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Landmark acquires Neftex

Jul 31, 2014

Halliburton’s Landmark Software and Services acquired Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd. Neftex is a UK-based company specializing in sequence stratigraphy-based products and consulting for subsurface risk reduction. Neftex’s consistent…

ConocoPhilliips extends Archer contract

Jul 31, 2014

ConocoPhillips has extended its contract Archer Ltd. for the provision of platform drilling services for the Greater Ekofisk Area. The Greater Ekofisk Area is located in the southern part of the North Sea, 300km southwest of Stavanger…

P&A problems

Jul 30, 2014

The Fugro Synergy. From Fugro Drilling and Well Services. Plugging and abandonment accounts for about 43% of decommissioning costs. Operators and service companies are looking at ways to reduce the bill…

Petrofac gets Shah Deniz contract

Jul 30, 2014

Petrofac secured a contract worth approximately US$8.4 million with the BP-operated Shah Deniz 2 project to provide their maintenance build capabilities. The contract covers new onshore, offshore and pipeline assets in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea…

Seatronics partners with Digital Edge Subsea for video inspection

Jul 30, 2014

Seatronics, an Acteon company, has signed a worldwide contract with Digital Edge Subsea Ltd. for Digital Edge Subsea’s complete range of digital video inspection systems. Seatronics will be equipped with Digital Edge Subsea systems for…

Dolphin takes delivery of 7-Oceans seismic vessel

Jul 29, 2014

Norway's Dolphin Geophysical has taken delivery of 7-Oceans, the first of three new-build seismic guard vessels. The naming ceremony of the 7-Oceans took place in Maaskant Shipyard, Stellendam, South Holland, on 25 July 2014. The 370tonne ship is 35m x 9m and is flagged in Panama…

Valemon topside arrival

Jul 29, 2014

Statoil released a video showing the Valemon topside arriving on 26 July 2014 near Stavanger, Norway after a 40-day trip from South Korea. The topsides set sail in June from the Geoje yard in South Korea, where Statoil contracted…

Statoil’s Valemon topsides installed

Jul 28, 2014

Topsides were lifted into place on the 9150-tonne steel jacket on the Valemon field in the Norwegian North Sea on 28 July, operator Statoil announced. Statoil's Valemon. Photo from Statoil's Andre Osmundsen…

Westermeerwind wind farm construction to begin March 2015

Jul 25, 2014

Westermeerwind BV reached financial close on 25 July for the turnkey construction of the Westermeerwind wind farm in IJsselmeer, Netherlands. Work can now start on building the 48 wind turbines. The Westermeerwind wind farm consists of…

ECN approves Mitsubishi Electric’s compact wind lidar

Jul 25, 2014

The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) conducted tests to validate and subsequently approved Mitsubishi Electric’s compact wind lidar as complying with European wind measurement standards. The lidar (portmanteau of “light”…

DONG hires WSP for wind farm engineering

Jul 25, 2014

DONG Energy, Denmark's largest energy company, has awarded three contracts to civil engineering group WSP for design work on the onshore substations for three offshore wind farms. WSP says detailed design on the projects is now underway…

The HPHT challenge

Jul 25, 2014

Total E&P UK’s HPHT Elgin Franklin complex. Image from Total E&P UK.  High-pressure, high-temperature developments are on the increase in the UK North Sea…

JDR opens center in Cambridge

Jul 25, 2014

JDR is opening a new offshore engineering technology center in Cambridge on 28 July. The new Cambridge R&D team will evolve JDR’s specialist knowledge of subsea production umbilicals and subsea power cables to take on exploration challenges faced by oil…

Trending upward

Jul 25, 2014

Launched in 2010, CGG’s Oceanic Vega is a purpose-built high-capacity seismic vessel optimized for reduced noise and fuel consumption. It carries DNV-CLEAN notation for the lowest environmental impact. Photo from CGG…

Energean takes on rig for drilling

Jul 25, 2014

Greek exploration firm Energean Oil & Gas is starting a €165 million investment program in Prinos, North Prinos and Epsilon in the Gulf of Kavala after acquiring the Energean Force drilling rig.  Energean said acquiring the Energean Force…

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