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C-NLOPB cancels Black Spruce's licenses off Newfoundland

Nov 02, 2016

The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) advises that exploration licenses (ELs) 1127 and 1128, located off Newfoundland’s west coast held 100% by Black Spruce Exploration, have been cancelled due to non-compliance…

Leviathan’s FID on the horizon

Nov 02, 2016

Noble Energy is expecting the final investment decision (FID) for its giant Leviathan development offshore Israel by year-end or early next year, the Houston-based explorer said in its Q3 2016 earnings call. The Noble Sam Croft…

Companies form decom consortium

Nov 02, 2016

Four companies have joined forces to offer a decommissioning service under one collaborative offering. Integrated DECOM, formed by DNV GL, Costain, Axis Well Technology and BMT Cordah, will offer front-end engineering and environmental…

HFG to cut 450 jobs

Nov 02, 2016

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) will cut 450 jobs, amounting to 58% of its workforce, as part of restructuring efforts amid ongoing poor market conditions. Image of Zwijndrecht yard, from HFG. The cuts…

NADL, Total ink West Phoenix deal

Nov 02, 2016

North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) was awarded a 90-day contract from Total E&P UK Ltd. for the West Phoenix semisubmersible to work in the United Kingdom, West of Shetland. The total backlog for the contract is estimated at US$17 million…

Nexen eyeing Buzzard phase 2

Nov 02, 2016

The UK business of CNOOC-owned Nexen Petroleum is planning two high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) exploration wells in the North Sea, with at least one in 2017, and assessing a phase 2 of its massive Buzzard development.  Presenting…

InterMoor Brazil increases capabilities

Nov 01, 2016

InterMoor has added inspection and testing capabilities to its marine base at the Açu Superport in São João da Barra, northern Rio de Janeiro.  The base now has a 1000-ton test bed and can perform load and breaking test for chain, wire rope…

Optime gets hyperbaric testing system contract

Nov 01, 2016

Optime Subsea Services has signed a contract with an undisclosed US-based customer to supply a new hyperbaric testing system that simulates hydrostatic pressures found at water depths up to 14,000m. The 20,000psi hyperbaric pressure vessel…

McDermott opens Saudi Arabia office

Nov 01, 2016

McDermott International opened a new office in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, with the ability to add 300 staff to its existing workforce in the Kingdom. Image from McDermott. The new…

IOG drops Cronx plans

Nov 01, 2016

Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has received initial results from new interpretations of 3D seismic data covering the Blythe Hub licenses in their Southern North Sea (SNS) portfolio and also provides a further update on the Cronx acquisition…

Anadarko to close FCX deal in Q4

Nov 01, 2016

Anadarko Petroleum posted a net loss of US$830 million in Q3 2016, as the US independent moves forward with its deal with Freeport McMoRan (FCX) and shifts its focus to oil with the deepwater Gulf of Mexico on its priority list. Walker…

SMOP awards Novenco Culzean work

Nov 01, 2016

Novenco has signed a contract with Singaporean contractor SMOP for delivery of HVAC equipment of air handling units (AHUs), fans and cooling equipment for the construction of the three platforms in the Culzean gas field in the UK sector of the North Sea…

Dominican seismic pinpoints areas of interest

Nov 01, 2016

Click to view larger. Source: Dominican Republic Ministry of Energy and Mines. The Dominican Republic's Ministry of Energy and Mines reported six areas on- and offshore that could be the starting…

Hebron GBS time-lapse

Nov 01, 2016

In this video, Exxon shows a timelapse video of the construction of the Hebron gravity based structure (GBS), which took about five years to build.  Exxon's  Hebron heavy oil project off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, sits in the Jeanne d’Arc basin about 350km southeast of St…

M² Subsea acquire 32 ROVs

Nov 01, 2016

A recently formed subsea services business has secured private equity investment in order to buy a fleet of 32 remotely operated vehicles. Aberdeen- and Houston-based M² Subsea was able to buy the fleet from the administrators of failed…

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