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26 June 2017
DOF Subsea to Survey Transmediterranean Pipeline
DOF Subsea has recently signed a new contract in the Mediterranean with Transmediterranean Pipeline Company (TMPC) to undertake the pipeline inspection on the TMPC’s pipeline system.The inspection is planned to take place in Q3, 2017, the company informed.The scope involves inspection of 5 submarine pipelines between Sicily and Tunisia and…
26 June 2017
Removal of Emergency Response Vessel from the Knarr Field
A/S Norske Shell (Shell) is the operator of the Knarr field, which is in the northern sector of the North Sea, around 50 kilometres north-east of Snorre. Knarr has been developed using a production and storage vessel (FPSO) and subsea wells.Oil is loaded from the Knarr FPSO into tankers, while…
26 June 2017
France to Stop Granting Oil Exploration Licences - Energy Minister
French energy minister Nicolas Hulot said on Friday the government planned to present a draft law this autumn that would stop granting licences for oil and gas exploitation in France and overseas territories."There will be no new licence granted for exploration of hydrocarbons, we will pass the law this autumn,"…
26 June 2017
Greece Approves Applications by Total-ExxonMobil, Energean for Offshore Oil Exploration
Greece approved applications submitted by a consortium of Total, ExxonMobil and Hellenic Petroleum for oil and gas exploration and drilling off the island of Crete, its energy ministry said on Friday.The ministry also approved an application submitted by Greece's sole oil producer Energean Oil for offshore drilling in western Greece,…
26 June 2017
Shell Take Aban Offshore Jack Up on Five Year Contract
A step-down subsidiary of the Company has entered into a contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn Bhd for the deployment of the jack-up rig Deep Driller 5 (“DD5”) offshore Brunei Darussalam for a firm period of 5 years followed by 3 optional periods of one year each. The deployment…
26 June 2017
Kraken First Oil
EnQuest confirms that first oil from the Kraken development was delivered on 23 June 2017. During the initial ramp-up period, the 13 wells that have been drilled and completed to date, comprising 7 producers and 6 injectors, are being brought online in a phased manner, to maximise long term productivity…
26 June 2017
Aker Solutions to Supply Umbilicals for Mozambique's First Offshore Field Development
Aker Solutions was awarded a contract to deliver three umbilicals and associated equipment at ENI's Coral South project, Mozambique's first offshore field development.The work scope includes three steel tube umbilicals that will total more than 19 kilometers in length and connect the Coral South floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility…
23 June 2017
Pandion Gains Cara Stake
Start-up Pandion Energy has been pre-qualified by the authorities as a licence-holder on the Norwegian continental shelf and has now taken over licences off the country formerly held by Tullow Oil, including a stake in the Cara discovery.The Oslo-based company, backed by private-equity player Kerogen Capital, was formed in November…
23 June 2017
New Tidal Energy Park in Scotland Lands Approval
A 30 turbine tidal park, to be situated off the south-west coast of Islay, has been granted planning consent, Scottish Government has informed.West Islay Tidal Energy Park will have a generating capacity of up to 30 MW, enough to power around 18,000 homes.The DP Marine Energy Limited development will be…
23 June 2017
DONG Energy Selects Monopiles for All Hornsea Project One Foundations
DONG Energy has decided to use monopile foundations on the remaining 58 foundations for the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.In November 2016 DONG Energy announced that EEW SPC would provide 116 monopile foundations for Hornsea Project One.In addition, in early 2017 the company informed that 116 transition pieces would…
23 June 2017
Kvaerner Completes First Johan Sverdrup Jacket
Kvaerner has completed and named riser platform (RP) jacket for the Johan Sverdrup development which will be ready for delivery in July.The RP jacket was given the name Aegir at a ceremony held at Kvaerner’s yard at Verdal, the company informed.The jacket is the first major structure for the Johan…
23 June 2017
£1.6 Million Projects Approved by Technology Centre
Just four months since its launch in February 2017, the Oil & Gas Technology Centre has approved investment of more than £1.6 million in new projects to accelerate the development and deployment technologies to transform the industry.To reduce the cost of inspecting and maintaining offshore infrastructure by 50% by 2021,…
23 June 2017
SOFF - FAR - DESSC: Key Date Announcement
