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CGG in Mexico airborne survey

Feb 22, 2016

Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) authorized CGG to commence a multi-client airborne gravity and magnetic survey offshore Mexico, which will include the acquisition of approximately 200,000km over six areas across the Mexican Gulf of Mexico…

Top projects by expense for 2016

Jan 01, 2016

No. 1 – Chevron’s Big Foot Chevron’s Big Foot platform being towed to Walker Ridge. Photo from Chevron. Coming in at No. 1 on Infield System’s list of highest capex projects for…

Nabirm, NAMCOR complete Namibia 2D

Nov 11, 2015

Nabirm announced that in conjunction with its partner, NAMCOR (10%) that it has concluded the interpretation of a 2D seismic survey on Block 2113A located in the Walvis basin, offshore Namibia, by US-based ION Geophysics. The license…

ABB installs DolWin2

Sep 08, 2015

ABB installed the world's most powerful offshore converter platform, the DolWin2, in the North Sea by ABB, with a transmission capacity that can power more than 1 million households with clean wind energy. The 320-kilovolt converter station…

Offshore renewables foundations under focus

Sep 02, 2015

SMD is set to contribute to a major offshore wind research project lead by The University of Dundee. The project will look to determine whether cheaper, more environmentally friendly and more effective foundations can be developed for the offshore renewables industry…

ARKeX gets east coast survey permit

Jul 15, 2015

ARKeX announced it has been awarded the first geological and geophysical oil and gas exploration permit by the Bureau of Ocean Management (BOEM).  The ARKeX survey will acquire an airborne broadband gravity and magnetic survey over Outer…

Aker bags Hebron work

Jul 15, 2015

Aker Solutions has won a maintenance, modifications and operations (MMO) contract from ExxonMobil for engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services at the Hebron oilfield offshore Canada. The Hebron oil field is located offshore Newfoundland and Labrador…

Offshore heavy oil economics

May 01, 2015

Jeannie Stell looks at offshore heavy oil development economics with an eye on the current low-price environment. ExxonMobil expects its 52-well Hebron development project offshore Newfoundland to bring in first oil in 2017…

Coor gets Statfjord, Snorre fields contract

Mar 13, 2015

Statoil awarded Coor Service Management a US$134 million five-year contract to provide offshore facility services on the Statfjord and Snoore fields. The Statfjord A. From Statoil.   The…

Barents Sea FTG

Jan 01, 2015

Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) is aiding prospect evaluation in a formerly disputed zone of the Barents Sea, adjacent to the Norwegian-Russian border. Dr. Stephen Rippington, Dr. Neil Dyer, and Chris Anderson explain. Fig…

Mega-projects: mega spending

Dec 01, 2014

Offshore oil and gas mega projects are increasing in scale and cost. Some 41% of ExxonMobil’s 2015 capital spending for projects under construction in 2015 is likely to be directed to one project alone. Neda Djahansouzi, Energy Researcher…

Betting on Hebron

Nov 01, 2014

First oil from ExxonMobil’s giant Hebron project off Newfoundland and Labrador is set for 2017. Sarah Parker Musarra received an update on the development from Geoff Parker, Hebron senior project manager, and examines its place in the Canadian energy economy…

Hebron GBS towed to construction site

Aug 07, 2014

The ExxonMobil-operated Hebron oil field hit a milestone in late July when the gravity based structure (GBS) was towed from the dry dock to the project’s Bull Arm construction site. The 180,000-tonne structure arrived 10 hours after tow-out operations began…

Pieter Schelte: Bigger and better

Aug 04, 2014

The Pieter Schelte at Marine Engineering’s Korean yard.  Photo from Allseas. Work is lining up for Allseas’ mega-vessel the Pieter Schelte, which finally starts sea trials offshore Korea this summer…

A title seabed challenge

Jun 03, 2014

The Meygen project in the Pentland Firth is planned to be the UK's first commercial tidal project. Images from Xodus group. Extreme environmental conditions and complex geotechnical challenges make tidal energy projects a huge undertaking…

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