C6 Technologies, an oilfield technology company offering new solutions for well intervention and conveyance utilizing composite materials, is performing field trials on its new ComTrac system after extensive test well runs. C6 Technologies – a joint venture by Archer Ltd…
Siem Offshore has lined up a string of charter contracts for its vessels with several global companies. BHP Billiton has hired the Siem Aquamarine and Siem Amethyst AHTS vessels to support upcoming drilling work west of Australia for a firm period of 240 days…
Odfjell Drilling has received a letter of intent from an undisclosed party for further employment for its third-generation semisubmersible, the Deepsea Bergen, for one firm exploration well plus optional sidetrack and well testing on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…
Ithaca Energy shareholders have approved a proposed takeover bid from Delek Group that will expand the Israeli company's presence in the North Sea. Image from Delek Grou According to Ithaca…
Norway-based accommodation vessel operator Prosafe has sold another vessel for scrap and is planning to sell off another to the same end. Image of the Safe Boreas, from Prosafe. Prosafe…
Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University Institute of Petroleum Engineering has signed a five-year partnership agreement with Total. Worth at least US3.2 million (£2.5 million), the agreement was signed by Elisabeth Proust, managing director…
At 2:30 p.m. South Korean local time, Statoil's huge Aasta Hansteen spar - the world's largest and Norway's first - set sail from Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard, bound for Norway. The journey, aboard Boskalis' Dockwise Vanguard heavy transport vessel is about 14…
Ampelmann, a provider of safe offshore access to the energy industry, has released it latest Walk to Work system which has been specially designed for operation in extreme cold conditions. The N-type, nicknamed Icemann, was officially launched in Rotterdam…
Norwegian oilfield services company Beerenberg has won a hook-up contract with Aker Solutions worth US$23.4 million (NOK 200 million) plus options for two installations on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. Beerenberg’s scope of work will include scaffolding…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has given Statoil, the operator for production license 532, consent to drill exploration well 7219/9-2 in block 7219 at the Kayak prospect in the Barents Sea. The drilling site is 198km northwest of Sørøya in Finnmark and around 140km northwest of Goliat…
Cluff Natural Resources (CLNR) has found a range of development options for two of the company’s lower risk projects on License P2248 in the Southern North Sea through a scoping study conducted by Xodus Group. The study had indicated…
Hyperdynamics Corp.’s wholly owned subsidiary, SCS Corp. (SCS), South Atlantic Petroleum (Sapetro) and the government of the Republic of Guinea have executed a third amendment to the 2006 production sharing contract (PSC), to approve the…
Woodside Petroleum has added a fifth well to its Myanmar drilling program, following successful results from the Thalin deepwater discovery. The company also revealed it has made some progress in narrowing alternative ideas for the development of Browse basin offshore Western Australia…
Geoscience firm Spectrum has started a 35,000km multi-client 2D seismic survey covering 435,000km offshore Argentina, in deepwater, in cooperation with YPF and with the authorization of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. This survey…
Norwegian subsea industry focused group GCE Subsea has elected OneSubsea's Jon Arve Sværen as its chairman. Sværen is currently employed as VP Business Strategy Processing in OneSubsea. 'I am convinced that subsea technology has a bright future despite the current downturn in the industry…