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5 August 2022
Contract extension for AHTS Siem Opal
Siem AHTS Pool AS (“SAP”), a subsidiary of Siem Offshore Inc is pleased to announce that Equinor Energy AS in Norway has declared a 3 month option for the AHTS “Siem Opal” from September. The vessel will continue to support the client's various rig move activities during drilling campaigns.
5 August 2022
KOTUG to provide additional support to operations in Guyana
KOTUG Guyana Inc. (100% local subsidiary of KOTUG International B.V.) has been awarded a second contract by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) to support operations in Guyana. KOTUG’s latest additions, the 120 tonnes bollard pull strong “SD Honour”, will join the fleet of dedicated offshore terminal tugs supporting…
4 August 2022
Westwood Insight – High impact exploration on the rebound: Major frontier discoveries and the most wells since 2019
38 high-impact[1] exploration wells were drilled in the first half of 2022, similar to the same period in 2021 when 39 wells completed. The 38 wells resulted in 13 potentially commercial discoveries at a 34% commercial success rate, delivering ~6bnboe of discovered resource. Eight of the wells tested frontier plays,…
4 August 2022
Orcadian Energy plc (“Orcadian Energy”, “Orcadian” or the “Company”) Farm-out of Carra Prospect
Orcadian Energy (AIM:ORCA), the low-emissions North Sea oil and gas development company, is pleased to announce that, further to the announcement of 11 October 2021, the Company has now executed a formal agreement with Carrick Resources Limited (“Carrick”) in respect of a sub-area of Licence P2320 which covers the Carra…
4 August 2022
Neptune Energy awards £10m vessel services contract to Sentinel Marine
Neptune Energy announced the award of a £10 million three-year vessel services contract to Sentinel Marine, to provide offshore support for its operated Cygnus gas field in the UK southern North Sea. The contract, awarded following a competitive tendering process, will see Sentinel Marine continue to deploy its Multi Role,…
4 August 2022
Geoquip Marine adds to its fleet with specialist deep-push CPT vessel
Geoquip Elena is setup as a specialist deep push Cone Penetration Testing (CPT) vessel and has been acquired to add vital capacity to the demand from offshore windfarm developers, especially in Europe and North America. The vessel is a 4,000 ton IGSV 91m in length and 19m in breadth. It…
4 August 2022
C-Kore mobilises on North Sea Campaign
C-Kore Systems recently completed a successful campaign on a subsea oil field located in the North Sea. The C-Kore tools were used to test the electrical integrity of the subsea assets, giving quick feedback to the operator for their maintenance decisions on the field. C-Kore’s subsea testing tools are used…
4 August 2022
VAALCO Energy Provides Operational Update
VAALCO Energy Inc. (NYSE: EGY; LSE: EGY) ("VAALCO" or the "Company") today provided an update on the South Tchibala 1HB-ST well, as well as updated full year production guidance. Highlights South Tchibala 1HB-ST well: Penetrated a thin section of the Gamba sand that is not economically viable to complete in…
4 August 2022
CORTEC Launches New Wellhead Plug Catcher To Reduce Downtime
CORTEC, a leading manufacturer of high-quality API valves, has launched its new, compact, Wellhead Plug Catcher, which is installed directly between the wellhead and the production choke. Fracking and plug parts returning to the surface is a common problem in shale wells. The user-friendly Wellhead Plug Catcher is installed upstream…
4 August 2022
Osbit delivers bespoke gangway for Japanese offshore wind
UK-based offshore engineering and technology company Osbit has completed its first project for Shimizu, following the delivery of a bespoke walk to work access system for the company’s new–build offshore jack-up vessel for offshore wind constructions. The gangway will be installed on-board as a permanent asset, greatly enhancing the vessel’s…
3 August 2022
Ørsted inaugurates ‘Taiwan Offshore Wind Farms Operations and Maintenance Hub’ to underpin long-term green energy supply
The O&M hub is the largest in Asia-Pacific in terms of service capacity and area, and it's the first green-designed O&M facility in the region. Ørsted brings unparalleled operations expertise and full-scale O&M deployment of a Taiwanese operations team, customized service operation vessel and new-built facility. Global offshore wind leader…
3 August 2022
Global E&C Secures Contract With Ping Petroleum
Ping Petroleum UK PLC ("Ping”) has reaffirmed its commitment to develop the Avalon Field, in the Central North Sea, with rejuvenation plans for the Hummingbird FPSO, which is now berthed in the Port of Nigg. The Hummingbird FPSO, to be renamed in the coming few weeks, will remain in Nigg…
3 August 2022
Drilling permit for well 6507/8-11 S
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor Energy AS drilling permit for well 6507/8-11 S, cf. Section 13 of the Resource Management Regulations.
