Following the participation in front-end engineering and development (FEED) work over past several months, Sevan Marine has announced that it has signed two agreements related to the FPSO prospects in the UK North Sea. The first agreement…
Polarcus has received a letter of intent from Maersk Oil on behalf of the Danish Underground Consortium (DUC) for a 4D marine seismic survey offshore Denmark. The project is due to commence in Q2 2016 and will run for approximately three months…
The US is losing its opportunity to lay claim to Arctic exploration, falling behind countries such as Norway and Russia. Now with Shell and Statoil exiting Alaska’s offshore, many in the industry and in politics are wondering how to salvage Alaskan offshore exploration…
Orkney based Scotrenewables Tidal Power (SRTP) has secured a further £5.7 million from investors to allow it to demonstrate the world’s largest tidal turbine. The company is currently nearing the completion of the build of its SR2000 (2MW) system in the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast…
Heerema Fabrication Group has marked the first steel for Maersk Oil's Culzean development jackets at its yard in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. HFG has contracts for fabricating the central processing facility, utilities and livings quarters and well head platform jackets for the high-pressure…
Statoil and its partners have submitted a plan for Norway's first unmanned platform to develop three oil and gas fields under its North Sea Oseberg Vestflanken 2 project. The development, targeting the Alpha, Gamma and Kappa oil and gas fields…
AlMansoori Specialized Engineering announced the deployment of the first of two planned production testing and stimulation vessels in the Arabian Gulf. The vessel, MV Al Nisr DP-II, brings with it the capability to offer production testing and well stimulation of the highest level…
In Anadarko’s interim Q4 update, the company revealed it is making significant progress at its Heidelberg development in the Gulf of Mexico, in addition to achieving a strong production performance for the period. Image from Anadarko…
Weatherford achieved a new world record by landing an 1180-ton (2,360,700-lb) casing string at a total depth of 26,805 ft (8170 m). The job was performed on a deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico this fall. The operator of a deepwater rig in the Green Canyon required installation of a heavy…
Triyards inked a string of contracts worth US$45.5 million. One of the newly minted contracts will see the group construct its scientific research vessel for new client Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories (TORI)…
Noble Energy received the green light from the Israeli government on 17 December, to move forward with the development of Leviathan and the Tamar expansion, despite a last attempt from the Israeli Forum for the Protection of the Coastline that petitioned the High Court to not approve the plan…
Norway-based geoscience firm PGS has laid claim to the industry's largest seismic spread, offshore Myanmar. The firm says its vessel, the Ramform Titan, working in the Bay of Bengal, is towing the industry’s first ever single vessel 18 streamer seismic operation…
Work on a new ice-breaker which will work for Sovcomflot in the Sakhalin-2 project has started at the Arctech Helsinki shipyard with a festive keel laying. The vessel is the first of four icebreaking sister ships Sovcomflot has ordered…
Total's CEO Patrick Pouyanné has been elected chairman of the board. He succeeds Thierry Desmarest, whose term as chairman of the board expires on 18 December due to age limits in Total's bylaws. Desmarest will remain a director until the annual shareholders’ Meeting on 24 May 2016…
UK-based explorer Faroe Petroleum has awarded a rig contract for the drilling of Brasse exploration well in the Norwegian North Sea. The firm also says production has restarted from the Enoch field, in which it has a 13.86% stake. The…