Malaysian oil and gas exploration and production company Hibiscus Petroleum is aiming to double its oil output in the United Kingdom and Malaysia to 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2021, a senior company executive said on Thursday.It needs an…
Azerbaijan’s SOCAR and US engineering firm KBR’s joint venture will provide front-end engineering design services (FEED) for a new production, drilling and quarters platform, Azeri Central East (ACE), for the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field in the Caspian Sea…
The bodies of five senior Oil and National Gas Co. (ONGC) staff and one of their helicopter pilots have been recovered followed a crash offshore Mumbai, India, on Saturday. ONGC's Twitter announced today (15 January) that a seventh body has been found and brought to Mumbai…
Subsea contractor Kreuz Subsea has been contracted by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to mobilize five vessels to deliver subsea completion works on India's Oil & Natural Gas Corp.'s (ONGC) pipeline replacement project (PRP4) and Daman field development…
OOS International Group’s newest semisubmersible accommodation vessel, the OOS Tiradentes, will head to Brazil next month for a contract with Petrobras. Source: OOS International The OOS…
Australia's Santos is planning to drill the Paus Biru-1 exploration well on the Sampang production sharing contract offshore Indonesia, says partner Cue Energy Resources. Paus Biru is 27km east from the producing Oyong gas field. The…
Believing that major spending cuts are over, Wood Mackenzie expects global upstream capital expenditures to grow slightly in 2018 to a total of US$400 billion. The downturn resulted in nearly $1 trillion being taken out of company spending from 2015 to 2020…
Greenfields Petroleum subsidiary Bahar Energy Operating Company (BEOC) and SOCAR Complex Drilling Works Trust (SDT), a subsidiary of the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), have signed a memorandum of understanding to…
Sembcorp Marine and Shell have signed a letter of intent for Sembcorp to construct the hull and topside for Shell’s Vito floating production unit (FPU). Sembcorp Marine subsidiary Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters also will handle integration of the FPU…
CNOOC's Weizhou 12-2 phase II project started production, the company announced today (28 November). The Weizhou 12-2 phase II project is in Beibu Gulf in the South China Sea with an average water depth of approximately 35.7m. The project…
Dutch heavy life and accomodation vessel firm OOS International has agreed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese offshore services company Jiangsu Fanzhou Shipping to form a strategic alliance. The two hope to work together to expand the coverage of their vessels globally…
Halliburton business Sperry Drilling announced today (13 November) the release of JetPulse high-speed telemetry service, which provides consistent, high-data rate transmission of drilling and formation evaluation measurements. This new telemetry…
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering has been awarded a contract from India's ONGC for Pipeline Replacement Project-4 worth about US$194 million. The project is part of ONGC’s strategy to replace some of its well fluid, gas lift and water…
WorleyParsons has been awarded a contract by Reliance Industries for project management consultancy (PMC) services for development of the R-Series gas field (D34). The field is in about 1800-2150m water depth, in Block KG-D6, about 70km…
TechnipFMC has been awarded a subsea contract by Murphy Sabah Oil for the Phase 1A Block H Gas Development Project, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, in 1300m water depth. This contract covers the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the umbilicals…