Sonomatic, a provider of automated ultrasonic inspection services, has developed a tool for the internal inspection of caissons. The integrity of caissons is critical to safe and efficient operation of offshore structures. As offshore facilities age…
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) received nearly US$563 million (CAD $758 million) in work commitments in its latest deepwater bid round for the East Newfoundland and Jeanne d’Arc regions, offshore the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador areas…
China Oilfield Services' 12-streamer HYSY 720 seismic vessel has completed the operations of two 3D seismic data acquisition in the Arctic Barents Sea recently. The campaign covered three blocks and follows a previous campaign covering 1820…
Technip Umbilicals has been awarded a contract by a major operator to supply a subsea control umbilical in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract includes the project management and manufacture of 7km of a static and dynamic unarmored steel tube umbilical…
Ophir Energy, Golar LNG and oilfield services giant Schlumberger have agreed to form a joint operating company to develop the Fortuna field, offshore Equatorial Guinea, Africa. The project will use Golar's floating LNG technology and…
Aker BP (formerly Det norske and BP Norway) has awarded Altus Intervention an up to nine-year frame agreement contract for well intervention services. Services, starting mid-December, included consist of casedhole wireline, slickline…
Dutch floating technologies firm SBM Offshore has been picked to provide a floating wind systems solution for a pilot project, offshore France. EDF Energies Nouvelles was selected by the French government last week to construct a pilot floating wind farm for its Provence Grand Large project…
Bernard J. Duroc-Danner, chairman of the board, president and CEO, of Weatherford International has resigned, effective immediately. Robert Rayne, current vice chairman of the board, will serve as chairman of the board. Krishna Shivram take over as interim CEO…
Houston’s Vaalco Energy makes its exit from Angola discontinuing all operations, as the company picked up stake in Etame off Gabon in Q3 2016, narrowing its focus and reducing costs. Image of Gabon operations…
Saipem has been awarded new contracts with an overall amount of about US$1 billion, with two major deals awarded by Saudi Aramco. In particular, the most significant are the notification of award by Saudi Aramco of two EPIC contracts (engineering…
Coretrax, an engineered servicing company for wellbore clean up and abandonment, has radically expanded its Middle East presence by moving its Saudi Arabian operations into a 130,000sq ft facility in Dammam. 'We’ve worked hard to get…
Tullow Oil is moving to get its Jubilee project offshore Ghana on track by year-end, as it firms up plans to divest all of its Norwegian assets by 1H 2017. Image from Tullow. “We…
Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Ltd. (formerly Talisman Sinopec Energy UK) has exercised options to extend the charter of the Safe Boreas accomodation vessel by 44 days. In mid-March 2016, the Safe Boreas started a 245-day firm operational period at Montrose A in the UK sector of the North Sea…
James Fisher Subsea (JF Subsea), a division of James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS), has reduced inspection downtime to 2% for Shell UK, through use of asset-based remotely operated vehicles (ABROVs) on oil platform inspection programs in the North Sea…
Irish independent explorer Providence Resources has lost a Supreme Court application to appeal a decision which meant it was unable to recoup costs from a drilling campaign in 2011/12. Providence wanted to appeal a UK Court of Appeal…