Energy services company Weatherford International has secured a two-year extension of several strategic framework agreements with Equinor and been selected as the primary provider of completion systems for the Statfjord and Oseberg licenses on the Norwegian Continental Shelf…
US producers in the Gulf of Mexico shut in about 1.3 million barrels per day of oil production and 1.1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas as Hurricane Isaias blew through the corridor ahead of an expected landfall somewhere between southern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle later this week…
Subsea Equipment specialists Legasea have launched a new basket rental service for decommissioning and seabed clearance projects, offering credit against rental costs when recovered equipment can be reused.The service uses a fleet of five subsea baskets…
Lamprell has signed an agreement with International Maritime Industries (IMI) to fabricate several offshore structures, including a production platform and jackets, at IMI's Ras Al-Khair facility in Saudi Arabia.The fabrication work forms part of an offshore engineering…
Eni CCUS Holding, jointly owned by Eni and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), has completed the installation of the Douglas CCS platform in Liverpool Bay, off UK, describing it as the world's first purpose-built offshore platform…
SLB has signed a 15-year agreement with TotalEnergies to deploy its DrillPlan digital well planning and engineering solutions across the energy company's global upstream portfolio.The agreement will support TotalEnergies' transition to a standardized digital planning environment…
TenneT Germany has joined DEME and Subsea Cable Assets (SCA) as a development sponsor of Frequensea's subsea cable decommissioning tool, which is being developed to recover buried offshore cables while reducing seabed disturbance.The technology…
Seatrium has secured an engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract from Excelerate Energy to convert an LNG carrier into a floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), with an option for a second conversion…
EnerMech has secured a contract by Subsea7 to provide pipeline and subsea pre-commissioning services for the Ginger offshore development project in Trinidad and Tobago.The contract covers testing, flushing, hydrotesting, water filling, leak…
Rockhopper Exploration has agreed to invest $44 million to acquire a 35% interest in the OSX-1 floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, which is planned for the accelerated development of the Sea Lion oil field in the North Falkland Basin…
Shell and Chevron said on Wednesday they were curtailing offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Isaias approached the region.Shell said it was evacuating all personnel and shutting in production at its Mars, Olympus, Ursa…
Brazil awarded 56 oil and gas exploration blocks in two licensing rounds held on October 7, with Petrobras, Equinor, QatarEnergy, Galp and Chinese energy companies among the successful bidders, according to the country's National Agency of Petroleum…
Oil prices settled lower on Wednesday following a choppy session after the International Energy Agency agreed to speed up a release of oil stocks and prioritize diesel in a bid to curb record-high fuel prices as the Iran war squeezes global supplies…
ExxonMobil said on Wednesday that it will conduct maintenance work on a near-shore section of an offshore pipeline near Crane on Guyana's West Coast Demerara, beginning Oct 14.The work follows an issue identified during inspections earlier this year and is expected to continue until about Dec 1…
The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it would soon propose scrapping a Biden-era rule aimed at curbing large leaks of methane from oil and gas operations.The move is part of a broad Trump administration effort to slash regulations…