Noble Energy awarded Dutch services provider SBM Offshore a contract for the Big Bend and Dantzler fields in the Gulf of Mexico. Thunder Hawk from SBM Offshore The two companies signed a…
Watch as Nexen’s video gives insight into the four-day operation needed to lift and install the production, utilities and quarters (PUQ) deck for the Golden Eagle area development offshore, approximatley 70km northeast of Aberdeen…
Keppel FELS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore and Marine, secured a contract from Qatar-based Gulf Drilling International to build a repeat high-specification KFELS B Class jackup rig worth US$227 million. As part of the contract…
South Korea has become an international shipbuilding power-house – a name-plate for dozens of global mega-projects stretching from New Foundland to Australia. What is described as “the largest fabrication facility in the world” is in…
The Cidade de Ilhabela floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) sailed from the Brasa shipyard on 15 September, marking the first FPSO to be integrated at Brasa’s quay number two. The departure of the FPSO is a milestone for 2-year-old Estaleiro Brasa (shipyard)…
Ithaca Energy has completed a flow test on the fourth development well on the UK North Sea Stella field, hitting 12,005boe/d. The result takes the total field potential up to 45,000boe/d, exceeding the firm's 30,000boe/d annualised estimate for the field…
Ophir Energy's Silenus East-1 well in Block R, offshore Equatorial Guinea (central west Africa), has made a gas discovery - and helped support plans for an expanded FLNG project for the area. Nick Cooper, Ophir's CEO, says the additional…
The millionth barrel of oil has been produced at the Prirazlomnoye field, in Russia's Pechora Sea, in the Arctic, operator Gazprom Neft announced. The second tanker to deliver the oil to North West Europe in the next few days is currently being loaded…
Technip has agreed to its North American diving assets to Ranger Offshore as it looks to focus on high technology and ultra-deep water products and services. Proceeds from this divestment will be partially reinvested directly into Technip's subsea business…
If the expected increase in Brazilian oil production continues, Brazil will become a crude oil exporter by 2018, with a forecasted export volume of between 1.5-2MMb/d, Magda Chambriard, General Manager of the ANP (Brazil's National Petroleum Agency)…
ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Malaysia Inc. (EMEPMI) announced the startup of the Tapis enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project, off the coast of Terengganu, Malaysia, in the South China Sea. Operations began with water-alternating…
Consulting petroleum geologist Colin Stabler spoke to a full house at the Houston Geological Society's General Dinner on 15 September 2014, presenting 'Mexico's Challenge to Explorationists.' Stabler has worked Mexican subsurface geology since 1966…
An announcement on the second Greek offshore licensing round is expected this month. The Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change announced the round would be launched upon publication of the Notice of the Call for Tenders in the Official Journal of the European Union…
The outlook for the deepwater and ultra deepwater market is positive, with a forecast capital growth rate of around 8% between 2014 and 2018, according to Infield Systems Ltd.’s deepwater and ultra deepwater report. Infield Systems anticipates…
Petrobras awarded Aker Solutions' subsidiary Aker Oilfield Services (AKOFS) a US$465 million contract to provide subsea intervention services offshore Brazil. The five-year contract slated to begin in 4Q 2016 is for the Aker Wayfarer subsea construction vessel…