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18 June 2021
Contract award for AHTS Siem Pearl
Siem AHTS Pool AS has been awarded a 3 month firm contract for the AHTS Siem Pearl with PSE Kinsale Energy Ltd. The vessel will be supporting a semi-submersible rig during a P&A campaign in the North West European area, and is expected to mobilise during July. As there is…
18 June 2021
BHP Awards McDermott Marine Installation Contract for Shenzi Subsea Multiphase Pumping Project
McDermott International, Ltd today announced it has been selected by BHP to provide a marine installation campaign for the Shenzi Subsea Multiphase Pumping Project (SSMPP). The project is located approximately 138 miles (222 kilometers) offshore in the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of 4,400 feet. McDermott North Ocean…
18 June 2021
Eco Atlantic Oil and Gas LTD Guyana Operational Update
Eco Atlantic's Orinduik petroleum block offshore Guyana (the "Orinduik Block") has continued to advance in its maturity to the selection of further drilling prospects. Eco's partners in the Orinduik Block; Tullow Guyana BV - Operator (60% W.I.) and TOQAP Guyana BV, the Total/Qatar JV (25% W.I.) (together the "JV"), are…
18 June 2021
BOEM and USACE Collaborate to Meet Offshore Wind Goals
In order to increase renewable energy production in offshore waters and help the Administration meet its commitment to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have entered into an agreement in support of…
17 June 2021
PGS Announces FSB Vision for West of Shetland
PGS’ latest FSB Vision rejuvenation project targets a prolific petroleum exploration and production area West of Shetland. Data will be ready summer 2022. The area is characterized by a complex structural and geological history, which gives rise to multiple petroleum plays but also creates several features obstructing subsurface imaging based…
17 June 2021
Wood extends long-standing relationship with Equinor in Norway
Wood has been awarded an extension to its existing framework agreement with international energy company, Equinor, to support their offshore assets in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. With the agreement extending through to Q1 2023, Wood will work with Equinor to drive down costs, increase efficiency, and improve sustainability across the…
17 June 2021
Life of Heimdal gas centre extended to 2023
New wells at Valemon will extend profitable operations at Heimdal, which is processing gas from Valemon. The Heimdal partners have now decided to extend operations at Heimdal to 2023. Since start-up in 1985 Heimdal has produced 46 billion standard cubic metres of gas and 7 million cubic metres of liquid…
17 June 2021
Hurricane Energy plc ("Hurricane" or the "Company") Lancaster Field Development Plan Addendum Approval
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company, is pleased to announce the approval of the Lancaster Field Development Plan Addendum (the "FDPA") by the UK's Oil and Gas Authority (the "OGA"). The FDPA approval, together with associated production, flare, and vent consents, enables production with the flowing…
17 June 2021
Drilling permit for well 25/8-22 S in production licence 820 S
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted MOL Norge AS a drilling permit for well 25/8-22 S, cf. Section 13 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 25/8-22 S will be drilled from the Transocean Barents drilling facility in position 59°21'15.579"N and 02°22'35.984"E. The drilling programme for well 25/8-22 S relates…
17 June 2021
VAALCO Secures Rig for 2021/2022 Drilling Campaign
VAALCO Energy, Inc. (NYSE: EGY; LSE: EGY) (“VAALCO” or the “Company”) today announced that, in conjunction with its 2021/2022 drilling program planned to begin later this year, it has executed a contract with Borr Jack-Up XIV Inc., an affiliate of Borr Drilling Limited, to drill two development wells and two…
17 June 2021
Lime Petroleum acquires 33.84% of producing Brage Field in Norway from Repsol
Lime Petroleum AS (“LimePetroleum” or the “Company”) wishes to announce that it has on 15 June 2021, entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Repsol Norge AS (“Repsol”), to acquire Repsol’s 33.8434 per cent interests in the oil, gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) producing Brage field, and…
17 June 2021
Transocean Ltd. Announces $116 Million in Harsh Environment Contract Awards
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) announced today the Transocean Barents was awarded a two-well contract in Norway with commencement expected in February 2022. The contract award is approximately 200 days in duration and adds an estimated $60 million in firm contract backlog. Additionally, the Transocean Norge was awarded a four-well contract…
16 June 2021
Equinor Awards Subsea Integration Alliance EPCI Contract for Bacalhau
Schlumberger announced today an award to Subsea Integration Alliance of a large contract by Equinor on its Bacalhau project offshore Brazil. The contract scope covers the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of the subsea production systems (SPS) and subsea pipelines (SURF). The development will include 19 trees as well…
