Shell's floating LNG behemoth Prelude has set sail from Samsung Heavy Industries' yard in South Korea. Shell described the sailaway as a 'significant milestone' for the project, the first production expected in 2018. The huge vessel…
Husky Energy has moved forward with its White Rose project offshore eastern Canada by awarding a multi-million dollar engineering contract to the UK's Wood Group. Wood Group will complete detailed engineering for the White Rose topsides…
Norwegian operator Statoil has released footage of the mating of its Hywind floating wind turbine towers, complete with nacelle and blades, with the spar-hull structures that will support them. The operation, carried out in a fjord, Norway…
A new cost estimate for decommissioning all oil and gas infrastructure on the UK Continental Shelf has been put at US$77.45 billion (£59.7 billion), an increase on previous estimates of US$68.79 (£53 billion). But, the Oil and Gas Authority…
Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd subsidiary, Keppel Shipyard has won four contracts worth a total of $61.5 million (S$85 million) for the conversion, repair and modification of vessels. The first contract is from Dixstone Holdings Ltd, for…
Drilling contractor Noble Corporation Plc has awarded a contract to AFGlobal to provide and install an integrated deepwater managed pressure drilling (MPD) system. “The addition of MPD systems to our rig fleet will provide a valuable…
Lundin Petroleum has received permission from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea using the semisubmersible Leiv Eiriksson. The company will start drilling next month at Block 7220/6…
Rosneft and A. P. Moller Maersk, which owns drilling firm Maersk Drilling and oil firm Maersk Oil, as well as a huge container shipping business, are among a slew of companies across the globe hit by the Petya ransomeware virus. The virus…
Providence Resources and its partners have signed a contract for the Stena IceMAX deepwater drillship for drilling on the Druid and Drombeg prospects in the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. Druid and Drombeg are in Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14…
First gas has been delivered on schedule from the Cayley field, the third and final new discovery to be brought on stream during the major redevelopment of the Montrose Area in the Central North Sea under operator Repsol Sinopec Resources UK…
India's Oil and Natural Gas Company (ONGC) has agreed to a three-year contract to Vantage Drilling for use of the ultra-deepwater drillship Platinum Explorer offshore India. The Platinum Explorer is due to mobilize to India in Q4 2017…
ConocoPhillips is planning production testing on its latest Barossa field appraisal wells in the Bonaparte Basin, offshore Australia's Northern Territory, to support field development planning. According to partner Santos, positive results…
All all-Italian team is hoping to offer the offshore industry smarter and more efficient solutions, by bringing their heads together. Elaine Maslin reports. Fincantieri's Overdrill. Photo from Fincantieri…
High hopes are pinned on gas as a transition fuel and there being markets to sell it to in the gas-rich Mediterranean. Elaine Maslin reports. Maersk Discoverer drilling in Egypt's Eastern Med Sea for BP…
One of the North Sea’s oldest discoveries is set to be decommissioned as part of a multimillion-pound project. Centrica's Ann field, where the North Sea’s 10th exploration well was drilled more than 50 years ago, has been shut in and the subsea infrastructure will be removed…