Sercel’s multi-sensor solid streamer, the Sentinel MS, has been commercially deployed for the first time and is being operated on a large 3D CGG multi-client survey being conducted by the CGG Geo Coral in the Southern Porcupine Basin in Ireland…
Image of the Skandi Singapore, from DOF. DOF Subsea has been awarded contracts for three vessels that will operate in the Asia Pacific and Atlantic regions. In the Asia Pacific…
Xcite Energy Ltd.’s (XEL) assets could have a new owner by month’s end, according to the firm handling XEL’s liquidation. In a 7 June letter, FTI Consulting said talks with one potential buyer to dispose of shares that XEL holds in Xcite Energy Resources are now in an advanced stage…
Private investment firm Elliott Management will provide US$500 million in funding to newly established Edge Petroleum AS’s management team. Norway-based Edge will focus on building a portfolio of oil and gas fields in the development phase…
In Statoil’s 2017 Energy Perspectives report, the Norwegian giant says that immediate action is needed to transform the global energy system. Image from Statoil. Statoil is expecting substantial changes in the global energy mix…
AkerBP has started plugging operations at the Valhall field, in what the company is calling a pioneer project that involves fully powering the Maersk Invincible drilling rig from shore. Image of…
Total will expand its deepwater exploration and production efforts to Ireland’s offshore after entering options to acquire interests and operatorships in southern Porcupine Basin licenses. Image: Providence…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) on Wednesday granted Statoil Petroleum AS the exploration drilling permit for the Kayak prospect in the Barents Sea. Statoil will use the Songa Enabler to drill wildcat well 7219/9-2 in production license 532…
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Statoil the go-ahead to drill the Carmen prospect in the Norwegian Sea. Statoil will use the semisubmersible Deepsea Bergen to drill Carmen, located on Block 6507/8 in 358 m of water at Haltenbanken…
Decades of life yet are left in the UK North Sea, but it's still all about reducing costs and finding more efficiencies, including through use of data. Industry leaders gave these views at Oil & Gas UK’s Oil and Gas Industry Conference…
Fugro Venturer. Image from Fugro. With a maiden voyage that takes her to the deepwaters of Ireland’s Atlantic margin and the far North of the Barents Sea, the Fugro Venturer is the newest of Fugro’s successful purpose-designed…
Harke Jan Meek. Image from IMCA. The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has appointed Harke Jan Meek, chief commercial officer at Heerema Marine Contractors as its new president and chairman of the board…
Providence Resources has received consent to transfer 30% equity in FEL 2/14 to Capricorn Ireland Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cairn Energy. Providence gained the approval from Ireland's Minister of Communications, Climate Action and Environment…
Stena Atlantic Ltd., an affiliate of Stena Drilling, notified Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) last week, that it has exercised its right to cancel their contract for the construction of the Stena MidMAX, a dynamically positioned harsh environment semisubmersible drilling unit…
Two new Calls for Ideas have been launched to identify, support and fund robotics-based solutions to reduce inspection costs, and to unlock marginal resources on UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). Some ca.£1 million in funding is available for each area from the the Aberdeen-based…