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Stone Energy to use HF-SEP in GOM

Apr 07, 2014

Pellerin Water Solutions (PWS), a subsidiary of Pellerin Energy Group, has designed and built a Horizontal Flotation Separator (HF-SEP) for Stone Energy Corporation. The specifically designed HF-SEP with dissolved gas flotation (DGF)…

EMGS wins North Energy seismic job

Apr 07, 2014

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has received a Letter of Award (LOA) from North Energy ASA for a contract of US$3.3 million for 3D EM data acquisition over and in the vicinity of license PL509S in the North Sea. 'This contract…

AGR inks Sakhalin contract

Apr 07, 2014

AGR's software solutions division had signed its first contract with Sakhalin Energy. The three-year deal includes the latest version of AGR's P1 software, as well as maintenance and support services. The software allows operators to maximize performance during well-construction projects…

Global launches diving division

Apr 07, 2014

Global Energy Group is launching a new offshore diving division to expand its existing inshore diving operations. Global Diving will deliver air and nitrox diving for the offshore oil and gas and renewables sectors in the UK and world-wide…

ISN eyes Aberdeen growth

Apr 07, 2014

Oil and gas IT services firm ISN Solutions has secured £4.6m investment from Aberdeen-based private equity firm Maven Capital Partners as part of a growth plan.  Entrepreneur Tom Smith, founder of telecommunications firm Nessco (pictured)…

Tymor opens Louisiana office

Apr 07, 2014

The expansion follows a second successful year for the naval architecture and marine engineering specialist.  The company, which focuses on marine, subsea and structural design and analysis, is on track to record turnover of £800,000 for the financial year ended March 2014…

Xcite signs Bentley FSO MOU

Apr 07, 2014

Aberdeen-based independent explorer Xcite Energy Resources (XER) has agreed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Teekay Shipping Norway on the use of a floating production facility for its Bentley heavy oil field in the North Sea. The…

Pay day for Gudrun

Apr 07, 2014

Production has started on the first new Statoil-operated platform on the Norwegian Continental Shelf since 2005.  The Gudrun oil and gas field, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, is also the first new to be operated by Statoil from the Stavanger region since Sleipner in 1993…

Alfa Laval snaps up Framo brand

Apr 07, 2014

Heat transfer, separation and fluid handling firm Alfa Laval has agreed to buy submerged pump systems firm Frank Mohn AS for NOK 13 billion from Wimoh AS.  Alfa Laval said the move, which includes the Framo brand products, would strengthen its fluid handling portfolio…

BSEE inspects Eagle Texas vessel

Apr 04, 2014

A team of US BSEE engineers and inspectors conducted a safety inspection of the first FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) vessel designed and built for containment use in the Gulf of Mexico. The pre-production inspection is…

ION plans new 2D survey off Peru

Apr 04, 2014

ION Geophysical Corp. today announced it has been awarded permits to acquire 12,600km of seismic data offshore Peru. The 2D multi-client survey, known as PeruSPAN, covers the offshore margin from the Talara basin in the north, to the Pisco basin in the south…

Fractured basement reservoirs: a new play for the UK

Apr 04, 2014

Are the UK's fractured basement reservoirs ripe for exploitation? Hurricane Energy's Robert Trice explains why he believes they are. The potential of fractured basement reservoirs is often overlooked by explorers, yet there are numerous…

ION, Polarcus to shoot Porcupine 3D off Ireland

Apr 04, 2014

ION Geophysical Corp. today announced it is collaborating with UAE-based Polarcus to acquire a new 4000sq km, 3D multi-client seismic survey offshore southwest Ireland, the first major survey of the significantly underexplored deepwater Southern Porcupine basin…

Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico increase share of US crude imports

Apr 04, 2014

The US Energy Information Administration’s new “Today in Energy” brief looks at how US oil imports were down in 2013, but the share of imports last year from the United States' top three foreign oil suppliers—Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico—was the highest in at least four decades…

Global Briefs OE April 2014

Apr 04, 2014

US rakes in $850million for lease sale The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received 380 bids for 326blocks in the central Gulf of Mexico, totaling more than US $850 million. Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 231 attracted operators to bison almost 40 million acres…

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