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UK Offshore Workers Accept New Pay Offer

Jan 08, 2019

Oil workers accepted an improved pay offer by the Offshore Contractors Association to 2,500 union members, the Unite union said, a move which removes the threat of strike in the British North Sea which is home to the Brent crude benchmark.'Unite Scotland's 2…

Boskalis Wins Subsea Work in the Middle East

Jan 08, 2019

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) announced Tuesday it has signed a multi-year subsea services agreement for an unnamed customer in the Middle East. The base value of the three-year contract amounts to $40 million with an option to extend…

Petrobras Selling $803 Mln in Local Debt

Jan 08, 2019

Petroleo Brasileiro SA is selling up to three series of local unsecured bonds to raise 3 billion reais ($803 million), the Brazilian state-run oil firm said in a securities filing on Tuesday.The debt will mature in 7 to 10 years, depending on the series…

ABP, Peterson Sign Pact

Jan 07, 2019

The logistics and service provider to the offshore energy industry Peterson UK Limited has concluded a new long-term agreement with Associated British Ports Holdings (ABP) to establish a new operational and logistics base to the Port of Lowestoft…

TechnipFMC, MHB Ink Deal with Saudi Aramco

Jan 07, 2019

TechnipFMC, in consortium with Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd (MHB), has signed a long-term offshore agreement with Saudi Aramco.The six-year agreement covers engineering, procurement, fabrication, transportation and installation…

Sapura Reports Raft of New Contracts

Jan 07, 2019

Malaysian services company Sapura Energy Berhad announced Monday it has secured RM760 million ($184.6 million) in contract wins for its drilling and engineering & construction businesses. The latest achievements have lifted the value of contract wins to RM9…

Brazil Denies $14 Bln Payment to Petrobras

Jan 07, 2019

Brazil's Economy Ministry denied that the government would pay $14 billion to state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to settle a dispute over an oil-producing zone off the Brazilian coast known as the transfer-of-rights area.The ministry told Reuters in a statement the figure…

Wellesley Green Lighted to Drill in the North Sea

Jan 07, 2019

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given consent to Norwegian based Wellesley Petroleum to drill exploration well 25/1-13 in the North Sea.Wellesley is the operator for production licence 871 in the North Sea.Well 25/1-13, named Balcom…

ExxonMobil Spuds Exploration Well Offshore Guyana

Jan 07, 2019

ExxonMobil said Monday it has begun drilling the first of two planned wildcat wells offshore Guyana in January.The Stena Carron drillship is drilling the Haimara-1 exploration well, which is located 31 kilometers east of the Pluma-1 discovery in the southeast Stabroek Block…

Equinor Opens Digital Operations Centers

Jan 07, 2019

Equinor on Monday announced the official opening of its two new digital operations centers established to support Equinor’s installations on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS).The two new centers at Sandsli in Bergen, opened Monday by petroleum and energy minister Kjell-Børge…

Danos Secures GoM Contracts

Jan 07, 2019

Danos announced Monday it has secured a contract with Equinor for production operation support on its Titan SPAR platform, located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.The Equinor project began late 2018 and employs production personnel on the floating…

New Rig Delivered to Odfjell Drilling

Jan 07, 2019

Norwegian based Odfjell Drilling has taken delivery of a a new semi-submersible drilling rig from South Korean builder Samsung Heavy Industries.The sixth generation dynamically positioned Deepsea Nordkapp is an enhanced Moss Maritime CS-60 design…

Norway Oil Investment to Rise in 2019

Jan 07, 2019

Oil and gas investment in Norway is expected to grow for a second year in a row in 2019 but will fall back between 2020 and 2023, an industry lobby group said on Monday.Western Europe's largest oil producer has seen a recovery in oil industry activity thanks to higher crude prices…

Ophir Loses Block R Licence, Equatorial Guinea

Jan 06, 2019

London-based oil and gas exploration and production company Ophir Energy said that it has received notification from the Equatorial Guinea Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons that the Block R Licence, which contains the Fortuna gas discovery…

BW Gets Extension for Polvo FPSO

Jan 04, 2019

BW Offshore announced Firday it has secured another one-year extension for the lease and operation of the floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) Polvo in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.The agreement signed with PetroRio extends the firm period from Q3 2019 to Q3 2020…

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