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20 September 2022
Decklar Announces New Arrangements for Delivery and Export of Crude Oil From Oza Oil Field
Decklar Resources Inc. is pleased to provide an update on operational activities relating to the transportation and export of crude oil produced from the Oza Oil Field in Nigeria. Decklar and its co-venturer Millenium Oil & Gas Company Limited (“Millenium”) are pleased to announce that the 7,800 barrels of crude…
20 September 2022
Neptune Energy awards major decommissioning contract for Dutch, UK North Sea
Neptune Energy announced the award of a $30 million decommissioning contract to Well-Safe Solutions, for a campaign covering more than 20 wells located across eight Dutch and UK North Sea fields. It is the first multi-region, multi-well decommissioning campaign award by Neptune to a single rig contractor and will significantly…
20 September 2022
Update on Balder X project
Vår Energi ASA provided an update on the progress for the Balder X development and a revised cost estimate which reflect increased scope of work, the continued impact from global supply chain challenges, Covid-19 and schedule change. The Company’s production target of more than 350,000 boed by the end of…
20 September 2022
Helix Energy Solutions Announces Two-Year Contract Extension with Petrobras for Siem Helix 2
Extension of Well Intervention contracts demonstrates strength of market and delivery of world-class services to long-term customer. Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. announced that it has entered into a two-year extension of its well intervention charter and services contracts with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (“Petrobras”) for the Siem Helix 2 well…
20 September 2022
Launch of the Fenix Offshore Gas Project
TotalEnergies has approved the final investment decision for the Fenix gas development, located 60 km off the coast of Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina. Through its Total Austral affiliate, TotalEnergies operates the project with a 37.5% interest, in partnership with WintershallDea (37.5%) and Pan American Sur (25%). The Fenix…
20 September 2022
i3 Energy plc : Serenity Appraisal Well Update
i3 Energy plc, an independent oil and gas company with assets and operations in the UK and Canada, announces the commencement of operations for the drilling of the Serenity appraisal well on UK Licence P.2358, Block 13/23c. i3 owns a 75% working interest in the field. The Stena Don semi-submersible…
20 September 2022
ODL – Deepsea Yantai awarded one well contract with OMV Norge AS.
Odfjell Drilling is pleased to announce that on behalf of CIMC OFFSHORE AS, they have agreed a contract with OMV Norge AS for the use of the drilling rig Deepsea Yantai to drill one (1) firm well “Eirik” in PL 817 in the North Sea, plus one (1) optional well…
20 September 2022
Stena Icemax - CNOOC Contract annoucement
Stena Drilling is pleased to announce that they have signed a new contract with CNOOC Africa Holding LTD (CNOOC) for the mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) Stena Icemax. The two (2) well program, scheduled for Q1 2023, will be off the coast of Gabon and has an estimated total campaign…
16 September 2022
Prysmian awarded more than €800M for two offshore wind farm grid connection cable systems in Germany
Prysmian Group, worldwide leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded two major contracts for a total value in excess of €800 million including options by Amprion Offshore GmbH – a subsidiary of German transmission system operator Amprion- for the design, supply, installation, and commissioning of…
16 September 2022
Petrofac awarded North Sea contract extension by Serica Energy
Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, has secured a three-year contract extension for maintenance services from Serica Energy. Under the terms of the agreement, Petrofac will continue with the provision of maintenance execution, maintenance consultancy and metering services to Serica Energy’s Northern North Sea asset,…
16 September 2022
Iberdrola sells 49% of Wikinger to EIP for 700 million to boost offshore wind portfolio
Iberdrola has signed an agreement with Energy Infrastructure Partners (EIP) for the sale of a 49% stake in Wikinger offshore wind farm in Germany. The transaction is valued at around €700 million, and Iberdrola will maintain a majority stake of 51%.According to the agreement, Wikinger’s total valuation amounts to approximately…
16 September 2022
In compliance with IRA, BOEM reinstates Lease Sale 257 bids
In compliance with congressional direction in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has accepted 307 highest valid bids from Lease Sale 257 in the Gulf of Mexico, totaling $189,888,271. BOEM originally held the lease sale in November 2021; a federal judge invalidated the results in…
16 September 2022
UK Oil & Gas PLC: Turkey Phase 2 seismic completed
UK Oil & Gas PLC (London AIM: UKOG) is pleased to announce that acquisition of the Phase 2 seismic programme over its Turkey Resan licence (UKOG 50% interest) has now been successfully completed and the field crew demobilised. The programme, consisting of four new 2D seismic lines over the possible…
