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Borr Drilling Jack-Up Rig Slated for Work Offshore Africa

Dec 18, 2023

UK oil and gas company Tower Resources has hired Borr Drilling’s Norve jack-up rig for the drilling campaign offshore Cameroon in central Africa. The Norve jack-up rig, part of Borr's fleet of high-specification drilling units, will be put to…

German 288MW Offshore Wind Farm Secures PPA

Dec 18, 2023

Swiss power production and distribution utility BKW and OWP Butendiek, an offshore wind farm based in northern Germany, have signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA). Starting in July 2024, BKW will purchase 18% of its total production…

MODEC and Toray Develop New FPSO Repair Technique

Dec 18, 2023

MODEC and Toray Industries have jointly developed a carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) patch technique for repairs on Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO), and Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) systems.FPSO and FSO repair services provided by MODEC…

Gastrade’s FSRU Alexandroupolis Reaches Greece

Dec 18, 2023

Gastrade’s new floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) has arrived to Greece after completing an almost 10-month conversion at the Seatrium shipyard in Singapore.The FSRU, dubbed Alexandroupolis, sailed away from Singapore on November 26…

Petrofac Agrees Brownfield EPC Framework with TotalEnergies

Dec 18, 2023

Oilfield services company Petrofac has signed an engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) framework agreement with TotalEnergies for its assets in the North Sea.Under the three-year framework, Petrofac will have the opportunity…

Shell and Deltic Greenlight Pensacola Appraisal Well

Dec 18, 2023

Oil major Shell and its partner Deltic Energy have approved the work program and budget for drilling the Pensacola appraisal well in late 2024.The Pensacola discovery, located in the UK North Sea, is estimated to contain gross P50 initially…

Aker BP Restarts Production at Alvheim Field After Unexpected Downtime

Dec 18, 2023

Norwegian oil company Aker BP has restored production at Alvheim field, causing an oil spill during the process of starting up the production vessel located in the central North Sea. The downtime resulted from a malfunction in new equipment…

TGS Secures OBN Data Acquisition Job in the Gulf of Mexico

Dec 18, 2023

Offshore seismic data firm TGS has been awarded an Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) data acquisition contract in the Gulf of Mexico.The project's acquisition will start in the first quarter of 2024.The contract will cover two-month proprietary OBN data acquisition work…

Petronas Inks Production Sharing Contracts for Two Blocks off Suriname

Dec 18, 2023

Malaysian oil company Petronas has signed production sharing contracts for Suriname’s offshore Blocks 64 and 64 with the country’s state-owned Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname.Petronas Suriname E&P won the blocks, located in the Guyana-Suriname Basin…

Aker Solutions Awarded North Sea Decom Work

Dec 15, 2023

Aker Solutions on Friday announced it has been awarded a contract for the dismantling and recycling of a platform topside and jacket in the North Sea area.The Norway-based company did not specify the name of the platform, but said the project consists of a topside with a weight of 19…

Serica Prolongs Services Deal with Odfjell Technology

Dec 15, 2023

Odfjell Technology on Friday said it has been awarded a two-year contract extension from Serica Energy for the provision of storage, preservation, maintenance and platform drilling services on the Bruce platform in the UK North Sea.This extension will see the contract through until November 2025…

QatarEnergy Signs Production Sharing Deals for Blocks Offshore Suriname

Dec 15, 2023

QatarEnergy signed two production sharing contracts on Friday relating to two marine areas off the coast of Suriname, rights to which it won during an auction held last June, the company said in a statement.'QatarEnergy will own a 30% working interest in block 64…

Edda Wind Secures Green Financing for Newbuild Program

Dec 15, 2023

Edda Wind announced it has entered into a green term loan facility agreement for the pre- and postdelivery financing of four new commissioning service operation vessels (CSOV) under construction at Vard.The agreement is a €161 million green…

Aker BP Extends Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Nordkapp

Dec 15, 2023

Offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling announced it has signed an amendment with Aker BP ASA which extends the firm contract for the Deepsea Nordkapp until the end of 2026.The Deepsea Nordkapp—a sixth generation dynamically positioned…

Shell Takes 100% Working Interest in GoM Kaikias Field

Dec 14, 2023

Supermajor Shell reports it now has 100% working interest in the Kaikias field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico after acquiring a 20% stake from Mitsui's MOEX North America.The field Kaikias, located in the prolific Mars-Ursa basin, approximately 130 miles from the Louisiana coast…

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