Great Yarmouth-based oilfield and renewables firm ATAM Group is opening its second office in Aberdeen and planning to launch three new products. The firm was founded just last year and supplies tools and software products for maintenance…
The trophy for this year's Offshore Achievement Awards in Aberdeen has been picked, with less than a month to go now until entries close for the Society of Petroleum Engineers' organized event, supported by OE (Offshore Engineer). Each year the organizers of the awards…
Two UK engineering firms have joined forces to offer what they're calling a new project delivery alternative for North Sea operators. Aberdeen-based Apollo Offshore and Kintore-based AquaTerra Group say they want to offer an 'agile, lean and integrated engineering business' via FOS Group…
UK-based oil and gas exploration minnow i3 Energy says drilling is expected to start on its North Sea Liberator development in 1H 2018. The firm says 2P reserves on the field have been increased from an estimate of 11.7 MMboe, re-classified from 2C resources of 9…
Louisiana-based offshore vessel firm Harvey Gulf International Marine has delivered the first of two new, large-capacity multi purpose support vessels (MPSV). The delivery follows recent proposals by the US Customs & Border Protection…
ConocoPhillips has been asked to provide for more information about their plugging and abandonment operations in the Ekofisk field, specifically around how their permanent well barriers meet regulatory requirements from a long-term perspective…
UK-based Xodus Group has formed a new collaboration with stabilization and artificial reef specialist Subcon International to deliver Integrated Rigs to ReefsTM (IR2RTM) decommissioning solutions globally. The partnership combines Xodus’…
Japan's Inpex has been awarded an exploration permit for Release Area WA-532-P, close to its Ichthys LNG development, in Australia’s 2016 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Inpex Browse will hold a 100% participating interest in the block…
Carnarvon Petroleum has been awarded the shalow water AC/P62 permit in the Southern Vulcan Sub-basin, in the prospective Bonaparte Basin, on Western Australia’s North West Shelf. The large 1512sq km permit contains multiple attractive…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has delivered French oil major Total's deepwater Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel was completed at SHI's Geoje-shipyard under a US$3 billion turnkey project, and set sail for Nigeria on 31 October 2017…
TechnipFMC has been awarded a subsea contract by Murphy Sabah Oil for the Phase 1A Block H Gas Development Project, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, in 1300m water depth. This contract covers the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the umbilicals…
VNG Norge, on behalf of the PL 586 partners, has issued a letter of intent (LOI) to TechnipFMC for the Fenja field development project (formerly known as Pil and Bue). The LOI covers the EPCI (engineering, procurement, construction and…
Tullow Oil and partner Sterling Energy have decided to exit Block C-10 offshore Mauritania after determining the block’s prospects did not commercially justify a third phase of exploration. Block C-10…
French operator Engie E&P has increased its resource estimate for the Cara field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and reached a 'concretization decision,' or feasibility decision gate, on the field. Engie says Cara contains 56-94 MMboe…
Ocean Installer has been awarded an agreement with Siccar Point Energy and Baker Hughes, a GE company, to support the appraisal and early production phases of the Cambo Project, with the ability to extend into the future developments. Ocean…