Click to view larger. Source: Dominican Republic Ministry of Energy and Mines. The Dominican Republic's Ministry of Energy and Mines reported six areas on- and offshore that could be the starting…
DONG Energyawarded UK firm JDR Cables their biggest array cable contract to date, to supply subsea power cables for Hornsea Project One offshore windfarm in the North Sea, off the coast of England. With a capacity of 1.2 GW, when built…
In this video, Exxon shows a timelapse video of the construction of the Hebron gravity based structure (GBS), which took about five years to build. Exxon's Hebron heavy oil project off Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, sits in the Jeanne d’Arc basin about 350km southeast of St…
Houston headquartered Hyperdynamics has signed a letter of award with drilling contractor Pacific Drilling for use of the Pacific Bora drillship on a deepwater drilling campaign offshore Guinea, West Africa, starting Q2 2017. The unit…
A recently formed subsea services business has secured private equity investment in order to buy a fleet of 32 remotely operated vehicles. Aberdeen- and Houston-based M² Subsea was able to buy the fleet from the administrators of failed…
UK firm Automated Ships and Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime have signed a memorandum of understanding to build the world’s first unmanned and fully-automated vessel for offshore operations. In January 2017, Automated Ships will contract the Hrönn…
Solstad Offshore has taken delivery of the Normand Maximus and started it on its eight-year charter contract with Italy's Saipem. The Normand Maximus was developed in close collaboration between Solstad, Saipem and shipbuilder Vard…
Statoil says it is aiming for production startup on its Trestakk discovery in the Norwegian Sea in 2019. The firm, which today submitted a plan for development and operation of the field, says the project will cost about US$610 million (NOK5…
Offshore Ireland explorer Providence Resources has inked a letter of intent for use of a deepwater drilling rig to drill on the deep water Druid prospect in the southern Porcupine Basin in 2017. The Druid prospect is in Frontier Exploration…
Russia's President Vladimir Putin inaugurated first oil from the Vladimir Filanovsky field in the Caspian Sea yesterday (31 October). The V. Filanovsky field, discovered by Lukoil in 2005, is Russia’s largest oil discovery for the past 25 years…
The drill floor robot is no longer a vision, it’s a reality and it’s going to start operations offshore Norway next year. Elaine Maslin reports. The world’s first drill floor robot installed at the Ullrigg Drilling and Well Centre…
A flurry of major gas discoveries in East Africa in 2012 shone a spotlight on the region. Four years later, while efforts to bring some of those resources to market via LNG developments are progressing, the exploration effort offshore appears to be in the doldrums…
It took a long time for exploration to make its impact offshore East Africa. Now it has, will there be another wait for LNG projects to look profitable? Professor Alex Kemp reflects. Image from iStock…
Enovate Systems’ Michael O’Sullivan and Stuart Ellison examine the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s new well control rule and its implications for BOP casing shear rams. Photo from iStock…
EMAS Chiyoda Subsea’s John Meenaghan discusses challenges and solutions employed at three back-to-back tieback projects the company recently carried out in the US Gulf of Mexico The Lewek Constellation during reel exchange operations with the RB1…
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