Ampelmann and Sakhalin Energy Investment signed an agreement to install and operate a winterized version of an Ampelmann’s motion compensated gangway system. This system is designed to be capable of safely and efficiently transferring work crew in temperatures down to -28˚C…
The repair of the Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye, sixth generation semisubmersible mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), have been completed under the survey of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Shipyard in Yantai…
Centrica plc will reduce its workforce by 3000 jobs this year, with the first 800 jobs to be cut in the first three months, in efforts to cut costs by more than US$1 billion (£750 million) per year. The job cuts are most likely to hit British Gas…
Repsol Sinopec Brazil has discovered hydrocarbon pay at the Gávea A1 well in the ultra deepwater pre-salt Campos basin, offshore Brazil. Map of Campos basin, from Statoil. Gávea A1…
UK-based independent explorer Hurricane Energy is planning two new appraisal wells on its Lancaster discovery after raising £52 million funding. The two wells, called the Lancaster 7 wells, could help Hurricane make a final investment…
Cox Oil Offshore has acquired a number of assets in the Gulf of Mexico from Chevron. The acquisition includes 19 fields and associated assets primarily on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf and in Louisiana state waters. “Today’s…
Noble Corp.’s fleet report has revealed a two-year extension with supermajor Shell, dayrate adjustments, and the addition of another semisubmersible drilling rig to the cold stack list. The Noble Globetrotter I…
Singapore-based Ezra Holdings is set to divest its largest floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit, the Lewek EMAS, in efforts to step away from the ownership of FPSO assets and streamline resources, the company revealed in its 1H 2016 report…
Some 65 MMboe will be left untapped offshore Norway due to the early shut down of fields and the failure of the Vette project to meet economic margins, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA's April Oil…
Aker Solutions is to provide maintenance and other services on Petrobras-operated subsea oil and gas fields offshore Brazil. The contract is for three years and worth NOK 1 billion and may be extended by another three years. The contract covers maintenance…
Classification society Bureau Veritas has issued Approval in Principle for the WindFloat Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) foundation. WindFloat is designed by Principle Power and consists of a ballasted floating platform which supports a multi-megawatt wind turbine generator…
Nearly six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has revealed final well control regulations designed to reduce future risks of a devastating offshore oil or gas blowout…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for wells 30/11-12 S and 30/11-12 A in production license 035 (PL 035), part of block 30/11 in the Norwegian North Sea. Well 30/11-12 S is wildcat well that…
Bibby Offshore’s Norway division, Bibby Offshore, secured its first contract in the Norwegian region with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia. Managed from Bibby Offshore’s Stavanger office, the workscope involves project management, installation engineering…
DeepOcean and Tullow have entered a three-year contract for vessel operations, offshore Ghana. DeepOcean’s Ghana arm will provide a light construction vessel (LCV) to Tulllow Ghana in the agreement, which comes with options for two further years…