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Orca completes Songo Songo workover, drilling

Feb 24, 2016

Orca Exploration Group has successfully completed its offshore workover and drilling program, of the Songo Songo main field development, offshore Tanzania. The workover and drilling program at Songo Songo included workovers on three existing wells (SS-5…

Eni's Mozambique FLNG first approved

Feb 24, 2016

The first development offshore Mozambique in the Rovuma basin has been given the thumbs by the country's government. Eni is planning a six-well subsea to 3.4 MTPA floating LNG development for the Coral discovery, in Area 4 in the Rovuma basin…

Fugro wins Kaombo survey contract

Feb 22, 2016

Fugro has won a contract to provide offshore survey and positioning services at the Kaombo oil development offshore Angola. Under the contract awarded by Technip, Fugro will provide offshore deepwater survey and positioning services to…

ExxonMobil adds 1 billion boe to reserves

Feb 19, 2016

ExxonMobil added 1 billion boe of proved oil and gas reserves in 2015 for a total of 24.8 billion boe that was a result of new developments, and a significant discovery offshore Guyana. Image from ExxonMobil…

Turret bearing concern on Jubilee FPSO

Feb 18, 2016

Tullow Oil is reducing how much its Jubilee floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel can rotate after discovering an issue with the vessel's turret bearing.  The Kwame Nkrumah FPSO vessel, which started production from the field…

Nexans cables up Egina

Feb 15, 2016

French cables firm Nexans has been selected to supply the cabling for Total's deep water Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.   The vessel is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries under a Euro 2.8 billion turnkey contract - its largest FPSO contract to date…

Tullow's TEN to see first oil in Q3

Feb 10, 2016

Tullow Oil’s TEN project is more than 85% complete and is set for production start-up between July and August 2016, which will help the company drive further reductions in operating costs and capital expenditure. Image from Tullow…

Golar Tundra sold to Golar Partners

Feb 10, 2016

Golar LNG Ltd. entered into a purchase agreement to sell the Golar Tundra, a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), to Golar LNG Partners for US$330 million. In connection with the closing, the Golar Partners will receive a daily fee plus operating expenses…

Qatar Petroleum, Chevron sign Moroccan deal

Feb 08, 2016

Qatar Petroleum has reached an agreement with Chevron Morocco Exploration, a subsidiary of Chevron Corp., to acquire a 30% participating interest from Chevron’s 75% share in three deepwater offshore leases in the Kingdom of Morocco: Cap Rhir Deep…

FAR ups SNE estimate to 468 MMbbl

Feb 08, 2016

The SNE oil field offshore Senegal contains more oil than initially estimated, according to a new report commissioned by field partner FAR Ltd. FAR's previous estimates for so-called 2C contingent resources in the Cairn Energy operated field were 330 MMbbl…

Panoro Energy FPSO embarks for Aje field

Feb 04, 2016

Panoro Energy announced that the final works on the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, for the Aje field operations, have been completed. The vessel has left Singapore and is expected to arrive in Nigeria mid-March 2016…

BP ends Oceaneering vessel contract

Feb 03, 2016

BP has informed Oceaneering that it has terminated its contract with the Bourbon Oceanteam 101 vessel, effective May 2016. The vessel had been hired by the supermajor to work offshore Angola. Prior to the early termination notification…

Anadarko in $1.25 bn loss, cuts 2016 budget

Feb 02, 2016

Anadarko Petroleum posted a full year net loss of nearly US$7 billion, with the anticipation of cutting its initial 2016 budget by some 50%. Mozambique operations. Image from Anadarko. For Q4…

Video: TEN FPSO sailaway

Feb 01, 2016

The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills set sail from Singapore on 23 January.  The vessel is sailing to Ghana, where it will produce and store oil from Ghana’s Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) offshore oil fields…

Making nodes fly

Feb 01, 2016

The job of placing ocean bottom nodes for seismic acquisition could be set for a revolution. Elaine Maslin looks at Autonomous Robotics Limited’s concept. A single node, nose on. Images from Autonomous Robotics Ltd…

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