Shell said today (10 November) that industrial firefighters were able to safely land on the Enchilada platform in the US Gulf of Mexico and perform a preliminary inspection; however, there is no timeline to resume normal operations. 'Though the structure is visibly sound…
Baron Oil is to relinquish Block Z-34, which has been in Force Majeure since 2014, offshore Peru. In such a situation, the Z-34 partners are entitled to exercise their right to relinquish Block Z-34 and to request that a $3.6 million work program guarantee bond be released…
Former chair and chief executive of Shell UK Sir Bob Reid is to take up a new role as non-executive director of Belltree, a specialist oil and gas consultancy based in Edinburgh. Sir Bob will advise and support Belltree with its continued growth into international markets…
Industry stalwart David Pridden (66) passed away last weekend following a battle with cancer. Pridden became the inaugural CEO of industry trade group Subsea UK in 2004, several months after the organization was formed by Government and industry…
Statoil has picked Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters for the hull and living quarters for its Johan Castberg floating production development in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Statoil has signed a letter of intent with Sembcorp Marine Rigs & Floaters…
DNV GL has secured a combined engineering services agreement with Chrysaor to deliver a unique range of services to the company in support of its North Sea operations. Chrysaor recently completed the acquisition of a package of assets in the UK North Sea from Shell for US$3 billion…
Schlumberger today (9 November) inaugurated the newly expanded reservoir rock and fluid analysis laboratory located in Houston, Texas. The state-of-the-art lab enables petrotechnical experts to better leverage physical and digital rock and…
Brazil’s National Energy Policy Council has approved acreage to be offered in the 15thRound of Bids for Exploration, scheduled for 29 March, 2018, of the 15th Round of Bids for Exploratory Blocks, and the 4th Round of Bids for production sharing on 7 June 2018…
Saudi Aramco today (9 November) announced several contract awards, including three for fields in the Arabian Gulf offshore Saudi Arabia. The company has awarded Jacobs Engineering an engineering and project management services contract for the offshore Zuluf field development program…
Halliburton announced today (9 November) that it worked with the Akwa Ibom state government to inaugurate and open Nigeria’s first oil and gas training center fully-equipped with oilfield operations tools. The Akwa Ibom Oil and Gas Training…
The control room for Statoil’s first platform to be remotely operated from land opened today (9 November) at Sandsli in Bergen, Norway. Source: Statoil “We have had land-based surveillance and control of offshore operations for a long time…
UK subsea company Rovco has been awarded a three-year contract to support one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms, Gwynt y Môr, which lies 8mi off the coast of North Wales in the UK. Rovco will be providing an underwater ROV 3D visual survey solution…
Production has started from the Hail oil field offshore Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, says Abu Dhabi Oil Co., a subsidiary of Japan's Cosmo Energy Exploration & Production Co. The production from the Hail oil field is the first…
BP and Husky Energy have been awarded acreage in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin offshore eastern Canada. The two companies bid approximately US$11.8 million (CAD$15 million) for the first of three parcels of 784,329 acres (317,407 hectares) offered…
Two people were injured after a fire broke out on supermajor Shell's Enchilada platform in the US Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday morning, according to a joint report by the US Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)…