Fifteen years ago, the energy industry was managing its costs very well, said Patrick Pouyanne, chief executive and president of the executive committee for Total SA. Now, operators should find ways to simplify its processes to return to reasonable costs…
Asset integrity management specialist, XPD8 Solutions, secured a £375,000 contract for work in West Africa with Tullow Oil. Over six-months, the Aberdeen-headquartered firm will migrate Tullow Oil’s existing computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to the Maximo software package…
Norway-based Odfjell's newbuild deepwater semisubmersible Deepsea Aberdeen has started drilling operations under a seven-year contract with BP on the Quad 204 field development project West of Shetland, UK. Deepsea Aberdeen (pictured)…
CGG's GeoConsulting business has acquired Calgary-based Taurus Reservoir Solutions. Taurus offers reservoir and geomechanical simulation and engineering technology along with consulting services to the global petroleum industry, from…
Teekay has chosen Singapore-based Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Sembawang Shipyard to carry out a floating storage and offloading (FSO) conversion for the unit due to be deployed on Statoil's Gina Krog field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…
The first well drilled using the new build jackup giant Maersk Interceptor (pictured) have reaped successful results for operator Det norske, the firm said this morning. The new unit, operating in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea…
A consortium of three companies has joined forces to bring enhanced oil spill detection and search and rescue capability to the UK North Sea. Using technology developed in Norway, Aptomar, working with Aberdeen's Briggs Environmental Services…
Colombia yet again made another push this year at IHS CERAWeek in Houston to alert the oil and gas industry that not only is the South American country open for business, like that of its northern competitor Mexico, but that it is willing…
NOV's senior vice president and chief financial officer, Jeremy D. Thigpen, has left the company effective immediately to become president and CEO of rig owner Transocean. Thigpen succeeds Ian C. Strachan who was appointed interim CEO…
For the first time in decades, Mexico’s upstream business is accessible to foreign companies. A panel of experts discussed the implications at this week's CERAWeek conference in Houston and found that, with three bidding rounds planned and data rooms open for scrutinizing…
Investment dollars are finding good value in the current low oil price environment, according to a panel of finance professionals who discussed the wealth of finance opportunities found in today’s oil and gas companies, at this weeks' CERAWeek in Houston…
The National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator approved MEO Australia and the WA-454-P joint venture’s application to extend the work permit program by six months off Western Australia. The December 2015 extension is to provide…
Statoil’s CEO Eldar Sætre made the case for simplicity, industrialization, and standardization as a way for the industry to get through the current downturn at IHS CERAWeek in Houston Tuesday afternoon. Sætre opened with a joke about the downturn saying…
After four months of preliminary work alongside, FPSO Petrojarl I moved on 16 April 2015 into Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam’s 307m long x 47 m wide dry dock no 8 for work to the hull. In all, the vessel will spend a year at DSR before heading off to the South Atlantic…
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has been awarded a contract by Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding Ltd. for two subsea knuckle boom cranes to be installed on the world's first seabed mining vessel. Delivery of the cranes is scheduled for 1Q 2017. The…