UK-based Expro Group has been awarded new contracts from Tullow Oil worth more than US$100 million over three years. The contracts will see Expro work across Tullow Oil’s assets in Ghana, including the Jubilee field and the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field project (see map)…
Aveon Offshore has successfully completed fabrication, supported testing and load-out of subsea equipment for Esso's Erha North Phase 2 project offshore Nigeria. The load out and sail away of the five suction piles, production and…
The crash in oil prices has led to a dramatic decline in the number and value of awards for floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) units. There have only been three contracts awarded this year; a conversion for the Sankofa-Gye Nyame development in Ghana…
Production commenced from Houston-based Erin Energy’s Oyo-7 well offshore Nigeria, with the expectations to double the company’s current production rate out of the Oyo field. The Armada Perdana…
Zamakona Yards’ Repnaval shipyard has increased its capacity by operating an additional slipway. Repnaval Shipyard. From Repnaval. Repnaval is located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria…
Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast in their new World Offshore Accommodation Market Forecast that, during the period 2015 to 2020, demand for offshore accommodation vessels will average almost 42,000 personnel on board (PoB) per year, which represents…
Malaysia-based Bumi Armada Berhad awarded ABB a contract to supply electrical and automation systems for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for a recently discovered oilfield off the coast of Angola. Bumi is reconfiguring the former Armada Ali supertanker…
Afren’s Group Finance Director Darra Comyn (pictured) has resigned, effective this summer, the company announced on 12 June. The London-based, Africa-focused, explorer will now begin a search for a new CFO. Afren said Comyn will stay…
Tullow and Pancontinental Oil & Gas subsidiaries entered into an agreement to amend the farm-out agreement for exploration license 0037 (EL 0037) which covers 17,295sq km (4.2 million acres) in water depths extending to 1800m in the Walvis basin offshore northern Namibia…
The global capital spending on newbuild and converted floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels could reach US$8.65 billion this year, according to consultancy firm Visiongain. The largest spend will be focused on offshore…
EMAS Offshore secured a US$30 million contract for support services off West Africa. Under the job scope, four of EMAS Offshore’s marine vessels, including an accommodation barge, PSV and AHTSs, will be chartered to EMAS AMC, to provide accommodation…
Tullow Oil is looking to drill on its Block C-10 acreage offshore Mauritania in 2016, according to Sterling Energy. Sterling, which has just agreed to acquire a 13.5% stake in Block C-10 says Tullow has identified a drill-ready Neocomian…
Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. (COPL) confirmed that it and its partner, ExxonMobil (XOM), remain committed to completing their Liberian Block (LB) 13 work program in Liberia under the production sharing contract (PSC). According to COPL (20% interest)…
Wireless video ensures a team approach to safety and saves money. Marieke Wijtkamp and Gregory Hale discuss the details. When a manhole cover fell multiple floors, narrowly missing two rig workers, an immediate health, safety, and environment (HSE) investigation ensued…
Sterling Energy completed a 3D seismic survey of approximately 1100sq km over a high-graded portion of the Ambilobe Block offshore Madagascar. The acquisition was undertaken by CGG Services, on behalf of the Ambilobe joint venture partners…
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