Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Shell permission to take over the Knarr and Gaupe fields, as part of the major's take over of the two field's former operator BG Group. Gaupe is an oil and gas field close to the boundary with the UK shelf…
Sparrows Group formed a partnership with SapuraKencana Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad to collaborate in the provision of offshore and onshore crane services including manufacturing, supply, operations…
Interventek Subsea Engineering has awarded a sole license for its new surface well intervention valve to international energy services specialist, Hunting Well Intervention. The product will join Hunting’s pressure control equipment portfolio and will be called the Ezi-Shear Seal…
Previously in the US, those looking to use drones for commercial operations have been hindered by highly restrictive regulations and slow moving progress, which has ultimately stunted the growth of the region’s drone sector when compared with many other areas of the world…
Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the re-gasification system for an FSRU (floating, storage, re-gasification unit) conversion project that Höegh LNG plans to carry out on a modern LNG vessel. Wärtsilä…
Maersk Drilling's Maersk Gallant jackup drilling rig has beaten the record for drilling the deepest well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The well, which reached a total depth of 5941m on 31 July, was on Total's Solaris ultra-high-pressure…
Hansa Heavy Lift has transported five pipe racks and three modules, weighing a total of 1871.51-tonne and measuring 24,075cu m, for a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, the P-67, due to be stationed off the coast of Brazil…
Statoil has been given the green light to use the Gullfaks B platform in the Norwegian North Sea until 2036. Statoil says Gullfaks B, which first came on stream in February 1988, could be operated profitably up to 2031, and possibly even…
Mexico's state oil regulator, the Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH), has revealed 26 companies that have qualified to participate in the country's so-called Round 1.4, in Mexico's deepwater offshore. The companies pre-qualified in the fourth phase of Mexico's historic Round One…
Only three companies participated in the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) first ever online lease sale. Out of the 4399 blocks offered, the sale only received bids for 24 of those blocks for a total of just over US$18 million…
Statoil started production from the subsea Fram C East satellite offshore Norway, which will help boost the nearby Troll C’s production and activities. Subsea template at Fram. Images from Statoil. The…
Leading global deck machinery specialist, ACE Winches, has recently been awarded a spooling contract with Vard Group for a construction vessel. The scope of work includes the spooling of two 3500m ROV umbilicals, the spooling of a crane boom wire and aux wire…
Dutch lifting, drilling and subsea solutions firm Huisman has secured new crane contracts with a total value of around US$338 million from various major offshore, shipping and wind farm installation contractors: 2 x 900-ton heavy lift mast cranes for BigLift Shipping…
Claxton, an Acteon company, has completed its involvement in the abandonment of two wells on the Horne and Wren platform in the southern North Sea. Completed within 18 days in July 2016, Claxton was responsible for the 5.5in tubing cut verification…
Transocean's Transocean Winner semisubmersible drilling rig, which ran aground on a Scottish Island more than two weeks ago, is now under tow to safer waters. The rig was refloated from Dalmore Bay, on west coast of the Isle of Lewis…