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Seacat Services Wins Galloper Extensions

Jun 10, 2019

UK-based offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator Seacat Services said on Monday it has secured long-term extensions to its vessel support contracts with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) at Galloper Wind Farm, off the coast of Suffolk…

Oceaneering Lines Up Deepwater GoM Survey

Jun 10, 2019

Oceaneering International said it has secured a contract to perform the first-ever deepwater autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey in Mexican waters.The geophysical survey will be performed for BHP at its Trion development. Oceaneering will use the DP-2 Ocean Investigator…

Activists Climb North Sea-bound Oil Rig

Jun 10, 2019

Activists have halted the progress of an oil rig destined for BP's North Sea exploration program off the coast of Scotland, environmental group Greenpeace said on Sunday.The rig, Paul B Loyd Jr, owned by Transocean, was on its way to the Vorlich field to drill for operator BP…

Lukoil Eyes Kazakhstan Development

Jun 09, 2019

Lukoil said it has signed a preliminary agreement with Kazakhstan's state energy company to develop the I-P-2 license block in the Kazakh Sector of the Caspian Sea.Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov signed the Heads of Agreement deal with JSC NC KazMunayGaz chairman Alik Aidarbayev at the 23rd St…

Fitch Downgrades Pemex Debt to 'Junk'

Jun 07, 2019

Fitch on Thursday became the first major ratings agency to downgrade the debt of Mexican oil company Pemex to 'junk' status, in a major setback for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's plans to revive the struggling state-run firm.Fitch changed…

BP Relaunches Shearwater Oilfield Sale

Jun 07, 2019

BP is again seeking buyers for its stake in the Shearwater oilfield in the British North Sea after talks with Royal Dutch Shell fell through, industry and banking sources said.The talks between Shell, the field's operator, and BP failed due to disagreement over the value of the 27…

Vessel Strikes Statfjord A, Staff Evacuated

Jun 07, 2019

Oil workers have been evacuated from the Statfjord A platform in the North Sea after it was struck by a platform supply vessel (PSV), Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor said on Friday.The platform was not producing when it was struck by the…

BMT Scores US Offshore Wind Contract

Jun 06, 2019

BMT said on Thursday it has been awarded a contract to design two crew transfer vessels (CTVs) to be deployed for Windserve Marine to service Ørsted’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project in the US.BMT has designed the new 20-meter CTV specifically for East Coast conditions with maneuverability…

Santos Boosts Dorado Discovery

Jun 06, 2019

The Dorado-2 appraisal well has confirmed a major oil and gas resource in the Bedout Basin, offshore Western Australia, operator Santos announced on Thursday.The well was drilled down-dip approximately 2 kilometers from the Dorado-1 discovery…

Israel Extends Exploration Tender Deadline

Jun 06, 2019

Israel on Thursday extended its tender by a month to grant new licenses for offshore oil and natural gas exploration.The deadline for bids was due by June 17 but the Energy Ministry extended it until July 15, with the winners to be announced on August 12…

Vattenfall May Raise Offshore Wind Target

Jun 06, 2019

Sweden's Vattenfall may raise its target for installing offshore wind power generation in Europe beyond the 11,000 megawatts (MW) it now plans to have in place by 2025, an executive said.Gunnar Groebler, the Swedish power firm's board member in charge of wind…

Angola Could Reap from New Policy Regime

Jun 06, 2019

Angola, sub-Saharan Africa’s second largest oil producer after Nigeria, is optimistic the new fiscal and regulatory regime now in place would translate into a reversal of the country’s declining oil output and attract more private investment…

ExxonMobil to Redevelop Angola Block 15

Jun 06, 2019

American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil and its partners said that they will further invest in Block 15 offshore Angola to increase production as part of an agreement with Angola’s recently established National Agency for Petroleum…

W&T Strikes Oil in US Gulf of Mexico

Jun 06, 2019

Oil and natural gas producer W&T Offshore has discovered oil at the Gladden Deep prospect in Mississippi Canyon block 800 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.W&T is operator of the well, which is one of 14 planned for the drilling program under the Monza JV…

VIKING Wins CNOOC Contract

Jun 05, 2019

Safety products manufacturer and service provider VIKING Life-Saving Equipment informs it has won a contract to supply CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, with personal protective equipment (PPE) and servicing for approximately 16…

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