The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded more than £200,000 in the final stage of its exploration license competition which was launched earlier this year to stimulate further interest in offshore oil and gas exploration activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS)…
US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper announced a proposed lease sale for 122,405 acres offshore North Carolina for commercial wind energy leasing. Image from Siemens…
Plans to put a team of eight salvors on board the grounded semisubmersible oil rig Transocean Winner have had to be called off because the conditions are unsuitable to winch them down safely, according to the Maritime & Coastguard Agency…
Image of Toma, from IhabToma.com. Former Schlumberger and Transocean executive Ihab Toma has been appointed as Vantage Drilling International’s next chief executive officer (CEO)…
Petrovietnam Marine Shipyard (PV Shipyard) is due to deliver the Tam Dao 05 jackup drilling rig to its client today (12 August). Earlier this week, the firm completed full height jacking trials on the rig. Tam Dao 05 is a Friede and Goldman JU-2000E design…
Stinger Technology has taken delivery of a customized Seaeye Falcon ROV to be used for offshore subsea operations under a contract awarded by Dong Energy. The assignment includes environmental sampling and inspection inside the oil storage tank of the Siri platform…
Planned strike action by workers for Wood Group working on Shell platforms in the UK North Sea has been suspended to allow fresh talks to start. Nearly 400 workers in the Unite and RMT unions have so far staged two walkouts, for 24 hours on 26 July…
No pollution has been detected in the area of a rig which grounded on the Isle of Lewis, off Scotland, early Monday morning, says the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). The MCA said, despite two of four fuel tanks on the Transocean…
The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway (PSA) has granted consent to ExxonMobil to use Island Frontier and Island Wellserver for light well intervention at the Sigyn field, offshore Norway. The Sigyn field is in production license 072…
A 16-strong executive committee of industry experts has been appointed for SPE Offshore Europe 2017, including senior executives from Statoil, Total and Schlumberger. The team is now working on the theme and topics for the biennial event…
Norway's IKM Subsea has won contracts for ROV and Subsea services for the Visund and Snorre B facilities with Statoil, paving the way for a resident ROV concept to be deployed. The 10-year contract is worth up to NOK0.75 billion. The contract may be extended for a further period of 15 years…
Assets and activities of inspection, examination and engineering services firm IMES have been bought out of administration by Seanamic Group. Administrators from KPMG were appointed to IMES on 10 August. The company, which had a turnover of around £5 million…
James Fisher and Sons has acquired Hughes Sub Surface Engineering (Hughes SSE) - a specialist diving, subsea and marine project company based in Bootle, England. The acquisition further enhances James Fisher’s existing subsea activities and…
Subsea UK is encouraging British firms to set their sights on international expansion to sustain long term growth. The industry body is urging companies to look beyond the North Sea and establish international links to generate new business…
Russia's Rosneft has made a gas condensate discovery named Wild Orchid offshore Vietnam. The well was drilled using the Hakuryu-5 semisubmersible drilling rig during Q2 this year, operated by RN-Vietnam, in Block 06.1. Volume of reserves…