Schlumberger’s Muriel Barnier has been awarded the inaugural Outstanding Young Professional Award. Image of Barnier, from IOGP Twitter. Gordon Ballard, Executive Director at…
Australia's Woodside Energy and Norway's Siem Offshore entered into a five-year charter contract for the delivery of Australia’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) powered marine support vessel in 2017. Woodside chief operations officer…
The third of four new Cat D rigs being built to work for Statoil by drilling contractor Songa Offshore has started drilling operations for Statoil on the Norwegian Continental Shelf under its eight-year contract. The Songa Encourage is on operational day rate and working on the Skuld field…
Vessel builder VARD, vessel operator DOF and subsea firm Technip celebrated the christening of the newbuild Skandi Açu pipelay support vessel (PLSV) at Dutch offshore equipment manufacturer and engineer Huisman in the Netherlands. The…
Marathon Oil has agreed to sell its 10% stake in the giant Shenandoah oil discovery in the US Gulf of Mexico as part of a major sell-off of assets. The firm has already sold out most of its major assets in the Gulf of Mexico. In November last year…
Polarcus has received a letter of intent from an undisclosed client for a 3D marine seismic contract in Indonesia using the Polarcus' XArray (TM) technique for enhanced productivity and data quality. Cameron Astill, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific…
IKM Testing in Aberdeen has been awarded a multimillion dollar pre-commissioning services frame agreement by Bibby Offshore. The three-year contract, with the provision to be extended by a further two years, spans (3) DSVs, (1) CSV and…
Rigless electric submersible pump (ESP) provider AccessESP has named John Algeroy as the Europe and Africa region manager. Based in Houston, he will be responsible for all marketing, sales and operations for clients throughout the region…
Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has sent its second cancelation notice this year to Athens-based DryShips, to terminate a vessel contract 16 months ahead of schedule that will set the company back nearly US$3 million. Image from Petrobras…
Australia’s Woodside Energy and Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to renew a partnership that has been in place since 2011. The MOU, signed by Woodside CEO Peter Coleman and Kogas president and CEO Lee Seung-Hoon…
Mubadala Petroleum is set to commence drilling operations at the Sri Trang-1 exploration well in mid-May, offshore Thailand. The well is approximately 18km north-northeast of the Manora oil development, in the Gulf of Thailand and within the G1/48 concession…
GE Oil & Gas has started production of four high-pressure, high-temperature (HP/HT) dynamic flexible risers destined for the world’s largest floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, Prelude, to be operated by Shell, located 250km off the coast of Western Australia…
DNV GL has now launched the first globally applicable guidance for leak detection systems for offshore fields. The challenge for oil and gas operators is to have a leak detection system that is reliable and capable of detecting leaks…
Talisman's new Montrose bridge linked platform (BLP) topsides has sailed out from the Heerema Fabrication Group's Zwijndrecht yard, 12mi south of Rotterdam. The 10,500-tonne, 75m-long, 40m-high, topsides will make a short stop off at Schiedam…
UK-based explorer Cairn Energy has met with mixed results on its latest exploration well offshore Senegal. The BEL-1 well, drilled in 1031m water depth to 2767m total vertical depth, was targeting the Bellatrix exploration prospect and appraising the northern extent of the SNE field…
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