DOF Subsea inked US$30.8 million (NOK 270 million) in IMR and subsea installation contracts in the Asia Pacific and Atlantic regions that will use the company’s subsea project fleet. Skandi Hercules…
A major study is underway to identify new processes and technologies that can be applied to asset integrity challenges in the UK offshore oil and gas industry. Lockheed Martin has been commissioned to conduct a technology landscaping…
UTEC NCS Survey, part of UTEC (an Acteon company), has announced the award of a multi-year rig move and positioning framework contract with Total. Total recently awarded the three-year contract with the opportunity to provide positioning…
Atlantis Resources and ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) are teaming up to develop a joint portfolio of projects for the growing tidal sector, announced Atlantis. Atlantis’s Scottish project development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL)…
Shipping and offshore specialist law firm Wikborg Rein says current low oil prices could mean there are bargains to be had for investors in the offshore sector who follow recommended procedures for assessing and acquiring distressed companies…
Following the participation in front-end engineering and development (FEED) work over past several months, Sevan Marine has announced that it has signed two agreements related to the FPSO prospects in the UK North Sea. The first agreement…
Polarcus has received a letter of intent from Maersk Oil on behalf of the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) for a 4D marine seismic survey offshore Denmark. The project is due to commence in Q2 2016 and will run for approximately three months…
Orkney based Scotrenewables Tidal Power (SRTP) has secured a further £5.7 million from investors to allow it to demonstrate the world’s largest tidal turbine. The company is currently nearing the completion of the build of its SR2000 (2MW) system in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast…
Heerema Fabrication Group has marked the first steel for Maersk Oil's Culzean development jackets at its yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. HFG has contracts for fabricating the central processing facility, utilities and livings quarters and well head platform jackets for the high-pressure…
Statoil and its partners have submitted a plan for Norway's first unmanned platform to develop three oil and gas fields under its North Sea Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project. The development, targeting the Alpha, Gamma and Kappa oil and gas fields…
Noble Energy received the green light from the Israeli government on 17 December, to move forward with the development of Leviathan and the Tamar expansion, despite a last attempt from the Israeli Forum for the Protection of the Coastline that petitioned the High Court to not approve the plan…
Total's CEO Patrick Pouyanné has been elected chairman of the board. He succeeds Thierry Desmarest, whose term as chairman of the board expires on 18 December due to age limits in Total's bylaws. Desmarest will remain a director until the annual shareholders’ Meeting on 24 May 2016…
UK-based explorer Faroe Petroleum has awarded a rig contract for the drilling of Brasse exploration well in the Norwegian North Sea. The firm also says production has restarted from the Enoch field, in which it has a 13.86% stake. The…
The acquisition of 100% of the shares of E.ON E&P Norge by DEA Norge has been completed on the 16 December, 2015. With the deal, DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG enhances its presence in Norway and its long-term commitment to the country’s oil and gas industry…
Peak Well Systems has made a further investment in its Aberdeen Technology Centre in support of ongoing research and development and commercialization of its newly launched SIMULTRA range. The range is a new generation of flow control…