Statoil has branded its offshore New York wind site, Empire Wind. The 79,350 acre site is off the southern coast of Long Island, New York. The Norwegian operator said that the site has potential to generate up to 1GW of offshore wind power…
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has released details about proposed Lease Sale 250, which would offer 76.9 million acres in federal waters offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The sale, scheduled for March 2018…
Shell has submitted plans to develop the Fram gas and gas condensate field in the UK North Sea as a subsea tieback to the Shearwater platform. The project, in Blocks 29/3a, 29/4c, 29/8a, 29/9c in the Central North Sea, had been considered as a standalone development…
Oilfield services firm Expro has launched a new extreme high-pressure tubing conveyed perforating (TCP) gun system, delivering the largest perforation hole area available for frac and gravel pack completions. Designed specifically for challenging deepwater environments in the Gulf of Mexico…
Ardyne, provider of plug and abandonment and slot recovery technology, has appointed Paul Warwick as non-executive chairman. Warwick has been a non-executive director of Ardyne since shortly after the launch of the company in 2016. He is also executive chairman of Whalsay Energy…
French cabling firm Nexans has been chosen to supply 3000km cables for the Nasr Phase II full field development project offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The Nasr field is a large oil field about 130km northwest of Abu Dhabi…
Kosmos Energy entered Equatorial Guinea with a splash by acquiring Hess' 85% stake in two long-producting oil fields for US$650 million, as well as signing production sharing contracts (PSCs) for three other blocks in the Rio Muni basin…
French oil giant Total has agreed a farm-in deal with UK based independent Impact Oil and Gas, which will see it take major stakes in deepwater blocks offshore Namibia and South Africa. Total has acquired 70% of Impact’s interests in Block 2913B…
A new US$1.32 million (£1 million) research and development project focussed on cost reduction, increased efficiency and value add for the oil and gas sector has received backing from government agency Scottish Enterprise. US firm ION Geophysical subsidiary…
BW Offshore subsidiary Sendje Berge has agreed the terms of a contract extension for the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Sendje Berge with operator Addax Petroleum Exploration (Nigeria) for use on the Okwori field offshore Nigeria…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has published a 'lessons learned' on the use of polymer technology to enhance oil recovery (EOR) from UK oil fields. “Polymer Enhanced Oil Recovery – Industry Lessons Learned” was produced in collaboration…
Premier Oil's Catcher development is on track for first oil by the end of the year with the project's floating production vessel now moored in field. The BW Catcher vessel, built at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, and owned and operated by BW Offshore…
AFGlobal has acquired the Axon pressure pump technology and product line from Amkin Technologies, a privately-held oilfield equipment and technology developer. The acquisition of the Axon pump technologies and ability for AFGlobal to…
KrisEnergy has spud the East Mayura-1 exploration well in the G10/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand, the operator announced on 20 October. The East Mayura-1 well, offshore Thailand, is being drilled by the PV DRILLING I jack-up rig…
MODEC has signed a contract for supply, charter, and operations of a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel with Brazil's Petrobras on 13 October 2017. The firm charter period of the contract is 21 years. The FPSO will be deployed at the Sépia field operated by Petrobras…