Two people were injured after a fire broke out on supermajor Shell's Enchilada platform in the US Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday morning, according to a joint report by the US Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)…
Woodside Energy and its partners made the decision to invest US$1.9 billion in the Greater Enfield development in June this year. Located 60km off Exmouth in Western Australia, the Greater Enfield Project involves the tie-back of three…
A new research centre focused on robotics for the offshore industry is to be set up in the UK with nearly US$19 million (£14.3 million) UK Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) funding. The Offshore Robotics for Certification of…
An injunction stopping Petrobras selling 22.5% of its stake in the Iara area and transfering 35% stake in the Lapa field, both offshore Brazil, to Total has been lifted. The sale and transfer were part of a Strategic Alliance agreement signed with Total in March this year…
Statoil has awarded Norwegian firm Multiconsult a for site preparation and marine structures for Statoil's carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project offshore Norway. The project, called Northern Lights by Statoil, will see…
WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract by Reliance Industries for project management consultancy (PMC) services for development of the R-Series gas field (D34). The field is in about 1800-2150m water depth, in Block KG-D6, about 70km…
Italy's Eni announced that its gas development offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP), Ghana, is 63% complete, with start-up planned for 2018. Eni said that construction on the onshore receiving facility and associated pipelines are proceeding as planned…
A UAE-based subsidiary of Malaysia's Eversendai Corp. has won an offshore fabrication project for Saudi Aramco. Eversendai Offshore received the project award, fabricating jacket structures, through Italy's Saipem, which is one of…
US drilling contractor Nabors Industries is nearing completion of its its acquisition of Tesco Corp. following anti-trust clearance from the US Department of Justice and the Canada Competition Bureau. An approval process with the Federal…
Chemicals and oil products firm INEOS, which has UK upstream assets, has awarded a two-year well testing contract to oilfield services company Expro. The contract will see Expro provide testing services for at least three wells, including two new drills and one re-entry…
Asset visualization specialists Return To Scene has won a new contract with North Sea independent Chrysaor. Return to Scene, part of James Fisher and Sons, will create photographic models of the Everest, Lomond and Armada platforms…
Bibby Offshore’s Houston-based division, Bibby Subsea, has successfully completed a subsea decommissioning project with Shell Pipeline, a subsidiary of Shell Oil US. Through its strategic alliance with US diving company, Aqueos Corp.…
Chrysaor has awarded Sparrows Group a three-year crane management services contract for the three operating assets it took ownership of from Shell in November. The scope of work will see Sparrows operate and maintain seven cranes across the Armada…
AGR is set to deliver drilling, completions, well site and well engineering services to Australian oil and gas company Woodside Energy, as a result of signing a four-year Outline Agreement with the opportunity to perform services. Andy Perchard…
Statoil and its partners will invest US$122 million (NOK1 billion) in a new project to boost production from the Fram field in the Norwegian North Sea, in the Troll license area, the Norwegian major announced on 6 November. The investment…
