ConocoPhillips has completed its latest appraisal well on the Barossa field in the Bonaparte basin, offshore Australia's Northern Territory. The firm is now plugging and abandoning the well and will move to drill a second planned appraisal well…
Helix Energy Solutions Group's Siem Helix 1 light well intervention vessel has started operations offshore Brazil on contract to Petrobras. However, Helix has agreed with Petrobras to started operations at reduced day rates, as it works…
Geoscience firm Spectrum has started a 35,000km multi-client 2D seismic survey covering 435,000km offshore Argentina, in deepwater, in cooperation with YPF and with the authorization of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. This survey…
Norwegian subsea industry focused group GCE Subsea has elected OneSubsea's Jon Arve Sværen as its chairman. Sværen is currently employed as VP Business Strategy Processing in OneSubsea. 'I am convinced that subsea technology has a bright future despite the current downturn in the industry…
Dutch marine contractor Boskalis has picked SPT Offshore for the detailed design and installation of 33 suction pile foundations for the foundations of 11 suction bucket jackets for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm. The European Offshore…
KLAW has developed the Marine2, a new marine breakaway coupling. The Marine2 is 32% shorter and 25% lighter than alternative marine breakaway couplings on the market and is designed to reduce stress on hoses used on offshore hose reel applications…
ExxonMobil’s Hebron platform will be towed from the Bull Arm construction site next month, on its way to the Hebron field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The Hebron platform being towed from Bull Arm…
Wintershall has started production from its first-ever operated Danish oil field, the Ravn field in the North Sea. The Ravn platfrom. Image from Wintershall. Ravn is in Block 5/06 in the Danish North Sea…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and The British Geological Survey (BGS) have released the 21st Century Exploration Roadmap (21CXRM) Palaeozoic Project. The project aims to improve the knowledge and data from the under-explored Palaeozoic…
Tendeka, a global provider of completions systems and services for the upstream oil and gas industry based in Aberdeen, has secured a two-year contract with a Malaysian operator for the provision of Tendeka’s FloSure Elite Sand Screens with…
TechnipFMC and DOF Subsea's jointly owned Skandi Búzios pipelay support vessel (PLSV) has started its 8-year charter with Petrobras. Skandi Búzios is the sistership of the Skandi Açu, which started its charter contract almost exactly a year ago…
A project to use wind turbines to power water injection facilities on oil fields is to move into a second testing phase, says joint industry project leader DNV GL. The WIN WIN concept includes a floating wind turbine, which supplies…
Tidal energy developer Minesto has received marine license for a 0.5 MW installation of its Deep Green technology in Holyhead Deep, in Holyhead Deep off the coast of Anglesey. The Swedish firm has developed a technology, which sees a turbine tethered to the seafloor but able to move around…
Wärtsilä will supply the engines and other propulsion machinery for what it says will be the first LNG-powered offshore construction vessel, being built at the Cosco shipyard in China for Belgium's Dredging International (DEME). 'This…
African Petroleum signed nonbinding heads of terms and a binding exclusivity agreement with a “well-funded, listed oil and gas company with a strong track record in offshore deepwater drilling,” for a drilling campaign offshore Senegal and The Gambia…