3 August 2022
Aker Solutions Awarded EPCI Contract for the Jackdaw Platform from Shell
Aker Solutions has been awarded a contract1 from Shell UK for the delivery of a not permanently attended installation (NPAI) for the Jackdaw gas field. Located east of Aberdeen in the North Sea, the field at peak production rates, could represent over 6% of projected UK North Sea gas production…
3 August 2022
Wood to deliver design services for 100MW Salamander floating wind project in Scotland
Wood has been awarded the Principal Designer and Pre-FEED scope for Salamander, the 100MW floating wind farm development located 35km off Peterhead in the East Coast of Scotland. The Salamander project, a joint venture between Simply Blue Group, Ørsted and Subsea 7, will be a major contributor to ensuring the…
3 August 2022
Noreco: Update on the Tyra Redevelopment Project
Norwegian Energy Company ASA ("Noreco" or the "Company") has today published an update on the Tyra Redevelopment Project ("Tyra II" or the "Project") with the first gas date being revised by the operator of the Danish Underground Consortium (the "DUC), TotalEnergies, to Winter 2023 / 2024. The revision has been…
3 August 2022
DNeX inks agreement with Cerulean Winds to deliver offshore floating wind turbine for the Avalon Development
Dagang NeXchange Berhad (“DNeX”), via its subsidiary Ping Petroleum UK PLC (“Ping”), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with Cerulean Winds Limited (“Cerulean Winds”) to kick start a partnership initiative in delivering a dedicated offshore floating wind turbine for the Avalon Development in the Central North Sea, United Kingdom…
3 August 2022
Floating Offshore Wind in France: TotalEnergies, Corio Generation and Qair Join Forces to Bid for Mediterranean Tender
A consortium of TotalEnergies, Corio Generation and Qair has been pre-selected by the French Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) to participate in a competitive tender to develop two floating windfarms in the Mediterranean Sea. The two projects of about 250 MW each could supply enough clean energy to…
2 August 2022
Saipem: awarded a new offshore E&C contract in Italy worth approximately 300 million Euro
Saipem has been awarded an offshore E&C contract by Enimed, a subsidiary of Eni S.p.A., for the Transportation and Installation of an offshore gas pipeline connecting the four wells of Argo and Cassiopea Fields to the Sicilian coast (Italy), worth approximately 300 million Euro. With a length of 60 km…
2 August 2022
Cadeler signs agreement with Ørsted for Hornsea 3 offshore project
Cadeler A/S signs new agreement with Ørsted to execute the installation of turbine foundations at the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. This agreement engages the parties to develop Cadeler’s foundation competencies. Cadeler has signed an important agreement with Ørsted for the installation of offshore foundations at the Hornsea 3 offshore…
2 August 2022
Longboat Energy plc Spud of Oswig Exploration Well
Longboat Energy, the emerging full-cycle North Sea E&P company, has announced the commencement of drilling operations on the Oswig exploration well (Company 20%) in Norway. Oswig (PL1100) consists of a high pressure, high temperature Jurassic rotated fault block nearby the Equinor operated producing Tune and Oseberg fields in the Norwegian…
2 August 2022
TechnipFMC Awarded Significant Contract for Gas to Energy Project in Guyana
TechnipFMC (NYSE: FTI) has been awarded a significant(1) contract by ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, for the Gas to Energy Project in Guyana. Subject to final project sanction, TechnipFMC will provide engineering, procurement, construction and installation of subsea risers and pipelines. The project will connect the production…
2 August 2022
Azule Energy, Angola’s new largest independent oil and gas producer, begins operations
bp and Eni are pleased to confirm that Azule Energy, the new 50/50 independent joint venture combining the two companies’ Angolan businesses, has been officially established. Azule Energy is now Angola’s largest independent equity producer of oil and gas, holding 2 billion barrels equivalent of net resources and growing to…
2 August 2022
Wintershall Dea increases production volumes in Norway
Wintershall Dea has started production from the own-operated Nova oil field in the Norwegian North Sea together with the project partners Sval Energi and Pandion Energy Norge. It comes on stream at a time where Europe needs every additional barrel it can get. The completion of Nova emphasizes Wintershall Dea’s…
2 August 2022
Kent wins major contract work for Berwick Bank Wind Farm project
Kent, one of the leading providers of engineering and design services to the global offshore wind industry, involved in developing 70% of all UK offshore wind farms, has been awarded a major contract win for Berwick Bank Project. Kent’s scope is to complete two multidiscipline concept designs for the offshore…
2 August 2022
Bilfinger awarded multi-million dollar annual offshore maintenance contract for Shell‘s Gulf of Mexico facilities
