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Bourbon Arctic delivered, completes first operation

Mar 21, 2016

Bourbon has taken delivery of the Bourbon Arctic from the Vard Brattvåg shipyard (Norway) and completed her first anchor handling operation. The vessel was engaged in the disconnection and unmooring operation of the Island Innovator located at the Fosen field in the central North Sea…

Byron drills GoM appraisal following stuck pipe drill

Mar 21, 2016

Byron Energy has started drilling a sidetrack well to the SM 6#2 well in the Gulf of Mexico, after a drill pipe became stuck with several unsuccessful attempts over a three-day period to free it, according to partner Otto Energy. Map…

Statoil to launch Batwind

Mar 21, 2016

Statoil’s Batwind, a new battery storage solution for offshore wind energy, will be piloted in the world’s first floating wind farm, the Hywind pilot park off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Batwind illustration…

CentraMax RT1 finds success in GOM

Mar 18, 2016

Antelope Oil Tool (AOT), a manufacturer and supplier of casing and cementation equipment, has successfully run their CentraMax RT1 centralizer in ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico, in a deviated and under-reamed wellbore. A customer faced…

HB gains accommodation module certification

Mar 18, 2016

Offshore accommodation and workspace specialist HB Rentals was granted an ABS Certification of Design Assessment for its high demand 11ft by 32ft– eight-man sleeper – accommodation module. This achievement now sees this latest generation…

Eni in US$7.9 billion asset disposal

Mar 18, 2016

In an effort to restructure and transform, Eni’s 2016-2019 strategic plan is aimed for a competitive cost structure, which includes a total of US$7.9 billion (€7 billion) of disposed assets by 2019, in addition to an efficient operating model…

Prosafe in Talisman Monstrose start up

Mar 18, 2016

Prosafe’s Safe Boreas harsh environment accommodation vessel has commenced an eight-month contract with Talisman Sinopec Energy in the North Sea. The US$60 million contract comes with options. The Safe Boreas commenced operations…

Siem wins North Sea, Auz gigs

Mar 18, 2016

Siem Offshore has been awarded two contracts for operation in the North Sea, and off Australia. Image of the MV Siem Marlin, from Siem. Contractors GmbH (SOC), a wholly owned…

BSEE, NASA to examine offshore risks

Mar 18, 2016

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have announced a five-year agreement allowing BSEE to capitalize on the best risk management approaches from the aeronautics…

BOEM to update offshore emissions regulations

Mar 18, 2016

As part of the Obama Administration’s on-going commitment to a cleaner, more secure energy future, Janice Schneider, assistant secretary, Land and Minerals Management and Abigail Ross Hopper, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)…

Cue CEO appointed new AWE CEO

Mar 18, 2016

Current Cue Energy CEO David Biggs has been appointed the new CEO and managing director of AWE Ltd., effective May 2016. Biggs will succeed current CEO Bruce Clement, who has been given six months' notice of his employement termination…

OAA awards offer industry light

Mar 18, 2016

Well-SENSE Technology’s technology director Dan Purkis has been singled out for his efforts in the offshore oil and gas industry with the award of the Society of Petroleum Engineer’s (SPE) Aberdeen section Significant Contribution accolade…

Ex-Shell CEO joins Statoil's board

Mar 17, 2016

Jeroen van der Veer has been elected as a new member of Statoil's board of directors. Van der Veer was the chief executive officer at Royal Dutch Shell from 2004-2009, when he retired. Van der Veer then continued as a non-executive director on the board of Shell until 2013…

PSA to investigate Statoil Visund halt

Mar 17, 2016

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has begun an investigation of a well control incident on the Visund field on 17 March 2016 that caused Statoil to put a halt to production and evacuate workers in the North Sea.  Visund…

EnQuest shaves costs off Kraken

Mar 17, 2016

UK-based independent has now cut US$425 million off its North Sea Kraken heavy oil development budget as it looks to continue reining in costs.  After initially shaving $300 million, or about 10%, off the project's original $3.2 billion costs…

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