The trophy for this year's Offshore Achievement Awards in Aberdeen has been picked, with less than a month to go now until entries close for the Society of Petroleum Engineers' organized event, supported by OE (Offshore Engineer). Each year the organizers of the awards…
Two UK engineering firms have joined forces to offer what they're calling a new project delivery alternative for North Sea operators. Aberdeen-based Apollo Offshore and Kintore-based AquaTerra Group say they want to offer an 'agile, lean and integrated engineering business' via FOS Group…
UK-based oil and gas exploration minnow i3 Energy says drilling is expected to start on its North Sea Liberator development in 1H 2018. The firm says 2P reserves on the field have been increased from an estimate of 11.7 MMboe, re-classified from 2C resources of 9…
ConocoPhillips has been asked to provide for more information about their plugging and abandonment operations in the Ekofisk field, specifically around how their permanent well barriers meet regulatory requirements from a long-term perspective…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has delivered French oil major Total's deepwater Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel was completed at SHI's Geoje-shipyard under a US$3 billion turnkey project, and set sail for Nigeria on 31 October 2017…
TechnipFMC has been awarded a subsea contract by Murphy Sabah Oil for the Phase 1A Block H Gas Development Project, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, in 1300m water depth. This contract covers the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) of the umbilicals…
VNG Norge, on behalf of the PL 586 partners, has issued a letter of intent (LOI) to TechnipFMC for the Fenja field development project (formerly known as Pil and Bue). The LOI covers the EPCI (engineering, procurement, construction and…
Tullow Oil and partner Sterling Energy have decided to exit Block C-10 offshore Mauritania after determining the block’s prospects did not commercially justify a third phase of exploration. Block C-10…
French operator Engie E&P has increased its resource estimate for the Cara field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and reached a 'concretization decision,' or feasibility decision gate, on the field. Engie says Cara contains 56-94 MMboe…
INEOS has completed its acquisition of the North Sea Forties Pipeline System (FPS) and associated pipelines and facilities and the Kinneil Terminal from oil major BP. The 235-mile pipeline system links 85 North Sea oil and gas assets to the UK mainland and the INEOS site in Grangemouth…
Trelleborg’s engineered products operation has supplied a bespoke, flexible rubber membrane to WETFEET, a US$4.03 million (€3.46 million), three-year research and development project designed to foster the exploitation of ocean wave energy…
Chevron has agreed a seven-year partnership with Microsoft which will see the internet giant become the oil major's primary cloud provider. Chevron says the move will 'accelerate the application of advanced technologies including analytics…
Independent Oil and Gas says it will drill a well on its Harvey license in the UK southern North Sea within two years, after a new report estimated 45-286 Bcf on the block. The competent person's report by ERC Equipoise says the…
Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas is plannig to drill a well on its Osprey prospect in the Cooper Block (PEL30) in the Walvis Oil Basin, offshore Namibia. Osprey is in about 500m water depth and has had several thousand kilometers of 2D seismic and a 3D survey…
Nexen Petroleum UK has awarded Maersk Drilling a contract for the drilling of three wells and options for nine additional wells at the Buzzard field in the Central North Sea. The drilling campaign is for the Buzzard Phase II Development Project and is planned to commence around July 2018…