Australia's BHP Billiton has made a gas discovery on the deepwater LeClerc play-opening well offshore Trinidad and Tobago. BHP had been drilling for oil. The LeClerc 1 ST01 well was drilled in Block 5, in 2500-8500ft water depth, 135mi…
Noble Energy has been named the successor operator of the Thunder Hawk production facility, according to the company’s Q2 2016 report. Scant on details, Noble did confirm that the deal is expected to become effective within Q3 2016, subject to regulatory approval…
SBM Offshore has appointed former Shell executive D.H.M. Wood as management board member and chief financial officer (CFO), to be effective in October. On 10 February 2016, SBM announced the intention of the current CFO, P.M. van Rossum…
Semco Maritime is conducting a heavy lift for the 147-room complete hotel module on board the Maersk Guardian to finalize a major conversion of the upcoming hotel rig. Image of the Maersk Guardian…
Damage assessments by Smit Salvage and Transocean staff who boarded the grounded semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Winner off the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, say two of its fuel tanks appear to have been breached. UPDATE: No pollution has been found at the site…
Gazpromneft has brought a further two production wells (its third and fourth) into production at the Prirazlomnoye field in the Pechora Sea, as well as its second and third injection wells. Daily production on the Prirazlomnaya ice-resistant offshore rig…
China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL) completed a 3D seismic survey in the Barents Sea using its 12-streamer seismic vessel HYSY 720. The operation, over two blocks, had taken 100 days and signified a new monthly seismic data acquisition record of 1820…
Canada's Suncor Energy is to acquire a 30% stake in the UK deepwater North Sea Rosebank project from Austria's OMV. The move will see OMV reduce its stake from 50% to 20% in what is a massive, challenging, deep water, very harsh environment…
Subsea SURF contractor Subsea 7 has acquired polymer lining technology firm Swagelining. The two firms have already cooperated together, designing and installing in excess of 150km of reeled and bundled polyethylene (PE) lined water injection flowlines in the North Sea…
Unite the union says it has called for urgent talks with engineering firm Wood Group ahead of more planned strike action in the North Sea. Nearly 400 workers in the Unite and RMT unions who work for Wood Group on Shell platforms in the UK North Sea have so far staged two walkouts…
Vaalco Energy’s experienced a 72% increase in its revenue in Q2 2016, in addition to a new setback offshore Gabon with another failed electrical submersible pump (ESP) on the Avouma platform. Map from Vaalco…
Statoil is planning to develop the 56.4 MMboe UK/Norwegian gas condensate Utgard discovery via a subsea development. The US$410 million (NOK 3.5 billion) project will see two wells, one on each side of the median line between the UK and Norwegian North Seas…
The Songa Enabler drilling rig has started drilling a new injection well for CO2 gas on the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea, off the coast of Hammerfest, Norway. Once complete, the rig will then drill the first new production well in the field since it came on stream in 2017…
Allseas’ huge single-lift installation/decommissioning and pipelay vessel Pioneering Spirit has successfully installed a 5500-tonne test platform topsides on a substructure in the K-13 field in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The installation was completed on Sunday 7 August…
Wintershall Norge has started drilling wildcat exploration well 35/11-20 B using the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig in production license 248 F in the Norwegian North Sea. It is the latest well on the license, following well 35/11-20 A…