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5 May 2015
Ophir Energy Signs FLNG Contract
Ophir Energy plc announced it has signed a binding heads of terms for a midstream chartering and operating services agreement with Golar LNG ("Golar") with the agreement of GEPetrol, its partner in Block R in Equatorial Guinea, who will formally ratify it next week. This agreement establishes the key commercial…
5 May 2015
INPEX’s Ichthys CPF to be powered by Nexans
Nexans' halogen-free cables will power the Central Processing Facility at the Ichthys field off the Australian Northwest coast.The construction of Ichthys project's Central Processing Facility (CPF) will rely on Nexans' halogen-free cables. The contract, worth approximately 11.5 million Euros, was awarded by Samsung Heavy Industries. Nexans will supply about 2,200…
5 May 2015
Ceona Awarded Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Contract
Ceona, SURF contractor with heavy subsea construction capabilities, has been awarded a new deepwater contract with Houston-based Bennu Oil & Gas LLC in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) on their Mirage field. This contract comes after a first contract was awarded and completed last year for operations on their Clipper…
30 April 2015
ExxonMobil Begins Oil Production Ahead of Schedule at Kizomba Satellites Phase 2
Exxon Mobil Corporation announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited (Esso Angola), has started oil production ahead of schedule at the Kizomba Satellites Phase 2 project offshore Angola.Kizomba Satellites Phase 2 is a Block 15 subsea infrastructure development of the Kakocha, Bavuca and Mondo South fields.…
30 April 2015
KrisEnergy Completes Gulf of Thailand Exploration Well
KrisEnergy Ltd an independent upstream oil and gas company, provides an update on the drilling of the Rayrai-1 exploration well in G10/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, where the Company is developing the Wassana oil field. Rayrai-1, which was drilled by the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig, reached a total depth…
30 April 2015
Chevron Announces Natural Gas Discovery Offshore Australia
Chevron Australia Pty Ltd announced today further drilling success in the Greater Gorgon Area located in the Carnarvon Basin, a premier hydrocarbon basin offshore northwest Australia.The Isosceles-1 exploration discovery well encountered approximately 134 metres (440 feet) of net gas pay in the Triassic Mungaroo Sands in 968 metres of water…
29 April 2015
IKM Testing Awarded Gina Krog Contract by Statoil
IKM Testing has been awarded a major contract for Commissioning services by Statoil Petroleum AS on the Gina Krog topside project currently under construction in Korea.IKM Testing will supply N2He Leak testing with options for Bolt Work, Hot Oil Flushing, Chemical Cleaning and Flange Machining. Work preparation and execution will…
29 April 2015
BP Starts Seven Year West of Shetland Drilling Programme
BP, on behalf of the Schiehallion co-venturers Shell and OMV, is pleased to announce the start of drilling on the Loyal field by the new-build, semi-submersible Deepsea Aberdeen, marking the start of a seven year drilling campaign west of Shetland.Deepsea Aberdeen is contracted to drill wells across the Schiehallion and…
29 April 2015
Eni starts production of Cinguvu offshore field at West Hub Development in Angola
Eni started production two weeks ahead of schedule at the Cinguvu oil field, from the West Hub Development Project in Block 15/06 in the Angolan Deep Offshore, approximately 350 kilometres northwest of Luanda and 130 kilometres west of Soyo. The start-up follows the achievement of West Hub's first oil through…
29 April 2015
ASCO Wins Shell Prelude Logistics and Supply Base Management Contract
ASCO Group will manage the operations and maintenance logistics and supply base in Australia for Shell's floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, which will be located in the Prelude gas field in the Browse Basin, situated approximately 800km west of Darwin, Northern Territory.The contract award marks an important milestone in…
28 April 2015
Bister Exploration Well Commences Drilling in the Norwegian Sea
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, is pleased to announce the spudding of the Bister exploration well 6407/8-7 (Faroe 7.5%).The Bister prospect is located in the Norwegian Sea in Licence PL 348/C, which also contains…
27 April 2015
TEN Project Can Continue After Ruling
Decision from the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)The Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg has rejected Côte d'Ivoire's request that Ghana be ordered to suspend all oil exploration and exploitation in the disputed…
24 April 2015
OneSubsea Awarded Contract for BP West Nile Delta Taurus Libra Development