Bilfinger has been awarded a multi-million dollar annual contract for the routine mechanical maintenance scope for (GOM). The industrial services provider will be responsible for all routine maintenance services and fabrication across Shell’s Deepwater GOM fleet for a minimum of three years, with the option to extend for a further…
1 August 2022
Gippsland Basin Decommissioning Campaign #1 Steel Piled Jackets End State Environment Plan
NOPSEMA is facilitating a voluntary public comment process for Esso Australia’s Gippsland Basin Decommissioning Environment Plan.More
1 August 2022
Fugro assists Vattenfall with the design of Norfolk offshore wind development
Fugro has been awarded a new marine site investigation contract by Vattenfall for their Norfolk Boreas offshore wind farm located off England’s east coast. The 1.4 GW wind farm forms part of Vattenfall’s Norfolk Zone and will generate enough clean energy to power 1.5 million UK homes while offsetting 2.3…
1 August 2022
First firm offshore wind power order for Siemens Gamesa in Japan
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has been awarded the firm order for the 112-MW Ishikari offshore wind power project from Green Power Investment. This instrumental project is the first firm offshore order in Japan for the world’s leading manufacturer of offshore wind turbines. The order includes 14 SG 8.0-167 DD offshore…
1 August 2022
Stena Drilling announce new contract with Shell UK for Stena Don
Th work is due to commence in Q2 2023 for a firm scope of 365 days (1-year) with an option to extend the contract for up to an additional 1-year period in direct continuation from the firm scope. Works will take place in the UKCS and well activities will include…
1 August 2022
Petrobras on gas discovery in Colombia
Petrobras confirms the discovery of natural gas accumulation in the Uchuva-1 exploratory well, drilled in deep waters of Colombia, 32 kilometers off the coast and 76 kilometers from the city of Santa Marta, in a water depth of approximately 830 meters. The Uchuva-1 well was drilled in the Tayrona Block,…
1 August 2022
Eni’s first offshore exploration well in Abu Dhabi results in another significant gas discovery
Eni announces yet another significant gas discovery of 1-1.5 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of raw gas in place, in a deeper zone, in its first exploration well drilled in Offshore Block 2 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). This discovery follows the initial finding in a shallower zone of the…
1 August 2022
Launch of Greater Perth Area farm-out
Launch of Greater Perth Area farm-out Parkmead, the independent energy group, provides the following update on its interest in the Greater Perth Area. Greater Perth Area farm-out process Parkmead has announced that it has engaged a leading energy corporate finance advisory firm, Gneiss Energy Limited, to manage the process to…
1 August 2022
TotalEnergies is Rolling out its Multi-Energy Strategy by Launching Three Projects in Oil, Gas and Solar Energy
As part of the rollout of its multi-energy strategy in Angola, TotalEnergies announces the launch of the Begonia oil field, and Quiluma and Maboqueiro gas fields developments, as well as its first photovoltaic project in the country, with a capacity of 35 MWp and the possibility of adding 45 MWp…
29 July 2022
Dry well near the Brage field in the North Sea – 31/4-A-13 C
Wintershall Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 055, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 31/4-A-13 C. The well was drilled about 7 kilometres south of the Brage field and 125 kilometres west of Bergen. The primary exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Middle Jurassic…
29 July 2022
Aker BP – Tambar – consent for life extension
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given Aker BP consent for life extension of the Tambar field. The Tambar field is part of production license 065, for which Aker BP is the operator. Consent includes extending operation of Tambar and associated pipelines and power cable for the period 2022-2029. The…
29 July 2022
Eni: Baleine East 1X well drilled and successfully tested in block CI-802 in Côte d’Ivoire
Eni has successfully drilled the Baleine East 1X well, the first exploration well in block CI-802 and second discovery on the Baleine structure, offshore Côte d’Ivoire. The excellent results have allowed to increase by around 25% the volumes of hydrocarbons in place of the Baleine Field, which are now estimated…
29 July 2022
Yinson enters exclusivity agreement with BP to reserve FPSO Nganhurra for PAJ project in Angola
Yinson Holdings Berhad (“Yinson” or the “Group”), through its subsidiary Yinson Acacia Ltd, has entered into an exclusivity agreement with bp Exploration (Angola) Limited (“bp”), as the operator of the Block 31 Contractor Group (the “Agreement”) for the reservation of FPSO Nganhurra, a floating, production storage and offloading (“FPSO”) vessel…
29 July 2022
Shelf drilling awarded new contract in India with ONGC
Shelf Drilling, Ltd. announced that it has received an award for a three-year contract for the C.E. Thornton jack-up rig with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India. The planned start-up of operations is Q2 2023.
