Nigeria is eying an opportunity to integrate floating production units on home turf, potentially even building them from scratch. Elaine Maslin found out more. ADOL from the air. Photos…
While the oil price has sucked much wind out of the sails of the FPSO industry, work must go on. And there are still quite a few projects lined up from 2016-2018. Infield Systems presents this list of conversion and newbuild construction projects…
From an oil industry perspective it's difficult to find anything positive to say about 2015 other than I'm glad it's come to an end. Colin Welsh. Image courtesy of Simmons & Co. I certainly didn't see $35 Brent crude coming…
Aging assets and life extension are consuming ever more engineering hours in the offshore oil and gas industry. How can engineering tools help? Meg Chesshyre looks for answers. Image from Petrofac…
Innovate, collaborate, standardize; lead with lean. One could argue that the future of the global offshore E&P business, particularly deepwater development, is ours to create. Confronted…
No. 1 – Chevron’s Big Foot Chevron’s Big Foot platform being towed to Walker Ridge. Photo from Chevron. Coming in at No. 1 on Infield System’s list of highest capex projects for…
Both maintaining and launching new offshore production is high on the agenda in the Middle East, not least in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran. IHS’ Mirzi Moralde outlines current activity in the region. Total’s…
Well plugging and abandonment activity as part of offshore decommissioning is starting to ramp up – but could it be done better? Elaine Maslin reports. Interwell’s exothermic P&A solution. Image from Interwell…
Independent Oil & Gas (IOG) has received extensions from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) for its Cronx and P2085 licenses located in the North Sea. Cronx OGA has extended the Cronx license by one year to 9 January 2017. In addition…
Map of CI-508. From Genel. Vitol Energy is plugging and abandoning the Aigle-1X exploration well off the Ivory Coast after failing to encounter hydrocarbons, according to partner Genel Energy…
Israeli authorities have asked for more information before declaring the Dolphin natural gas discovery a commercial discovery. The declaration of the field as a discovery by the authorities will pave the way for it to be developed as part of the Leviathan project…
Songa Offshore's newbuild semisubmersible drilling rig, the Songa Endurance, has today started drilling operations under its eight-year drilling contract with Statoil at the Troll field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and the rig is now on operating rate…
Oil firm BP has started returning staff to its Valhall complex after evacuating the facility when an adrift barge started drifting towards it as fierce weather continued to wreak havoc across the UK and Norway. ConocoPhillips had also downmanned its Eldfisk platform earlier today…
One person has died and two more were injured after a breaking wave hit the COSL Innovator semisubmersible drilling rig around 5pm local time on 30 December, Statoil announced. The rig, which is under contract with Statoil for the Troll field in the North Sea…
Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling and evaluation of exploration well 7130/4-1 on the Ørnen prospect. The well is in PL708, on the eastern parts of the Finnmark Platform in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry and has been plugged and abandoned…