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Karoon enters Great Australian Bight

Oct 07, 2016

Karoon Gas Australia has been awarded a three-year commitment to explore the Great Australian Bight (GAB), in which the company will focus on acquiring seismic surveys, offshore South Australia.   Map of GAB…

NOPSEMA asks for further Bight details

Sep 28, 2016

BP is facing more setbacks for its Great Australian Bight drilling program, following a further request from Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) for information on the environment plan…

BP submits second Great Australian Bight plan

Aug 19, 2016

Supermajor BP has submitted its second environment plan for the Great Australian Bight to the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), proposing the drilling of two exploration wells. Great…

Technip bags Greater Enfield EPC work

Jul 27, 2016

Technip has won am engineering, procurement, installation and pre-commissioning contract from Australia's Woodside for the Greater Enfield Project. Greater Enfield is 60km off Exmouth in Western Australia in 340-850m water depth. The…

Updated: BP gets another Great Australian Bight extension

Jul 13, 2016

Australia's National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) is giving UK supermajor BP until the end of August to resubmit its modified environmental plan for exploration drilling at the Great Australian Bight that the offshore regulator rejected last year…

Aibel inks Greater Enfield modifications job

Jul 01, 2016

Aibel in Singapore has been awarded a contract for modifications on Woodside Energy Nguijma-Yin floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) off Western Australia. The work will be so that the FPSO, which operates on the Vincent oil field…

Virtalis, Granite Energy work on VR

Jun 13, 2016

Virtalis has teamed up with Granite Energy to bring Virtual Reality (VR) technology to the Scottish oil and gas sector and to governmental departments with responsibility for infrastructure. MD of Aberdeen-based market development company…

BP inks Actemium for Angola FPSOs

May 26, 2016

The oil and gas division of Vinci Energie's industrial processes unit Actemium has won a US multi-million contract with BP Angola.   The ”two-asset” agreement, the first of its kind for BP’s Angolan operations, will see Actemium become…

BP's Bight exploration plan rejected

Nov 17, 2015

Australian regulators have rejected BP's environmental plan for the major's deepwater, four-well drilling plan in the Great Australian Bight. The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) said…

BP sees red over Deepwater Horizon

Jul 28, 2015

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill came back to haunt BP once again in 2Q 2015, as the company reported a massive loss of US$6.3 billion, largely due to the deadly Gulf of Mexico incident. Bob Dudley…

JV establishes North Sea decommissioning facility

Jun 17, 2015

Peterson and UK-based Veolia announced a US$1.5 million investment in the development of a new, purpose built decommissioning facility in Great Yarmouth.  The new site in Great Yarmouth port, operated with joint venture partner Veolia…

ExxonMobil starts Kizomba Phase 2

Apr 30, 2015

ExxonMobil started oil production at the Kizomba Satellites Phase 2 subsea development project off Angola. The Kizomba B FPSO. From BP. Phase 2 of Kizomba is a subsea infrastructure development of the Kakocha…

Offshore Achievement Awards recognize industry’s best

Mar 13, 2015

The offshore energy industry’s highest achievers and most successful companies were recognized on 12 March at the 2015 Offshore Achievement Awards (OAA), with Gordon Ballard, chairman of Schlumberger UK, receiving the Significant Achievement accolade…

Electrifying tube bending

Nov 01, 2014

A CNC (computer numerical control) tube bending machine with advanced programmability is helping Siemens Subsea Products to improve the precision and production efficiency of subsea hydraulic components and systems. Steve Hadrell explains…

ConocoPhilliips extends Archer contract

Jul 31, 2014

ConocoPhillips has extended its contract Archer Ltd. for the provision of platform drilling services for the Greater Ekofisk Area. The Greater Ekofisk Area is located in the southern part of the North Sea, 300km southwest of Stavanger…

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