The 9000-tonne jacket for Det norske's Ivar Aasen field offshore Norway is in Rotterdam before it's final journey to the North Sea. The 138m-tall jacket was built by Saipem at its Arbatax facility in Sardinia and is now sat on Heerema's H-627 barge at Franklin Offshore…
Wintershall's unmanned Ravn platform is being towed out to the Danish sector of the North Sea ready for installation. The platform, which will produce the Ravn field, in License 5/06, is due to start up by the end of this year. Ravn…
Statoil Petroleum recently completed a North Sea inline isolation in order to facilitate the tie-in of its Valemon platform to its Huldra-Heimdal pipeline. The tie-in will require 27km (16mi) of pipe to be laid. Statoil chose SmartPlug isolation technology…
Oilfield services companies are putting a brave face on the continuing market downturn, despite some reporting shrinking order books. Subsea 7 and Fugro reported shrinking order books in their 1Q results this morning. Subsea 7’s…
Siemens is to sell its Bristol, UK-based tidal energy company, Marine Current Turbines, to tidal energy developer Atlantis Resources. Atlantis, which is behind the largest planned tidal development project in the world, says the move…
In this video, Eni shows the Goliat floating and production storage offloading unit (FPSO) platform arriving in Hammerfest, Norway from the Ulsan shipyard in South Korea after a 63-day journey of 15,608 nautical miles. The platform was aboard the Dockwise Vanguard…
Blue Water Shipping signed a contract with Baku Shipyard covering the transport of two hull sections from Singapore to the newly established Baku Shipyard in Azerbaijan. Map from Blue Water…
BP and Total beat analysts’ predictions by reporting better than expected results this morning, despite consistently low oil prices. French oil major Total saw its fastest production growth in more than a decade and gains in its refining…
Wintershall Norge has made a small oil discovery on the Imsa prospect in wildcat well 6406/2-8 in production license 589 in the Norwegian Sea, 190km northwest of Kristiansund. Image from Wintershall…
UK-based distributed acoustic sensing technology firm OptaSense has partnered with Weatherford International to form a strategic alliance to deliver integrated optical sensing solutions designed to optimize well planning, construction and production across the asset lifecycle…
Statoil spudded the Bister exploration well 6407/8-7 in the Norwegian Sea, says Aberdeen-based exploration firm Faroe Petroleum. Map from Faroe. The Bister prospect is in production license 348/C…
The latest EIC Monitor report once again shows a significant decline in the levels of contracting activity across the global upstream sector in Q1 2015. Despite the overall number of contracts being awarded dropping, the value of some is substantial…
Keynvor MorLift (KML) added a second Saab Seaeye Cougar XT to their ROV fleet. Cougar XT ROV with detachable tooling skid. From KML. This new addition comes fully containerized and can be easily transported…
Baker Hughes Inc. issued its international rig count that showed 1251 rigs operating worldwide in March 2015 outside of the US and Canada. Unsurprisingly, global rig counts have dropped significantly due to an approximate 50% drop in crude oil prices since 2014…
An overboard incident on the Scarabeo 8 semisubmersible drilling unit offshore unit was caused by missing grating on the blowout preventer (BOP) carrier platform grating, a report by Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) says. The…