16 June 2021
Arup-ODE awarded Owner’s Engineer role for Anmado Offshore Wind Farm in South Korea
Arup, in association with Offshore Design Engineering Limited (ODE), has been commissioned by Hyundai Engineering Corporation as the Owner’s Engineer for Korea Wind Energy Co Ltd’s 220MW Anmado Offshore Wind Project in South Korea. Located at the coast of the South Jeolla Province (Jeollanam-do) of South Korea, the project is…
16 June 2021
Swire Energy Services invests in wind O&M technology company, BladeInsight
Swire Energy Services invests in wind O&M technology company, BladeInsight, to support renewable development. Global energy services provider, Swire Energy Services (SES) has announced the investment in wind O&M technology start-up, BladeInsight. The deal will see SES obtain a majority shareholding, with options for further future investment. Founded in 2015…
16 June 2021
Bilfinger strengthens wind maintenance offering with Sabik Offshore partnership
Leading operations, maintenance and asset integrity contractor Bilfinger Salamis UK has announced a collaboration with Sabik Offshore to upgrade and retrofit offshore wind marking systems in the UK and North West Europe. Strengthening the company’s offshore wind operations and maintenance portfolio, Bilfinger’s skilled technicians will install and maintain Sabik Offshore’s…
16 June 2021
Borr Drilling Limited – Entering MoU to streamline Mexico operations and improve liquidity
Borr Drilling Limited (the “Company”, “Borr Drilling”) (NYSE and OSE: “BORR) has five rigs working for joint ventures which are jointly owned with our Mexican partner providing integrated well services for Pemex. The services commenced in May 2019 and have provided Pemex with an incremental production of approximately 125,000 barrels…
16 June 2021
Shelf Drilling Awarded Contract For The Shelf Drilling Tenacious Jack-Up Rig
Shelf Drilling, Ltd. (“Shelf Drilling” or the “Company”, OSE: SHLF) announced that it has secured a one-year contract for the Shelf Drilling Tenacious jack-up rig with a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation (“Chevron”) – Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (“CABGOC”), for operations offshore Angola. The contract is expected to commence…
16 June 2021
Hurricane Energy plc ("Hurricane" or the "Company") Update on Lincoln-14 well plug and abandonment
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company, provides an update on operations to plug and abandon the 205/26b-14 ("Lincoln-14") well on the P1368 (South) licence in the Greater Warwick Area ("GWA"), which Hurricane operates on behalf of the GWA joint venture (Hurricane 50%, Spirit Energy Resources Limited…
16 June 2021
2021 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release
The Coalition Government announced the 2021 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release, with around 80,000 square kilometres of new acreage available for exploration in Commonwealth waters. Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia Keith Pitt said the release comprises 21 areas across the Bonaparte, Browse, Carnarvon, Otway, Sorell and Gippsland basins…
15 June 2021
Equinor – consent for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given Equinor consent to drill exploration wells 6407/1-U-1 and 6407/1-1-9 in the Norwegian Sea.
15 June 2021
Fugro minimises in-person inspections with new floating offshore wind real-time monitoring solution
A Fugro-led consortium that includes AS Mosley and the University of Strathclyde has designed a mooring line fatigue tracker that safely and cost-effectively monitors offshore floating wind turbines, thanks to innovation funding from the Scottish Government. The consortium won the funding to develop the tracker, which fuses the motion and…
15 June 2021
OGA looks to support supply chain firms by expecting operators to collaborate
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has (14 June 2021) published its Stewardship Expectation 12 which outlines the ways in which companies should collaborate with their supply chain contractors. The Expectation explains that strong contracting relationships are needed to ensure the UK has an effective and sustainable supply chain. Currently,…
15 June 2021
Mocean Energy Blue X wave machine starts sea trials at EMEC
The prospect of generating clean energy from waves moved a step closer as Mocean Energy commenced testing of their Blue X wave energy prototype at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney. In the last few days the 20-metre long, 38-tonne wave machine has been towed from Kirkwall to…
15 June 2021
C-Innovation Successfully Completes Remote Survey in Guyana From U.S. Headquarters
C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has successfully completed its first remote survey scope in Guyana. Remote survey operations are based in C-I’s headquarters in Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S. and conducted by C-Survey (C-S), an internal division of C-I. Remote survey is…
15 June 2021
2021 production guidance increased
