Dutch marine contractor Boskalis has picked SPT Offshore for the detailed design and installation of 33 suction pile foundations for the foundations of 11 suction bucket jackets for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm. The European Offshore…
ExxonMobil’s Hebron platform will be towed from the Bull Arm construction site next month, on its way to the Hebron field offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The Hebron platform being towed from Bull Arm…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and The British Geological Survey (BGS) have released the 21st Century Exploration Roadmap (21CXRM) Palaeozoic Project. The project aims to improve the knowledge and data from the under-explored Palaeozoic…
Wärtsilä will supply the engines and other propulsion machinery for what it says will be the first LNG-powered offshore construction vessel, being built at the Cosco shipyard in China for Belgium's Dredging International (DEME). 'This…
African Petroleum signed nonbinding heads of terms and a binding exclusivity agreement with a “well-funded, listed oil and gas company with a strong track record in offshore deepwater drilling,” for a drilling campaign offshore Senegal and The Gambia…
VAALCO Energy has appointed Phil Patman as chief financial officer (CFO) effective 17 April 2017. Patman has over 20 years of experience in the oil, gas and other areas of the energy industry in key roles including finance, business development…
Bristow Helicopters Ltd. has secured a new contract with Apache North Sea Ltd. to support its North Sea operations. The contract which has a five-year primary term, with further extension options, will commence on 1 September 2017. Aircraft…
Energy XXI Gulf Coast (EGC) has appointed Douglas E. Brooks as chief executive officer and president effective 17 April 2017. The EGC board concurrently increased the size of the board from six to seven directors and named Brooks to fill the newly-created directorship…
CNOOC CEO Yang Hua has resigned from his position effective today (18 April), with Yuan Guanguy taking the reigns. Yang, who was only CEO for less than one year at the company, will stay on as the chairman of the board. Yang was promoted…
The Galoc joint venture is moving to drill a sidetrack well, following inconclusive results at the Galoc-7 well in the Palawan basin, offshore Philippines. Nido Petroleum says that the Deepsea Metro I drillship reached total depth of 2373m at the Galoc-7 well…
Solstad Offshore (SOFF) signed a four-year frame agreement with Saipem (Portugal) Comercio Maritime for the Normand Cutter construction support vessel (CSV). Through this deal, Saipem can utilize the Normand Cutter to support their subsea…
Tenaris and TechnipFMC teamed up to take on Total’s Moho Nord project, offshore the Republic of Congo. Image of Moho Nord A, from Tenaris. Tenaris provided TechnipFMC with a complete package of offshore line pipe solutions…
Pan Pacific Petroleum has agreed to sell its 5% interest in Block 07/03 in the Nam Con Son Basin in the South China Sea, to Spain's Repsol for US$5 million. Block 07/03, operated by Talisman (part of Repsol), includes the Cá Rồng Đỏ (CRD)…
Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of central processing platform (CPP) for Petronas' Bokor Phase 3 re-development, offshore Malaysia. The first…
A federal court in Brazil has suspended the transfer of Petrobras' stake in the BM-S-8 exploration block, which contains the Carcará field, to Norway's Statoil, and exploration of the field, until further deliberation, the Brazilian state-owned firm announced Monday (17 April)…
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