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Petrobras selects Ocean Installer for SURF support

Sep 29, 2014

Ocean Installer has been awarded a contract for SURF support work in Brazil for Saipem. The contract, which will see the Normand Clipper in Brazil for eight months, is valued at ca.US$50 million, with options to extend. Ocean Installer…

BHP Billiton, Pemex sign tech MOU

Sep 26, 2014

Melbourne-based mining and petroleum giant BHP Billiton and Mexican national Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to exchange oil and gas-related technical knowledge and expertise. In April, Pemex announced…

GE's deepwater vertical tree system

Sep 26, 2014

GE's latest Deepwater Vertical Xmas Tree is designed to reduce delivery lead times, with the objectives of higher reliability and extended service life. Rated for depths of up to 3000m, it is equipped with the SemStar5-R, GE’s next-generation…

Weatherford adds RokDoc software

Sep 24, 2014

Weatherford International licensed the Ikon Science RokDoc RT software system to support its global rig-based real-time pore pressure specialists team.  The RokDoc RT system provides critical modelling tools that allow the pore pressure specialists…

Polarcus Adira begins TGS charter

Sep 24, 2014

Polarcus Adira is in transit from Las Palmas to the Gulf of Mexico to begin a 6-month charter for TGS. It will be Polarcus' first project in the US. The survey for TGS will cover an area of 11,500sq km. It will entail the towing of a…

PTTEP picks up Brazil stake from Shell

Sep 22, 2014

Shell’s Brazilian subsidiary, Shell Brasil Petroleo Ltda., will sell 20% participating interest in concession BM-ES-23, offshore Brazil, to Thailand’s PTTEP. BM-ES-23 is in the deepwater Espirito Santo basin, covering approximately 550sq km…

Delta SubSea secures Hornbeck MPSV

Sep 22, 2014

Delta SubSea (DSS) entered into an agreement with a subsidiary of Hornbeck Offshore Services for the HOS Bayou for deepwater remote operated vehicles (ROV) operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The HOS Bayou is one of Hornbeck’s recently…

TGS gets new GoM deepwater 3D Survey

Sep 22, 2014

TGS is continuing its Explorer series seismic acquisition program in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico with Panfilo 3D. Panfilo 3D will add 11,500sq km to TGS' multi-client library in the Lund and Henderson Central Gulf of Mexico protraction areas…

Total shoots for capital discipline

Sep 22, 2014

Total's production should grow to about 2.8MMboe/d in 2017, as 15 major projects start-up in the period from now, the French super major said today (22 September). But, strict capital discipline will also be key, in addition to selling an additional US$10 billion of assets in 2015-17…

Côte d’Ivoire to offer new concessions

Sep 19, 2014

The Republic of Côte d’Ivoire will offer new petroleum exploration concessions, delineating new offshore blocks in deep and ultradeep water of the Côte d’Ivoire sedimentary basin. The details will be presented on 14 October, in Houston, Texas…

Wild Well unveils Singapore capping stack

Sep 18, 2014

Houston-based Wild Well Control has unveiled its new subsea capping stack for response to a global deepwater well control incident that will be located in Singapore. Image from Wild Well The Singapore capping stack…

Eni finds oil in Angola

Sep 17, 2014

Eni has discovered oil in Block 15/06, in the Ochigufu exploration prospect offshore Angola. ENI said the find was 'important' and would be fast tracked to production through the Ngoma floating production, storage and offloading vessel on the company's West Hub development…

SBM Offshore gets Noble GoM contract

Sep 16, 2014

Noble Energy awarded Dutch services provider SBM Offshore a contract for the Big Bend and Dantzler fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Thunder Hawk from SBM Offshore The two companies signed a…

McDermott completes Chevron GoM project

Sep 15, 2014

McDermott International, Inc. completed the Jack and St. Malo project for Chevron USA Inc. located in the Gulf of Mexico Walker Ridge area. The just-completed project is part of the first stage of development of the Jack South, St. Malo South and St…

Aker wins US$465M Petrobras contract

Sep 15, 2014

Petrobras awarded Aker Solutions' subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services (AKOFS) a US$465 million contract to provide subsea intervention services offshore Brazil. The five-year contract slated to begin in 4Q 2016 is for the Aker Wayfarer subsea construction vessel…

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