Dutch heavy life and accomodation vessel firm OOS International has agreed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese offshore services company Jiangsu Fanzhou Shipping to form a strategic alliance. The two hope to work together to expand the coverage of their vessels globally…
Young diving firm Ultra Deep Solutions has seen the keel laid at Chinese yard CMHI on its latest dive support construction vessel (DSCV), the Ultra Deep Matisse. This vessel will be the largest ship in the firm's fleet, at 145m-long with a 27m beam…
Global Petroleum's subsidiary Jupiter Petroleum says extra time given to assess its acreage offshore Namibia has given it chance to see more potential. The firm has been given an extension to its first renewal exploration period for License 29…
German cable firm NKT is testing power cables for a wave power project in Norway. For the project in Norway, NKT has developed a dynamic 1 kV cable as well as a semi-dynamic 24 kV export cable for power export. The cables are currently…
Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries has completed a verification test on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) which can dock autonomously to re-charge subsea in UK waters. With a focus on the growing demand for pipeline maintenance in the offshore oil and gas fields…
New tax measures aimed at making it more attractive for North Sea oil and gas assets to change hands have been welcomed by industry. In his Budget statement made in the UK Parliament yesterday (22 November), the Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond…
Azerbaijan's SOCAR and US engineering house KBR's joint venture has been awarded a front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for topsides on Total's Absheron Early Production Project. The platform will be at SOCAR's Oil Rocks facility…
Ophir Energy has been given a 12-month extension on its Block R license, home to the Fortuna FLNG, offshore Equatorial Guinea, giving it more time to secure project funding ahead of making a final investment decision. Fortuna looks set to be Africa’s first deepwater FLNG project…
Decommisioning trade body Decom North Sea CEO Roger Esson is to join the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) as its Decommissioning Solution Centre Manager. Esson has more than 20 years of oil and gas industry leadership experience in the UK and internationally…
The Port of Blyth in northeast England is set to make a strategic move into decommissoning following being awarded a decommissioning license from the UK Environment Agency. During 2018, the port will ready a site at its Battleship Wharf terminal for decommissioning operations…
DEA Norge has awarded Transocean Norway a contrcat for use of the drilling rig Transocean Arctic for drilling production wells on the Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea. Dvalin is a four-well subsea tieback to the Heidrum platform. As part of the project…
Lundin Petroleum's Hufsa exploration well in the southern Barents Sea made a non-commercial gas discovery. A side track on the well, 7219/12-2, in PL533, was dry. The main objective of the well was to prove oil in Jurassic and Triassic sandstone reservoirs…
Nearly 100 applications covering 239 blocks were made by 68 companies in the 30th offshore licensing round on the UK Continental Shelf, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has revealed. Applications came from companies ranging from multinationals to new country entrants…
ONGC Videsh has entered an agreement with Tullow Oil to acquire a 15% participating interest in the offshore Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0030 for Block 2012A. India-based ONGC Videsh said today (21 November) the completion of…
McDermott International has received a fifth contract award under an existing agreement from Saudi Aramco for work on the Safaniya field onshore and offshore Saudi Arabia. Under the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract…