Twenty-one companies have dropped out of the final cycle of bidding in the Myanmar offshore license round, Reuters news service reported on Friday. The licensing round offers 30 offshore areas, including 11 shallow water blocks and 19 deepwater blocks…
Mammoet released this video detailing the load out of the Bien Dong topside, a 12,000 ton structure, destined for its home in the Nam Con Son basin offshore southern Vietnam.
Rosneft, Gazprombank, Sovcomflot and Korean shipbuilding company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on key terms of cooperation to establish shipbuilding and industrial cluster in the southern part of Primorskiy Krai (Russian Far East)…
Natural gas from future multi-train LNG developments in Tanzania could now be destined for Asian markets. Singapore-based investor Pavilion Energy is to take a 20% in the joint venture partnership looking to develop natural gas finds in Blocks 1…
Norwegian private equity group HitecVision AS is to invest US$92.6million in Singapore-based Energy Drilling Pte Ltd. The deal will see Hitecvision take a majority stake in the company and it will ensure delivery of Energy Drilling Pte…
Since the turn of the millennium, global pipeline investment has undergone sustained and, in recent years, robust growth as a result of favorable market conditions and industry trends, including: the continued high levels of investment in offshore development…
Laissez les bons temps rouler. Deep in the heart of Louisiana oil country, US representatives from two Asian trade organizations made the case for local investment at the 2013 Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition (LAGCOE), held in Lafayette…
Production at Indonesia’s Ruby field kicked off Oct. 27. The field has been in development since June 2011 and is expected to produce natural gas at a rate of 17,000boe/d. Located within the Sebuku Production Sharing Contract (PSC) 300km south of Balikpapan City…
Transboundary may head to committee The US Senate bill ratifying the US-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement, S. 812, is reportedly on its way to a conference committee. The Senate’s version of the bill, passed last month (October)…
Prosafe has agreed a letter of intent (LoI) with COSCO (Qidong) Offshore Co. Ltd. for the engineering, procurement and construction of two semi-submersible accommodation vessels, with options for four further units. The vessels will be…
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has won a US$1.1 billioncontract from Transocean Ltd. (Transocean) to build five KFELS Super B Class jackup rigs. The rigs are scheduled to be delivered between Q1 2016 to Q3 2017. In addition, Transocean…
Viking Offshore & Marine will partner with Chan Kwan Bian (Chan) to construct a $180MM drilling jackup rig, marking Viking’s entrance into the rig building and rig charter market. Executive Director Daniel Lin said that with this agreement…
Singapore-based investment-holding company SEA9 Pte. Ltd. moved to acquire all the issued and paid-up ordinary shares in the capital of Kreuz for S$0.80 per ordinary shares in the capital of Kreuz. Swiber will receive a consideration of S$256…
Lundin Petroleum AB appointed Paul Atkinson as general manager for Malaysia and managing director for Lundin Petroleum's southeast Asia business. Atkinson is joining Lundin Petroleum from Talisman Energy, where he has held various senior managerial positions since 2001…
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. has received a US$2.6 million contract from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. The contract is to provide the final design and supply of key components of a PowerBuoy system intended for deployment…
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