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Ivory Coast project ramps up

Oct 26, 2015

Foxtrot International has started production from a second platform on Block CI-27 offshore Côte d'Ivoire, according to Foxtrot part owner, Oslo listed RAK Petroleum. The Marlin-B1ST well, the first well in an initial five-well drilling…

Dong picks DeepOcean for cable installation

Oct 26, 2015

Dong Energy has awarded a contract for the provision of cable installation and trenching work for its Race Bank offshore wind farm to DeepOcean. Offshore work will be carried out in 2016/2017 from DeepOcean’s in-house fleet of dedicated cable installation and trenching vessels…

Proserv wins Johan Sverdrup contract

Oct 26, 2015

UK-based energy services company Proserv has secured a £1.6 million plus contract to provide topside control equipment at one of the largest field discoveries on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The agreement will see Proserv supplying Aibel…

Transocean to pay US$20 million to Alabama for Macondo

Oct 23, 2015

Transocean and the state of Alabama have agreed to a US$2 million settlement stemming from 2010’s Deepwater Horizon disaster. The Deepwater Horizon. Image from EPA. Governor Robert Bentley announced the settlement this week…

EIA: UAE seeks 30% production boost

Oct 23, 2015

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported today (23 October) that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) intends to increase its production 30% by 2020 using EOR techniques.  For the UAE, EOR technologies will be the best way to…

Norway looks at unmanned wellhead platforms

Oct 23, 2015

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate wants unmanned wellhead platforms to be considered more often as an alternative to subsea tie-back in connection with development decisions.   Image:  The unmanned…

Vietsovpetro JV in Vietnam find

Oct 23, 2015

The joint venture of Zarubezhneft and Petrovietnam Vietsovpetro made a commercial discovery of the Sturgeon field offshore Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Map of Block 09-3/12 (the greyed area)…

Cosco confirms floater delay

Oct 23, 2015

Dana Petroleum's Western Isles floating production unit will not be on stream until late 2017, some two years later than originally planned, it was confirmed today. In a statement, China's Cosco Corp (Singapore) said it and a European…

Suffering continues in seismic markets

Oct 23, 2015

The geoscience segment of the offshore oil and gas industry was first to be hit, when oil prices took a nose dive from 2H last year. Results from two of the main geoscience players this morning confirm a broad industry outlook that the pain is set to continue well into 2016…

E.ON’s Amrumbank West operational

Oct 22, 2015

The construction of Amrumbank West offshore wind farm in the German North Sea is complete. Image from E.ON. All 80 turbines are connected to the network. With its full installed capacity of 288 MW now operational…

CNOOC confirms Caofeidian oil

Oct 22, 2015

China’s CNOOC discovered a mid-sized oilfield at the Caofeidian 6-4 oil structure, offshore China. Bohai map. From CNOOC. The Caofeidian 6-4 structure is located in the western…

Petrobras cancels helicopters

Oct 22, 2015

US-based Era Group’s Brazilian joint venture Aeróleo Taxi Aero received notification from Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) that Petrobras will cancel the ongoing tender process for heavy and medium helicopters, leaving the helicopter with a potential workforce reduction…

GlobalData: Liza could redefine Guyana-Suriname

Oct 22, 2015

With ExxonMobil reported to be moving the Liza discovery in deepwater Guyana into pre-front-end engineering design (FEED) less than five months after confirming the find, the project has the potential to yield significant returns for investors…

EMGS gets Malaysia extension

Oct 22, 2015

Electromagnetic Geoservices EMGS signed a US$7 million contract extension with an oil company in Malaysia. The vessel BOA Thalassa commenced the extension of the survey on 21 October, and expected duration of the survey is approximately 1…

CGG starts Brazil BroadSeis

Oct 22, 2015

CGG received all necessary permits to start acquiring the industry’s first regional broadband seismic survey of the Barreirinhas basin in the Equatorial Margin of northern Brazil in early November. Oceanic Vega…

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