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Aker Solutions Wins $400M Offshore Maintenance Award

Jan 15, 2020

Offshore energy services provider Aker Solution has said it has been issued a letter of award for an offshore maintenance project with an undisclosed client.The Norwegian company said the letter of award for offshore maintenance and modification…

Tullow in $1.5B Writedown On Oil Price Outlook, Exploration

Jan 15, 2020

Tullow Oil expects to report a $1.5 billion writedown after lowering its long-term oil price assumptions by $10 to $65 a barrel, an announced reduction in reserves in Ghana and disappointing exploration wells, it said on Wednesday.'Tullow expects…

Tower Gets More Time for Cameroon Drilling

Jan 15, 2020

Tower Resources has been given more time to explore at the Thali license in Cameroon.Tower said Wednesday that the country's authorities had granted it a one-year extension to the initial period of the exploration phase of the Thali PSC as requested by Tower…

Aker Solutions in Study to Electrify North Sea Platforms

Jan 15, 2020

Norway's Equinor has awarded a front-end engineering (FEED) study to Aker Solutions for the electrification of the Troll B and C platforms in the North Sea from shore, with the aim to reduce CO2 emissions from the field.The contract includes an option for the engineering…

Modec Eyes Major Brazil Contracts

Jan 14, 2020

Japanese floating equipment maker Modec Inc is looking to win one or two major platform contracts per year in Brazil as it aims to grow in the country's offshore oil boom, a senior executive told Reuters.A string of contracts in recent years has made Brazil a key market for the firm…

Eni's Coral Sul FLNG hull launched

Jan 14, 2020

Italian oil and gas company Eni has launched the hull of its Coral Sul FLNG unit at Samsung's Geoje yard in South Korea.Once completed the FLNG unit will be deployed over Eni's Coral reservoir in Area 4 offshore Mozambique and will be used to…

Dayang Clinches Two i-HUC Awards With Petronas

Jan 14, 2020

Malaysian oilfield services provider Dayang has won two contracts with the country's oil and gas giant Petronas.Dayang said Tuesday that the contracts were for the provision of integrated hook-up and commissioning (i-HUC) services for Petronas Carigali through Package B: SBA and Package D: SKO…

Lebanon Delays Offshore Round Bidding Deadline

Jan 14, 2020

Lebanon has postponed a deadline for the submission of applications as part of its second licensing round for oil and gas acreage, Lebanon's energy minister Nada Boustani tweeted Monday.According to Reuters, which translated the tweet in Arabic…

Norway: 28 firms Offered Acreage in Mature Offshore Areas

Jan 14, 2020

Norway has offered exploration acreage in mature offshore areas to 28 companies of 33 which had applied as part of the Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) 2019.The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said Tuesday that 28 oil companies had been offered…

Tanjung Offshore Bags 5-Year Repsol Contract

Jan 14, 2020

Spanish oil firm Repsol has hired Malaysia's Tanjung Offshore services for offshore work in Malaysia and Vietnam.Tanjung Offshore, a subsidiary of T7 Global, will provide maintenance, construction, and modification services at Repsol's PM3-CAA block located between Malaysia and Vietnam…

THHE Fabricators Can Bid for Petronas Work Again

Jan 14, 2020

Malaysian oil and gas construction and services company THHE Fabricators is allowed to bid for Petronas' contracts again.Petronas blacklisted the THEE Fabricators from bidding as a contractor for its upstream oil and gas-related tenders after…

German Offshore Wind Capacity in 2019 Almost Hit 2020 Target

Jan 14, 2020

Offshore wind power operators in the German North Sea raised generation capacity by 20.9% percent to 6,436 megawatts (MW) last year, grid company TenneT GmbH said on Monday, close to a government target for 2020 of 6,500 MW.TenneT, the German…

Polarcus Vessel Stays With Sovcomflot

Jan 14, 2020

Russian offshore vessel owner Sovcomflot will keep Polarcus’ Vyacheslav Tikhonov seismic vessel contracted for longer than previously agreed.The marine seismic vessel owner Polarcus had in December 2019 said that Sovcomflot would redeliver it the vessel on January 15…

Shelf Drilling Finds Work for Ex-Maersk Jack-Up

Jan 14, 2020

The U.S. oil major Chevron has chartered a Shelf Drilling jack-up drilling rig on a long-term deal. Chevron will use the rig in Thailand.Shelf Drilling said on Tuesday that Chevron Thailand had contracted the Shelf Drilling Enterprise jack-up unit…

ConocoPhillips Makes Minor Oil Find Offshore Norway

Jan 14, 2020

ConocoPhillips has made a minor oil discovery in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, near the Balder field. The company’s Norwegian subsidiary, ConocoPhillips Skandinavia, made the find while drilling the 25/7-8 S exploration well in the production…

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