Reference is made to previous stock exchange notices regarding the proposed mergers between (i) Farstad Shipping ASA ("FAR") and Solship Invest 2 AS with the latter as the surviving entity and with settlement in Solstad Offshore ASA ("SOFF") shares, (ii) Deep Sea Supply Plc ("DESSC") and Solship Sub AS with…
23 June 2017
World’s Largest Semi-submersible Platform Safely Moored in Ichthys Field
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s Central Processing Facility (CPF) has been safely moored in the Ichthys Field, some 220 kilometres off the north coast of Western Australia, where she will be located for 40 years.The massive CPF (named the Ichthys Explorer) is the world’s largest semi-submersible platform, weighing 120,000 tonnes…
23 June 2017
ION Expands West African 2D Data Library with New Acquisition Offshore Gabon
ION Geophysical Corporation (NYSE: IO) today announced a new 2D multi-client program offshore Gabon, EquatorSPAN™ II, in cooperation with the Gabon Ministry of Petroleum and Hydrocarbons, Direction Général des Hydrocarbures of Gabon (DGH). The program includes over 1,900 km of new high-quality, deeply-imaged seismic data and is supported with industry…
23 June 2017
Rampion to Recover Digger from Lancing Beach
"We want to thank people for bearing with us over the last couple of months while we’ve planned the vehicle recovery and we also welcome the interest the local community has continued to show in the project.On planning the recovery, for operational and safety purposes, further seabed preparation including surveys…
22 June 2017
John Crane Asset Management Solutions signs three-year North Sea contract
John Crane Asset Management Solutions has secured a three-year £3million contract to provide condition based maintenance services with a major operator in the UK North Sea. The work covers rotating equipment across 12 assets and infrastructure sites and includes deployment of a specialist engineer to the operator’s UK offices to…
22 June 2017
Eni Inks Kazakh Pacts
Eni has secured exploration rights to a prospective Caspian Sea block off Kazakhstan in one of several deals inked by the Italian operator with the Astana government.The agreement renews conditions for Eni to gain 50% of subsoil use rights for exploration and production in the Isatay block under a joint…
22 June 2017
OGA Publishes New Strategy Aimed at Boosting Drilling in Southern North Sea
UK authorities are hoping to stimulate more drilling for often-overlooked tight gas accumulations in the UK southern North Sea following the publication of a new strategy on Thursday.The document sets out a framework for nurturing the conditions that could help operators get after the substantial 3.8 trillion cubic feet of…
22 June 2017
Blue Water Wins €40M Nord Stream 2 Logistics Job
Wasco Coatings has awarded Blue Water Shipping of Esbjerg, Denmark, a €40-million contract for the transport, handling and storage of 113,000 Nord Stream 2 project pipes.Wasco was earlier awarded the contract for concrete weight coating, storage and logistics of the 200,000 pipes required for the project.The remaining 87,000 pipes are…
22 June 2017
Legeneering Australia Secures Long-term Maintenance Services Contract for Woodside-operated FPSOs
Legeneering Australia Pty Ltd (Legeneering) would like to announce it has been awarded a key, long-term offshore maintenance services contract for Woodside-operated Floating Production Storage and Offloading facilities (FPSO).The contract is for an initial period of 5 years with a further two (2) extension options of one (1) year each.…
22 June 2017
PJ Group Lands McDermott T&T Deal
PJ Valves (PJV) and PJ Piping (PJP) have been awarded a major contract by McDermott to supply valves and piping elements for an offshore project in Trinidad and Tobago.The gas field will feature an unmanned platform and is situated 60 kilometres off Trinidad and Tobago’s south-east coast in water depths…
22 June 2017
Announcement of the 24th Licensing Round
Today, the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy announces the 24th licensing round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The licensing round includes a total of 102 blocks. Nine blocks are located in the Norwegian Sea and 93 in the Barents Sea. The aim is to award new production licenses during the…
22 June 2017
Cook Inlet Federal Lease Sale Yields more than $3 Million in High Bids
Cook Inlet Lease Sale 244 -- the first lease sale held in Alaska’s federal waters since 2008 -- today garnered $3,034,815 in high bids for 14 tracts covering roughly 76,615 acres in Cook Inlet, off Southcentral Alaska. All bids were submitted by Hilcorp Alaska LLC.“Today was the first time in…
22 June 2017
Woodside-Operated Gas Production Facilities Contract
Monadelphous announced the Company has been awarded a major contract with Woodside Energy Ltd for the provision of gas asset general maintenance services and offshore brownfields implementation for its gas production facilities valued at approximately AUD$600 million over the five years.The contract, which is for an initial period of five…