16 September 2022
Fugro Expands its Presence in The Middle East With New Facility in Jafza
With this new facility, Fugro reaffirms its commitment to offering expertise and advanced Geo-data solutions to the rapidly growing energy, infrastructure, and construction industries in the Middle East and India. The new 28,000-square-meter facility will be the new base that advances collaboration between teams and act as a regional base…
16 September 2022
OW East, LLC Announces Name of New York Bight Project as BLUEPOINT WIND
Ocean Winds East, LLC, (OW East) today announced Bluepoint Wind as the official name of its planned offshore wind power project in the New York Bight. The project will be located 38 nautical miles off the coast of New York and 53 nautical miles off the coast of New Jersey…
16 September 2022
Subsea Data Systems Receives Grant Support from Schmidt Marine Technology Partners
September 15, 2022 - Subsea Data Systems, Inc., a partnership between Samara/Data and Ocean Specialists, Inc., is pleased to announce new grant support from Schmidt Marine Technology Partners (SMTP), part of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Network. SMTP provides “venture philanthropy” funding to support the development of new ocean technologies…
15 September 2022
Shearwater GeoServices and WesternGeco sign Global Agreement for Seismic Acquisition Services and announce Australia survey award
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) is pleased to announce a multi-year Global Agreement for the purchase of geophysical data acquisition services by WesternGeco, and the award of a survey in Australia under the new agreement. The agreement enables access to Shearwater’s full range of acquisition technologies, and global fleet of…
15 September 2022
Magseis Fairfield receives updated award with increased scope in North Sea
With reference to the announcement made 30 June 2020, Magseis are pleased to announce that the project scope has been increased. The project was originally scheduled to commence in Q2 2021, but was deferred at the request of our client. The project is now scheduled to start in Q2 2023,…
15 September 2022
Woodside Energy welcomes progress on the proposed browse to North West Shelf project
Today Woodside published the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Browse to North West Shelf (NWS) Project as directed by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW). The final EIS includes responses to comments received during the public consultation process held over an…
15 September 2022
Tendeka extends decade-long relationship
Tendeka extends decade-long relationship to provide sand and inflow control technology across Equinor’s NCS assets Global completions specialist Tendeka has signed a new multi-year contract extension to exclusively deliver standardised sand-face completion equipment across all Equinor’s assets on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The agreement, which also includes options for…
15 September 2022
Maersk Drilling secures additional five-well drilling work scope with Petrogas
Maersk Drilling and Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. have agreed to an amendment of the previously entered contract for the provisioning of the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolute, under which an option included in that contract will be replaced by a newly entered five-well drilling contract which will employ Maersk Resolute…
15 September 2022
Longboat Energy: Copernicus well result
Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, announces that the Copernicus exploration well in licence PL1017 offshore Norway (Company 10%) was dry and will now be plugged and abandoned.more
15 September 2022
TechnipFMC Awarded Significant Subsea Contract by TotalEnergies for Lapa North East Development
TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) has been awarded a significant (1) engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by TotalEnergies for its Lapa North East field in the pre-salt Santos Basin offshore Brazil. TechnipFMC will reconfigure and install umbilicals and flexible pipe in a new configuration that will further secure the production…
15 September 2022
Parkmead: approval of planned well at Skerryvore and increased stake in project to 50%
Parkmead, the independent energy group, is pleased to provide an update to developments on the Skerryvore project in the UK Central North Sea. Following consultation with its joint venture partners in Licence P.2400 (which encompasses the Skerryvore prospects) and having received approvals from the regulatory authorities, the Company is pleased…
14 September 2022
Conditional Sale of Corallian for £32 million Gross to Oil & Gas Major
Reabold, the AIM quoted investing company with a portfolio of upstream oil and gas projects, is pleased to provide the following update on the conditional sale of its investee company, Corallian Energy Limited ("Corallian" or "CEL"), further to its announcement of 4 May 2022. Key highlights for Reabold shareholders: ·…
