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AGR, Netscenario form digitalization pact

Dec 15, 2016

AGR Software and Norway-based Netscenario have joined forces to bring digital and automation expertise to companies across the oil and gas industry. Image from AGR. The partnership…

Saipem 7000 to lift out Miller platform

Dec 15, 2016

Italy's Saipem is to use its Saipem 7000 heavy lift vessel to remove BP's Miller platform topsides and jacket in the UK North Sea. The Miller field, which is 270km north east of Aberdeen, in Blocks 16/7b and 16/8b, in the Central North Sea…

WGP nets Ekofisk seismic survey work

Dec 15, 2016

WGP Group has entered into a contract to provide long term seismic acquisition services to ConocoPhillips Skandinavia. WGP will acquire seismic data sets on the Ekofisk field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The seismic acquisition contract has an initial five year term…

MeyGen phase 1b gets green light

Dec 15, 2016

Tidal energy developer Atlantis Resources is to go ahead with the second phase of its MeyGen tidal energy project in the Pentland Firth off Scotland, the firm announced this morning. The project, called Project Stroma, or MeyGen Phase 1B…

Centrica hands out Oda contracts

Dec 15, 2016

Centrica has awarded a string of contracts to FMC Technologies, Subsea 7 and Aker BP / Maersk Drilling, for its Oda field development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.  The Oda oil field (previously called Butch) was discovered in 2011…

UK Cygnus gas giant comes online

Dec 15, 2016

ENGIE E&P UK (formerly GDF Suez E&P) has started production from the giant Cygnus southern North Sea gas development. The field, in license areas P1055 & P1731, 150km off Lincolnshire, is expected to contribute 5% of UK gas production…

Darren Woods replaces Tillerson as Exxon CEO

Dec 14, 2016

Following news that ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson has been nominated by US President-elect Donald Trump to lead the US State Department, ExxonMobil has announced that Tillerson will step down and Darren Woods will succeed Tillerson in both positions…

Chevron cancels Rosebank FPSO newbuild

Dec 14, 2016

Chevron has canceled a US$1.8 billion floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) newbuild order with Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) that was destined for the supermajor’s Rosebank deepwater project in the North Sea. Illustration of the FPSO…

Gazprom to get stake in OMV Norway

Dec 14, 2016

Gazprom and OMV signed an agreement that will see Gazprom acquire stake in OMV Norway. According to the agreement, Gazprom will receive a 38.5% stake in OMV (Norge), a company focused on geological exploration and production in Norway…

COSL files lawsuit against Statoil

Dec 14, 2016

China Oilfiled Services Ltd. (COSL) has filed a civil action lawsuit against Norwegian giant Statoil for terminating the drilling contract for the COSL Innovator in March. The rig has been under investigations by both the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway (PSA)…

Call to ban future exploration off California

Dec 14, 2016

California's governor Jerry Brown has urged US President Barack Obama to permanently withdraw waters off his state from new offshore oil and gas leasing and 'guarantee that future oil and gas drilling' is prohibited.  Brown had sucessfully…

Subsea UK Awards finalists unvieled

Dec 14, 2016

Industry body Subsea UK has revealed the finalists for its annual awards event, to be held early 2017.  The awards, which seek to recognize companies and individuals who are leading the way in Britain’s £9 billion subsea sector, will…

Year in review: 2016

Dec 13, 2016

As OE takes a look back on the year that was 2016, our website's most popular stories pretty much tell everything you need to know. It has been a depressing year for the industry with too many job cut announcements, rigs and vessel stacked (or sold)…

Culzean capex lowered

Dec 13, 2016

Investment costs for the Culzean project are now forecasted to be around US$4 billion, a reduction of about $500 million on the estimate at project sanction, said Gretchen Watkins, CEO, Maersk Oil at the Maersk Group Capital Markets Day in Copenhagen…

Wärtsilä, CSSC sign licensing agreement

Dec 13, 2016

Wärtsilä has signed a manufacturing license agreement with Jiujiang Precision Measuring Technology Research Institute, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSC), based in Jiujiang, China. The two-way agreement provides CSSC with…

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