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Trelleborg opens seal inspection facility

Jan 20, 2016

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has opened a dedicated climate-controlled swivel stack seal inspection facility for the validation of custom seals for floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) operators. The facility, located in Barendrecht…

Shell in major earnings drop, job cuts

Jan 20, 2016

Shell’s full year 2015 results are expected to record a significant drop of about 54% compared to 2014, in addition to a reduction of some 10,000 positions across BG Group and Shell in an effort to streamline and integrate the two companies…

Lundin's Lorry prospect lacks fuel

Jan 20, 2016

Swedish exploration firm Lundin Petroleum's latest exploration well 6407/10-4 on the Lorry prospect in the Norwegian Sea has been classified as dry. The well, in PL700B, on the northern part of the Frøya High in the southern Norwegian Sea has been plugged and abandoned…

Plexus enters Oman with Masirah contract

Jan 20, 2016

Wellhead engineering firm Plexus has won a contract with new customer Masirah Oil and its majority owned technology driven oil and gas company REX International for POS-GRIP Tersus Mudline equipment and a 10,000psi adjustable rental exploration wellhead for oil exploration offshore Oman…

Aqualis Offshore lands BorWin3 gig

Jan 19, 2016

Aqualis Offshore has been contracted by Petrofac to perform technical support services for its work on the BorWin gamma topside that is destined for the North Sea.  The scope of work includes preparation of technical specifications for…

Statoil breaks its APA award record

Jan 19, 2016

In the awards in predefined areas (APA) round 2015, Statoil has been awarded interest in 24 licenses on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), 13 of those as operator and 11 as partner, breaking the company’s 2005 record for number of licenses awarded…

Appetite for exploration, despite oil price

Jan 19, 2016

Norway's latest awards in predefined areas (APA) round was announced today, with some 56 licenses offered to oil firms. Duncan John, Partner at consultancy StrategicFit, offers his views. This APA round has shown that appetite for exploration in Norway has been resilient to low oil prices…

Norwegian license round hailed success

Jan 19, 2016

Norway's latest awards in predefined areas (APA) license round has been hailed a success with some 56 exploration licenses being offered on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.  The APA rounds offer acreage in known areas on the shelf, rather than frontier acreage…

Searcher starts second Barents seismic campaign

Jan 19, 2016

Searcher Seismic has started Phase 2 of the Silver-Eye Broadband 3D survey in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. Following the successful acquisition of Phase 1; comprising 2663 sq km, Searcher is now acquiring additional broadband 3D data in the area…

HitechVision trio forms Point Resources

Jan 18, 2016

HitecVision merged three oil companies into Point Resources, a robust mid-sized independent oil company focused on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The new company will engage in both exploration, development and production on the NCS…

Statoil makes further Johan Sverdrup cuts

Jan 18, 2016

Statoil is decreasing cost estimates for the first phase of the giant Johan Sverdrup field by up to 42%, with development costs expected to decrease further, according to partner Det norske. Illustration of the Johan Sverdrup field…

Amec CEO steps down

Jan 18, 2016

Amec Foster Wheeler's outspoken CEO Samir Brikho has stepped down today, the firm announced this morning.  Ian McHoul, the firm's CFO, has been appointed into the role of interim CEO with immediate effect and will chair the group leadership team while the search for the new CEO is conducted…

Suncor's latest North Sea well dry

Jan 18, 2016

Suncor Energy's latest exploration well close to to the Balder field has been classified as dry by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Exploration well 25/10-14 S was drilled on production license 571 near the Balder field offshore Norway…

JX Nippon to drill west of Sheltland

Jan 18, 2016

JX Nippon Exploration and Production has agreed a deal to use Odfjell Drilling's semisubmersible Deepsea Stavanger to drill an exploration well west of Shetland on the UK Continental Shelf. Contract duration is estimated to be between 60 and 75 days and expected commencement is Q2 2016…

Airborne secures Chevron investment

Jan 15, 2016

Airborne Oil & Gas, a composite pipe manufacturer, has secured an investment from Chevron Technology Ventures, the technology investment arm of Chevron Corp. The Dutch manufacturer has developed a range of composite pipe products that offer unique benefits for offshore oil and gas operations…

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