22 June 2017
1st Upper 3D Structure In Place at Beatrice OWF
Bladt Industries has successfully completed the first stacking of the Upper 3D structure to the Lower 3D structure for Jacket 1 for the first out of 30 jacket foundations for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL) project.The operation started at 6.00 am and continued smoothly until final completion at 8.30…
22 June 2017
SBM Offshore Awarded Turnkey and Lease and Operate Contracts for the ExxonMobil Liza FPSO
SBM Offshore is pleased to announce that ExxonMobil has formally confirmed the award of contracts for the next phase of the Liza project in Guyana. Under these contracts, SBM Offshore will construct, install, lease and operate a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO). This follows completion of front-end engineering…
21 June 2017
Aquatic Nets DOF Subsea Frame Deal
Aquatic has signed two regional frame agreements with DOF Subsea.The frame agreement with DOF Subsea Asia Pacific covers the hire of Aquatic Flex-lay equipment and Fisher winches across the Asia Pacific region and is valid from May 2017 for a period of three years with the option of 2 x…
21 June 2017
Tekmar to Protect Blyth OWF Cables
Tekmar has been awarded a contract by VBMS to supply its 7th generation of TekLink cable protection system, bellmouths, cover disks and hang-offs on Blyth offshore wind farm.The 66kV wind farm is wholly owned by EDF Energies Nouvelles and is being built by EDF Energy Renewables.Nexans will supply the cable…
21 June 2017
Pioneering Spirit Wins West White Rose Gig
Canadian operator Husky Energy confirmed the award of a contract to Allseas to use the Swiss player’s behemoth offshore vessel Pioneering Spirit to transport and install the topsides for the West White Rose wellhead platform.Pioneering Spirit will load out the topsides facility from a nearshore dock in Newfoundland, Canada, and…
21 June 2017
Ocean Installer Awarded Libya Work with Total E&P Joint Venture
Ocean Installer has been awarded a SURF project at the Al Jurf oil field in the Mediterranean. Client is Mabruk Oil Operations, a Joint Venture (JV) between Total E&P and the National Oil Cooperation (NOC) of Libya.The work scope encompasses the replacement of a 10” flexible flowline between a fixed…
21 June 2017
Energean Submits FDP for Karish and Tanin Gas Fields, Offshore Israel
Energean Oil & Gas (“Energean” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Energean Israel, has submitted the Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Karish and Tanin natural gas fields, offshore Israel, to the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner.Energean Israel holds 100% of Karish and Tanin, which combined have 2.7…
21 June 2017
Cessation of Storage Operations at Rough
On 12 April 2017, Centrica Storage Limited (“CSL”) announced that it was assessing the future pathway for Rough’s commercial operations.CSL has now completed the wells testing programme and has analysed the results of this extensive programme. CSL has also completed a review into the feasibility of returning Rough to injection…
21 June 2017
Consent to Use Bideford Dolphin on the Snorre Field
Statoil Petroleum AS has received consent to use the Bideford Dolphin drilling facility for drilling and completing well 34/7-A-10 on the Snorre field.Drilling is scheduled to begin on 7 July 2017 and to last 110 days.Bideford Dolphin is operated by Dolphin Drilling AS. Bideford Dolphin is a mobile drilling facility…
20 June 2017
Fogelberg Appraisal in Sight
Centrica has lined up semi-submersible Deepsea Bergen to drill an appraisal well at the Fogelberg discovery off Norway towards a possible development of the find, with Dea apparently selling out of the licence.Partner Faroe Petroleum said in a statement it was now upping its stake in production licence 433 that…
20 June 2017
Apache Keeps Expro for North Sea Well Services
UK-based oilfield services company Expro has secured a $10-million well services contract extension with Apache North Sea.The contract covers a range of well services including slickline, cased hole services and pumping services, as well as support in delivering coiled tubing services. This utilises a crew covering the UK North Sea…
20 June 2017
CGG Secures PTTEP Contract Extension
CGG has secured a renewal of a contract from PTT Exploration & Production (PTTEP) for the dedicated processing center (DPC) CGG has been operating in Bangkok since November 2013.The new contract will run for a further three years, from March 01, 2017 to February 28, 2020.CGG will continue to support…
20 June 2017
Faroe Petroleum Operational Update
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway, the UK and Atlantic Margin, is pleased to provide an operational update ahead of its Annual General Meeting later today.HIGHLIGHTSProductionStrong Production: averaged 15,100 boepd for the period from 1 January to 31…
