Honeywell's Spectra fiber will be used in ropes for new offshore oil and gas platforms for Petrobras, the company announced on 5 October. The high-performance fiber, also used extensively in body and vehicle armor, is being incorporated…
Erin Energy Corp. announced that the resource volume assessment of the three previously discovered fields (Tano North, Tano West, and Tano South) has been completed in the Expanded Shallow Water Tano (ESWT) Block, located offshore Ghana. The ESWT block is operated by its subsidiary company…
The US and five Gulf states have reached a US$20.8 billion civil claims settlement with BP from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Transocean's Deepwater Horizon before the explosion…
Farstad Shipping’s Norwegian operations are taking a hit as the company sets to lay up five vessels, and lay off about 100 employees that is due to the further weakening of the offshore market. The Far Sleipner…
Image from EIC. The Energy Industries Council (EIC) announced the appointment of its new president Chris Haynes. Haynes is a senior oil and gas industry professional with almost 40…
Centrica Resources has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill a shallow borehole (pilot hole) down to a depth of 423m below the seabed in the North Sea near the Ula field. The purpose of drilling is to establish that there is no shallow gas in an area…
Resource assessments of the 2015 license round area for offshore Newfoundland and Labrador shows the potential to hold 12 billion bbl and 113 Tcf of gas in place, according to the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nalcor Energy and Beicip-Franlab…
Shell started production from the Bonga Phase 3 project offshore Nigeria, with expected peak production to hit about 50,000 boe/d. Image of the Bonga project. From Shell Flickr. Bonga…
With the spud of the Mengkuang-1 exploration well, in license PM307, Lundin Petroleum has resumed exploration offshore Malaysia. Lundin says the well will target hydrocarbons in Miocene-aged sands 75km to the northwest of the Lundin-operated Bertam field…
T.D. Williamson (TDW) was contracted by an operator in the Gulf of Mexico to replace two flexible joints connecting two steel catenary risers on a tension leg platform 120km (75mi) off the coast of Louisiana. TDW performed simultaneous…
At the President’s Luncheon and Annual Meeting at this year’s SPE ATCE on Wednesday, both outgoing 2015 SPE President Helge Hove Haldorsen and incoming 2016 President Nathan Meehan discussed how vital the industry remains in spite of the downturn…
Following the launch during last month’s Offshore Europe, entries have opened Thursday, 1 October, for the 2016 Offshore Achievement Awards, sponsored by TAQA. Supported by Offshore Engineer (OE), the annual awards are organized and hosted…
Image: Deep Blue/Technip Shell awarded Technip a contract for the development of subsea infrastructure for the Stones project. Included in the service are two subsea production tie-backs to the floating production…
Maersk Oil Norway AS, operator of production license 510, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6406/6-4 S. The well, drilled about 20km southwest of the Tyrihans field in the Norwegian Sea, is the first exploration well in the license…
Norwegian giant Statoil inked a US$15 million deal that will increase its presence on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and UK Continental shelf with the acquisition of stake in the Afla Sentral field. Map of Alfa Sentral…