OneSubsea, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to supply subsea systems for the BP West Nile Delta Taurus Libra development offshore Egypt.The subsea systems scope of supply includes 10 large bore gas trees and related subsea equipment. First deliveries are expected in Q1 2016.…
24 April 2015
BP Agrees Sale Of Central Area Transmission System (CATS)
BP today announced it has agreed to sell its equity in the Central Area Transmission System (CATS) business in the UK North Sea to Antin Infrastructure Partners for £324 million ($486 million). BP is currently the operator of CATS.The agreement comprises a payment on completion of £302 million ($453 million)…
23 April 2015
Applus RTD to Provide Testing to Ultra-Deep Water Kaombo Development
Applus RTD, the global leader in the provision of integrity technology services, has been awarded a contract from Heerema Marine Contractors as part of the Kaombo development offshore Angola.As part of the largest ultra-deep water SURF (subsea, umbilicals, risers, flowlines) development, Applus RTD will provide non-destructive testing for offshore flowlines…
23 April 2015
Successful Float off for the Goliat Platform
The Goliat FPSO was successfully floated off the heavy vessel transport, Dockwise Vanguard, in the fjord outside Hammerfest early this morning.The operation went according to plan, and the platform will now be temporarily moored in Ersvika, six kilometres south of Hammerfest.Once in Ersvika, work to complete preparations for tow out…
23 April 2015
Eni CEO says Mozambique Gas 'very competitive'
Low natural gas extraction costs in Mozambique will allow Italian energy company Eni SpA to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the country that is very competitive, Chief Executive Officer Claudio Descalzi said on Wednesday.Descalzi, speaking at IHS CERAWeek in Houston, said the company's LNG facilities would become operational in…
23 April 2015
InterMoor Completes Mooring Replacement Project
InterMoor Inc., an Acteon company and part of its foundations and moorings business, finished replacing critical components in an FPU mooring system offshore Equatorial Guinea on schedule, enabling the prime contractor, Boskalis, to expand the InterMoor work scope.The original contract covered replacing old mooring chains and wire ropes for 8…
23 April 2015
Kenli 10-1 Oilfield Commences Production
CNOOC Limited today announced that the Kenli 10-1 oilfield has commenced production.The Kenli 10-1 oilfield is located in the South of Bohai with an average water depth of approximately 17 meters. The main production facilities of this oilfield include one central processing platform, two wellhead platforms and 70 producing wells.…
22 April 2015
Operators Announce Increased Cooperation on Exploration in the Barents Sea
Statoil, Eni Norge, Lundin Norway, OMV and GDF SUEZ will collaborate on solving operational tasks tied to exploration in the Barents Sea.The project, called BaSEC, Barents Sea Exploration Collaboration, will initially last for three years. The project will cover the Barents Sea, but with a special focus on the areas…
22 April 2015
Sembawang Shipyard Secures FSO Conversion Contract for North Sea Gina Krog Field
Sembcorp Marine's wholly-owned subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard has secured a Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) conversion contract worth approximately $42 million from Teekay for the Gina Krog Field in the North Sea.Sembawang Shipyard will work closely with Teekay to convert the shuttle tanker Randgrid into an FSO. Major conversion works include…
20 April 2015
LLOG Exploration Produces First Oil from Delta House in Gulf of Mexico
LLOG Exploration along with its Gulf of Mexico joint venture partner, Blackstone Energy Partners, and its co‐owners, the entities managed by Ridgewood Energy (which includes Riverstone designated ILX affiliates), Red Willow Offshore, LLC, Calypso Exploration, LLC, Deep Gulf Energy II, LLC, and Houston Energy successfully initiated production from the Delta…
20 April 2015
Industry Effort to Streamline Subsea Documentation Delivers First Results
Amid low oil prices, pressure is growing to find industry wide solutions which can reduce costs. The documentation demanded today for subsea operations is time-consuming, complex and costly to deliver. Now a DNV GL led Joint Industry Project (JIP) involving twenty industry players has made a major step forward in…
17 April 2015
Goliat Platform Arrives in Norway
The Goliat platform arrives in Hammerfest today from South Korea after a 63-day voyage covering 15,608 nautical miles. It will now undergo final preparations for the first oil production from the Barents Sea. When the field comes on stream later this summer, Goliat will become the world's northernmost producing offshore…
16 April 2015
Technip Awarded FEED Contract for South China Sea Project
