The Thunder Horse South Expansion project, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, has started up 11 months ahead of schedule, supermajor BP announced today (23 January). Illustration of the expansion at Thunder Horse…
Gazprom Neft has commissioned two new production wells at its Prirazlomnoye field in Russian arctic waters. The new wells bring the total number of wells currently in operation at the Prirazlomnaya platform to 10, six of which are production wells…
Xodus Group has won a contract with North Sea operator Apache to deliver subsea engineering services for two new infill well developments at the Nevis and Skene fields in the northern North Sea. The project includes a novel idea of designing…
Offshore Ireland focused Providence Resources has been approved to move into the second phase of exploration on Frontier Exploration License (FEL) 2/14, containing the Druid and Drombeg prospects. FEL 2/14 is in about 2250m water depth…
North Sea Energy (NSE) Chairman and CEO J. Craig Anderson and CFO Petya Popova are leaving the company with immediate effect, to pursue other interests. Anderson has been the CEO of NSE for the last 10 years, since founding the company…
Atlantic Petroleum (APN) has completed the sale of its Norwegian activities to M Vest Energy. The Norwegian activities include all of Atlantic Petroleum Norway’s assets and licenses, the liabilities of the licenses, and employees. Ben…
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a new contract with Petrogas E&P Netherlands for the jackup, Maersk Resolute. The firm contract covers the drilling of the two wells, A8 and A9 in the A12 block of the Dutch continental shelf. The drilling…
BP Trinidad and Tobago’s (bpTT) US$2 billion Juniper platform has set sail towards the southeast coast of Trinidad, marking one of the supermajor’s largest start-ups this year. Image of Juniper…
Schlumberger disclosed a 22% decline in its full-year 2016 revenue, despite gaining US$4.2 billion from the Cameron Group, which the oil services giant took over in April 2016. Image of Kibsgaard…
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical (TGS) have agreed to expand the companies' cooperation agreement in the Barents Sea. TGS will be investing in a 3D CSEM data acquisition project related to the 24th licensing round in Norway…
Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has been awarded a 4D baseline ocean bottom node project in West Africa, with a duration of six-weeks. The crew is currently in the mobilization phase of the project, which will…
North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) has been awarded a firm one-well extension plus one optional well from Statoil for the jackup West Elara. The work will start in direct continuation of West Elara's existing contract with Statoil and the…
Norwegian giant Statoil held a press conference earlier today (20 January) to discuss the investigations of two very serious incidents with safety issues that could have been fatal to the crew onboard. Øvrum…
Norway's TGS has inked two new seismic vessel contracts with Norwegian geoscience firms Shearwater GeoServices and Polarcus, for surveys in Europe. Shearwater GeoServices has agreements for two surveys, one firm and one optional, starting between March and May 2017…
Italian contractor Saipem has inked a contract for use of Solstad Offshore's construction support vessel (CSV) Normand Installer as part of offshore installation works on the Jangkirk floating production unit (FPU) offshore Indonesia. The Jangkrik FPU is a part of Jangkrik Complex Project…