Houston-based Vaalco Energy’s Avouma project is back online offshore Gabon, West Africa, following issues with its electric submersible pump (ESP) that date back to late June. Map from Vaalco. According to Vaalco…
There could be 25.5 billion bbl in place and 20.6 Tcf of gas in the West Orphan Basin, in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) 2016 Eastern Newfoundland Call for Bids, according to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador…
Statoil's Njord A semisubmersible production platform has been towed to the Kværner Stord yard in Norway for reinforcement and renovation works, which will enable it to return to production up to and beyond 2030. The facility, which was built at the same yard in 1997…
Canadian-based, North Sea and Ireland focused explorer Antrim Energy is seeking to wind up. At its annual and special meeting on Tuesday (30 August), the firm will consider approval to voluntarily dissolve the corporation, delist from…
Navigational aids specialist Pharos Marine Sims Systems has completed the design, manufacture and installation of a bespoke solar navigation aid system for Shell's Brent Delta platform in the North Sea. The Great Yarmouth-based firm completed…
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Shell permission to take over the Knarr and Gaupe fields, as part of the major's take over of the two field's former operator BG Group. Gaupe is an oil and gas field close to the boundary with the UK shelf…
Sparrows Group formed a partnership with SapuraKencana Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad to collaborate in the provision of offshore and onshore crane services including manufacturing, supply, operations…
Interventek Subsea Engineering has awarded a sole license for its new surface well intervention valve to international energy services specialist, Hunting Well Intervention. The product will join Hunting’s pressure control equipment portfolio and will be called the Ezi-Shear Seal…
Previously in the US, those looking to use drones for commercial operations have been hindered by highly restrictive regulations and slow moving progress, which has ultimately stunted the growth of the region’s drone sector when compared with many other areas of the world…
Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the re-gasification system for an FSRU (floating, storage, re-gasification unit) conversion project that Höegh LNG plans to carry out on a modern LNG vessel. Wärtsilä…
Maersk Drilling's Maersk Gallant jackup drilling rig has beaten the record for drilling the deepest well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The well, which reached a total depth of 5941m on 31 July, was on Total's Solaris ultra-high-pressure…
Hansa Heavy Lift has transported five pipe racks and three modules, weighing a total of 1871.51-tonne and measuring 24,075cu m, for a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, the P-67, due to be stationed off the coast of Brazil…
Statoil has been given the green light to use the Gullfaks B platform in the Norwegian North Sea until 2036. Statoil says Gullfaks B, which first came on stream in February 1988, could be operated profitably up to 2031, and possibly even…
Mexico's state oil regulator, the Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH), has revealed 26 companies that have qualified to participate in the country's so-called Round 1.4, in Mexico's deepwater offshore. The companies pre-qualified in the fourth phase of Mexico's historic Round One…
Only three companies participated in the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) first ever online lease sale. Out of the 4399 blocks offered, the sale only received bids for 24 of those blocks for a total of just over US$18 million…