Technip and its consortium partner China Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) have been awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by China National Offshore Oil Corporation Limited (CNOOC Ltd.) for two tension leg platforms (TLPs) for the Liuhua 11-1 and 16-2 joint development project located in the South China…
16 April 2015
EMAS AMC Clinches Several Global Contracts
The contract awards come from a variety of oil majors, national oil companies and independent oil operators Maintains a healthy backlog of US$1.0 billion, with majority of contracts to be executed over the next 24 monthsEMAS AMC, the subsea division of EMAS, a leading global offshore contractor and provider…
15 April 2015
Swiber Clinches Third Indian Contract
Swiber Holdings Limited has secured a US$133 million contract, the third major award in India in the last three months, for Engineering, Procurement, Installation and Construction (EPIC) services in India.The project by the same national oil company which awarded Swiber two major contracts in February and March, involves surveys (pre-engineering,…
15 April 2015
Wintershall Strengthens Position in Southern North Sea
Wintershall is stepping up its activities in the southern North Sea. In addition to an extensive drilling campaign in the Netherlands, the UK and Denmark, the company intends to take its natural gas and crude oil discoveries into the production phase swiftly. "We believe in the ongoing potential of the…
15 April 2015
Amec Foster Wheeler Awarded BP Contract
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has been awarded a contract by BP to provide operations, maintenance and project support for the Forties Pipeline System (which includes the Unity offshore platform and onshore pumping stations in Aberdeenshire and Perthshire) and the Central Area Transmission System terminal in Teesside, north-east…
14 April 2015
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies Awarded a Contract by Saipem
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies (KONGSBERG) has been awarded a contract by Saipem for delivery of subsea structures for the gas export pipeline project of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project.The Ichthys Field is located about 220 km offshore Western Australia and 820 km southwest of Darwin. The subsea pipeline is…
14 April 2015
Ceona Enters Joint Venture in Ghana
Ceona, SURF contractor with heavy subsea construction capabilities, has entered into a significant Joint Venture (JV) with Seaweld Engineering which will act as a strategic partner for offshore deepwater construction projects in Ghana.The JV allows Ceona to extend its operations in West Africa and build upon the success it has…
14 April 2015
Lundin Petroleum takes Delivery of Edvard Grieg Topside
The 22 000 tonnes topside for the new offshore platform for the Edvard Grieg field is ready for delivery, in line with the contract awarded three years ago. Hence, the project is in an exceptional case with respect to avoiding costly delays or quality challenges. Lundin Norway is the operator…
14 April 2015
First Oil from the Bertam field
Lundin Petroleum has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Malaysia BV (Lundin Malaysia) has achieved first oil from the Bertam field on the 5th April 2015.The Bertam field has commenced production from four pre-drilled development wells. The remaining production wells will be drilled sequentially and put onstream through the…
14 April 2015
IKM Testing Win Contract Award for Statoil Mariner Project
IKM Testing has been awarded a major contract for Commissioning services by Statoil UK Ltd. on the Mariner topside project currently under construction in Korea.Under the terms of the contract, IKM Testing will supply N2He Leak testing with options for Bolt Work, Hot Oil Flushing, Chemical Cleaning and Flange Machining.…
14 April 2015
Technip Wins Subsea Contract on Triton FPSO
Technip has been awarded a brownfield subsea contract for the Triton floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, operated by Dana Petroleum, located in the central North Sea. This FPSO vessel is located 193 kilometers east of Aberdeen, at a water depth of approximately 90 meters. It produces oil and…
13 April 2015
Ithaca Energy Completes Flow Test on the Stella Field
Ithaca Energy announces the successful completion of flow test operations on the fifth and final development well on the Stella field, with the well achieving a flow rate of over 8,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day ("boepd").Well 30/6a-A3Y ("A3") is the fifth development well drilled on the Stella field.…
13 April 2015
Aker Solutions and Fjords Processing Form Alliance
Aker Solutions and Fjords Processing have formed an alliance to develop technology and capabilities for advanced, cost-effective wellstream separation and treatment solutions for the subsea and topside oil and gas industry.The WellSep alliance will apply Aker Solutions' subsea processing experience and testing facilities and Fjords' topside and onshore separation technologies…
13 April 2015
Subsea 7 Awarded Contract Offshore Brazil
