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Solstad Offshore Bags Contract for Normand Reach

Oct 08, 2018

Offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore has been awarded a contract with Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR), part of DEME Group, for its construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Reach.The contract will commence in 4Q 2018 and has a duration of 4-6 months…

Cyprus Invites Bids to Explore for Offshore Gas

Oct 05, 2018

The government of Cyprus has invited companies to bid on a new energy exploration zone off the coast of Cyprus, said a report in Kathimerini News.The country decided to only permit energy companies already part of the Cypriot Exclusive Economic Zone to bid on the project…

Norway's Goliat Oilfield to Restart by Friday

Oct 04, 2018

Oil production at Eni's Arctic Goliat field off the coast of Norway will restart by Friday following maintenance, the company told Reuters on Thursday.The restart had originally been planned for Oct. 1, but Eni extended the outage to carry out…

North Sea Heliports Alliance, Aberdeen Airport Join for Offshore Wind Rollout

Oct 04, 2018

The six largest heliports in Europe have official launched the North Sea Heliports Alliance (NSHA)  to prepare the oil and gas industry for the impending roll-out of offshore wind projects.Aberdeen International Airport is the busiest heliport…

Petrobras Test Well at Mero Field Reached 58,000 BPD

Oct 03, 2018

Oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, said on Wednesday it finished a long-term test at the Mero field in the Libra pre-salt area with positive results.The Brazilian company said in a statement that the well used for the test in Mero reached an average production of 58…

Eesti Gaas Orders LNG Bunkering Vessel for Baltic Sea

Oct 02, 2018

Estonian energy company Eesti Gaas has placed an order for an LNG (liquefied natural gas)  bunker vessel with bunker tank capacity of 6,000 m3.  The new vessel will provide mobile and efficient LNG bunkering for the growing number of LNG-fuelled…

Nordic American Offshore to Merge with Horizon Maritime

Oct 02, 2018

In the latest consolidation in the offshore sector, Nordic American Offshore (NAO) and Canada based  Horizon Maritime Services signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a fleet of 17 ships capable of operating in offshore environments…

Mexico Must Boost Oil Exploration to Halt Output Fall -Pemex

Oct 01, 2018

Mexico will need to double to about $4 billion its annual oil exploration investment to reverse a 14-year decline in output, a move that will require more funding by Pemex and private producers, a top official with the state-run firm said Friday…

Petrogal to Invest Up to $1 bln per Year in Brazil -CEO

Sep 28, 2018

Petrogal, the Brazilian unit of Portugal's Galp, plans to spend $800 million to $1 billion annually in the coming years in Brazil to develop its current oil and gas assets and boost its stake offshore, its chief executive officer said on Thursday…

Hibiscus Petroleum to Double Production

Sep 27, 2018

Malaysian oil and gas exploration and production company Hibiscus Petroleum is aiming to double its oil output in the United Kingdom and Malaysia to 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2021, a senior company executive said on Thursday.It needs an…

OMV Starts Offshore Oil Production in United Arab Emirates

Sep 27, 2018

Austria's OMV started production at Abu Dhabi's SARB and Umm Lulu's offshore oil fields, expecting to produce 25,800 barrels per day by year-end, it said on Thursday.The gas and oil group took a 20 percent interest in the two oilfields off the United Arab Emirates under a $1…

Shell Sees Peak Output for Brazil's Lula Field in 2020, 2021

Sep 26, 2018

Brazil's most productive field, the Lula, located in the offshore Santos basin, should hit peak production in 2020 or 2021, after reaching 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day next year, an executive at Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday…

Talos to Drill Two Wells to Determine if Find Reaches Pemex Block

Sep 26, 2018

Talos Energy will drill two additional wells aimed at determining the size of an oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico that could extend into a neighboring block held by Mexican state oil firm Pemex, oil regulator CNH said on Tuesday.Talos will…

Petrobras Oil, Gas Output Falls in August

Sep 25, 2018

Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said its oil and gas production in August totaled 2.47 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, attributing the 5.1 percent decline from the previous month to closures for maintenance.Petrobras…

Total Buys Chevron's Interest in Danish Underground Consortium

Sep 25, 2018

French oil and gas major Total said it has agreed to take all of Chevron's share capital in the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC), which will increase its stake in the project and expand its North Sea presence.The acquisition comes a day after…

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