Talos Energy has started production from its Tornado project within the Phoenix field, in Green Canyon Blocks 236, 237, 280 and 281, in the US Gulf of Mexico. Production, in about 822m (2700ft) water depth started on 27 October and…
Offshore accommodation and workspace solutions specialist HB Rentals has secured contracts in excess of US$1.25 million for the manufacture of workshops, local equipment rooms and pressurized offshore service modules for multiple clients…
Sweden's Lundin has made a ca. 25-60 MMboe oil and gas discovery on the Loppa High, 20km east of the Johan Castberg discovery in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The well, 7220/6-2 R, was drilled on the Neiden prospect in production license 609…
Noble Corp. has appointed Adam C. Peakes, 43, as the company’s new senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective 23 January 2017. The announcement comes nine months after previous CFO James A. MacLennan resigned in late-February…
Maersk Drilling and National Oilwell Varco (NOV) have entered into a five-year partnership to improve maintenance predictability for drilling equipment. The shared vision behind the partnership is to implement a new maintenance mind-set which…
Petrobras received nearly US$61 million ($204 million BRL) on Friday (18 November) in recovered funds stemming from the Lava Jato corruption scandal, with Petrobras President Pedro Parente expecting to win back a total of $1.6 billion ($5…
Australia’s Karoon Gas is in the middle of an injunction order by the Brazilian court regarding its deal with Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) for the acquisition of two offshore fields, in which Petrobras intends to appeal. Image from Karoon…
Total and Socar, the national oil company of Azerbaijan, signed an agreement establishing the contractual and commercial terms for a first phase of production of the Absheron gas and condensate field, located in the Caspian Sea. The development…
US offshore drilling contractor Rowan Companies and Saudi Aramco have signed a deal to create a new offshore rig outfit. The new organization will be a 50/50 joint venture (JV) which will own, operate, and manage offshore drilling rigs in Saudi Arabia…
Neptune Marine Services (Neptune) has opened a new office in Houston, Texas, operating under the name Neptune Subsea. The move will enable Neptune to provide the full suite of Neptune’s services to clients within the Gulf of Mexico and the Americas…
UK independent EnQuest has brought its Scolty and Crathes development in the UK North Sea onstream. The firm also confirmed sailaway of the US$2.6 billion Kraken development floating production, storage and offloading vessel is due in coming days…
After forming its own offshore-focused offshoot this January, Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol noted in its Q3 conference call that it intends to stabilize its production with a more 'aggressive' exploration drilling program slated for 2017…
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released the final plan for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) lease sales for 2017-2022, excluding areas in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in the US Arctic…
The Amberjack debottlenecking project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) has been completed, expanding its infrastructure and increasing Green Canyon Block platform (GC-19) off-take capacity by 60%. Amberjack illustration…
Utility ROV Services (URS) has developed a new Mattress Recovery Tool (MRT) for the oil and gas decommissioning market. The tool has been designed to recover concrete mattresses that have been installed extensively in oil and gas fields to protect subsea piping…