GE Oil & Gas has won a surface wellhead and Xmas tree equipment and services contract from Statoil for its Johan Sverdrup project in the North Sea. GE Oil & Gas will manufacture, deliver and install its standardized surface wellhead and…
Rosneft and its partner Statoil have started drilling on the Ulberikanskayaat prospect in the Lisiansky license in the Sea of Okhotsk. The Nanhai_9 rig, from Rosneft. Well Ulberikanskaya…
Wärtsilä has launched Wärtsilä Offline vibration analysis service, which monitors the health of propulsion and other rotating equipment. In addition, Wärtsilä Engine efficiency monitoring service is now available for dual-fuel engines. Wärtsilä…
Noble Energy has received approval to move forward with the development of Leviathan, offshore Israel, in addition to inking a US$2.5 billion deal to supply up to 473 Bcf from the highly anticipated project. Image from Delek…
Norwegian private equity outfit HitecVision has merged three of its exploration and production companies into one firm, Point Resources. Point Resources combines Core Energy, Spike Exploration and Pure E&P and has US$300 million in new…
Novenco Offshore has signed a contract with Polish shipyard Remontowa Shiprepair Yard for delivery of HVAC Equipment for the conversion of the tanker Hanne Knutsen to FSO for the Martin Linge field. Total E&P Norway will rent the Hanne Knutsen from KNOT FSO 1…
Deck machinery firm ACE Winches has been awarded a six-figure contract in support of a project to connect the Hebron gravity based structure (GBS) with its topsides. The project will see ACE Winches supply hydraulic drum winch packages for the deep water Hebron oil field…
Subsea construction firm Bibby Offshore has made a move into the offshore wind array cable installation market. The company has purchased a power cable lay carousel from Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS), which will enable it to lay power cables for offshore wind projects from its vessels…
Completions systems and services provide Tendeka has won a four-year contract with Wintershall Norge with a further four-year extension option. The company has been selected to supply sand screens for wells in the Maria, Brage, Skarfjell…
UPDATE: The European Safety Agency (EASA) has temporarily grounded all H225 Super Puma flights following a report from the Accident Investigation Board Norway (AIBN) into the 29 April fatal helicopter crash near Bergen. Norway's Civil…
Helix Energy Solutions completed its contract renegotiations with Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) and has entered into amendments to its well intervention services contracts for its two chartered vessels, the Siem Helix 1 and the Siem Helix 2…
Elaine Maslin reports how Slovakian company GA Drilling hopes to make short shrift of section milling using a plasma-based downhole tool technology. Assembly of a plasma testing prototype. Photos from GA Drilling…
Colin Welsh Good news at last! In recent months, I have endeavored to counter some of the gloom that has pervaded the oil business for the last eight quarters by highlighting fundamentals such…
Offshore Technical Compliance (OTC) has introduced two new IADC-accredited regulatory compliance training programs: an offshore drilling and a marine regulatory compliance training. OTC’s Offshore Drilling Regulatory Compliance Training is a five-day…
Dr. Lena Wilson, chief executive of Scottish Enterprise and chair of Scotland’s Energy Jobs Taskforce, is leading the first ever delegation of Scottish companies to Myanmar in a bid to identify trade, investment and collaboration opportunities in the market…