20 June 2017
Extended Lifetime for Gullfaks B
Statoil is the operator of the Gullfaks field, located in block 34/10 at Tampen in the northern part of the North Sea. Gullfaks has been developed using three integrated processing, drilling and accommodation facilities with concrete jackets and steel decks (Gullfaks A, B and C).Gullfaks B was installed on the…
20 June 2017
Decommissining Contract for Barakah Offshore Petroleum
INTRODUCTIONBarakah Offshore Petroleum Berhad ("Barakah" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary company, PBJV Group Sdn Bhd ("PBJV"), has received the Letter of Award from Samling Resources Sdn Bhd for the Provision of Well Intervention Vessel, Support Vessel and Services for Abandonment and Decommissioning of Chinguetti…
20 June 2017
Dyna-Mac Secures Contracts for a Provisional Sum of $30 Million from Two New Customers
The Board of Directors of Dyna-Mac Holdings Ltd (“Dyna-Mac” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) wishes to announce that the Group has secured two fabrication projects for a provisional sum of $30 million from two new customers.The Group has been awarded the contract by Cameron Solutions Inc., a Schlumberger…
20 June 2017
NADL - Announces Contract Award for West Hercules with Siccar Point Energy E&P Limited ("SPE")
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd has been awarded a one well contract with SPE for Seadrill Limited's semi-submersible West Hercules for work in the United Kingdom, West of Shetland. The contract will commence on 1st April 2018 when SPE will drill and test an appraisal well on the Cambo discovery with…
20 June 2017
Mexico Auctions Two-thirds of Blocks in Shallow Water Oil Tender
Mexico on Monday auctioned two-thirds of the shallow water oil and gas blocks up for grabs in the latest round of its energy market opening, surpassing the cautious estimates of officials last week.Italy's Eni, Colombia's Ecopetrol and Capricorn Energy, a unit of Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy , were among the companies…
19 June 2017
Aquaterra Scores North Sea Subsea Abandonment Project
Aquaterra Energy has won a contract to supply subsea high pressure riser (HPR) equipment and services for a subsea abandonment project in the central North Sea.The multi-million pound deal will see Aquaterra facilitate the abandonment of ten subsea wells via deployment of a subsea HPR system from a jack-up rig.…
19 June 2017
Offshore South East Australia Future Gas Supply Study
On 15 June 2017, the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Senator Matt Canavan announced the Australian Government will complete a study into offshore gas basins in Southern Australia, as part of the $90 million investment in domestic gas security and supply.Terms of ReferenceThe Offshore South East Australia Future Gas…
19 June 2017
OGA Looks to Spark Interest in UKCS 30th Licencing Round
The Oil and Gas Authority UK (OGA) has announced a suite of measures designed to make data openly available and stimulate interest in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) ahead of the 30th offshore licensing round.The 30th offshore licensing round will focus on the more mature areas of the UKCS –…
19 June 2017
Fugro and Boskalis in Borssele UXO Hunt
Fugro has been awarded a joint contract with Boskalis for survey and identification of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the Borssele Wind Farm Zone.The multimillion-Euro contract, for Dutch transmission systems operator TenneT, includes specialised survey and identification work in relation to cable routes for the planned grid connection between TenneT’s two…
19 June 2017
Rosneft in First Eastern Arctic Find
Rosneft has made its first oil discovery in the Laptev Sea in Russia’s eastern Arctic in an exploration breakthrough for the Russian state-owned giant despite Western sanctions seeking to block such efforts.The Tsentralno-Olginskaya-1 well, drilled from shore in Khatanga Bay, yielded core samples taken from depths of 2303 to 2363…
19 June 2017
Dry Well West of the Volund Field in the North Sea – 24/9-11 S
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 150 B, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 24/9-11 S.The well was drilled about 7 kilometres west of the Volund field, 11 kilometres southwest of the Alvheim field and 230 kilometres northwest of Stavanger in the central part of the North Sea.The…
19 June 2017
Claxton Wins Southern North Sea Decom Work
Claxton has been awarded a contract to riglessly casing cut and recover a total of seven wells in the Southern North Sea across two of the operator’s, normally unmanned, platforms, along with an additional subsea suspended well at one of the locations.Work is scheduled to begin in July at the…