Lundin Energy AB (Lundin Energy) is pleased to announce that following better than expected production performance across all key fields, the production guidance for 2021 has been increased to between 180 to 195 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day (Mboepd), from the original guidance of 170 to 190 Mboepd.…
15 June 2021
TGS and Earth Science Analytics Announce Collaboration to Expand Seismic and Well Data Offerings
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, has announced a collaboration agreement with analysis and machine learning company Earth Science Analytics to share expertise and promote further innovation in data-driven geoscience. This partnership has already delivered insight through a range of unique derivative datasets for the TGS Utsira…
15 June 2021
RWE begins construction of its offshore wind farm Sofia on Dogger Bank
Initial works have now started at Teesside ahead of construction of the onshore converter station and electrical system in early 2022 The 1.4 gigawatts offshore wind project will require an investment of approximately £3bn Final completion of the project is expected by Q4 2026 “Achieving this start-of-construction milestone for Sofia…
14 June 2021
The Offshore Part of One Line of Nord Stream 2 Has Been Mechanically Completed
The offshore part of one line of Nord Stream 2 has been mechanically completed. Pipelay was completed on June 4, 2021, and the above water tie-in was performed today – the offshore pipeline sections laid from Russia and Germany have thus been interconnected. Starting from tomorrow, the required pre-commissioning activities…
14 June 2021
Oil discovery near Visund in the northern North Sea
Equinor and partners Vår Energi and Aker BP have struck oil in production licence 554. Recoverable resources are estimated at between 1.3 and 3.6 million standard cubic metres of oil equivalent, corresponding to 8-23 million barrels of oil equivalent. “This is the first Equinor-operated well in the production licence, and…
14 June 2021
Saipem, in JV with DSME, awarded a contract by Petrobras for a new FPSO in the Búzios offshore field in Brazil
Saipem, leading of a joint venture with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd (DSME), a main South Korean specialized shipbuilding and offshore contractor, has been awarded by Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) a contract for the construction of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO) named P-79 for the development…
14 June 2021
Seabed Geosolutions Wins Project In The Americas
Seabed Geosolutions has received a conditional Letter of Award (LOA) from an undisclosed company for an ocean bottom node (OBN) project in the Americas region. The project is anticipated to start in the fourth quarter of 2021 after completion of current crew commitment in Brazil, extending the crew’s operational engagement.…
14 June 2021
Award of acreage and opening of new areas for offshore wind in Norway
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has put out several proposals for public consultation regarding development of offshore wind in Norway. The consultation is being held in conjunction with the Report to the Storting (White Paper) ‘Putting Energy to Work’, which explores long term value creation from Norway’s energy resources.More
14 June 2021
Hurricane Energy plc ("Hurricane" or the "Company") Lancaster Field Update
Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company, provides an update on Lancaster field operations. On 10 June 2021, the Company announced that the electric submersible pump ("ESP") in the 205/21a-6 ("P6") well had tripped on 8 June 2021, causing the well to be temporarily shut in on…
14 June 2021
Wood extends partnership on Hibernia in Eastern Canada
Wood will build upon its long-standing partnership with Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) following the renewal of a major contract to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) solutions and maintenance to the Hibernia platform off the coast of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. With the five-year extension agreement,…
14 June 2021
bp, Aker and Statkraft join forces for offshore wind in the Norwegian North Sea
bp has agreed to join Statkraft and Aker Offshore Wind in a consortium bidding to develop offshore wind energy in Norway. The partnership – in which bp, Statkraft and Aker Offshore Wind will each hold a 33.3% share – will pursue a bid to develop offshore wind power in the…
11 June 2021
Havfram is awarded African Technip Energies contract
Havfram announced that Technip Energies has awarded Havfram a contract for the pre-installation and subsequent hook-up of the subsea mooring system for a natural gas Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO). Newly founded Technip Energies is providing this facility to BP, for deployment on the maritime border of Mauritania and…
11 June 2021
Kongsberg Maritime Wins Nok 250 Million Contract With CMHI To Deliver CSOV Design And Equipment to Awind
Kongsberg Maritime (KM) has won contracts to design and equip two construction service operation vessels (CSOV/SOV) for the Norway-based shipowner Awind AS, a fully-owned subsidiary of Integrated Wind Solutions AS. The combined contract value is approximately NOK 250 million. Destined for the renewable offshore wind market, the new CSOVs will…
