Technip was awarded contract work from Statoil for a subsea project related to the Edvard Grieg field, in PL338, Block 16/1 in the North Sea, about 180 km west of Stavanger, Norway. Statoil has made a call-off for the framework contract Technip has with Statoil for diving services…
Norwegian private equity group HitecVision AS is to invest US$92.6million in Singapore-based Energy Drilling Pte Ltd. The deal will see Hitecvision take a majority stake in the company and it will ensure delivery of Energy Drilling Pte…
Engineering group AMEC has been awarded the hook up and commissioning (HUC) support contract for GDF SUEZ E&P UK Ltd’s Cygnus gas field development. The HUC support contract for the four Cygnus platforms follows on from a front end engineering…
The winners of the Oil & Gas UK Awards 2013 were announced at an awards ceremony attended by more than 600 in Aberdeen, Scotland, last night. The Oil & Gas UK Awards is the annual showcase event for the UK offshore oil and gas industry…
FMC wins TEN order FMC Technologies Inc. received an order from Tullow Ghana Ltd. to supply subsea systems for its Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme Development (TEN) offshore Ghana. The order's estimated value is US$340 million. FMC Technologies’ scope of supply includes subsea trees…
Transboundary may head to committee The US Senate bill ratifying the US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement, S. 812, is reportedly on its way to a conference committee. The Senate’s version of the bill, passed last month (October)…
Singapore-based investment-holding company SEA9 Pte. Ltd. moved to acquire all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Kreuz for S$0.80 per ordinary shares in the capital of Kreuz. Swiber will receive a consideration of S$256…
Aberdeen-based subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore has purchased two Sprint subsea inertial navigation systems from Sonardyne International Ltd. to support ROV operations carried out by its new offshore survey business division…
Dana Petroleum group CEO Marcus Richards believes the oil industry is seeing a structural shift. He gave his personal views at a UK Chatham House event: I would like address the questions raised by the shift in oil demand to industrialized economies in terms of energy security…
Arnaud Breuillac has been appointed president, exploration and production at Total, effective January 1. He will report to Yves Louis Darricarrère, upstream president and member of Total’s executive committee. Yves-Louis Darricarrère was appointed president…
Statoil has agreed to farm down its interest in five exploration licences in the Faroe Islands and two in Norway to the Austrian oil and gas company OMV. The agreement is a result of a broader agreement with OMV, announced in August, to look for cooperation in exploration opportunities…
The European branch of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA Europe) has announced the finalists of its Innovation Awards ahead of its annual SPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference. The award is presented annually to an organization that…
Newpark Drilling Fluids celebrated the opening of its Technology Center in Katy, Texas on Oct. 30, located close to corporate headquarters. The project has been under development for nine months. Newpark President Bruce Smith said he…
Statoil has completed an agreement with the Austrian oil and gas company OMV to divest shares in Gullfaks and Gudrun on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and exit Schiehallion and Rosebank fields West of Shetland. Statoil is reducing its…
Cargotec's MacGregor has entered into an agreement to acquire Aker Solutions' mooring and loading systems unit for an enterprise value of approximately EUR180 million. The unit, known by the Pusnes brand name, provides mooring equipment…
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