14 September 2022
Payback Achieved for 2021 Equatorial Guinea Acquisition
Panoro Energy ASA (“Panoro” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that following its lifting of 745,000 barrels of oil at Block G offshore Equatorial Guinea in July and receipt of its related payment in excess of USD 80 million, cumulative net cash flow generated from Panoro’s production entitlement at…
14 September 2022
Technip Energies, deepC Store and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Join Forces for a Floating Carbon Capture & Storage Hub Development
Technip Energies, deepC Store Limited and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines executed a Letter of Intent (LOI) regarding the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and operations for the CO2 Floating Storage and Injection (“FSI”) Hub facility scope for CStore1. The CStore1 Project will be the first large-scale offshore multi-user hub and has…
14 September 2022
Hydromea and Air Control Entech sign a service partnership agreement
Hydromea, a Swiss underwater robotics company and Air Control Entech (ACE), a Scotland-based certified remote technology specialist, enter into a service partnership agreement to commercialize EXRAY™, the world’s first wireless ROV (remotely-operated underwater vehicle), for inspections at offshore floating platforms. Under the deal, ACE will actively promote and use Hydromea’s…
14 September 2022
North Eigg Drilling Update
Serica Energy plc (AIM: SQZ) provides the following update on the North Eigg exploration well. Drilling operations on the North Eigg exploration well have encountered delays and, following a recent equipment failure and the required mobilisation of a replacement (further details below), operations are now expected to take some six…
14 September 2022
Jan de Nul installs 80 turbines at the first French commercial scale offshore wind farm ahead of schedule
Significantly ahead of schedule, Jan De Nul’s Offshore Jack-Up Installation Vessel Vole au vent has successfully completed her mission on the Saint-Nazaire Wind Farm project in France. The Vole au vent transported and installed 80 sets of 6 MW Wind Turbine Generators (WTG) for the very first commercial wind farm…
14 September 2022
Van Oord selected as preferred contractor for an offshore wind project in Poland
Van Oord has been selected as preferred contractor for the construction of the Baltic Power offshore wind farm, 23 kilometres north of the Polish coastline. Van Oord will transport and install more than 70 foundations, consisting of a monopile fitted with a transition piece. With a production capacity of up…
14 September 2022
APA 2022: Still significant interest for exploration in mature areas
The authorities have received applications from 26 companies in the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2022. Most of the companies that are active on the Norwegian shelf have submitted applications in this year's APA. The application deadline was 12 September. "It's gratifying to note the continuing significant interest in investigating…
13 September 2022
Royal IHC delivers one of a kind converted J-lay vessel AMAZON to McDermott International
On Wednesday the 31st of August 2022, Royal IHC handed over the J-lay vessel AMAZON to McDermott International. After an intensive and successful sea trial program, the conversion project officially comes to an end. Following the signing of the transfer documentation the vessel can now commence its first assignment in…
13 September 2022
TGS Announces New 3D Seismic Survey Close to Dorado and Pavo Discoveries in North-West Australia
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, today announced the Capreolus Phase 2 3D seismic survey in the Carnarvon Basin on the Australian North West Shelf. This survey is adjacent to the Capreolus Phase 1 survey acquired in 2015 by Polarcus and purchased by TGS in 2018. Capreolus…
13 September 2022
DEME and Van Oord joint venture awarded contract for Darwin pipeline duplication project offshore Northern Australia
DEME and Van Oord have been awarded a contract (1) from Allseas in support of the Darwin Pipeline Duplication Project, located offshore Northern Australia. The joint venture will be responsible for providing support for the shallow water pipeline installation scope in Northern Territory waters including trenching, pipe pull operations and…
13 September 2022
Carbon storage screening study completed by Neptune Energy
OPC is delighted to announce the completion of a Carbon Storage screening study on behalf of Neptune Energy for the Bacton Energy Hub. The project evaluated several potential carbon stores across the South North Sea including depleted gas fields and saline aquifers. The main components of development of a Bacton…
13 September 2022
Selected supplier contract for two offshore substations for Baltic power
A consortium of strategic partners Bladt Industries and Semco Maritime has been appointed selected supplier of two offshore substations for the Baltic Power project, a joint venture of ORLEN Group and Northland Power Inc. aiming to supply more than 1.5 million households with clean power by 2026. The two substations…
