Decommissioning will be a special focus at SPE Offshore Europe 2017 with a range of expert speakers announced as part of the plenary and new Decommissioning Zone technical programme. Shell will host a keynote panel session with senior spokespeople from CNR…
Anadarko Petroleum has finalized two agreements with Mozambique's Government, paving the way for its LNG project offshore the east African country. The 'marine concessions' agreements allow Anadarko to design, build and operate the marine facilities for Offshore Area 1 LNG project…
CIMC Raffles has started sea trials for the ultra-deepwater drilling rig Blue Whale II, following the completion equipment testing. The sea trials are expected to last for three weeks. Designed to operate in water depths of 3658m and drill to depths of up to 15…
Talos Energy's Zama-1 exploration well, which made the 'world class' Zama discovery, has failed to find further volumes in a deeper target. Zama-1 is being drilled in 166m water depth, in Block 7 in the Sureste Basin, about 37mi (60km) off Tabasco…
DeepOcean has acquired French company Searov Offshore and has expanded its presence in West Africa. Searov, established in 2008, is an ROV service provider with a strong focus on West Africa. The company owns and operates ten remote…
NOV has signed a 10-year service and support agreement with Transocean, the oilfield services equipment provider announced today (28 July) in its Q2 2017 results. NOV said the agreement will maximize uptime and reduce total cost of ownership…
Windfire Capital has signed a letter of intent with DMiner Asset Management to acquire 76.5% in a license offshore Namibia. Windfire will acquire the stake in license 0079, covering Blocks 2815 and 2915, through the acquisition of 91…
Plug and abandonment (P&A) and well repair specialist HydraWell has appointed Mark Sørheim as its new CEO. Mark Sørheim joins HydraWell from Schlumberger in Aberdeen where he held the position as integrated drilling and completion project director…
A research partnership has been formed between GLINCS and Heriot-Watt University to develop Time Resolved Fluorescence (TRF) technology for scale inhibitors, which are deployed into production wells. The TRF technology will address current…
Varel UK has signed a collaborative project with the University of Aberdeen to design and develop a new drill bit, which addresses the unique challenges of drilling in Resonance Enhanced Drilling (RED) mode. Resonance Enhanced Drilling…
Faroe Petroleum has agreed to acquire a further 13.9935% interest in the producing Blane field in the UK North Sea from JX Nippon Exploration and Production for US$5.25 million. The field is a subsea tie-back to the Ula platform (Faroe 20%)…
Statoil and its partners have started production from the US$126 million (NOK 1 billion) Byrding field in the Norwegian North Sea. The project cost is down from the original estimate of $440 million (NOK 3.5 billion). Byrding is an 11 MMboe recoverable field north of the Troll field…
All Coast LLC will enter the US offshore wind farm market with the development of the first Jones Act-compliant vessel built for offshore wind farm installation and support activities. The liftboat will be capable of installing offshore foundations and wind turbines…
Saipem and Petrobel have finalized offshore contract variations worth US$900 million for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) activities in relation to the “Optimised Ramp Up” phase of the “supergiant” Zohr field development project offshore Egypt…
Heerema Fabrication Group has been awarded the procurement and construction contract of the Albatros offshore transformer module (OTM) by Siemens AG on behalf of EnBW Energy. The 1000-tonne OTM will be part of the Albatros offshore wind farm project…
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