North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) has secured 10-year contract awards for the West Elara and West Linus jackups with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia for work in the Greater Ekofisk Area. The total additional backlog for the new contract awards is estimated at US$1…
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore, part of Oslo-listed Aqualis, has opened up an office in Taiwan to support local offshore wind and oil and gas developments. The purpose of the office is to promote Aqualis Offshore’s marine and engineering services locally…
BHP Billiton says that the costs and associated risks from a proposal by Elliott Associates, LP and Elliott International, LP (Elliott), which includes splitting off its oil business, would significantly outweigh any potential benefits. Image from BHP…
SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a six-year contract by a partnership composed by Hibernia Management & Development Co. (HMDC) and ExxonMobil Canada Properties, for the provision of inspection services for both the Hibernia and Hebron offshore oil production platforms…
Gulf Marine Services was awarded two new long-term contracts in Europe to support wind farm projects for an international energy company. The new contracts, scheduled to start in Q2 2018, are for two large class self-propelled self-elevating support vessels (SESVs)…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for well 7121/8-1, named Blåmann in the Barents Sea. Well 7121/8-1 will be drilled from the Songa Enabler drilling facility, after completing the…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for well 24/9-11 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 24/9-11 S will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling facility, at position 59°29’6…
Damen Shipyards Group signed an agreement with Keppel Offshore & Marine for the acquisition of the Keppel Verolme shipyard in the Rotterdam Botlek area. “With the acquisition of the Verolme shipyard, Damen takes the next step in strengthening…
Dolphin Drilling, a subsidiary of Fred. Olsen Energy, signed an estimated US$8.6 million one-well contract extension, including one optional well, with Statoil for use of the Bideford Dolphin semisubmersible drilling rig for operation on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…
BW Offshore has completed a deal with Harvest Natural Resources for its stake in the Dussafu production sharing contract (PSC) offshore Gabon. BW Energy Gabon (BWEG) now holds a 66.67% working interest in the Dussafu PSC, while Panoro Energy holds the remaining 33…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) awarded Shearwater GeoServices the reprocessing of 2D seismic data in the Barents Sea. The reprocessing is of two projects to be run in parallel, including approximately 6000km of pre-stack time…
Premier Oil awarded Wood Group a contract to deliver front-end engineering design (FEED) to the Tolmount offshore field development in the Southern North Sea. Effective immediately, Wood Group will provide topsides, jacket, pipeline…
Oil major Shell has not provided enough information about its plans for decommissioning the massive Brent field structures, according to a joint statement by eight environmental groups. The statement was made at the end of a 60-day consultation…
Private equity backed independent Alpha Petroleum Resources is targeting first oil from its UK North Sea Cheviot oil field in 2019, after entering agreements with floating production system provider Teekay. Alpha expects to achieve…
Global LNG Services (GLS) is teaming up with Siemens and SembCorp Marine on its floating liquefaction platform, the Liqui-Max vessel, that will see Sembcorp Marine to participate with Siemens to build and deliver the first Liqui-Max vessel…