13 September 2022
Dry well near the Oseberg Øst field in the North Sea
Equinor Energy AS, operator of production licence 1104, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 30/3-11 S. The well was drilled about 18 kilometres north of the Oseberg Øst field in the North Sea and 145 kilometres northwest of Bergen. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in…
13 September 2022
Dry well near the Balder field in the North Sea
ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, operator of production licence 782 S, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 25/7-10. The well was drilled about 30 kilometres northwest of the Balder field in the central part of the North Sea and 205 kilometres west of Stavanger. The objective of the well was to…
13 September 2022
Tailwind announces first oil from its 100% operated Evelyn field in the UK Central North Sea ahead of sanction schedule
Tailwind is pleased to announce first hydrocarbons from Evelyn on 3rd September 2022. The subsea execution phase of the project was led by Dana Petroleum (E&P) Limited and TechnipFMC, which saw the EV-01z horizontal development well (drilled in 2021), tied back to Triton via a subsea production line and umbilical…
12 September 2022
TGS Announces Amendment Phase 2 in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, today announced Amendment Phase II, a continuation of its ultra-long offset ocean-bottom node (OBN) acquisition in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. This project extends the first phase of the survey that was acquired to the east in 2018. The 151 OCS…
12 September 2022
Partnership to investigate floating wind turbine offshore storage areas
A new industry partnership is set to support the UK’s floating wind industry by identifying offshore storage areas for wind turbines awaiting installation in the Celtic Sea. TS-Flow© JIP, led by Offshore Solutions Group and delivered in partnership with HR Wallingford, will keep supply chains moving by freeing up space…
12 September 2022
Shell, EGAS and Petronas award Idku Energy Hub project FEED to Bechtel-led coalition
Shell Egypt, EGAS and Petronas have awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to a Bechtel-led coalition that includes Enppi and Petrojet to study a proposed unified power system between the onshore gas processing plant of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea off…
12 September 2022
Chevron Granted Interest in Three Permits to Assess Carbon Storage Offshore Australia
Chevron Corporation, through its affiliate Chevron Australia Pty Ltd, is part of three joint ventures that have been granted an interest in three greenhouse gas assessment permits offshore Australia. The blocks, including two in the Carnarvon Basin off the north-western coast of Western Australia and one in the Bonaparte Basin…
12 September 2022
Pancontinental’s Namibia Walvis Basin PEL 37 Licence ends after some 11 years, Company considers a bid for a new extended Licence
Pancontinental’s Namibia Walvis Basin PEL 37 Licence ends after some 11 years and the Company considers a bid for a new extended Licence. Orange Basin Licence PEL 87 remains a key focus. Pancontinental Energy’s 66.67% subsidiary, Pancontinental Namibia (“Pancontinental”), has decided to withdraw from the process of seeking an extension to the original…
12 September 2022
OKEA ASA – Production outage at the Yme field
Following damage to parts of the process pipe system at the Yme field, Repsol Norge AS, as operator, has today informed OKEA ASA (“OKEA” or the “Company”) that the technical issues will likely result in a total of five to six weeks of production down-time at the field during third…
12 September 2022
Petrobras on the sale of exploration assets in the Potiguar Basin
Petrobras, following up on the release disclosed on 08/16/2022, informs the extension of the deadlines, contained in items AA and AC of the teaser, for the expression of interest in participating in the opportunity to sell 40% of its interest in the BM-POT-17 exploratory concessions, where the Discovery Assessment Plan…
9 September 2022
Empyrean Energy plc Mako Gas Project - Updated Plan of Development
Empyrean Energy plc ("Empyrean" or the "Company"), the oil and gas development company with interests in China, Indonesia and the United States is delighted to announce that the partners in the Duyung PSC have approved the updated Plan of Development ("PoD") and have secured alignment with SKK Migas on the…
9 September 2022
SeaTwirl signs LOI for manufacturing and installation of S2x in Norway
The wind power company SeaTwirl has signed a letter of intent with Westcon Yards for the manufacture and installation of the 1 MW S2x on site in Norway. The agreement marks an important step forward in the S2x project. Westcon Yards is an established player with decades long history in…
9 September 2022
Aker BP – consent to use AKOFS Seafarer on the Skarv-field
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has given Aker BP consent to use the mobile drilling facility AKOFS Seafarer for well intervention activities on the Skarv field.