11 June 2021
JDR wins Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind project in Germany
JDR, the global subsea umbilical supplier and servicer, owned by the TFKable Group, has been awarded a contract by Parkwind to supply, test and terminate 33kV subsea cables for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany The company will supply the 45km of 33kV array cable that will…
11 June 2021
AqualisBraemar LOC hired on next phases of Vietnam Offshore Wind Project
PowerChina Huadong Engineering Co. Ltd. has appointed AqualisBraemar LOC as marine warranty surveyor on phases 2 and 3 on the Binh Dai Wind Farm Development offshore Vietnam. Phases 2 and 3 include the installation of 24 units of Goldwind turbines. AqualisBraemar LOC’s scope of work includes the technical review and…
11 June 2021
Neptune Energy pilots VR technology developed for astronauts on Gjøa
Neptune Energy announced the successful completion of a virtual reality pilot on its operated Gjøa platform in the Norwegian North Sea, enabling teams to make highly realistic virtual visits to the facility. The technology, developed by PaleBlue and used to train astronauts travelling to the International Space Station, will reduce…
11 June 2021
Longboat Energy plc (“Longboat Energy”, “Longboat” or the “Company”) Farm-Ins to High Impact Drilling Programme, Fundraising Result and Publication of Admission Document
Further to its announcement on 1 June 2021, Longboat Energy is pleased to announce it has successfully raised gross proceeds of £35 million by means of a conditional placing and subscription for New Ordinary Shares (the “Fundraising”). The Fundraising was completed at a price of 75 pence per share (the…
11 June 2021
Aker ASA: Signs Agreement to Acquire Prototech AS
Aker ASA announced today that Aker Capital (collectively referred to as “Aker”) has acquired the Norwegian technology and research and development (R&D) company Prototech AS (“Prototech”). The acquisition provides access to a portfolio of industrial technology solutions and R&D capabilities that underpin Aker’s strategic development in the energy transition. “Prototech…
11 June 2021
With hundreds of Australian wells stopping production soon, a multi-billion P&A market emerges
Australia is about to see its largest-ever wave of offshore development wells that reach the end of their producing life and need to be for decommissioned. This task is both adding headaches for producers and creating a multibillion-dollar opportunity for plugging and abandonment (P&A) suppliers. A Rystad Energy report shows…
10 June 2021
World’s largest vessel removes Morecambe Bay topsides
Pioneering Spirit successfully executed the single-lift removal of the former DP3 gas production topsides from Spirit Energy’s Morecambe Bay development in the East Irish Sea. This follows the single-removal of the adjacent DP4 topsides and subsequent transport to the UK in April. The vessel’s motion-compensated lift technology proved hugely effective…
10 June 2021
TGS Announces New Onshore 3D Seismic Survey in the Montney Basin
TGS, a global provider of energy data and intelligence, today announced Hipp Creek 3D, a new Onshore multi-client 3D seismic survey within the Montney Basin of Northeast British Columbia, Canada.Hipp Creek 3D will add nearly 200 square kilometers of high-quality seismic data tying into existing TGS 3D seismic coverage within…
10 June 2021
Announcement of awards in predefined areas (APA) 2021
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy announced APA 2021 on 9 June 2021, encompassing the predefined areas with blocks in the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea. The deadline to apply for APA 2021 is Wednesday, 8 September 2021 at 12:00. Applicants are encouraged to submit in good time…
10 June 2021
Dry wells near the Fram field in the North Sea – 35/11-25 S and 35/11-25 A
Equinor Energy AS, operator of production licence 090, has concluded the drilling of wildcat wells 35/11-25 S and 35/11-25 A. The wells were drilled about 7 kilometres west of the Fram field in the northern North Sea and 125 kilometres north-west of Bergen. The objective of well 35/11-25 S was…
10 June 2021
Shearwater GeoServices recycles Western Trident as part of its fleet renewal strategy
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (“Shearwater”) has completed the sale of the seismic vessel Western Trident for recycling as part of the company’s fleet renewal strategy. The vessel has been delivered in Turkey for recycling in accordance with EU regulations and the 2009 Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and…
10 June 2021
Deep Helder Deployed On The Equinor Beacon Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project
The MV Deep Helder has been deployed by MMT on the 2021 export cable route surveys for the Equinor “Beacon Wind” offshore wind farm. SeaMar’s Deep Helder is supporting MMT on this renewable energy project during the Geophysical, Geotechnical, Environmental and Benthic surveys along the export route of the Beacon…