Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has secured contracts to build three high-specification KFELS B Class jackup rigs worth about US$650 million from Fecon International Corp (Fecon)…
Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) has selected Technip for project management consultancy services on the Zakum field, offshore Abu Dhabi The contract will cover the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) phases of the Zakum Oil Lines Replacement Project-Phase 1 (ZKOL)…
UK-based engineering and project management firm AMEC and its partners in the AJS joint venture, Jacobs and Stork, have secured a five-year contract extension for the integrated services contract for the Shell ONEgas assets in the southern North Sea…
Eni has doubled its estimated size of a field offshore Congo after drilling a third exploration well. The company says it is planning first production from the field in 2016. The well, Nene Marine 3, in the Marine XII Block, about 17km offshore Congo…
Statoil and its partners on the giant Johan Sverdrup field have chosen a four-platform development concept, with power from shore. The field, containing 1.8-2.9billion boe, is one of the five largest discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…
KrisEnergy Ltd. announced the acquisition of 1300km 2D seismic data in the East Muriah production sharing contract (PSC) in the East Java Sea, Indonesia. The Nordic Bahari seismic vessel commenced the acquisition on 6 Feb 2014. East Muriah…
US Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have been developing a computer model that could potentially assist scientists in tracking and predicting where oil will go following a spill, sometimes years afterwards. The tool could also assist in oil spill clean-up…
EnQuest PLC to announced the appointment of Neil McCulloch as president, North Sea, effective 1 April 2014. McCulloch has held a number of senior positions in the oil and gas sector, and joins EnQuest from international oil and gas company OMV AG…
Brunei Shell Petroleum awarded Maersk Drilling a four-year contract for the jackup rig Maersk Completer for operations offshore Brunei. The contract will commence in December 201, in direct continuation of its current contract with Brunei Shell Petroleum…
Kongsberg Maritime subsidiary Kongsberg Underwater Technology Inc (KUTI) has started full scale production of its KONGSBERG Seaglider autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from a new fabrication centre at its facility in Lynnwood, Washington…
Bergen Group Hanøytangen is in takeover talks with the owners of Norwegian decommissioning firm Scanmet AS. Bergen Group says Scanmet AS is among the oldest and most experienced companies in Norway that carry out decommissioning of oil installations in the North Sea…
The past few weeks have seen a string of profit warnings and capital spending cutbacks from global oil and gas exploration majors. Should oilfield service companies be worried that the good times are coming to an end? According to bank and investment company Investec…
Plexus Holdings has been awarded its first contract with Maersk Oil’s Danish business unit to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well in the Danish North Sea. The initial value of the contract is about £1…
Anadarko Petroleum Company has started drilling theCaravel-1exploration wellin the Canterbury basin offshoreNew Zealand. Drilling is expected to take about 40 days, using the drillship Noble Bob Douglas. The expected total depth is 2800m subsea…
Norway-based offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has opened a new office in Bahrain. Aqualis already has offices in Dubai, UAE (regional headquarters), and Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in the Middle East. “The primary…
