The potential CO2 emission reduction is 4 million tons of CO2 per year.This is equivalent to emissions from more than 2…
7 July 2017
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. Announces Amendment to Agreement with Jurong Shipyard
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. ("NADL" or "the Company") announces that an amendment has been agreed with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd ("Jurong"), to extend the delivery deferral period to January 6, 2018. The extension allows the parties to continue to explore commercial opportunities for the Unit. As previously agreed, in the…
7 July 2017
OMV Receives Consent for Exploration Drilling in the Barents Sea
OMV (Norge) AS has received consent to drill an exploration well in block 7324/8 in the Barents Sea.The well to be drilled, wildcat well 7324/8-3, is in a prospect named "Wisting Central III". The drilling location is in the Barents Sea, around 315 kilometres north of Hammerfest.The geographical coordinates will…