Hansa Hydrocarbons hopes to start drilling in 2016 after completing a 3D seismic survey across '4Quads' licenses in blocks G18, H16, M3 and N1, offshore Netherlands. The survey covered about 965sq km, 40 km to the north of the Wadden…
Dolphin Geophysical is to acquire and process a 7000sq km SHarp Broadband 3D survey offshore Senegal under a contract with Kosmos Energy. The Dolphin high-capacity 3D vessel Polar Duchess (pictured) has started operations and it will take about four months to complete…
Shell has started work drilling production wells on Malaysia's third deepwater development, the Malikai field, offshore Malaysia. The Malikai development involves 17 wells drilled from a 23,500 tonne tension leg platform production facility…
A new London-based firm co-founded by the former CEO of Cobalt has launched a US$30 million 'flat pack' accomodation barge design for use by the extractive and construction industries, including offshore oil and gas companies. The barge-based new design…
Big oil companies Eni Norge, Statoil, Gdf Suez E&P Norge, OMV Norge and the Norwegian Coastal Administration are teaming up with Aptomar to strengthen technology functionality and communication infrastructure for offshore oil spill detection and management systems…
Vard Holdings Ltd. awarded Houston-based Forum Energy Technologies (FET) a contract for eight remotely operated vehicles (ROV) systems. FET will supply eight Perry XLX 150HP work-class ROVs that will be mobilized on four new-build pipeline…
Ceona has successfully floated the Ceona Amazon pipelay vessel from the Lloyd Werft yard in Bremerhaven, Germany, the company announced on 3 September 2014. Completion is scheduled for November. Work at Bremerhaven follows successful floatation at Crist yard in Poland back in April…
Canada-based, North Sea-focused independent exploration firm Iona Energy has appointed two industry veterens to its ranks and said it plans to go on the acquisition trail as part of growth plans. Former Ithaca Energy CEO Iain McKendrick…
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured a contract from German shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft (FSG) for the complete delivery of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) access doors and hatches for two well-intervention vessels (WIVs)…
Statoil is ceasing production on its Huldra platform today (September 3), the company announced. Huldra is the first gravity-based Statoil-operated installation in the North Sea to be shut down permanently. The platform, in production license (PL) 051/052…
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section has appointed Ross Lowdon (pictured) as chairman. Lowdon takes over from Anthony Onukwu and will hold the chairmanship until September 2015. Read more: Anthony Onukwu reflects on 40 years' of SPE Aberdeen…
Companies are still overlooking the potential threats from cyber crime despite the multi-thousands and even multi-million dollar bills a successful attack could cause. Furthermore, attacks have and continue to penetrate process control systems and take control of physical processes…
Nautronix has commissioned the largest NASDive digital diver communications system for GDA. The vessel provides support for the Swedish Navy, and is fitted with hyperbaric chambers to facilitate rescue of submariners in the event of an incident…
VBMS awarded JDR a contract for the Statoil/Statkraft Dudgeon offshore wind farm. Dudgeon, off the UK’s Norfolk coast will utilize over 95km of JDR’s copper core inter-array cable and a range of cable accessories. The design and manufacture…
Statoil’s executive VP of development and production discusses the importance of ONS 2014 and Statoil’s presence and projects. At ONS, Statoil called on the industry to develop a Lego-approach to bring standard parts together as building blocks for projects…