29 July 2022
Aquaterra Energy seals 15k HPHT riser deal with UBOC for exploration project in Azerbaijan
Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore energy engineering solutions, has been awarded a high-pressure high temperature (HPHT) subsea riser contract with oil and gas operator, Umid Babek Operating Company (UBOC), for the exploration of its HP well on the Babek project in Azerbaijan. Aquaterra Energy will deliver its 15,000…
29 July 2022
Eni announces the completion of negotiations to start up New Gas Consortium in Angola
Eni and its Partners in the New Gas Consortium (NGC), Chevron’s affiliate in Angola Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), Sonangol P&P, bp and TotalEnergies, together with Angola’s National Agency for Oil, Gas and Biofuels ANPG, are pleased to announce that the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the development of…
29 July 2022
Acquisition of interest in North West Shelf oil producing fields
Jadestone Energy plc ("Jadestone", or the "Company") an independent oil and gas production company focused on the Asia-Pacific region, is pleased to announce that it has executed a sale and purchase agreement (the "Agreement") with BP Developments Australia Pty Ltd ("BP", or the "Seller"), to acquire the Seller's non-operated 16.67%…
28 July 2022
Xodus advises the Dutch Government on second CCS project
Xodus has delivered a review of the project concept, cost estimates and the economic models to enable large-scale CO2-reduction for industrial clusters in the Netherlands. The work for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy focused on the Aramis Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project which will capture,…
28 July 2022
Petrofac awarded North Sea contract extension by EnQuest
Petrofac, a leading provider of services to the global energy industry, is set to take its tenure supporting the Kittiwake platform into two decades, following the award of a contract extension from EnQuest. Under the terms of the three-year contract renewal, Petrofac will continue in its capacity as Duty Holder…
28 July 2022
Subsea 7 and Van Oord consortium awarded contract offshore Guyana
Subsea 7 S.A. and Van Oord announced the award of a substantial1 contract by ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) for the Gas to Energy project offshore Guyana, in water depths of up to 1,450 metres. The scope covers the project management, engineering, and installation of approximately…
28 July 2022
Oceaneering Wins ROV Service Contract Offshore Brazil
Oceaneering International announces that its Subsea Robotics segment has been awarded a multi-year service contract supporting Petrobras projects off the coast of Brazil. This award continues to build on our success in growing our remotely operated vehicle (ROV) business in an important energy market. Oceaneering will provide survey and ROV…
28 July 2022
Vallourec Provides Flowlines and SCR for the King’s Quay Floating Production Unit
Subsea 7 selected Vallourec for the tie-back of 7 subsea wells to the King’s Quay semi-sub, located in the Gulf of Mexico and operated by Murphy Exploration & Production Company – USA. The scope included 60km of 6” and 16” flowlines and Steel Catenary Risers (SCRs). The project required heavy…
28 July 2022
Tekmar awarded CPS supply contract for multiple offshore wind farms in China
Tekmar Group, a leading provider of technology and services for the global offshore energy markets, is pleased to announce a significant new contract award to supply 100 Cable Protection Systems (“CPS”) for use on multiple offshore wind farms in the Shangdong and Guangdong provinces of China. The contract value is…
28 July 2022
CGG and bp Sign Multi-Year Data Transformation Agreement
CGG, a global technology and HPC leader, today announced a major multi-year global data transformation and curation agreement with bp, that will play a key role in supporting bp’s Subsurface digital strategy. Ariel Flores, SVP Subsurface, bp, said: “In our ambition to become ever more predictable and efficient in underpinning…
28 July 2022
James Fisher and Abu Dhabi’s NMDC Group sign strategic agreement to collaborate globally on marine and subsea projects
The two entities will work together to identify and execute projects in the oil and gas sector as well as in decommissioning, offshore wind and marine civil construction industries. James Fisher and Sons plc (James Fisher) and Abu Dhabi’s NMDC Group, a major engineering, procurement and construction company working in…