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract worth approximately USD$200 million with a duration of approximately two years. The contract is for the installation of flexible lines for Petrobras' projects using Subsea 7's construction and flex-lay vessel Seven Seas, on a day-rate basis. The vessel has been operating for Petrobras…
13 April 2015
Statoil Makes Another Gas Discovery in the Aasta Hansteen Area
Operator Statoil has together with PL602 partners made a gas discovery in the Roald Rygg prospect in the Norwegian Sea. This is the second Statoil discovery in the Aasta Hansteen area in spring 2015."Statoil has completed a targeted two-well exploration programme around Aasta Hansteen which aimed to test additional potential…
10 April 2015
Det Norske Receive Permit to Drill Ivar Aasen Appraisal Well
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-22 S.Well 16/1-22 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor drilling facility at position 58°54'23.1'' north 02°09'43.2'' east in production licence 001 B, after completing the drilling of appraisal wells 16/1-21 S and 16/1-21 A.The…
10 April 2015
Siemens and Statoil Develop a Subsea Hydraulic Power Unit
Siemens and Statoil have jointly developed and qualified a subsea hydraulic power unit for use in offshore oil and gas fields in order to provide hydraulic power right at the well site. The Subsea Hydraulic Power Unit (SHPU) supplies low pressure and high pressure control fluid to the subsea control…
10 April 2015
Deep Down Receives Orders Totaling $4.8 Million
Deep Down, Inc. an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services announced today it has been awarded several contracts for deepwater work in the Gulf of Mexico from Super Major Operators. The work will be completed over the next 12 months and…
10 April 2015
Gas Discovery at Skirne East
Det norske oljeselskap ASA, partner in PL627, announces that drilling of exploration well 25/6-5 S on the Skirne East prospect in the North Sea is about to be completed.The well encountered a 10-metre gross gas column in the Middle Jurassic (Hugin formation) with good reservoir qualities. The well was not…
10 April 2015
WorleyParsons Awarded Contract in Equatorial Guinea
WorleyParsons announces the award by Ophir Equatorial Guinea (Block R) Limited of an agreement for provision of engineering and project management services for their Equatorial Guinea Block R Project (The Fortuna Project). Also awarded by Ophir Holdings is a master services agreement to provide engineering support to any of Ophir's…
10 April 2015
DeepOcean Wins SURF Installation Contract
DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has been awarded the Riser Installation contract for the Kristin and Heidrun platforms by Statoil. The modification of these platforms is required in preparation of a possible tie-back from the near-by Maria-development in the Norwegian Sea that is operated by Wintershall.…
9 April 2015
Statoil Strikes Oil in Gulf of Mexico
Statoil announced today that it has made an oil discovery in its Miocene Yeti prospect located in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Statoil and its partners are evaluating further appraisal activity."The Yeti discovery expands the proven sub-salt Miocene play further south and west of the Big Foot field," says Jez…
9 April 2015
Aleron Subsea Secures Contracts with Indonesian Firms
A specialist ROV system rental company based in Aberdeenshire has won contracts worth a total of £2 Million with two subsea firms in south east Asia.Launched in 2010, Aleron Subsea, which is headquartered in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, and specialises in ROV upgrades and renting work class remote operated vehicles to clients,…
9 April 2015
Jee Secures Contract with E.ON E&P
Jee Ltd has secured a six figure contract with E.ON E&P to deliver subsea integrity management and engineering services for its North Sea assets.The three year contract, which was awarded in March 2015, involves Jee supporting E.ON E&P's Subsea Technical Authority, by providing annual integrity management services for its subsea…
9 April 2015
Seaway Heavy Lifting Win Contract in Venezuela
Seaway Heavy Lifting has entered into a contract with Cardon IV in Venezuela for transportation and installation of the Perla project gas production platforms complete with tie-in of the subsea infrastructure.The Perla development consists of 3 gas production platforms connected to the shore landing near Punto Fijo, through a 30"pipeline.…
9 April 2015
Mubadala Petroleum has Completed Development of Manora Field Offshore Thailand
Tap Oil Limited has provided an update on Manora production and development drilling at the Manora Oil Development in the Northern Gulf of Thailand (TAP 30% interest).All eleven Manora development wells have been successfully completed and the drilling rig has now moved off location. Manora is now producing from six…