The Jan De Nul Group has ordered a new vessel at the Uljanik Shipyard in Pula, Croatia. The vessel, which will be 138m-long with a deadweight of 10,500-tonne, will be a multipurpose vessel, able to carry out trenching and offshore support…
Heerema Fabrication Group’s Vlissingen fabrication yard has completed the fabrication of two jackets for the Golden Eagle Development project of Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd. With the departure of Nexen’s 6,400-ton PUQ (Production Utilities…
Eni S.p.A. CEO Paolo Scaroni and Eni E&P COO Claudio Descalzi met with Mozambique President Armando Guebuza today in Changara, the mineral district of Tete province in western Mozambique, to discuss Eni’s ongoing activities and projects in the country…
NEL has invested US $386,666 in a new erosive flow center at its Glasgow base. The facility is the first in the UK to offer the complete range of erosive flow services, including flow testing, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), operation and performance assessment…
Trinity Exploration & Production plc, an independent focused on Trinidad and Tobago, issued an update today on its upcoming exploration program. Trinity plans to spud two offshore exploration wells in 4Q 2013, one on the west coast (El…
Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil) received consent to use the Polar Pioneer facility.The consent applies to permanent plugback of well 31/5-J-41 and sidetrack drilling of well 31/5-H-2 in the Troll field in the North Sea in production license 085…
SeaBird Exploration Plc's Northern Explorer was awarded a contract in the Mediterranean. The contract has an estimated duration of 150 days, including mobilization from South Africa, and is valued at about US $10.5 million.
After their recently signed ten-year extension comes into effect, Fugro and China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL), will enter the fourth decade of the successful joint venture. China Offshore Fugro Geosolutions (COFG), in which each company holds 50% interest…
Royal Boskalis Westminster subsidiary Dockwise has completed a dry dock project using its new transport vessel Dockwise Vanguard. The project was to assist with the repair and maintenance of a semisubmersible drilling rig in the Mediterranean…
Mexico’s Cotemar group announced that Safe Regency has been awarded a contract extension and option through 31 March 2014, continuing at US$75,000/day. The Safe Regency provides accommodation at Pemex's Cantarell field under a bareboat charter contract in the Gulf of Mexico…
Bangladesh English-language newspaper, Dhaka Tribune, reported on 5 August that state-owned Bangladesh Oil & Gas Corp. (Petrobangla) will sign exploration agreements with two international oil companies for three blocks. Petrobangla initially…
Farstad Shipping ASA announced that it has been awarded 10 charter contracts for anchor-handling tug supply vessels from ENI Australia, BHHP Billiton, Woodside Energy, Chevron, Brunei Shell Petroleum, and Oil Search (PNG): AHTS Far Sky (1991…
Next month’s SPE Offshore Europe exhibition and conference will be the largest in the event’s history with more exhibiting companies and countries represented than ever before. The sold-out exhibition halls, covering a record 27,082…
The second largest offshore wind farm in the world, costing £1.3 billion and generating enough clean electricity to power over half a million homes, was officially opened by UK energy and business minister Michael Fallon today. Greater Gabbard…
A group of divers have completed specialist coded welding trials at a leading north-east Scotland oil and gas industry support and training facility to prepare them for work in the Norwegian sector. The Aberdeen-based National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC)…
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