Sweden's Lundin has made a ca. 25-60 MMboe oil and gas discovery on the Loppa High, 20km east of the Johan Castberg discovery in the Norwegian Barents Sea. The well, 7220/6-2 R, was drilled on the Neiden prospect in production license 609…
Noble Corp. has appointed Adam C. Peakes, 43, as the company’s new senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective 23 January 2017. The announcement comes nine months after previous CFO James A. MacLennan resigned in late-February…
UK independent EnQuest has brought its Scolty and Crathes development in the UK North Sea onstream. The firm also confirmed sailaway of the US$2.6 billion Kraken development floating production, storage and offloading vessel is due in coming days…
Utility ROV Services (URS) has developed a new Mattress Recovery Tool (MRT) for the oil and gas decommissioning market. The tool has been designed to recover concrete mattresses that have been installed extensively in oil and gas fields to protect subsea piping…
Hurricane Energy was awarded the P2308 licence (Halifax) offshore the UK by the Oil and Gas Authority in an out of round application. The licence is contiguous to, and extends north east from, Hurricane’s existing Lancaster licence. The…
Accommodation provider Prosafe has been hit with an order from the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) after failing to remedy non-compliances found during an inspection. The PSA carried out an inspection on the Safe Scandinavia in September this year…
Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) has announced major partnerships with global tidal turbine manufacturers, Schottel Hydro and Tocardo Tidal Turbines. PTEC is a 30 MW tidal tidal energy generation project being created off the Isle of Wight…
Noble Energy's long-term plans has cut 60 jobs from its workforce, with 55 of them in Houston, and lays out plans for its offshore assets in the Eastern Mediterranean. Tamar operations, image from Delek…
Black Sea Oil & Gas (BSOG) has awarded Xodus Group a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the development of the Ana and Doina discoveries in the Black Sea. Xodus will work on the offshore and onshore facilities for the development of the Midia Gas Development Project…
Sembcorp Marine subsidiary SMOP has awarded Dutch firm Framesa contract for the supply of two seawater electrochlorination systems, one wellhead control panel complete with a hydraulic power unit, and three hydraulic power units for topside and subsea valves…
Shell is set to cut 380 jobs as the supermajor moves to close its finance office in Glasgow following a review of its global finance operations, according to news reports. 'For Shell to remain competitive, difficult choices continue to…
Antrim Energy entered into an agreement with AzEire to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of Antrim's Ireland subsidiary, Antrim Exploration (Ireland) Ltd. in a US$250,000 in cash deal. The deal is expected to close by 25 November.
BP and GE Oil & Gas announced the start-up of Plant Operations Advisor (POA), a new digital solution designed to improve the efficiency, reliability and safety of BP’s oil and gas production operations. POA is already helping BP manage the…
Decom North Sea elected eight new board directors and re-elected one director from across a range of sectors within the oil and gas industry. Image of Esson, from Decom North Sea. New directors have been named as: Simon Gibb…
Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has completed a new contract for a large class vessel to support maintenance work in European waters, which is scheduled to start in Q2 2017. The contract is for 18 months, and comes with options. Duncan Anderson…