A new outfit being created by the merger of Centrica's oil and gas division and Bayerngas Norge is to be called Spirit Energy, Centrica said today. Centrica will hold 69% in the new company, while Bayerngas Norway's owners will hold the remaining 31%…
Three companies, Eni, Total and Novatek, acting as a consortium have made the only bids in Lebanon's first offshore licensing round. The three companies together bid on Blocks 4 and 9, says the Lebanese Petroleum Administration. Block…
An investigation has started into an oil leak from a subsea pipeline near US operator LLOG's Delta House facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak was discovered last week after a sheen was seen on the surface of the water and reported to the National Response Centre…
Operators in the US Gulf of Mexico have largely resumed normal operations following Tropical Storm Nate. The Storm, which formed 5 October and made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Mississippi on 8 October, saw 85.09% of US Gulf of Mexico oil production shut in and about 64…
Spectrum Geoscience has started the Ceara Basin 2D multi-client seismic survey in the Equatorial Margins of northern offshore Brazil. The area contains sectors of the 15th licensing round, which is expected to close in Q2 2018. Data is being acquired with a 12…
Ocean Rig has signed a contract with Statoil, for a one-well drilling program offshore Tanzania. The contract is expected to start in Q1 2018, and will use the Ocean Rig Poseidon, a 6th generation deepwater drillship based on the enhanced SAIPEM 10000 design…
Larson & Toubro subsidiary L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering has won an offshore contract for the transportation and installation on ONGC's Daman development project. The contract, worth about US$177 million, covers engineering, procurement…
France's first floating offshore turbine - and it's first offshore wind turbine at all - was inauguarted in Saint-Nazaire, France, today. The 2MW Vestas turbine is primed for the École Centrale de Nantes and CNRS's SEM-REV offshore test site…
Oceaneering International has taken delivery of an 800-tonne SWL (safe working load) reel drive system (RDS) from northeast Scotland-based Maritime Developments (MDL). The modular system will be used to deploy and retrieve subsea umbilical…
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is leading a joint industry project (JIP), supported by the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF), to provide industry with a better understanding of the mechanism of hydrate growth and blockages…
US oil major Chevron has decided to discontinue its exploration program in the Great Australian Bight, according to the country's industry body. BP dropped its plans for drilling two deepwater wells in the area after a tussle with…
A US Department of Energy Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on the draft of a new act to open up more of the US Outer Continental Shelf. The “ASTRO Act” would add flexibility to the national oil and gas leasing…
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) released new numbers this morning (13 October) stating that more US Gulf of Mexico production than previously thought is currently shut-in. New numbers released show approximately…
KBR subsidiary Energo Engineering has been awarded a guidance study contract by the US Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) for the integrity management process of tension leg platforms (TLPs) in the US Gulf of Mexico. As…
The hull for the Appomattox field development facility arrived last week at the Ingleside, Texas shipyard where it will undergo final construction before installation in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Source…
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