Government agency Scottish Enterprise has revealed a new Subsea Engineering Action Plan with the aim of capturing an even bigger slice of the current £50 billion global subsea market. The news was announced as Scottish Government Minister for Business…
Sparrows Group has secured a contract to provide crane management services at the Kraken field in the UK North Sea. Over three years, Sparrows will provide support during the pre-operations and operations phase aboard the floating, production…
DOF Subsea North America has appointed Greg Donnelly as the new general manager of the DOF Subsea US team. Donnelly assumed responsibilities 16 January 2017 and will report directly to Marco Sclocchi, executive vice president North America…
Statoil awarded OneSubsea an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to supply the subsea production system for the Utgard gas and condensate discovery in the North Sea. The scope of the contract includes a subsea template manifold system…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the US Coast Guard are responding to a release of gas and condensate from a pipeline at West Cameron 165 in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 32mi southwest of Cameron, Louisiana…
Searcher Seismic and partner CGG have started the PSDM reprocessing of about 1668sq km of 3D seismic data in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. The project comprises broadband PSDM reprocessing of the Western portion of the existing Foxhound 3D Seismic Survey…
Denmark’s DONG Energy will divest its activities within the oil and gas business by the end of 2017. Image of a DONG turbine, from DONG Energy. The company has already 'initiated…
Industry funding will support TGS’ first new multi-client acquisition project in 2017, AM17 Atlantic Margin 3D in the Norwegian Sea. AM17 is a 40,000sq km project in the central-southern Norwegian Sea. The 3D survey will cover largely…
S.D. Standard Drilling, through wholly owned subsidiaries, has agreed to acquire three ST-216L CD platform supply vessels (PSVs) from Volstad Shipping, increasing its fleet to 10 PSVs. The vessels are to be acquired for a total en-bloc consideration of US$40 million…
China’s CNOOC has revealed its 2017 business strategy and development plan that includes a total of five new projects set to come onstream, and a capex that could reach US$10.2 billion (RMB 70 billion). Image from CNOOC…
Lundin is to take a non-cash impairment charge of US$632 million after deciding to take some 170 MMboe contingent resources in Malaysia and the Caspian Sea off its books. The Sweden-headquartered explorer said it was removing the resources…
Guyana's Ministry of Natural Resources says it is planning to have a new Petroleum Directorate established and functioning within Q1 this year. The move comes as the South American country eyes its first offshore oil production, following…
Private equity back UK explorer Azinor Catalyst says success on a planned exploration well in Scotland's Outer Moray Firth could change industry perception of what is an under-explored part of the Moray Firth. The firm is planning a well on its Partidge prospect in the Outer Moray Firth…
UK Oil & Gas Investments subsidiary UKOG Solent has been granted a one-year extension to its initial term on license P1916, off the Isle of Wight, England, to 31 January 2018. UKOG says P1916 contains an undrilled Portland limestone conventional oil prospect…
Transocean has filed a complaint of patent infringement against fellow rig builder Noble Corp. in a Houston court, accusing Noble of infringing upon Transocean’s “dual-activity” technology. However, Noble is standing its ground, and says it disagrees with this lawsuit…