Norwegian oil company Equinor has drilled a dry well near the Troll field in the North Sea offshore Norway.The company drilled the wildcat well 31/11-1 S in the production licence 785 S around 55 kilometers south of the Troll field in the North Sea and 100 kilometers southwest of Bergen…
Australian oil and gas company Woodside Energy has completed the acquisition of the entire participating interest of oil company FAR in the offshore area in Senegal containing the Woodside-operated Sangomar development. The purchase price for Far's stake in the Rufisque Offshore…
Oilfield services firm TechnipFMC said Tuesday it had won a 'significant' Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation contract for Tullow's Jubilee South East development, offshore Ghana. For TechnipFMC, a “significant” contract is between $75 million and $250 million…
Oil major BP has hired a Valaris drillship for drilling operations offshore Mauritania and Senegal, where it operates the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project.Valaris said Tuesday that BP would use its double hull DP drillship VALARIS DS-12 to drill four offshore wells…
Allseas' giant Pioneering Spirit offshore installation and decommissioning vessel has earlier this month removed 2500-t Valhall Quarters Platform (QP) lower jacket out of the water in the North Sea, off Norway.'The jacket on Valhall QP has now been removed and is on its way to Stord for recycling…
Brazilian oil firm Petrobras has struck a deal with compatriot company Petro+ to sell it its stake in a set of seven onshore and shallow water concessions denominated Alagoas Cluster, located in the state of Alagoas, Brazil for $300 million…
Norwegian offshore seismic data firms TGS and PGS have partnered up and started the second phase of a multi-client survey offshore East Canada.The project, called Lewis Hills 3D multi-client phase 2, includes the acquisition of 947 square kilometers of additional 3D data…
Singapore's Strategic Marine has delivered a 42-meter Fast Crew Boat (FCB) for Centus Marine Sdn Bhd. The handover ceremony for the first of a pair of FCB's took place on June 24, 2021 at Strategic Marine’s Singapore shipyard.The vessel, named Centus Nine…
Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad Offshore said Tuesday it had won a contract in West Africa with an unnamed key client.The contract is of the construction support vessel Normand Energy, which will support subsea operations in West Africa…
UK-based oil and gas firm EnQuest has completed the acquisition of the Bentley oil field from Whalsay Energy.Back in April, EnQuest said it has signed a share purchase agreement (SPA) to purchase Whalsay Energy's 100% equity interest in the P1078 license containing Bentley…
Norway's Aker Solutions confirmed Tuesday it had secured a 'major contract' from Chevron to provide a subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia. The contract follows Chevron's sanction of the $4 billion project last week…
Norwegian offshore engineering and construction firm is set to deliver a 5000-ton module for the riser platform at the giant Johan Sverdrup oil field off Norway.'The module is a part of the field’s second development phase and is the latest…
Brazilian oil firm Enauta said Monday that production from its Atlanta field offshore Brazil was affected by a failure in the pumping system at two wells. The Atlanta Field is currently producing oil through one well only. 'Two wells stopped production in the last few days…
Mexico chose state-owned Pemex to run a major shared oil find over the private consortium led by a U.S. oil company that first discovered it, in the latest win for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's nationalistic energy policies.The disputed deposit…
The Australian government on July 1 released a Request for Expressions of Interest (REOI) for Phase 1 works related to decommissioning of the Northern Endeavour FPSO currently at Laminaria-Corallina oil fields in the Timor Sea.After the offshore fields' owner…