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Boots & Coots launches new intervention package

Jul 11, 2016

Boots & Coots Services, a Halliburton business, developed the Global Rapid Intervention Package (GRIP), a suite of services to help reduce costs and deployment time in the event of subsea well control events.   GRIP provides well planning…

Global Maritime provides marine warranty services for Block Island

Jul 11, 2016

Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering, a provider of marine warranty, dynamic positioning and engineering services to the offshore sector, has signed a contract with offshore wind developer Deepwater Wind to provide marine warranty services for the Block Island Wind Farm…

FET inks triple ROV order

Jul 11, 2016

Forum Energy Technologies (FET) had entered into a contract with New Orient Marine to supply three remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for New Orient Marine's multi-purpose ice-class vessel currently under construction in Singapore. Perry XYX 200 ROV…

Quadrant spuds Roc-2

Jul 11, 2016

Quadrant Energy has commenced drilling of the Roc-2 well, offshore Western Australia, said partner Carnarvon Petroleum. The main aims of the Roc-2 well are to appraise the Roc gas-condensate discovery in the Caley section. The information…

NPD grants Balder subsea startup

Jul 11, 2016

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ExxonMobil consent to start-up the subsea facility for production well 25/11-E-29 AH on the Balder field, nearly one week after the supermajor gained approval from Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA)…

Decommissioning Brent

Jul 11, 2016

In this video, Shell shows the history of its Brent field, in addition to its efforts in the decommissioning process. Brent, located some 320mi from Aberdeen, one of several large fields that came on-stream during the global oil crisis of the 1970s…

SapuraKencana axes Berantai contract

Jul 11, 2016

SapuraKencana Petroleum subsidiaries, Sapura Energy Ventures and Kencana Energy, along with their partner, Petrofac Energy Developments, have reached an agreement with Petronas to cease the Berantai risk service contract (RSC). The Berantai…

Repsol changes contracting structure, new contracts

Jul 11, 2016

Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Ltd. has award a number of new contracts for the provision of all maintenance and construction labour, engineering support services and fabric maintenance, covering its offshore assets and the terminal at Flotta…

Gulf of Mexico opex under spotlight

Jul 11, 2016

Reducing drilling and development spend has largely been the focus of services and equipment providers in the Gulf of Mexico – with the aim of lowering costs at the most capital intensive period of asset lifecycles. Often overlooked,…

FPF-1 bound for Stella in two weeks

Jul 11, 2016

Ithaca Energy's FPF-1 floating production facility is set to leave its yard in about two weeks and start first oil from the Greater Stella area in about three months from then.  UK-based independent Ithaca said modifications on the unit in the Remontowa Yard in Gdansk…

UTEC completes Fairfield GOM job

Jul 11, 2016

UTEC Survey has completed a significant ROV navigation and seismic node positioning project in deepwater Gulf of Mexico.  The project, for seismic nodal technology firm FairfieldNodal, was undertaken in 2425m water depth. It involved…

Chevron appoints new Europe MD

Jul 11, 2016

Chevron North Sea has appointed Greta Lydecker as managing director of Chevron Upstream Europe, based in Aberdeen, starting today. Lydecker succeeds Craig May, who was recently appointed to the role of vice president, Upstream Capability…

Faroe's Brasse adds pay

Jul 11, 2016

Faroe Petroleum has successfully side-tracked its appraisal well on the Brasse discovery in licence PL740 in the Norwegian North Sea. The side-track well (31/7-1A) was appraising the south-eastern part of the Brasse discovery. Results based on extensive coring…

Danos add services to Amelia facility

Jul 08, 2016

Danos’ fabrication facility in Amelia now features on-site instrumentation and electrical services, including automation, safety and control systems. Image of Danos' corporate office, from Danos…

PSA revokes COSL Innovator order

Jul 08, 2016

Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) is retracting an order handed to COSL Drilling Europe in April regarding a fatal accident onboard the COSL Innovator on 30 December 2015, after discovering new information and finding that no deviations were found in the design of the rig…

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