Lundin Petroleum is on the heels of beginning an active exploration drilling program in the southern Barents Sea with Ocean Rig’s Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible. The program, which will begin with a multi-billion bbl prospect, includes spudding…
Centrica North Sea has awarded HydraWell a three-year frame contract to provide plug and abandonment (P&A) technology and services for the operator’s “A Fields” in the southern part of the North Sea. Centrica has recently submitted a…
Expro has been awarded a substantial contract from global oil and gas company Maersk Oil for subsea and well test services on two offshore units in the North Sea. The contract will extend the long-standing partnership between the two companies until 2020…
Pacific Drilling CEO Christian J. Beckett has stepped down from his positions as CEO and as a member of the board, after a 10-year tenure, to pursue other opportunities, the firm has announced. Paul T. Reese, the Houston-based company’s current Executive Vice President and CFO…
Cox Oil Offshore has purchased a majority stake in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) Outer Continental Shelf from Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas (FM O&G), a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan. The deal includes FCX’s interests in the Flatrock and Hurricane areas of the OCS-310 Tiger Shoal lease…
BP is on track to start up its Juniper project off Trinidad in the coming weeks, and bring Eni’s Zohr online offshore Egypt by the end of 2017. The supermajor was hopeful in its Q2 2017 earnings call, announcing the possibly of having final…
Maersk Oil awarded Simmons Edeco a contract to provide scheduled and unscheduled wellhead maintenance services for all Maersk Oil offshore wells in the Danish North Sea. Simmons Edeco will also refurbish valves and wellhead maintenance equipment…
Offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore is setting up a presence in the Netherlands, and has hired Jasper Bergsma as its head of business development in the country. Bergsma will be based in Amsterdam and in charge of marketing Aqualis Offshore’s services in the country…
Subsea vehicle firm Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) is relocating its servicing operations to the Port of Tyne’s Tyne Dock estate in South Shields (UK). The Tyneside-based remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) specialist will keep its head office…
US offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind has unveiled plans for a 'utility-scale' offshore wind and energy storage project offshore Massachusetts. Revolution Wind would be a 144 MW wind farm paired with a 40 MW hour battery storage system provided by Tesla…
Aberdeenshire-based Oilfield Machinery (OilMac) has started operations at the Port of Dundee, via a new facility on Prince Charles Wharf, which is currently being developed by Forth Ports at a cost of £10 million. OilMac, known for buying…
Joint operator Husky-CNOOC Madura has started first production from the BD gas field in Indonesia. The BD gas field is in the Madura Strait in 55m water depth. It is being produced via an unmanned wellhead platform, a floating production…
The Internet of Things is becoming ever more embedded in the oil psyche. Steve Hamlen reports. Mackinnon The increasing use of sensors coupled with the progress in data collection…
Offshore structures for multiple uses were investigated by Mirco Busetto, head of basic design Offshore Business Unit, Fincantieri, at this year’s Offshore Mediterranean Conference (OMC) in Ravenna, Italy. Elaine Maslin reports. A…
The UK North Sea’s extensive pile of marginal fields offer an attractive prize, if they can be economically unlocked. Steve Hamlen reports. UK marginal pools visualized. Image from the Oil & Gas Technology Centre…