Bourbon has taken delivery of the Bourbon Arctic from the Vard Brattvåg shipyard (Norway) and completed her first anchor handling operation. The vessel was engaged in the disconnection and unmooring operation of the Island Innovator located at the Fosen field in the central North Sea…
Byron Energy has started drilling a sidetrack well to the SM 6#2 well in the Gulf of Mexico, after a drill pipe became stuck with several unsuccessful attempts over a three-day period to free it, according to partner Otto Energy. Map…
Statoil’s Batwind, a new battery storage solution for offshore wind energy, will be piloted in the world’s first floating wind farm, the Hywind pilot park off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Batwind illustration…
Antelope Oil Tool (AOT), a manufacturer and supplier of casing and cementation equipment, has successfully run their CentraMax RT1 centralizer in ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico, in a deviated and under-reamed wellbore. A customer faced…
Offshore accommodation and workspace specialist HB Rentals was granted an ABS Certification of Design Assessment for its high demand 11ft by 32ft– eight-man sleeper – accommodation module. This achievement now sees this latest generation…
In an effort to restructure and transform, Eni’s 2016-2019 strategic plan is aimed for a competitive cost structure, which includes a total of US$7.9 billion (€7 billion) of disposed assets by 2019, in addition to an efficient operating model…
Prosafe’s Safe Boreas harsh environment accommodation vessel has commenced an eight-month contract with Talisman Sinopec Energy in the North Sea. The US$60 million contract comes with options. The Safe Boreas commenced operations…
Siem Offshore has been awarded two contracts for operation in the North Sea, and off Australia. Image of the MV Siem Marlin, from Siem. Contractors GmbH (SOC), a wholly owned…
As part of the Obama Administration’s on-going commitment to a cleaner, more secure energy future, Janice Schneider, assistant secretary, Land and Minerals Management and Abigail Ross Hopper, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)…
Well-SENSE Technology’s technology director Dan Purkis has been singled out for his efforts in the offshore oil and gas industry with the award of the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s (SPE) Aberdeen section Significant Contribution accolade…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has begun an investigation of a well control incident on the Visund field on 17 March 2016 that caused Statoil to put a halt to production and evacuate workers in the North Sea. Visund…
UK-based independent has now cut US$425 million off its North Sea Kraken heavy oil development budget as it looks to continue reining in costs. After initially shaving $300 million, or about 10%, off the project's original $3.2 billion costs…
Only one in five oil and gas companies see themselves as highly digitalized today. However, close to half of senior oil and gas professionals (45%) already see solid or high potential for big data and analytics to transform the operating efficiency of the industry in 2016…
Chevron's North Sea Erskine field production has been temporarily suspended during maintenance work to remove a pipeline blockage, according to partner Serica Energy. Erskine. Image from Chevron…
Operator VNG Norge has signed a frame agreement contract for the Pil and Bue (arrow and bow in Norwegian) project owner’s engineering services (OES) with Norwegian engineering firm Reinertsen. The OES contractor will provide necessary…