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Fast fabrication

Sep 01, 2015

Meg Chesshyre talks to Heerema Fabrication Group CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven about the firm’s latest projects. Cygnus PU sail away. Photos from Heerema Fabrication Group.  Heerema…

Russia seeks to extend Arctic territory

Aug 07, 2015

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this week announced it had submitted a revised bid claiming 1.2 million sq km of Arctic sea shelf to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). The country's previous bid in 2002 were rejected for lack of evidence…

Heerema Zwijndrecht secures Oranje-Nassau Energie contract

Jul 06, 2015

Heerema Zwijndrecht, one of the yards of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has secured a contract from Oranje-Nassau Energie for the procurement and construction of a topside and jacket. It concerns an unmanned and sustainable satellite platform for the P11-E field…

Wintershall takes over Vega

Mar 04, 2015

Germany's Wintershall has taken over the operatorship of the subsea oil and gas field Vega from Statoil as it gears up to develop the Maria field. Vega is the BASF subsidiary’s first operated subsea tie-in field in Norway. With this transfer…

AGR wins Lukoil software contract

Feb 23, 2015

Lukoil Overseas North Shelf AS awarded AGR a US$131,000 contract for its well intelligence software solution, iQx. AGR’s iQx software is designed to simplify and increase efficiency of the planning and execution of drilling wells.…

Wood Group to design Snorre TLP

Oct 14, 2014

Wood Group Mustang has been awarded the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) contract by Statoil for the proposed Snorre C tension leg platform (TLP) to be located on the Norwegian continental shelf. Work is being conducted by…

DSM inks mooring contract with Repsol

Sep 24, 2014

Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has secured a contract to provide a range of mooring services for Repsol's drilling operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Under the contract, DSM will provide marine engineering services and deliver the mooring equipment…

Chevron exits the Netherlands

Sep 19, 2014

Chevron has agreed to sell its shares in Chevron Exploration and Production Netherlands, including its interest in Chevron Transportation, to Petrogas International E&P Coӧperatief, a subsidiary of Oman-based Petrogas E&P. 'Our decision…

ONS: AGR bags NCS contracts

Aug 24, 2014

AGR has been awarded software contracts with Det norske oljeselskap, VNG (Norge) and OMV (Norge) worth in total about US$1 million. AGR will be delivering its bespoke software products P1, CT and iQˣ, which has been shortlisted for the ONS Innovation Award…

Contract wins

Aug 01, 2014

The Leman compression module at HSM Offshore, Schiedam. Photos from HSM Offshore.  HSM Offshore has added new contracts to its order book, but more could be done by the industry to reduce costs and more efficiently use assets…

Gabon, DRC reject Angola’s redraw of maritime border

Jul 21, 2014

Both Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Kinshasa are rejecting Angola's proposed changes to the maritime borders, in which Angola seeks to increase its continental shelf length by more than 200mi. Gabon and the DRC have…

New areas offered in APA 2014

Apr 03, 2014

The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has announced the APA 2014 in the predefined areas on the Norwegian Shelf. Awards are projected to be announced in 1Q 2015. The APA system has been extended with the addition of three blocks in the Barents Sea near Snøhvit field…

Orca starts up in North Sea

Dec 18, 2013

Production has started from the southern North Sea Orca gas field, operator GDF SUEZ has announced. The field straddles the UK and Dutch sectors of the North Sea, making it the second such cross-border gas development between these two countries (the other being Markham)…

Aker wins Aasta Hansteen job

Jan 28, 2013

Company to manufacture umbilicals, riser baseSPAR platform on the Aasta Hansteen fieldAker Solutions has signed a contract with Statoil for the supply of deepwater umbilicals to the Aasta Hansteen field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…

Hess mulls Russian sale

Nov 12, 2012

Samara-NaftaHess will persue plans to sell its Russian subsidiary Samara-Nafta, the company announced on 12 November 2012.Samara-Nafta, which was established in 1998, produces approximately 50,00 boepd in the Volga-Urals region.Goldman…

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